現げん行こう犯はん人にん

noun

flagrant offender; person caught in the act

Legal term for someone caught committing a crime or immediately after. Often used in the phrase 現行犯逮捕 (arrest of a flagrant offender).

• 警けい察さつは現げん行こう犯はん人にんをその場ばで逮たい捕ほした。

  The police arrested the flagrant offender on the spot.

• 万まん引びきの現げん行こう犯はん人にんとして捕つかまった。

  He was caught as a flagrant offender for shoplifting.