Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-535

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Arrest without authority

Official statutory text

Every public officer or person pretending to be a public

officer, who under the pretense or color of any process or other

legal authority, arrests any person, or detains him against his

will, or seizes or levies upon any property, or dispossesses anyone

of any lands or tenements without due and legal process, is guilty

of a misdemeanor.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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