                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                CHAPTER 229--POSTSENTENCE ADMINISTRATION
 
                         SUBCHAPTER A--PROBATION
 
Sec. 3606. Arrest and return of a probationer

    If there is probable cause to believe that a probationer or a person 
on supervised release has violated a condition of his probation or 
release, he may be arrested, and, upon arrest, shall be taken without 
unnecessary delay before the court having jurisdiction over him. A 
probation officer may make such an arrest wherever the probationer or 
releasee is found, and may make the arrest without a warrant. The court 
having supervision of the probationer or releasee, or, if there is no 
such court, the court last having supervision of the probationer or 
releasee, may issue a warrant for the arrest of a probationer or 
releasee for violation of a condition of release, and a probation 
officer or United States marshal may execute the warrant in the district 
in which the warrant was issued or in any district in which the 
probationer or releasee is found.

(Added Pub. L. 98-473, title II, Sec. 212(a)(2), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 
2003.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Nov. 1, 1987, and applicable only to offenses 
committed after the taking effect of this section, see section 235(a)(1) 
of Pub. L. 98-473, set out as a note under section 3551 of this title.
