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arrest

[uh-rest] / əˈrɛst /






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Andres Rosas, a spokesperson for the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, was unable to immediately provide information about why Garcia Ortega was at the Salinas Superior Courthouse at the time of her arrest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Today's arrest should serve as a clear warning to the public. Let us all handle the Ghana cedi with dignity."

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

A spokesperson for the St. Charles County Ambulance District confirmed paramedics responded Saturday to a report of a man in cardiac arrest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The arrest of Hanning marks the first time a former BND chief has been detained.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“You don’t have to break the law for the police to arrest you!”

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

On Sept. 24, three days before the Fairford arrests, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband posed shaking hands with Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

In a statement following the arrests, the Board of Deputies said the group "would not be threatened or intimidated" and thanked police for their "swift" response.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

A new study from USC finds that emergency room visits from patients born outside of the U.S. fell by more than 20% in the first four weeks after arrests escalated in June 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

No arrests have been made and a police cordon remains in place in Braybrook Street.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

With the arrests of Sam Arnold, Michael O’Laughlen, and Edman Spangler, Monday, April 17 closed as the most successful day in the three-day-old manhunt.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

There is not a word about those arrested, executed or imprisoned in the gulag, the Soviet Union's vast network of prison labour camps.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Plus, a former German spy chief was arrested on suspicion of espionage and Google and Constellation Energy struck a 20-year nuclear-power deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

More than 6,500 people have been stopped or arrested in that time, according to the interior ministry.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

The teenager, who is not being named because she is a minor, was recently found in Mexico with her fugitive father, Sergio Galvez Perez, who was arrested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

I cannot be arrested any more than I can go to Germany.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

It is hard to imagine a more arresting metaphor for literature in wartime than a tattered book in which a single bloody fingerprint repeatedly appears in the margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

That her visually striking commentaries are emotionally arresting makes that accomplishment all the more impressive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Horner was finally dismissed following a slump in form which Red Bull bosses concluded the team did not appear to be capable of arresting under his leadership.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The lawyers asked that Frimpong bar immigration agents from arresting people in the district unless they’ve conducted an escape risk analysis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

“You would think,” Skarpi’s voice rolled out like thick honey, “fine churchmen such as yourselves could find better things to do than arresting storytellers and extorting money from honest men.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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