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take up verb phrase Of a civil or military official: to arrest, apprehend (someone).

1862 Ingram CW Letters (Sept 29) two of them [=deserters] was taken up and fetcht back this morning. 1863 Epperly CW Letters (Aug 9) the home gards went to take [the deserters] up last tuesday and the deserters whiped them and taken six of them. prisners and all thar guns. 1907 Dugger Balsam Groves 162 He looked so sneakin’ and tol’ so many different tales that I thought he stole the hoss an’ ort to be took up. 1939 Hall Coll (Wears Cove TN) The law took him up, and they couldn’t prove it direct on him, and they just turned him loose. 1974 Fink Bits Mt Speech 27 = arrest. “John was took up fer stealing corn.”