caught in the act

“He was basically caught in the act,” said police spokesman August Brandt, who said the shots were being investigated as an “attempted murder and weapons offence”.

If there's any organized conspiracy to subvert federal elections, it's the Republicans who have been caught in the act.

But they're rarely caught in the act.

Although several dozens of such disks have been imaged, just two planets have been caught in the act of forming so far.

Their petition called for a prohibition on wolf kills on public land, stronger requirements for livestock producers to use nonlethal wolf deterrents and changes to a rule that allows landowners to kill wolves “caught in the act” of attacking domestic animals.