As a personal arrest for the securing of a foreclosure or garnishment on wages.

J. Edgar Hoover observed the raid and took part in what would be his last "personal arrest".

It did not amount to a discharge unless the property ceded was sufficient for the purpose, but it secured the debtor from personal arrest.

"Sir," the man said, smiling, "I accuse you of violating certain provisions of the Common Economic Protocol, which I will detail at a more convenient time, and I hereby place you under personal arrest.

It was hoped by Hoover that he could use the situation to set up a "personal arrest" by his second-in-command Clyde Tolson for propaganda purposes, such as Hoover's own staged arrest of Alvin Karpis in 1934.

He has been a defendant in the United States justice system continuously from 1969 until the present; he has defended himself and his companies in twenty-one obscenity cases including two federal obscenity trials; and has suffered thirty-five personal arrests and over 200 busts to his businesses.