under arrest
Taken into custody
Under arrest describes the state of being taken into police custody.
When you're under arrest, you're legally detained and not free to leave: You're under arrest for armed robbery.
The phrase appears in the Miranda warning and countless police procedurals.
To place someone under arrest is the formal way officers describe making an arrest.
- Miranda rightsSuspect's custodial advisement
- bookingAdvance arrangement secured
- booking photoArrest intake photograph
- arraignmentCharge-reading court session
- criminal chargesFormal accusations of lawbreaking
handcuffs · police custody · custody · warrant · detention · perp walk · cop car · bail · due process · interrogation · legal counsel · collar · habeas corpus · detained · frisking · indictment · suspect · presumption of innocence
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
under arrestfree
Without payment or restriction
released · free to go · at liberty · let go · freed
under arrestfree to go
free to leave · free · at large · at liberty · unrestrained
under, arrest, arresting, arrested, arrests, arrestable, rearrest, rearrests, arrester