{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-1551.1","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 1551.1","heading":"","body":"The arrest of a person may also be lawfully made by any peace officer, without a warrant, upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of any other state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding one year, or that the person has been convicted of a crime punishable in the state of conviction by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year and thereafter escaped from confinement or violated the terms of his or her bail, probation or parole. When so arrested the accused shall be taken before a magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint shall be made against him or her under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in Section 1551.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 2. OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [681. - 1620.]","TITLE 12. OF SPECIAL PROCEEDINGS OF A CRIMINAL NATURE [1473. - 1564.]","CHAPTER 4. Proceedings Against Fugitives From Justice [1547. - 1558.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"f1abd529ff247e063d47b413afaba8eb19c71494dd3fdf68141747040ca29cf4","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-1551.05","next":"us-ca/pen-1551.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}