Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time of his arrest by Harvard police, Price was being held in Medford on an outstanding warrant for violating his probation, according to police reports...
...least. To clear the streets of thugs, Green Berets on patrol took to inverting their night-vision goggles so that they glowed in the dark. In Les Cayes, the Special Forces jailed a judge overnight to teach him how inhumane prison conditions were. They have also moved aggressively to arrest anyone they thought might be a bad guy. "We detained them. We cuffed them," acknowledges the commanding officer, Colonel Mark Boyatt. "We did this without a whole lot of proof. But it was a very visible symbol of our presence. It convinced the people we were there to help them...
...like a scene from George Orwell's 1984. One quiet Monday night, two Ithaca policemen knocked at 21-year-old Cornell student Matt Mihaly's door. Refusing to show him an arrest warrant, they handcuffed him, shoved him into the back of a squad car and incarcerated him in the mental ward of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital for two days. While he was there, they extracted blood against his will, placed him in psychotherapy and released him only on the condition that he pay the hospital's bill of several thousand dollars...
Parkman had been missing since the week before Webster's arrest. He was last seen entering the Medical College at 1 p.m., reportedly for a meeting with Webster...
Webster's arrest captivated the country. The community clamored for explanations. Why had a successful professor murdered, dismembered and, using acid, partially dissolved another professor...