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
He was arrested in 2022 after a 15-hour police siege at the school, where supporters had gathered to prevent his arrest.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
She had filed a court petition to try to prevent her arrest, but the hearing was set for 12 October.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The arrest is one of the biggest scandals to engulf the BND spy agency since its creation in the mid-1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
But they never had enough evidence to arrest him.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Then there are the children who ICE arrests with one or both of their parents.
From Slate ● 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
In a statement following the arrests, the Board of Deputies said the group "would not be threatened or intimidated" and thanked police for their "swift" response.
From BBC ● 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
Only ten states prohibit all employers and licensing agencies from considering arrests, and three states prohibit some employers and occupational and licensing agencies from doing so.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
A sixth man, a 25-year-old dual Iranian-British national, was arrested on 1 October in Westminster.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
In Illinois, a college senior found himself the sole breadwinner of his family after ICE arrested and detained his uncle.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
The manager of the dump was arrested on Monday as part of a corruption probe.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Some French news outlets, including Nice-Matin, say the number of those arrested is six.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
She was the one who’d been arrested and nearly shot just because she’d got stuck on the German side of the front lines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
It was a world that Richard Kerbaj brings back into lively and arresting focus in “The Defector.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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 ruling requires federal immigration agents to consider the totality of the circumstances known to them before arresting someone without a warrant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
“If government is out there arresting people, taking pictures of them,” McMichael said, “we should be able to access that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Then she said to the sergeant, “If you’re not arresting anyone, we’d like you to leave.”
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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