Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also bagged up) arrested, caught, imprisoned; fooled.

1852		Bell’s Life in Sydney 21 Aug. 3/2: [headline] Bagman Bagged.
1868		J.D. McCabe Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bagged. – Imprisoned.
1881		Trumble Man Traps of N.Y. 30: Of great value, cribbed it you know, ’fraid I’ll be bagged if I hock it.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 5: Bagged, imprisoned.
1928		R.J. Tasker Grimhaven 115: Jockey was laughing because we had allowed ourselves to be bagged – we were suckers.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1972		G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 161: They all got bagged in a house up in Nahant this morning.
1973		(ref. to 1890s) ‘Gloss. of Larrikin Terms’ in J. Murray Larrikins 201: bagged: imprisoned.
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak.
1999		Noreaga ‘Flagrant Cops’ 🎵 I got bagged up for a bad suck / I guess it’s over now nigga got bad luck.
2014-20		T. Thorne (ed.) ‘Drill Slang Glossary’ at Forensic Linguistic Databank 🌐 Bagged – caught by the police, arrested.

2. as bagged up, in one’s cell.

1978

cited in Partridge DSUE (1984).