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Discover LudwigThe phrase "armed custody" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or law enforcement contexts to describe a situation where an individual is held in detention with the presence of armed personnel.
Example: "The suspect was taken into armed custody after the standoff with police."
Alternatives: "secured custody" or "detained with armed guards".
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The Shabbab had previously prohibited international aid organizations from distributing food or providing medical treatment to the hundreds of thousands of needy, war-displaced Somali civilians living under its armed custody.
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At least one fellow student is at large and believed to be armed; another is in custody, apparently cooperating with federal agents.
Kokontis was taken to jail and handed a laundry list of charges: Escape from custody, robbery, armed burglary, resisting arrest, battery on a law enforcement officer, attempted grand theft of a vehicle, criminal mischief, petit theft and violation of probation.
In 2007, police raided the home of Martin Westbrook, who at that time was allegedly already in custody for an armed robbery.
Women were shown having their babies prised from their arms, losing custody of their children and taking their own lives, and the problems of recidivism and institutionalisation were examined in many storylines.
"Leiba, facing an armed robbery count, bailed out of custody Saturday after posting $1500".
He was taken into custody "without incident", and was not armed when police found him.
A12 Hostage Incident in Norway A man armed with a shotgun and bitter at losing custody of his children held up to 35 children and adults hostage for about 11 hours in a kindergarten in Hjelmeland, in western Norway.
Many of the former law-enforcement officials said it was routine, even when trying to resolve custody disputes, for law-enforcement officials to be armed.
The sight of an assault team armed with automatic weapons storming a private residence at night to take custody of a 6-year-old child understandably alarms and angers many citizens, even when no shots were fired.
As for the the homeowner being a threat to him, CNN assures that "she was not armed, nor was she intimidating" and that afterward police took Chapek into custody "without incident".
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