County "X" issues arrest warrant for defendant's arrest. Defendant arrested in adjacent county "Y" by peace officer from county "X" and brought directly back to county "X" to be booked in and magistrated. Defense attorney insists defendant had to be magistrated in county "Y" before being brought back to county "X".

CCP 15.18 in my opinion clearly allows for peace officer from county "X" to make arrest in county "Y" and bring back to county "X" to be booked in and magistrated. Happens all the time. Does anybody know of any law prohibiting this or that would make this a problem?

Just make sure that your officer can state that the reason for the transfer was to enable the Defendant to be magistrated more expeditiously.

We haul people back here from Tarrant County on a regular basis b/c we can have them magistrated immediately by an on-call JP.