For one thing, serving a warrant might alert the person they were after.

If a sheriff needs to serve a warrant, he goes to the chief first for permission.

They are there to serve a warrant on Lex's home.

For an authorized search, you would have been served a warrant.

When he died, the police were trying to serve warrants on him for failure to appear in court, harassment and threatening.

Basic procedure: detectives did little shooting but a good deal of it took place while serving warrants.

The officers who were shot as they tried to serve a warrant were hospitalized.

The Sobotka detail serve warrants on the targets of their investigation.

He arrives at the ranchero to serve a warrant for the murder of his brother-in-law.

Moreover, they can serve warrants throughout the state.