Iowa Annotated Statutes
Title XVI Criminal Law and Procedure (Subts. 1 — 3)
Subtitle 2 Criminal Procedure (Chs. 748 TO 800 — 823 TO 899)
Chapter 804 Commencement of Actions — Arrest — Dispositions of Prisoners (§§ 804.1 — 804.31)

804.24 Arrests by private persons — disposition of prisoner.

A private citizen who has arrested another for the commission of an offense must, without unnecessary delay, take the arrested person before a magistrate, or deliver the arrested person to a peace officer, who may take the arrested person before a magistrate, but the person making the arrest must also accompany the officer before the magistrate.

 

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