arrest
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Immediately after his arrest, Pirro and Trump claimed they had definitive proof Hearn had caused more than $1,000 in damage.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Fire officials took 65-year-old Herbert Wayne Smith into custody on Monday around 7:45 p.m., according to arrest records.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
ICE has argued that the expired visas are grounds for arrest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The highest arrest rates were in London, the West Midlands and South West England.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
He’d violated State Department economic sanctions against Yugoslavia by playing a $5 million chess match against Boris Spassky in Sveti Stefan, Montenegro, in 1992, and an arrest warrant had been issued at that time.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
No arrests were made at the time and the investigation was closed pending any new lines of inquiry.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The arrests were made following a disturbance involving a group of men in Pontnewydd, near Pontypool, at about 19:15 on Thursday evening, Gwent Police said.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
ICE is holding more than 65,000 detainees as the agency touts record-high arrests this summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Some officials said carriers would prefer federal officers make arrests at TSA checkpoints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Certainly public arrests, with no attempt to conceal what was happening, were becoming more frequent.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Two of the men arrested are in police custody.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Arendt began gathering evidence of Nazi antisemitism and was arrested in the summer of that year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
In July, ICE reported it had arrested 51,000 people, the largest number in the Department of Homeland Security’s history, according to ABC News.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
He was spotted at the golf course again on Sunday and arrested.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Early was arrested and returned to Carville to serve an additional six months.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
After immigration agents began arresting people in courthouses, many immigrants grew wary of showing up for court proceedings, which has aided the increase in removal orders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Having been caught out, the force stepped up its efforts to investigate who was behind the illegal event, eventually arresting more than 40 people and charging 25, several of whom have now been convicted.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju defended the government on Tuesday, saying it had acted swiftly after the exam paper leaks by arresting several people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Or they could simply be arresting abstractions in a sculpture that sits aesthetically between formal attraction and repulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
If it had not been for the metal staple arresting the pivoting, he might actually have fallen inside the hutch.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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