Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Possession of marijuana was the most common drug arrest in 1995, with 66 arrests. Sale of cocaine was the second highest, with 48 arrests...
...were sensationalist. She argued that running the pictures of the two students with the April 12 article showed poor taste, only eclipsed by the cruel decision to call the parents of the accused for the April 16 story. Blankenship's father was not even aware his son had been arrested until The Crimson contacted him five days after the arrest...
...student's residence (students are allowed to sell their TVs and futons). Whether this rule should apply depends on whether their drug dealing was of a scale that was disruptive, or if they were selling to only a close circle of friends and not for profit. And since their arrest came only after weeks of intensive investigation, it is doubtful that their dealing was very noticeable...
State officials reopened the investigation last April, after receiving an anonymous complaint. According to the arrest affidavit, once her mother was informed of the inquiry, Jennifer's condition improved dramatically. In the preceding nine months she had been hospitalized seven times for a total of 83 days. In the nine months afterward she was admitted just once for four days...
This disturbing phenomenon may not be endemic to the U.S. Two weeks ago in Toronto, Canada, the police stopped and arrested Rubin Carter for crack dealing. But they definitely had the wrong man--not only was Carter completely innocent, but he had previously been in jail for 19 years on a false murder charge. He is the current executive director of the Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted. The Toronto police, who are accused of stopping blacks more frequently than whites, attempted to excuse their arrest as "mistaken identity" and offered to pay for damaging Carter's Mercedes...