take into custody
Example Sentences
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The bill would require immigration agents to take into custody people who have been arrested for burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025
The measure would require the state corrections department to take into custody people who are charged or convicted under the measure if local or county law enforcement agencies don’t have enough space to house them.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024
The investigation remains ongoing, Hartsock said, and he wouldn’t specify how many of the suspects have been take into custody.
From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023
It said federal authorities “shall take into custody any alien” convicted of certain crimes, some serious and some minor, “when the alien is released.”
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2019
I once saw Cespedes stop a coffee merchant, and, upon his inability to produce a receipt for the tax on the coffee he was transporting, take into custody him and twelve little pack-mules.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
