taking into custody

Example Sentences

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Investigators have gone down some dead ends, including authorities quickly taking into custody a “person of interest” who was later cleared and released.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

How do they look compared to, say, you?” he added, contrasting the people agents are taking into custody with the reporter, who is a middle-aged white man.

From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025

The agents knew exactly who they were taking into custody: Minutes beforehand, a reporter heard one asking another, “Do you want to arrest the comptroller?”

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2025

“If I wasn’t going after that guy, I could be going after another guy I could potentially be taking into custody or removing,” the West Coast officer told The Times.

From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2022

My Lord Cornwallis has other fish to fry than the taking into custody of three boys who may or may not be spies, but who can do him no harm at this late day.

From The Minute Boys of York Town by Otis, James