2013 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 440 - ESCAPES, FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND EXTRADITION 440.270 Person charged with crime in other state may be arrested in this state -- Procedure -- Warrant required.
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440.270 Person charged with crime in other state may be arrested in this
state -- Procedure -- Warrant required.
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(2)
(3)
Whenever any person within this state shall be charged on the oath of any
credible person before any judge of this state with the commission of any crime
in any other state and, except in cases arising under KRS 440.210, with having
fled from justice, or with having been convicted of a crime in that state and
having escaped from confinement, or having broken the terms of his bail,
probation or parole, or whenever complaint shall have been made before any
judge in this state setting forth on the affidavit of any credible person in another
state that a crime has been committed in such other state and that the accused
has been charged in such state with the commission of the crime, and, except
in cases arising under KRS 440.210, has fled from justice, or with having been
convicted of a crime in that state and having escaped from confinement, or
having broken the terms of his bail, probation or parole and is believed to be in
this state, the judge shall issue a warrant directed to any peace officer
commanding him to apprehend the person named therein, wherever he may be
found in this state, and to bring him before the Circuit or District Judge of the
county in which he was arrested who may be available in or convenient of
access to the place where the arrest may be made, to answer the charge or
complaint and affidavit, and a certified copy of the sworn charge or complaint
and affidavit upon which the warrant is issued shall be attached to the warrant.
No bail bondsman or his agent shall arrest, detain, imprison, or remove from
the state any person for having broken the terms of his bail unless a warrant for
that person's arrest has been issued as provided for in subsection (1) of this
section.
Any violation of subsection (2) of this section shall be deemed as a Class D
felony and punishable thereas.
Effective:January 2, 1978
History: Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 14, sec. 454, effective
January 2, 1978. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 95, sec. 1. -- Created 1960 Ky.
Acts ch. 135, sec. 14, effective June 16, 1960.
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