note I have never seen a guard freeze or teleport to jail a criminal then were not close to. All the people getting sent to jail were within a reasonable distance to the guard.
back in 4.03 when i was in jail, there were more gm's online at one time, recently all i have seen is sarva, mara, and occasional ingles and one other, venalan i think idk
but back then, mara wasnt a gm yet, tazen was around, ingles, pizik, venalen, and like 5 others were on somtimes at the same time, so you may not have seen it, becuase the guards who did it dont come around anymore, i never found out which gm did it, and i dont remember the guards' names. but thats what they did, they would freaze people halfway across town, i only ever had 1 guard put up a chase.