arrest
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Prosecutors have issued 33 arrest warrants against customs officers and employees of the National Environment Agency over their alleged involvement in the scheme.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Amy, not her real name, had been due to marry Malcolm, but police gathered enough evidence to arrest him four weeks before the ceremony.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The arrest of former German spy chief August Hanning on suspicion of espionage threatens to complicate a planned overhaul of the BND.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Andres Rosas, a spokesperson for the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office, was unable to immediately provide information about why Garcia Ortega was at the Salinas Superior Courthouse at the time of her arrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Astonishingly, the sheriff, his gun still unholstered, says, “Leave now or I’ll arrest you.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Police said the charges were not related to the recent RAF Fairford incident which resulted in a number of arrests after suspicious activity was reported near the base.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
On Sept. 24, three days before the Fairford arrests, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband posed shaking hands with Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, in a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The arrests, carried out in collaboration with the police, followed a tip-off that led to a swoop on the suspects, all women, accused of selling the bouquets in different parts of the capital, Accra.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Los Angeles police have not released details about their investigation or whether any arrests have been made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“You were warned in advance,” I told him, “and yet did nothing. Why is that? Why is it that there have been no arrests? Why have the police sat on their hands?”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Young was arrested at his home address in Bedfordshire on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The manager of the dump was arrested on Monday as part of a corruption probe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The alleged foreign agent was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport before she could board a flight to Shanghai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The teen’s mother, Ofelia Garcia Ortega, 36, was arrested by Monterey County sheriff’s detectives on Tuesday afternoon at the Salinas Superior Courthouse, the agency said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
“I heard he was arrested, like, at the fire.”
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
It is hard to imagine a more arresting metaphor for literature in wartime than a tattered book in which a single bloody fingerprint repeatedly appears in the margins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
In Europe and elsewhere, co-ordinated, multi-national police and customs operations take place regularly, seizing large numbers of stolen antiquities and arresting some of the traffickers.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
The lawyers asked that Frimpong bar immigration agents from arresting people in the district unless they’ve conducted an escape risk analysis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Designed by Ma Yansong, the new building in Los Angeles is a structure of arresting and unusual size and shape, but it becomes less impressive once you get inside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
They were not arresting a man, they were exorcising fear.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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