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patrol wagon

NOUN
Black Maria
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NOUN
patrol car
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When the patrol wagon arrived at Central Booking, officers found Ott sleeping and had difficulty waking him, police said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 14, 2018

He was handcuffed in the patrol wagon to a lesbian and he got her a lawyer – he wouldn’t let her pay for the lawyer.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2015

City Hall Employee Edward Beitz pleaded with passersby for an hour before someone finally released him from a parked police patrol wagon into which he had accidentally locked himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Lupe Marshall, a 30-year-old, little, Mexican-born social worker at Chicago's Hull House, told how she had been clubbed, put in a patrol wagon with 16 other wounded, none of whom had had first-aid treatment.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You insist that you saw Dorothy Dale and Octavia Travers alight from a police patrol wagon?" asked Miss Crane severely.

From Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School by Penrose, Margaret




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