8 GCA § 45.10: Duty to Delivery Arrestee to Judge, or to Peace Officer.

(a) An officer making an arrest under a warrant or any person making an arrest without a warrant shall take the arrested person without unnecessary delay before a judge of the Superior Court.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a private person who has arrested another for the commission of an offense, may deliver him to a peace officer who shall take the person arrested before the judge.

(c) The person arrested shall in all cases be taken before the judge within forty-eight (48) hours after the arrest, except that when the forty-eight (48) hour period expires, it is the burden of the government to demonstrate that a bona fide emergency or an extraordinary circumstance existed.