Arrested
Caught
Caught adjective - Taken and held prisoner.
Usage example: after seeing how the caught soldiers had been treated, we resolved never to be taken alive
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- Crime Story featured a brutally karmic version - a director of porn movies who used captive young runaways in his films is caught and arrested.
Source: Anonymous Benefactor -
Statute of Limitations: Ice was careful to never get caught or arrested, and never volunteered specific details of his criminal life until after he could no longer be prosecuted.
Source: Music / Ice-T - Karma Houdini: Eventually subverted with Smythe, who is later caught and arrested for kidnapping and killing Dougie Daniels.
Source: Literature / The Obituary Writer
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