Statutes > Arkansas Statutes > Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts > Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally > Chapter 81 - Arrest > Subchapter 4 - Uniform Act on Interstate Fresh Pursuit > § 16-81-404 - Member of duly organized peace unit of other state -- Authority to arrest and hold.

§ 16-81-404 - Member of duly organized peace unit of other state -- Authority to arrest and hold.

16-81-404. Member of duly organized peace unit of other state -- Authority to arrest and hold.

Any member of a duly organized state, county, or municipal peace unit of another state of the United States who enters this state in fresh pursuit, and continues within this state in such fresh pursuit, of a person in order to arrest him on the ground that he is believed to have committed a felony in such other state shall have the same authority to arrest and hold such person in custody as has any member of any duly organized state, county, or municipal peace unit of this state to arrest and hold in custody a person on the ground that he is believed to have committed a felony in this state.