The number killed in a deadly Southern storm climbed to 26 early Wednesday with the confirmation that four people were killed by severe storms moving through the county northwest of Nashhville.Besides the four, several were injured, said Angela Alexander, spokeswoman for Sumner Regional Medical Center.The total number dead included 11 in Arkansas, 12 in Tennessee, and three in Kentucky. Storms also slammed Mississippi.Tornadoes across four Southern states tore through homes, ripped the roof off a shopping mall and blew apart warehouses in a rare spasm of violent winter weather that killed at least 22 people and injured dozens more.The twisters were part of a line of storms that raged across the nation’s midsection at the end of a day of Super Tuesday primaries in several states. Candidates including Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee even paused their victory speeches to remember the victims.A spectacular fire erupted at a natural gas pumping station northeast of Nashville that authorities said could have been damaged by the storms, and an undetermined number of people were reported dead.A couple and their 11-year-old daughter were killed in their home after a tornado touched down near the center of Atkins, a community of 3,000 along the Arkansas River in the central part of the state where authorities searched in the dark for survivors - or more victims.”This was an extraordinary night,” said Gov. Mike Beebe. “When it’s compounded by darkness, that makes it that much more difficult.”Emergency crews went door to door Tuesday night seeking other possible victims in Atkins, working amid a heavy scent from splintered pines. Power lines snaked along a street, and a deep-orange pickup truck rested on its side. A navy blue Mustang with a demolished front end was marked with spray paint to show it had been searched.Outside one damaged home, horses whinnied in the darkness, looking up only when a flashlight reached their eyes. On Southeast Second Street, a ranch home stood unscathed across the street from a concrete slab that had supported the house where three people died.In western Kentucky, officials said a couple and their adult daughter were killed as a storm tore through a trailer park, one of two in Muhlenberg County to be struck, Trooper Stuart Recke said.The power was knocked out briefly at a Little Rock convention hall that hosted a watch party for GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor.”While we hope tonight is a time for us to celebrate election results, we are reminded that nothing is as important as the lives of these fellow Arkansans, and our hearts go out to their families,” Huckabee said.At the W.J. Matthews Civic Center in Atkins, a shelter was empty except for a American Red Cross volunteers and a single touch-screen voting machine. The civic center had hosted an election precinct earlier Tuesday.Cell phone pictures sent to television stations showed a dark, broad funnel approaching Atkins. Traffic was snarled on nearby Interstate 40, with tractor-trailers on their sides.At least six tornadoes touched down in the 100 miles between Oxford, Miss., and Jackson, Tenn., according to the National Weather Service in Memphis, where deaths and damage were also reported.One storm tore a large part of the north wall off Hickory Ridge Mall in Memphis. A few people north of the mall took shelter under a bridge and were washed away, but they were pulled out of the Wolf River with only scrapes, said Steve Cole of the Memphis Police Department.Later, the storms damaged a dormitory at Union University in Jackson, trapping at least three people who talked by phone to rescuers who were trying to dig them out. A 2003 tornado in Jackson killed 11 people and a 1999 twister killed nine.In Arkansas, the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office said debris, including parts of houses, blocked U.S. Highway 62. The town of Gassville was sealed off because of the possibility of gas leaks resulting in an explosion.Officials do not know what started a fire at the Columbia Gulf Natural Gas pumping station near Green Grove, about 40 miles from Nashville. The blaze could be seen in the night sky for miles around, with flames shooting “400, 500 feet in the air,” said Tennessee Emergency Management spokesman Donnie Smith.But the storms could have damaged the station, said Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Mike Browning.A tornado shredded warehouses in an industrial park in Southaven, in northern Mississippi, said Desoto County Sheriff’s Department Cmdr. Steve Atkinson.”It ripped the warehouses apart. The best way to describe it is it looks like a bomb went off,” Atkinson said. “A lot of fire departments are here and we’re searching each warehouse to see if there was anybody in there. It’s going to be a time consuming thing and we’ll probably be searching into the morning.”

A massive fire erupted at a natural gas pumping station, shooting flames hundreds of feet in the air and rattling windows for miles.Highway Patrol authorities said there were fatalities, but it wasn’t immediately clear if they were from the fire or from a strong storm that moved through the area.The fire erupted at about 10 p.m. at the Columbia Gulf Natural Gas pumping station near the Macon County community of Green Grove, about 40 miles northeast of Nashville.”We do not know at this time what caused it, and we are attempting to get close enough to get some information,” said Tennessee Emergency Management spokesman Donnie Smith. “These flames are shooting 400, 500 feet in the air.”Tennessee Highway Patrol spokesman Mike Browning said the station could have been damaged by a line of severe storms that moved through Tennessee shortly before the fire broke out.Ashley Beff, who lives about five miles from the station, said she witnessed the explosion and said it caused the windows in her apartment to shake violently.”It was god awful,” she said. “It was like an explosion. The city looked like it was on fire.”Kelly Merritt, a spokesman for Columbia Gulf Transmission Co., said the company is shutting off the gas on both sides of the station, which is used to boost pressure along the gas line that runs from Louisiana to the West Virginia-Kentucky line. Columbia is a subsidiary of Merrillville, Ind.-based NiSource Inc.Merritt said the station is not manned around the clock.Westmoreland Mayor Ricky Woodard said the fire was about seven miles away from his city and spread to houses nearby. He said casualties have been reported in Macon County and several people are reported missing.”It’s got the whole sky lit up,” Woodard said. “You can see it in Kentucky.”

Two of California’s favorite pasttimes - surfing and driving - are on a collision course as state officials consider building a toll road to one of the world’s best surf breaks.Plans for 16 miles of asphalt ending near Trestles, the “Yosemite of Surfing,” have galvanized surfers and environmentalists. They argue the project would wipe out endangered species, ruin the park and block the sediment deposits that create the world-class waves.Proponents, including weary commuters, say the $875 million project will end crushing gridlock on Interstate 5 between Orange County and San Diego, which logs more than 125,000 cars a day.Studies commissioned by the Transportation Corridor Agencies, which finances and builds Orange County’s toll roads, estimate that by 2025, a 16-mile drive on the freeway will take an hour.The California Coastal Commission was to vote Wednesday on whether the proposal meets Federal Coastal Management Act standards - a requirement for it to move forward. The commission is expecting so many people that it moved the meeting to a 3,000-seat fairgrounds in San Diego.Last month, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrat state Treasurer Bill Lockyer weighed in, with the governor in favor of the road and Lockyer opposed.Those on both sides see something more than a battle over a few lanes of pavement. The debate has attracted more than 500 video postings on YouTube and spawned dozens of pro- and anti-toll road Web sites, protests, statehouse rallies and blogs.”We in California are confronting a very important moment and that is, ‘How do we solve our infrastructure needs?’” said Elizabeth Goldstein, president of the California State Parks Foundation. “Are we just going to elbow parks out of the way or are we going to treat them as the treasured resources they are?”Environmentalists say the toll road will destroy habitat for nearly a half-dozen threatened or endangered species, including the Pacific pocket mouse. They also say it will cut 161 camp sites and create a concrete eyesore in the middle of the 2,100-acre San Onofre State Beach, which stretches from the coastal bluffs to the dry interior canyons. San Onofre is the state’s fifth-most popular park and attracts 2 1/2 million visitors a year.Surfers worry the road will block sandy runoff from the San Mateo Creek watershed, which they believe creates the wave breaks that earn Trestles its coveted spot on the World Championship Tour.Transportation officials, however, counter that the road’s alignment was tweaked to avoid sensitive habitat. They say changes in sediment flow will not affect Trestles.”We’ve done the science behind this,” said Lance MacLean, chairman of the Foothill Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency. “The last thing I want on my tombstone when I die is, ‘This is the guy who built the project that destroyed Trestles.’”MacLean said the alternative - a widening of Interstate 5 - would mean the destruction of more than 1,200 homes and businesses in an area set to add 14,000 new homes in the next 25 years.”There’s a human factor here that you have to take into account,” MacLean said. “Who’s protecting the residents and the businesses and the citizens, instead of the pocket mouse?”

Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation into waterboarding by government interrogators Tuesday after the Bush administration acknowledged for the first time that the tactic was used on three terror suspects.In congressional testimony Tuesday, CIA Director Michael Hayden became the first administration official to publicly acknowledge the agency used waterboarding on detainees following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Waterboarding involves strapping a suspect down and pouring water over his cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning. It has been traced back hundreds of years, to the Spanish Inquisition, and is condemned by nations around the world.”We used it against these three detainees because of the circumstances at the time,” Hayden told the Senate Intelligence Committee. “There was the belief that additional catastrophic attacks against the homeland were inevitable. And we had limited knowledge about al-Qaida and its workings. Those two realities have changed.”Hayden said Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Abu Zubayda and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were waterboarded in 2002 and 2003. Hayden banned the technique in 2006, but National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell told senators during the same hearing Tuesday that waterboarding remains in the CIA arsenal - so long as it as the specific consent of the president and legal approval of the attorney general.That prompted Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat and a member of the Judiciary Committee, to call on the Justice Department to open a criminal inquiry into whether past use of waterboarding violated any law. The Pentagon has banned its employees from using waterboarding to extract information from detainees, and FBI Director Robert Mueller said his investigators do not use coercive tactics in interviewing terror suspects.Durbin, already frustrated with Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s refusal last week to define waterboarding a form of torture as critics have, said he would block the nomination of the Justice Department’s No. 2 official if the criminal inquiry isn’t opened.It was a particularly sharp threat by Durbin, who represents Illinois - the same state that U.S. District Judge Mark Filip of Chicago, the deputy attorney general nominee, calls home.”In light of the Justice Department’s continued non-responsiveness to Congress on the issue of torture, including your disappointing testimony on waterboarding last week, I have reluctantly concluded that placing a hold on Judge Filip’s nomination is my only recourse for eliciting timely and complete responses to important questions on torture,” Durbin wrote in a letter to Mukasey on Tuesday.He added: “A Justice Department investigation should explore whether waterboarding was authorized and whether those who authorized it violated the law.”Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse declined to comment except to say that the department “is reviewing the letter carefully.”The delay in confirming Filip could leave the Justice Department in leadership limbo following a year of internal upheaval and scandal, Mukasey, sworn in as attorney general in November, has made rebuilding the department a top priority for the final 11 months of the Bush administration.Human Rights Watch, which has been calling on the government to outlaw waterboarding as a form of illegal torture, called Hayden’s testimony “an explicit admission of criminal activity.”Joanne Mariner, the group’s counterterrorism director, said Hayden’s tesitimony “gives the lie” to the administration’s claims that the CIA has not used torture. “Waterboarding is torture, and torture is a crime,” she said.Critics say waterboarding has been outlawed under the U.N.’s Convention Against Torture, which prohibits treatment resulting in long-term physical or mental damage. They also say it should be recognized as banned under the U.S. 2006 Military Commissions Act, which prohibits treatment of terror suspects that is described as “cruel, inhuman and degrading.” The act, however, does not explicitly prohibit waterboarding by name.During his own Senate appearance last week, Mukasey refused to declare waterboarding illegal, prompting Democrats to accuse him of potentially allowing the harsh interrogation tactic to be used in the future.The attorney general said then he has reviewed Justice Department memos about the CIA’s interrogation program and concluded that the spy agency doesn’t currently engage in waterboarding. Beyond that, Mukasey would not discuss the legality of the classified program for fear of what he described as tipping off U.S. enemies about interrogation methods.The Justice Department has long resisted exposing the Bush administration and its employees to criminal or civil charges or even international war crimes waterboarding is declared illegal. Hayden said interrogations have been conducted by both intelligence agents and government contractors interrogators but denied that the practice, as he described it, has been outsourced.”This is a governmental activity under governmental direction and control in which the participant may be both government employees and contractors,” he said in an exchange with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.McConnell, the nation’s spy chief, said in Tuesday’s testimony that waterboarding “taken to its extreme, could be death; you could drown someone.” But he, too, refused to declare it illegal in hypothetical cases.”Everything I know is it is a legal technique used in a specific set of circumstances,” McConnell said. “You have to know the circumstances to make a legal judgment,” McConnell said.

A woman who led police on a high-speed chase ending in a crash that killed her infant daughter was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison.Aimee Andrea Fisher-Riza, 37, of Keene, faced up to life in prison after jurors rejected her insanity defense Monday and found her guilty of murder and serious bodily injury to a child.Jurors decided on 28 years for the murder charge and 20 years on the injury charge, both to be served at the same time. She must serve half of it before being eligible for parole.Prosecutor Dale Hanna said the punishment was appropriate and sent a message to people who run from the police. Her attorney Bill Mason did not immediately return a call seeking comment.Fisher-Riza drove up to 100 mph in April while fleeing police with her 9-month-old, Alexxus Riza, unrestrained in the front seat. Officers didn’t know a child was in the sport utility vehicle.When the woman crashed into a concrete embankment, her daughter was ejected and killed. Authorities found money stolen from the department store where Fisher-Riza worked in the wreckage.Mason told jurors that Fisher-Riza believed officers were trying to kill her during the 40-minute chase. He said she did not know her actions were wrong because she was in a manic state of her bipolar disorder.

Just hours after police on horseback rode down Bourbon Street to clear the street of revelers and mark the official end of the Carnival season, thousands prepared to repent on Ash Wednesday.Ash Wednesday is the start of the 40-day period of Lent that includes Good Friday - when Christians recall Christ’s crucifixion - and ends with the celebration of Easter.The faithful readied themselves to file into churches across the city for services where many will have their foreheads marked by clergy with ashes to symbolize penance after the raucous Carnival season that culminated on Mardi Gras.Clarinetist Pete Fountain kicked off Tuesday’s festivities, leading 100 members of his Half-Fast Walking Club through the streets for the 47th time. Zulu, the predominantly black parade with 27 floats and 1,200 riders, followed and was one of at least 10 parades that rolled in the metro area.In a sign that New Orleans has yet to recover fully from the hurricanes of 2005, businessman Frank Boutte, this year’s King Zulu, is still living in Houston. Hurricane Katrina’s floods damaged his Lakefront home and he has yet to return.In Cajun country, costumed riders on horseback set out on their annual Courir du Mardi Gras, a town-to-town celebration. Hundreds of people registered for the event in Eunice, a bayou community 150 miles west of New Orleans, and rode on horseback or rode along in pickup trucks or on flatbed trailers.”It’s just heritage. It’s Louisiana. We’re crazy,” said Courir participant Cody Granger, 24, wearing what looked like surgical scrubs decorated with the New Orleans Saints’ logo.While this year’s Mardi Gras appeared successful, there were incidents of violence in New Orleans that marred the celebration. At least nine people were wounded by gunshots, six of them on Saturday. Shots were fired Tuesday near a parade route, but no one was injured and a suspect was quickly arrested, police said.They have had 1,100 officers, state troopers and National Guardsmen positioned along parade routes since Carnival season began.Some revelers say they found this year’s Mardi Gras season more subdued than usual, in part because it fell early this year - too early for college students on spring break to join the party.Kevin Kelly, who lives on the traditional uptown New Orleans parade route, said the quieter crowds were “a good thing.”"The city smells better without a bunch of drunken kids using every doorway as a toilet,” he said.Back on Bourbon Street, Douglas Barry held a huge sign that warned those around him that Mardi Gras is the doorway to hell.”Not everyone welcomes our message,” said Barry, a member of the Bible Believers, a Christian group that travels to large gatherings to preach. “But people never need to hear it more than today.”Men in pink baby-doll pajamas, leather loincloths and feathers paraded past. A few women flashed glimpses of flesh for strings of beads.But for the most part Barry and his group were ignored.

A former New York police detective accused of moonlighting as a hit man for the mob pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of filing a bogus income tax return, federal prosecutors said.Louis Eppolito, currently in federal custody, faces sentencing May 9 in U.S. District Court here. The maximum penalty in the case is three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.Greg Brower, U.S. attorney for Nevada, said that according to a plea agreement, Eppolito and his wife, Frances, filed a tax return for 2000 that reported income of just over $127,000 when their actual income was more than double that amount.Brower said Eppolito also failed to declare $175,000 in income from screenplay writing in 2001 and 2002.Eppolito and another former New York detective, Stephen Caracappa, were accused of participating in at least eight mob-related killings while working for the Luchese crime family. The two detectives retired in the early 1990s and moved to Las Vegas, where they were arrested in March 2005.In 2006, a New York jury found the pair guilty of a racketeering conspiracy responsible for multiple murders and other crimes. Two months later a federal judge dismissed that case after determining that the statute of limitations had expired for the racketeering charges, which allegedly occurred from 1986 and 1990. The judge’s decision is under appeal.The men still face drug and money laundering charges.Eppolito’s 1992 autobiography, “Mafia Cop: The Story of an Honest Cop Whose Family Was the Mob,” details his police career and his Mafia connections.

A northern Wisconsin county will deny claims filed against it by the families of six young people killed and another injured in an off-duty deputy sheriff’s shooting rampage, a county attorney said Tuesday.Notices of claim were filed Monday with Forest County, the first step in a possible wrongful death lawsuit alleging that negligence by Tyler Peterson’s employers contributed to the tragedy last October, Corporation Counsel Paul Payant said.Four victims’ estates or parents are seeking money from the county, and the lone survivor is seeking compensation for his injuries. Similar claims were filed with the city of Crandon, where Peterson also worked.The claims, which named Crandon Police Chief John Dennee and Forest County Sheriff Keith Van Cleve as defendants, seek a total of more than $5 million in damages.Payant said the Forest County sheriff’s department had no knowledge that Peterson was capable of causing such a tragedy.”This is something that I don’t think anybody could predict,” Payant said.Payant said that once the claims are denied by the county board of supervisors, the next step is for the families to file a wrongful death lawsuit.The father of a fifth victim filed a similar notice last week, alleging the same negligence by the law enforcement agencies and keeping open the option of filing a formal claim seeking specific damages later.Crandon’s city attorney has denied comment on what the city might do next, and did not immediately return a telephone message Tuesday.Authorities say Peterson, 20, went to an all-night pizza party in the early morning hours of Oct. 7 and killed the six people, including his ex-girlfriend. Peterson later killed himself as police closed in, officials said.

Tata GuinesGUINES, Cuba (AP) - Tata Guines, the conga drummer whose six decade career helped popularize Afro-Cuban rhythms worldwide, has died. He was 77.Known as the “King of the Congas” and “Golden Hands,” Guines died Monday after being hospitalized for hypertension and kidney problems. El Instituto Cubano de la Musica (the Cuban Institute of Music) reported Guines’ death.Born Federico Aristides Soto on June 30, 1930, Guines was best known for playing the conga, a tall, barrel-like drum central to Rumba and Afro-Cuban music and culture.He took the stage in Havana in the early 1940s with the Partagas Sextet and moved to the United States in 1957, where he performed with jazz greats Josephine Baker, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.Though he enjoyed success in the U.S., Guines was upset by the racial segregation he experienced there and returned to Cuba after Fidel Castro’s rebels toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.Guines won a Latin Grammy in 2004 for “Lagrimas Negras,” or “Black Tears,” a collaboration with legendary exiled Cuban jazz pianist Bebo Valdes and Spanish singer Diego La Cigala. He also worked with the Rumba Cubana All-Stars on “La Rumba Soy Yo,” or “I Am the Rumba,” which won a Latin Grammy in 2001.He received Cuba’s National Music Award in 2006.—Joshua LederbergNEW YORK (AP) - Joshua Lederberg, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering that bacteria can mate and exchange genes, advised nine U.S. presidents and wrote a weekly newspaper column, has died. He was 82.Lederberg died on Saturday of pneumonia, according to Rockefeller University, where Lederberg was the school’s fifth president.Lederberg was 33 when he won the Nobel for Physiology or Medicine. The new understanding of bacterial genetics led to the knowledge of how bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics.An academic prodigy, Lederberg graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan at age 15 and received his bachelors degree from Columbia College in 1944 at age 19.Lederberg attended medical school at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia for two years before transferring to Yale University, where he helped pioneer the field of bacterial genetics. He received his doctorate in 1947.Lederberg taught as well as held administrative posts at the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University and Rockefeller.Lederberg advised nine U.S. presidents. His fascination with space exploration led to his advising NASA on many subjects, including how to avoid contaminating its space probes with terrestrial microbes.In 2006, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civil award.Lederberg also wrote a syndicated weekly newspaper column called “Science and Man” on the impact of scientific progress on society.—Maharishi Mahesh YogiTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday. He was thought to be 91 years old.The Maharishi died at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said.”He died peacefully at about 7 p.m.,” said Bob Roth, a spokesman for the Transcendental Meditation movement that the Maharishi founded. He said his death appeared to be due to “natural causes, his age.”Once dismissed as hippie mysticism, the Hindu practice of mind control known as transcendental meditation gradually gained medical respectability.He began teaching TM in 1955 and brought the technique to the United States in 1959. But the movement really took off after the Beatles attended one of his lectures in 1967 and visited his ashram in India in 1968, bringing along such famous friends as Donovan.Once there, the Maharishi had a falling out with the rock stars after rumors emerged that he was making inappropriate advances on attendee Mia Farrow. John Lennon was so angry he wrote a bitter satire, “Sexy Sadie,” in which he vowed that the Maharishi would “get yours yet.”The Maharishi insisted he had done nothing wrong and years later McCartney agreed with him. Deepak Chopra, a disciple of the Maharishi’s and a friend of George Harrison’s, has disputed the Farrow story, saying instead that the Maharishi had become unhappy with the Beatles because they were using drugs.The Maharishi retreated last month into silence at his home on the grounds of a former Franciscan monastery close to the German border, saying he wanted to dedicate his remaining days to studying the ancient Indian texts that underpin his movement.—Barry MorseLONDON (AP) - Barry Morse, who played a detective pursuing the wrongly accused Dr. Richard Kimble in 1960s TV series “The Fugitive,” died Saturday, after a brief illness. He was 89.Hayward Morse said his father died at University College Hospital in London.Born in London, Morse trained at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and appeared in British repertory and West End theaters before emigrating in 1951 to Canada, where he became a regular on radio and television.The actor’s Web site estimated he had played more than 3,000 roles on radio, TV, stage and screen over a seven-decade career.In 1963, he was hired by producer Quinn Martin to play Lt. Philip Gerard on “The Fugitive.” The series ran for 120 episodes over four seasons, teasing audiences with the cat-and-mouse pursuit of Kimble, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, by the implacable Gerard.Morse also played Professor Victor Bergman in the 1970s science fiction series “Space 1999.”In 1966, he was named artistic director of the Shaw theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, rescuing it from financial crisis.

Police said Tuesday that a sixth shooting victim at a suburban clothing store survived the attack and that investigators were questioning people in salons hoping to find someone who had braided the gunman’s hair.Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Rick Bruno confirmed reports that a woman survived the Saturday shootings at the Lane Bryant store that killed five other people and said investigators were interviewing her. Police have not identified the woman and have been tightlipped about the shooting or their investigation.But Tinley Park Mayor Edward Zabrocki said police told him the woman apparently moved her head as the gunman was pulling the trigger, causing the bullet to graze her neck. He said she was in protective custody.Meanwhile, investigators had contacted hair salons in the hopes of finding someone who had braided the suspected gunman’s hair. Police have described the gunman as a black man with thick braided hair and a receding hairline. A braid of hair hanging across his cheek decorated with light green beads.A store manager and four customers were herded into the back room and shot to death in a robbery attempt shortly after opening on Saturday, police said.A $55,000 reward - most of which is being paid for by Lane Bryant’s parent company, Charming Shoppes Inc. - was being offered for information leading to the suspect’s arrest.