arrest
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“This arrest demonstrates that time does not erase accountability,” Wing Chau, U.S. marshal for the District of Rhode Island, said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
A teenager who died at a music festival suffered a cardiac arrest, an inquest opening has heard.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Agents could follow people and arrest them after they left their cars, he explained, while stopping people inside moving vehicles could place officers in greater danger.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
In 2023, after Andrew Tate wrote on social media that he had spent 92 days in prison in Romania and several months under house arrest, Donald Trump Jr. wrote, “Absolute insanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Scores of letters were sent to the White House and the Justice Department demanding his arrest; many of them stated it was long overdue.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
He later suffered two cardiac arrests and was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, external, a heart condition which can lead to heart failure.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
A US Department of Justice spokesperson said the arrests were "pursuant to extradition proceedings".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The lawyer said the arrests happened now to prevent the brothers from having their day in court in an upcoming civil case they filed against a woman they claim defamed them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The elder Henrichsen has a criminal history that includes arrests in Oregon and California, according to the Sacramento Bee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
It was always at night—the arrests invariably happened at night.
From "1984" by George Orwell
No formal charges have yet been announced for those arrested.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Burke was only arrested three months ago, and murder cases often languish in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Anwar said the traffickers arrested after the April shipwreck were released on bail despite facing potential life sentences.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
McBride said the brothers visited Washington, D.C., just days before they were arrested, where they “exercised their constitutional rights by visiting the U.S. Capitol.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
When I showed up at home, my family thought I’d been arrested!
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju defended the government on Tuesday, saying it had acted swiftly after the exam paper leaks by arresting several people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
He is protected by thousands of Indigenous supporters who have so far prevented police from arresting him.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
Or they could simply be arresting abstractions in a sculpture that sits aesthetically between formal attraction and repulsion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Police bosses admitted not arresting Calocane had been a "serious and systemic and operational failure".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
His face was arresting, sensitive, medieval in some strange inexplicable way, and I was reminded of a portrait seen in a gallery I had forgotten where, of a certain Gentleman Unknown.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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