---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3606"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3606"
heading: "Arrest and return of a probationer"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3606"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 229 — Postsentence Administration"
  - "Subchapter A — Probation"
---

# §3606. Arrest and return of a probationer


If there is probable cause to believe that a probationer or a person on supervised release has violated a condition of his probation or release, he may be arrested, and, upon arrest, shall be taken without unnecessary delay before the court having jurisdiction over him. A probation [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) may make such an arrest wherever the probationer or releasee is found, and may make the arrest without a warrant. The court having supervision of the probationer or releasee, or, if there is no such court, the court last having supervision of the probationer or releasee, may issue a warrant for the arrest of a probationer or releasee for violation of a condition of release, and a probation [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) or [United States](/usc/18/5.md) marshal may execute the warrant in the district in which the warrant was issued or in any district in which the probationer or releasee is found.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(2), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2003.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Nov. 1, 1987, and applicable only to offenses committed after the taking effect of this section, see section 235(a)(1) of Pub. L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 3551 of this title.