Arrest
Cop
Cop verb - To take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly.
Usage example: some concertgoers rush pell-mell through the doors so that they could cop the seats down front
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- In Red Heat, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a humorless Soviet cop on a special mission to arrest a drug kingpin that has fled to Chicago.
Source: Strange Cop in a Strange Land - Sometimes they'll have a Friend on the Force situation going on, where the cop provides the sleuth with information about a case, maybe even with access to the crime scene, and the sleuth, after discovering a culprit, will let the cop make the arrest.
Source: Sleuth Dates Cop -
Drew Peterson, who was also The Bluebeard, and by the time of arrest a former cop.
Source: Killer Cop
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