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
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
It said a Briton and a Croatian had been take into custody but that it could provide no further details due to the preliminary nature of the investigation.
From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2021
“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
So much for the suspected criminal, whom we will not take into custody until he has galloped off in our own saddle.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
