Sentence examples for local custody from inspiring English sources

The reason for his incarceration was not clear, but the official stressed that "he was never in U.S. custody -- he was in local custody".

"It allows ICE and local law enforcement agencies to know as much as possible about people in local custody without any additional costs or procedural changes by local officers," said Richard Rocha, deputy press secretary for the agency.

Under a program set up in 1988, immigration officials are required to identify criminals in federal, state or local custody who are eligible for deportation, and process them so they may be immediately repatriated after serving their terms.

Sergeant Onken, a member of the First Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery, was handed over to the Korean authorities last week, the first American soldier ever placed in local custody before trial.

If a suspect in local custody "is determined to be an illegal alien the INS must take the necessary actions to detain the suspect and process the case".

In November 2009, when DHS announced that Secure Communities had "identified more than 111,000 criminal aliens in local custody during its first year," the program was still little known.

His nephew Chen Kegui is now in custody at a local detention center after he resisted intruders who turned out to be police officers pursuing those who might have helped Mr. Chen escape from his village.

Detainers are only in effect as long as the immigrant is in local police custody, homeland security officials said.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rannouncedlake announced Wednesday that she's replaced Anthony W. Batts as the troubled city's police commissioner less than three months after Freddie Gray suffered lethal injuries in local cops' custody.

The Haitians on board were taken into the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and remain in local detention centers.

They were taken into custody, local officials said on Sunday.