False arrest or seizure

  1. Law
  2. US Virgin Islands Code
  3. Crimes
  4. Arrests, Searches, and Seizures
  5. False arrest or seizure

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  • Whoever, being a public officer, under pretense or color of any process or other legal authority—

    • (1) arrests any person or detains him against his will;

    • (2) seizes or levies upon any property; or

    • (3) dispossesses any one of any lands or property—

      without a regular process or other lawful authority therefor, shall be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.


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