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Officers who were tailing Reed arrested him on Nov. 5 as he got off an Amtrak train and boarded a bus in the Kansas City suburb of Independence.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2021

The day before his arrest in 2018, DeAngelo weaved his motorcycle through freeway traffic to lose police who were tailing him, prosecutors said.

From Washington Times • Jun. 30, 2020

Investigators were tailing DeAngelo and retrieved samples of his DNA, though they have not said where and how they found the genetic material.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2018

Jones, for example, the Justice Department argued that the police did not violate the Fourth Amendment by attaching a GPS device to a car that they were tailing.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2014

"Oh, tell us," said all hands, with as much unanimity as if they were tailing on to the halliards under the stimulus of "Give us some time to blow the man down."

From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various