2015 Event Swiss criminal investigators charge FIFA President Sepp Blatter with suspected fraud; 14 FIFA officials have already been arrested in the corruption scandal, but Blatter has stated that he has no knowledge of or involvement in wrongdoing 2015 Event Seth Blatter, president of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), resigns five days after his re-election to a fifth term; several FIFA officials were recently arrested in a corruption scandal, but Blatter has not been charged 2015 Event Italian authorities arrested the captain and a crewman of a vessel that shipwrecked in the Mediterranean, drowning at least 800 people; the passengers were migrating from North Africa to Europe 2014 Event Pakistani officials have arrested suspects in the Taliban's military school attack that killed 148 people; the government has lifted a death penalty moratorium and has bombed militant strongholds along the Afghan border to address terrorist violence 2014 Event Zhou Yongkang, China's former security chief, has been arrested on corruption charges and ousted from the Communist Party; Zhou is the highest-ranking official to be arrested in Chinese leader Xi Jinxing's campaign to reduce government corruption 2014 Event A mentally ill man is apprehended after jumping the White House fence and injuring the two police dogs that stopped him; the man had been previously arrested near the White House on a misdemeanor 2014 Event Six people are arrested in Taiwan for selling contaminated lard products to restaurants, manufacturers and food suppliers; the 'lard' included discarded kitchen oil and leather manufacturing grease 2014 Event Mohammed Zakari, a leader of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, has been arrested by Nigerian police; Boko Haram is implicated in hundreds of deaths and kidnappings, and Zakari is wanted for the recent killings of seven people 2014 Event Eleven illegal gold miners are rescued from a collapsed shaft; the remaining men refuse to surface upon learning that the rescued men have been immediately arrested; over 200 miners may still remain in the shaft 2014 Event Celebrity and pop singer Justin Bieber makes headlines when he is arrested for drunk driving, street racing and resisting arrest 2013 Event Officials crackdown on foreigners working illegally in the Saudi kingdom; over 16,000 are arrested in the search 2013 Event In England, a man is arrested for charges related to the attack on 'The Hay Wain' painting, completed by artist John Constable in 1821; the work is considered one of England's greatest and most popular paintings 2013 Event American actress, Reese Witherspoon is arrested for disorderly conduct in Atlanta, Georgia 2013 Event Former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, is arrested and charged with unlawfully detaining judges in 2007 2012 Event The Vatican confirms that Pope Benedict XVI's butler was arrested for allegedly leading confidential documents 2012 Event Protests run by Occupy Oakland in Oakland City, California turn violent; approximately 300 people are arrested 2011 Event Protestors demonstrating against the construction of a power plant in Haimen, southern China, are fired upon with teargas and arrested 2011 Event Dozens of people are arrested as riot police shut down Occupy Portland and Occupy Oakland Rallies, offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement 2011 Event Over 110 people are arrested in Queens, New York as part of the largest identity theft and retail crime ring in U.S. history 2011 Event Over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested when they swarmed the Brooklyn Bridge and shut down a lane of traffic 2011 Event A 26-year old American citizen is arrested by the FBI for a plot to fly remote-controlled planes filled with explosives into the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. 2011 Event In Sweden, four men arrested for the 2011 failed Gothenburg terrorist attack are believed to be linked to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network 2011 Event In Guinea, up to 80 people, including soldiers, are arrested for a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Conde, which occurred July 19 2011 Event In Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot; women are banned from driving on the road 2011 Event Two suspected Al-Quaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb members are arrested in Tunisia for carrying bombs and explosives near the city of Ramada 2011 Event The head of the Taiwanese Army's electronic communications and information department, Major General Lo Hsien-che is arrested for leaking secrets to China 2010 Event In Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko claims he won the presidential election with 79% of the vote; hundreds protesting the vote were arrested 2010 Event Known as Africa's female Mandela, Victoire Ingabire, Rwanda's opposition leader, is arrested on charges of forming a terrorist organization 2010 Event After a series of delays, Iran agrees to release U.S. hiker Sarah Shourd, arrested in 2009; she is released on bail and permitted to leave the country 2010 Event After four Israeli settlers are shot at the Israeli settlement Beit Hagai, the Palestinian Authority arrested 250 members of Hamas 2010 Event A U.S. federal investigation results in 47 foreign-born gang members arrested in New England, half are arrested in the state of Maine 2010 Event The widow of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, Agathe Habyarimana, is arrested in France - accused of helping plan the 1994 genocide 2008 Event Radovan Karadzic arrested on war crimes after a 12 year manhunt 2006 Event 17 Islamic men are arrested in a plot to bomb targets in Toronto 1998 Event New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges 1998 Event Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges 1998 Event Larry Wayne Harris and Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax 1997 Event Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care 1997 Event U.S. telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia 1997 Event Anaheim Angels Tony Phillips arrested for purchasing cocaine 1995 Event FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing 1995 Event British trader Nick Leeson arrested for collapse of Barings Bank PLC 1994 Event Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder 1994 Event John Wayne Bobbitt and Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery 1994 Event CD-councillor H Selhorst arrested for hard-drugs trade 1994 Event Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana 1994 Event Dudley Moore arrested for hitting girlfriend 1994 Event Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop 1994 Event Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt and Derrick Brian Smith arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan 1994 Event Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakham's murder 1993 Event Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed) 1993 Event Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness 1993 Event Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops 1993 Event Cincinnati Red pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession 1993 Event David Lee Roth arrested in New York City for purchasing marijuana for 1993 Event Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder 1993 Event Different Strokes actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant 1993 Event Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder 1993 Event Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo 1993 Event Harry Connick, Jr. arrested at a New York airport for gun possession 1992 Event Ray Sharkey, actor, Wiseguys, arrested for narcotic possession 1992 Event New York City Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife 1992 Event Axl Rose arrested on riot charges in St. Louis of Jul 2, 1991 concert 1992 Event 5 New York City cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine 1992 Event Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses 1991 Event New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession 1991 Event Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba 1991 Event Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics 1991 Event Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges 1991 Event Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles 1991 Event Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida 1991 Event James Farentino of Dynasty arrested in Canada for cocaine possession 1991 Event 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie 1991 Event Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI 1991 Event Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics 1991 Event Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy 1991 Event New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky 1991 Event Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested 1990 Event Dee Dee Ramone arrested on marijuana possession 1990 Event South Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 1990 Event Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity 1990 Event Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant 1990 Event National League umpire is arrested for stealing baseball cards 1990 Event Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting 1989 Event Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman 1989 Event French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice 1989 Event 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test 1988 Event 2,000 U.S. anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics 1988 Event Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested 1986 Event South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested 1986 Event Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at US-Mexico border for drugs 1986 Event Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News World Report) 1986 Event Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested 1986 Event South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested 1986 Event Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling 1986 Event Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam 1985 Event Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China 1985 Event South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested 1985 Event South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong 1985 Event U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker arrested for spying for U.S.S.R. 1984 Event 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested 1984 Event Paul and Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis 1984 Event Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested 1984 Event Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession 1983 Event IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in New York City 1983 Event Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia 1983 Event Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia 1982 Event Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty) 1982 Event Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery 1982 Event Iran minister of Foreign affairs Ghotbzadeh arrested 1981 Event South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested 1981 Event 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery 1981 Event Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession 1981 Event Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity 1980 Event Rangers pitcher Ferguson Jenkins arrested for possession of drugs 1980 Event John Phillips of Mamas and Papas is arrested on drug charges 1980 Event Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement 1980 Event Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder 1980 Event Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium 1979 Event LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham 1978 Event Laugh-in's Judy Carne arrested at Gatwick Airport for drug possession 1977 Event Amsterdam: RAF-terrorists Gert Schneider/Christof Wackernagel arrested 1977 Event Indira Gandhi arrested 1977 Event Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer 1976 Event War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich 1976 Event Mao Tse-Tung's widow Jiang Qing and "Gang of Four," arrested and charged with plotting a coup 1976 Event "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing 1976 Event Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair 1976 Event Anti-apartheid advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza arrested in South Africa 1975 Event Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes 1974 Event WW II war criminal JP Philippa arrested 1972 Event Paul and Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession 1972 Event 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate 1972 Event West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof 1971 Event 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses 1970 Event Angela Davis arrested in New York City 1970 Event Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14 1970 Event Steven Stills arrested for drug possession 1970 Event Jim Morrison arrested for drunkenness 1970 Event Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily 1970 Event Rocker Chubby Checker arrested for marijuana possession 1969 Event Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness 1969 Event Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession 1969 Event Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit 1969 Event Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium 1969 Event Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert 1968 Event Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession 1967 Event Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace 1967 Event Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war 1967 Event Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents 1967 Event Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece 1967 Event Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested 1967 Event Race riot in Buffalo New York (200 arrested) 1967 Event Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested 1967 Event 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors 1967 Event Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges 1966 Event Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland 1965 Event Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama 1964 Event Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) 1964 Event Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later 1963 Event South African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested 1963 Event South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested 1963 Event South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested 1963 Event State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested 1962 Event Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement and illeagally leaving South Africa 1962 Event Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia 1962 Event OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers 1962 Event French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested 1961 Event Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany, Georgia 1961 Event 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi 1961 Event South Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested 1961 Event Premier Moise Tsjombe of Katanga arrested in Congo 1960 Event Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany 1960 Event Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in 1959 Event Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo 1957 Event Pablo Neruda arrested in Buenos Aires 1957 Event Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested 1956 Event Nelson Mandela and 156 others arrested for political activities in South Africa 1956 Event Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested and exiled to Seychelles 1955 Event Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus 1954 Event Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt 1954 Event British raid Nairobi Kenya (25,000 Mau Mau suspects arrested) 1954 Event Miltary rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested 1953 Event Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba 1953 Event Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested 1953 Event GDR Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" 1953 Event 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow 1950 Event Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges 1949 Event A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen, Netherlands 1948 Event Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested 1948 Event U.S. Communist Party chairman William Forster arrested 1945 Event Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him 1945 Event Lord Haw-Haw arrested at Danish boundary 1945 Event Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested 1945 Event Norwegian nazi collaborators Vidkun Quisling arrested 1945 Event Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason 1945 Event Dutch Resistance fighter Hannie Schaft arrested by Nazi police 1945 Event Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested 1945 Event Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary 1944 Event Resistance fighter Jaap Musch arrested in Nijverdal, Netherlands 1944 Event Anton de Kom arrested by Surinam resistance fighter 1944 Event Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by Nazis 1944 Event Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested 1944 Event Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested 1944 Event Dutch Resistance fighter Frans Duwaer arrested 1944 Event Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch arrested 1944 Event Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested 1944 Event Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested 1944 Event Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested 1943 Event J Postma, C Schalker, D Goulooze arrested for leading illegal CPN 1943 Event Dietrich Bonhoffer arrested by nazis 1943 Event Lou Jansen and Jan Dieters arrested, lead illegal CPN party in Holland 1943 Event Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested 1943 Event Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested 1942 Event Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India Congress 1942 Event 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp 1942 Event Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers 1941 Event Czechoslovakian premier general Eliasj arrested by nazis 1941 Event Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo 1941 Event 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested 1940 Event Cleveringa arrested by nazis 1940 Event Generalissimo Gamelin arrested in France 1940 Event 21 "not neutral" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands 1937 Event Reverend Martin Niemoller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany 1934 Event Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby 1934 Event 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany 1933 Event Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin 1933 Event German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested 1931 Event Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama 1927 Event For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath 1927 Event Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath 1925 Birthday Lenny Bruce, Leonard Schneider, comedian, arrested on obsenity 1925 Event Greek premier Papanastasiou orders General Pangulos arrested 1925 Event John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 1923 Event In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power 1923 Event Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State 1921 Event Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, and held in jail until 4 PM 1920 Event 10,000 U.S. union and socialist organizers arrested (Palmer Raids) 1917 Event 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House 1917 Event 10 suffragists arrested as they picket White House 1916 Event Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control) 1916 Event Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control 1914 Event Tampico incident - U.S. ship crew arrested in Mexico 1914 Event IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia 1913 Event Mohandas K. Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa 1907 Event English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested 1904 Event Woman arrested for smoking a cigarette in a car on 5th Avenue, New York City 1901 Event Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday, New York 1898 Event China's empress-mother Ci Xi and emperor De Zong arrested 1894 Event Captain Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage 1894 Event Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol 1892 Event Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass 1876 Event Bank robbery by James/Younger fails (Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested) 1871 Event Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption 1865 Event Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination 1861 Event John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ 1858 Event Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning 1854 Event Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by U.S. Deputy marshals in Boston 1852 Event Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants 1833 Event Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn 1807 Event Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent 1794 Event Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna 1785 Event French cardinal De Rohan arrested 1777 Event de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress 1776 Event Nathan Hale, spied on British for American rebels, arrested 1734 Event John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted 1716 Event Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested 1688 Event King James II arrested 1681 Event Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high-treason 1677 Event Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower 1661 Event French superintendant of Finance Nicolas Fouquet arrested 1656 Event 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested) 1620 Event Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft 1603 Event Sir Walter Ralegh arrested 1581 Event English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested 1569 Event Duke of Norfolk arrested 1559 Event Spanish archbishop Bartholome de Carranza arrested as heretic 1553 Event English Hugh Latimer arrested 1540 Event Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister 1529 Event English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested 1523 Event Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested 1416 Event Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay 1278 Event 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins 155 Death Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested and burned at stake
