The phrase "apprehended him for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or law enforcement contexts to indicate the reason for someone's arrest or detention.
Example: "The police apprehended him for theft after reviewing the surveillance footage."
Alternatives: "arrested him for" or "detained him for".
Last year, cops apprehended him for riding his bike on the sidewalk in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
The Toronto Police Service botched a sexual assault investigation so badly that the perpetrator was not arrested for five years, when another police force apprehended him for another sexual assault, according to documents obtained by VICE.
The failure to apprehend him for these attacks - in the face of a large amount of evidence - enhanced the danger he posed to the public by the time he attacked Nickell, the court heard yesterday.
I heard a security guard saying that he was surprised to see a chap as a salesman, because he used to apprehend him for burglary.
At this time, a courier arrived with a report that the Senate had declared Nero a public enemy and that it was their intention to execute him by beating him to death and that armed men had been sent to apprehend him for the act to take place in the Forum.
The sheer amount of statutory rape in the FLDS culture (along with physical abuse and neglect) is staggering, but it took the FBI years to put their prophet, Warren Jeffs, on the Ten Most Wanted List and then to apprehend him for taking underage girls across state lines to be married to older men.
Mr. Sayeh said that apprehending him was an issue for the world, not just Libya.
Love, which the gentle heart soon apprehends, Seized him for the fair person which was ta'en From me, and me even yet the mode offends.
The Obama Administration has called Snowden a traitor, and is intent on apprehending and trying him for treason.
According to Worling and Långström [ 27], adolescents who commit sexual offenses are more likely to be apprehended for non-sexual reoffenses than for sexual reoffenses.
It was deliberately put into the lemonade by Steven Roy Haper, who was apprehended, tried for murder, found guilty, and sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1979.
