An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be questioned further and/or charged. An arrest is a procedure in a criminal justice system, sometimes it is also done after a court warrant for the arrest.

It is important to consider someone accused of a crime to be innocent until he or she is proven to be guilty in a court of law. This expression is also called presumption of innocence. We at SKdb take this fact extremely seriously and want to underline that if a person is proven innocent of the crime they are accused of then that will be thoroughly documented with the tag "Acquitted". If a person is found guilty and sent to prison, the tag "Incarcerated" will be used instead.