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arrest

[uh-rest] / əˈrɛst /






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An officer can be heard accusing the detainees of “interfering” with an arrest and informing onlookers, “We have criminal arrest authority.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

“While an arrest has been made, our work is not over,” Nieto said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

Days after Najib's December bid for house arrest was turned down, the ex-PM was again sentenced to another 15 years behind bars in a separate trial, also linked to the 1MDB graft scandal.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

For months after her arrest, he said his daughter would become "distraught" whenever they drove past her house.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

This allows the accused the opportunity to make the government prove to a judge that their arrest and imprisonment is justified.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

The government said "arrests and raids are at their highest ever levels and removals of illegal workers up 50%".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Police told the family that they expected a break in the case soon, but no arrests have been announced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

State officials and election experts have pointed to the small numbers of arrests, despite a sweeping probe to find such voters by Essayli and others, as proof such fraud is rare.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Officers on Saturday made arrests into the evening, taking people to police vans for transfer, to the applause of many protesters, some of whom chanted: "Free, free Palestine."

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

He didn't have any juvenile criminal history—no prior arrests, no misconduct in school, no delinquencies or prior court appearances.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

A woman was arrested early Saturday for allegedly starting a brush fire in the Angeles National Forest during a red-flag alert that had forecasters warning of critical fire weather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

“There’s a personal incentive in intervention work to make amends for bad things you’ve done, give back, but there’s also the desire to not ever get arrested or go to jail or prison again.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Listyo Sigit Prabowo, the president's chief of staff, was arrested on Tuesday along with two senior police officers for allegedly wiretapping President Prabowo.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Dutch news agency ANP reported that police arrested between 150 and 200 protesters.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

She was also reluctant to have people arrested for no good reason.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

Ms. Corn presents serious works, such as Gordon Parks’s arresting 1942 photograph of the charwoman Ella Watson standing before an American flag with a mop and broom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The findings provide clinical trial evidence that the manufacturer can use in an application seeking FDA approval of SDF as a drug for arresting dental caries, the medical term for tooth decay.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Tusk thanked the police for "swift and decisive action" in arresting the suspect.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Police said a security patrol had spotted an abandoned vehicle near the Molesworth base and police found a "small breach" before arresting the men in the early hours of Thursday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Five votes in favor of arresting the Gran, four against.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega


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