Word: arresting
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...first-year student was arrested early yesterday morning on charges of assault and battery on a police officer after attempting to elude arrest...
Roger Lafontant, former chief of Baby Doc Duvalier's brutal Tonton Macoutes, has added a strange new chapter to Haiti's political scene by running for President in the Dec. 16 elections. He enters the race with an unusual handicap: a warrant for his arrest was issued in July for crimes he allegedly committed with the Macoutes. Haiti's attorney general is reminding citizens that anyone who shelters the strongman is subject to prosecution. With typical swagger, Lafontant opposes the presence of outside observers at the elections, and officials fear his campaign will serve as a beachhead for the return...
Nearly as shocking was the arrest of Gabriele Gast, 47, an employee of Bonn's espionage service, where she helped prepare a weekly top-secret intelligence summary for Chancellor Helmut Kohl. For six years she had passed copies to the Stasi, sometimes before Kohl himself saw the reports...
Immediately after the arrest, police discovered that the suspects were carrying two additional wallets--one of which had been reported stolen from Boylston Hall earlier that day. One of the suspects was also in possession of a buck knife, the spokesperson said...
...This was a good arrest," a police representative said, adding that prompt and thorough reporting of the suspicious individuals' behavior helped police track the suspects' activities prior to the arrest. Police said minor theft runs rampant at Harvard, and that successful arrests--such as the one yesterday--are rare...