arrests without a warrant

arrests without a warrant Sec. 207. (a) Arrests without a warrant, and searches of the person and seizures pursuant thereto, may be made for violation of any section 67 Stat. 97listed in subsection (b), by police officers, as in the case of a felony, upon probable cause that the person arrested is violating the section involved at the time of the arrest. (b) Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to section 209 of this Act (possession of implements of crime), sections 3, 4, and 14 of the Act of July 8, 1932, as amended, providing for the control of dangerous weapons in the District (D. C. Code, secs. 22–3203, 22–3204, and 22–3214), and section 863 (a) of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended (possession of lottery tickets; D. C. Code, sec. 22–1502). (c) Arrests without a warrant, and searches of the person and seizures pursuant thereto, may be made for violation of section 827 of the Act entitled “An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia”, approved March 3, 1901, as amended (petit larceny; D. C. Code, sec. 22–2202), by police officers, as in the case of a felony, upon probable cause that the person arrested has in his possession at the time of the arrest, property taken in violation of that section. (d) No evidence discovered in the course of any arrest, search, or seizure authorized by this section shall be admissible in any criminal proceeding against the person arrested unless at the time of such arrest he was violating one of the sections referred to in subsection (b) or had in his possession property taken in violation of the section referred to in subsection (c).