The phrase "arrested waiting" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where someone is in a state of waiting that feels like being held back or detained, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "He felt like he was arrested waiting for the news that would change his life."
Alternatives: "stopped in anticipation" or "held back in waiting".
The surroundings were less than idyllic, but at least you can't (I think) be arrested for waiting for a bus.
Those who had not, sat at the back, raising the likelihood that they would be arrested while waiting their turn on the shore.
But a $50 ticket would have been welcome compared with the trouble many passengers found themselves in; roughly 1,600 people like Mr. Peppers were arrested, sometimes waiting more than a day to be brought before a judge and released, according to statistics from district attorneys' offices.
In New York, three students were arrested while waiting for a bus to arrive and take them to a basketball scrimmage.
Attention was high again in 2001 when Ronnie Biggs, the seriously ill, fugitive Great Train Robber, was flown from Brazil to the airfield to be arrested by waiting police officers.
Dozens of Mr. Herrera's friends followed him to the Ojinaga jail when he was arrested and waited outside overnight.
But the result has been what defense lawyers feared: People arrested may wait for days before appearing in front of a judge, particularly in Brooklyn Criminal Court, which handles the highest volume of arraignments.
Sister Dolores, the principal of Fontbonne Hall Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in Brooklyn, once jumped out of her 2004 Toyota Corolla, confiscated a girl's beer, emptied it into the gutter, explained that as a certified alcohol counselor she could have the girl arrested, then waited while the shellshocked child called her parents to report herself.
Miguel Camacho was falsely charged with rape, jailed for a month and acquitted through a DNA test, but he can't find a job because each time he fills out an application, he is asked if he has ever been arrested ("Long Wait for DNA Result Can Be Justice Delayed," news article, Nov. 19).
Ten days later, a stable girl and former soldier, Judith Ward, then aged 25, was arrested in Liverpool waiting for the ferry to Ireland.
