take into custody
Example Sentences
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The measure would require the state corrections department to take into custody people who are charged or convicted under the measure if local or county law enforcement agencies don’t have enough space to house them.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
On Lync, the bureau’s internal chat system, she said she felt sorry for the man she had helped take into custody.
From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023
He pointed to a provision adopted by Congress in 1996 that said federal authorities “shall take into custody any alien” with an “aggravated felony” in their past.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022
“A number of the children I interviewed came with aunts or uncles. It really isn’t necessary to take into custody many of these folks who are coming with families.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 25, 2019
Very prudently, there was no attempt made that night to take into custody the man who had been rescued, or those who had rescued him.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Hunt, Henry
