Sentence examples for apprehending thieves from inspiring English sources
The FTPA still provides support to foreign visitors, but its scope has been widened to include duties such as stopping bar fights and apprehending thieves.
Swathed in her burka and carrying a Kalashnikov in her hand and a 9-millimeter pistol on her hip, the region's top female police officer -- and mother of six -- apprehended thieves, killers and wife beaters.
) Pressed on other undercover investigative techniques, he admitted that a government-run pawn shop would be a permissible way to apprehend thieves despite a lack of evidence of predisposition because the crimes might well have occurred prior to any contact with the government or its operatives.
For example, we've helped police departments with narcotics investigations and in apprehending car thieves and a serial rapist.
"This was a two-pronged approach to apprehend both thieves and receivers of stolen property," Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said.
The cops apprehended the thieves, booked them for shoplifting, and soon released them on misdemeanor charges — typical in shoplifting cases.
Wimsey, based on the character in Dorothy L. Sayers's novel, helped apprehend the thieves before going off to serve in World War I, but the necklace remains missing.
Though some of the thieves are apprehended quickly, others are never caught.
To read the statements made by British and Dutch officials after the arrest of a group of bootleggers in suburbs of London and Amsterdam on Friday, one would think that the police had apprehended a band of thieves who for the last three decades had been sitting on a vast trove of long-lost master tapes from Beatles recording sessions.
Last month, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSS) says it apprehended a group of thieves who had allegedly stolen precious components for a space station module.
Vigilante reprisals are now becoming commonplace in both countries when thieves are apprehended, and before the police can be called.
