171.1245 - Arrest by agent of Federal Bureau of Investigation or Secret Service. - Nevada Statutes

171.1245  Arrest by agent of Federal Bureau of Investigation or Secret Service.  An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or Secret Service may, without a warrant, arrest a person:

      1.  For a public offense committed or attempted in the agent’s presence.

      2.  When a person arrested has committed a felony or gross misdemeanor, although not in the agent’s presence.

      3.  When a felony or gross misdemeanor has in fact been committed, and the agent has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it.

      4.  On a charge made, upon a reasonable cause, of the commission of a felony or gross misdemeanor by the person arrested.

      5.  When a warrant has in fact been issued in this State for the arrest of a named or described person for a public offense, and the agent has reasonable cause to believe that the person arrested is the person so named or described.

      (Added to NRS by 1985, 451)