Most arrests, he said, did not involve the officers' jobs.

The charges were not available yesterday, but after all four arrests he was released on his own recognizance, suggesting that the arrests involved relatively minor offenses.

In November 2002, he led the arrest and prosecution of three men involved one of the largest identity fraud cases in American history.

His arrest involved a shoot out with the police in which Scotti was injured.

But most military arrests of civilians did not involve torture or prejudice against any ethnic group.

Yesterday's arrests and confiscation involved an operation on four floors of a commercial building at 1165 Broadway, at West 27th Street, police officials said.

The arrests involved mainly charges of using private E-mail accounts to distribute digital images of child pornography or to entice children to meet with strangers.

Earlier arrests involved a sting, in which agents from the District Attorney's office posed as underage teen-agers.

The arrests involve and are aimed at cracking down on credit-card theft and telephone and wire fraud.

And the arrests do not only involve official action by state authorities, but also involve abductions by terrorist groups.