Word: flee
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...Suspects almost always flee the area to avoid apprehension,” HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano wrote in an e-mail statement...
...Nerds" theme. In this case, surly, plainspoken officers of the law matter-of-factly foiled the scheming scholars’ painstakingly crafted plan. And it is initially hard to find fault in an arrest that might curtail future mass-scale "Star Wars" idolatry. I for one plan to flee this city and never return if the Beacon Hill monument is ever altered to resemble...
...front door and ransacked the house. Alaa, a Shi'ite television producer who was at work at the time, believes that Sunni militants wanted to kill him for covering Saddam's trial. And so, as hundreds of Iraqis do each day, Alaa decided to pack up his things and flee. At the time he wasn't sure where he was going or who would take him in. Now he finds himself sharing a two-room apartment with people who were complete strangers just weeks ago, in a country he knows little about--but that is, for the foreseeable future...
Being accepted into Sweden is relatively simple compared with what it takes to actually get there. Iraqis say the odyssey north typically costs $10,000 per person and involves relying on a network of nameless smugglers and middlemen. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports--red passports, as the Iraqis call them, which contain the refugees' real photos but use other people's names. "Daniel," 23, a Christian Iraqi student sitting in a Stockholm caf, said he bought a fake Iraqi passport...
...After being informed that he was under arrest, the suspect assaulted officers in an attempt to flee the building,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement. “A significant struggle ensued involving several officers...