In this case, the officer informed Lemcke that he had come to take Lemcke into custody.

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But the ICC has no arrest powers and depends on its 106 member states to take suspects into custody.

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The U.S. government position is that we couldn't hold him because at the time, there was no indictment pending, and we had no legal process to take him into custody.

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There is also the question as to whether Judge Rakoff could remand Gupta into custody (take him to jail) immediately, or will he allow him to surrender at a future date to some federal prison camp.

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But he questioned Iran's right to take the sailors and marines into custody.

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