"You can come here but you will be arrested if you beg.
Speaking publicly of their relationship for the first time since her arrest, he begged the authorities to let her go and described her as "an Iranian", a woman who had devoted her time to researching a book in praise of Iran, a woman "too pure" to be used for political purposes.
A18 NEW YORK/REGION B1-8 Begging Arrests Continue Despite Voided Law Even though a New York City law against panhandling was declared unconstitutional more than a decade ago, the police, prosecutors and judges continue to arrest, charge and punish people for begging, officials acknowledged.
In July, Mr. Long sued the city and several police officers in Federal District Court in Manhattan, saying that he had been subject to illegal harassment and arrests "while lawfully begging and promoting marijuana tolerance".
"Do not arrest him," she begged.
Gypsy Joe told me: "I was arrested for 'aggressively panhandling and begging'.
The smart-mouthed Wall Street blog Dealbreaker showed a video of a distraught law student on his knees, shouting, "That's the bank that took my parent's home!" The blog asked, "How long must a child of parents with multiple degrees beg to be arrested before someone listens?" ("A prettay, prettay, prettay long time," Dealbreaker reckoned, in a Larry David imitation).
Dressed uniformly in graduation caps and gowns in the style of American students, which most of them once were, they will present themselves to US border guards on the Texas side of the crossing and in effect beg to be arrested.
They're almost begging us to arrest them.
It had its first taste of the trouble to come when the arrest of Romanians for begging in Bishopbriggs aroused a shrill tabloid outcry.
Last year, Romanians accounted for almost half of all arrests for begging, and one third of all arrests for pickpocketing in the capital".
