taking into custody
Example Sentences
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Investigators have gone down some dead ends, including authorities quickly taking into custody a “person of interest” who was later cleared and released.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
How do they look compared to, say, you?” he added, contrasting the people agents are taking into custody with the reporter, who is a middle-aged white man.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2025
The agents knew exactly who they were taking into custody: Minutes beforehand, a reporter heard one asking another, “Do you want to arrest the comptroller?”
From Slate • Jun. 17, 2025
“If I wasn’t going after that guy, I could be going after another guy I could potentially be taking into custody or removing,” the West Coast officer told The Times.
From Washington Times • Jul. 28, 2022
He asked the question as calmly as though it had referred to the disposal of an inanimate object, instead of to the taking into custody of a madman.
From The Witch of Prague by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
