Warrant Check - How to do a warrant check and avoid unnecessary arrest
December 15th, 2008 by adminIn order to understand why you would need to do a warrant check let’s first understand what an arrest warrant is and why it is quite possible that you might have one.
Types of warrant
There are several types of warrant, some of which are serious and some of which are not. The basic types of warrant:
1. NTA = notice to appear (means no booking)
2. UCC = uniform criminal complaint (booking and bail)
3. CBW = court bench warrant
4. CIT = citation warrant
5. PBV = probation violation
Warrant Issues
Almost 66% (give or take) of all arrest warrants are default warrants. These are warrants issued because people skip court dates or failed to pay court-mandated fines.
You may not even know that such a warrant has been issued in your name. This is due to the fact that if you forgot to go to court, for whatever reason, a warrant is issued. However you will not be notified of issue of that warrant.
Quite often the warrant is never executed until some fateful day in the future when you happen to be stopped for a routine traffic check and the policeman is notified of the warrant when he checks your plates.
There are hundreds and thousands of outstanding warrants, which have been issued and never executed. Some of these warrants are legacy warrants, which basically means they predate state warrant computer systems.
Warrants - you may have one
However our conscientious government is determined to get these boxes of warrants computerized. These legacy warrants are being reviewed, by inexperienced staff for appropriateness and validity. So is quite conceivable that an arrest warrant may appear with your name on it just because someone decided that legacy warrant was still appropriate.
One of the other primary reasons that there may be an arrest warrant with your name on it is due to identity theft. It is quite conceivable that someone is collecting arrest warrants in your name in parts of the country you have never been to.
How to do a Warrant Check
So it seems that there are several reasons to conduct a warrant check.
You could visit each State’s public records. However this is time consuming.
The best way to do a warrant check is to search across all the databases in the country, through a service that aggregates access to all these databases.
Click on the image below to do that warrant check right now and avoid the embarrassment of unnecessary arrest.
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