Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...following fall, the first real pangs of prohibition began to rise at the College. One of the University's more casual bootleggers published his own exclusive story in the CRIMSON explaining that the students could no longer trust the "hypocritical state cops" who were, incidentally, responsible for the arrest of one of the bootlegger's best friends...
...Arabian cop. "Here's the list," softly murmured the Saudi cop, handing over a bit of paper with 72 names scrawled upon it. The translator knew what was expected of him: to check off a new batch of "undesirable" Palestinian Arabs on Aramco's staff, slated for arrest and deportation by royal decree...
News-Star Reporter Jim Bradshaw, 32, went to County Sheriff Jim Harrington's office to find out why a known bootlegger for whom there was an arrest warrant had not been picked up. In a heated argument with Reporter Bradshaw, Sheriff Harrington knocked him down. With the help of a deputy, he punched and roughed up Bradshaw until a state-highway trooper stopped him. Then the sheriff jailed Reporter Bradshaw, bruised and stunned, on charges of "resisting arrest and abusing an officer...
...always indicative of his future actions. However, in the light of [what has happened], the News-Star feels an obligation to publish his past in full. We regret not having done so before." The record, spread across two columns of the paper, showed that Sheriff Harrington had been arrested three times for selling and transporting liquor. After his last arrest in 1940, he got a suspended sentence of a year and a day, and had his right to vote revoked...
...first place there was no riot until wagon loads of police charged the crowd with drawn night sticks, in answer to a summons for aid, not a riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it." One student had been knocked unconscious for resisting arrest, apparently while in the act of going for a late snack in the Square...