Arrest of accused without warrant therefor · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 570.34 Arrest of accused without warrant therefor.
The arrest of a person in this state may be lawfully made also by any police officer or a private person, without a warrant, upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of another state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year; but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a local criminal court with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against him under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in the preceding section; and, thereafter, his answers shall be heard as if he had been arrested on a warrant.
A police officer or a private person may arrest without a warrant on reasonable information that the accused is charged in another state's courts with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for more than 1 year. ★ The arrested person must then be taken before a local criminal court with all practicable speed, a sworn complaint stating the grounds for arrest must be made as in the preceding section, and the person's answers are then heard as if arrested on a warrant. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Officer: Criminal Procedure Law; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.