take into custody
Example Sentences
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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
But it is not clear how many people ICE might choose to take into custody, and the agency did not immediately clarify.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 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
Commissioners were sent down to Enfield Chase, with directions to search for that undiscoverable house, to make thorough investigation of it, and to take into custody every individual therein.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
