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Old Dec 9, 2012, 12:11 am
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SWCPHX
 
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Originally Posted by AirportGuy7
You will get stopped and detained upon entering the country. The local police will be contacted. They then contact the issuing agency in the jurisdiction the warrant is out of. It is up to the issuing agency if they will extradite you or not and they notify the local police agency. that determines if you're being arrested immediately or not.
Wrong. Unless the warrant is from the local or state agency that has jurisdiction over the airport where the OP arrives at, they will probably not be aware of the outstanding warrant. This is because most agencies don't bother with putting a failure to appear on traffic violation warrant into NCIC.
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