CODE OF VIRGINIA

ESCAPE, FLIGHT AND PURSUIT; ARREST ANYWHERE IN COMMONWEALTH (§ 19.2-77)

Whenever a person in the custody of an officer shall escape or whenever a person
shall flee from an officer attempting to arrest him, such officer, with or
without a warrant, may pursue such person anywhere in the Commonwealth and, when
actually in close pursuit, may arrest him wherever he is found. If the arrest is
made in a county or city adjoining that from which the accused fled, or in any
area of the Commonwealth within one mile of the boundary of the county or city
from which he fled, the officer may forthwith return the accused before the
proper official of the county or city from which he fled. If the arrest is made
beyond the foregoing limits, the officer shall proceed according to the
provisions of § 19.2-76, and if such arrest is made without a warrant, the
officer shall procure a warrant from the magistrate serving the county or city
wherein the arrest was made, charging the accused with the offense committed in
the county or city from which he fled.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 19.1-94; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495; 1992, c. 881; 2008,
cc. 551, 691.