Flying domestically with felony warrant??
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If your username is your real name, I would probably change it and anything else that can tie anything you have posted back to your real name.
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Obviously, as others have mentioned, it's far better to clear this up as soon as possible than keep it hanging over your head.
Side note: I'll listen to the police scanner from time to time at home, and it absolutely astounds me how many people get pulled over that have warrants out for them. Most of them are pretty minor things, but I'm shocked that people that have warrants out for them still drive in a manner that makes them likely to get pulled over. Most of these are pretty small and for other local jurisdictions, but for those, I'd say about 4 in 5 they end up arranging a meet to turn the person over. Longer distance ones definitely have a lower percentage, but I've heard a few from out of state where they were asked to hold the person because the other jurisdiction definitely wanted them.
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Thanks for the info. Yes, I do need to deal with it and get a lawyer. I never had a criminal record until a boyfriend of mine got into some trouble and I lied to a grand jury about his whereabouts. Because we were from out of state, the DA wanted to teach me a lesson. Now, just because I had never been in trouble with the law before doesn't mean that I wasn't screwing up. At the time I skipped out on my probation I was on methadone for a heroin addiction. In Oregon it's up to your probation officer whether or not you can be on methadone. My PO said no, so I left. During these past 5 years I've been able to get my life on track. I'm almost finished with college, I own my own home and car now. I'm just terrified that when I go back I could be looking at 3 years in prison (the time left on my probation); everything I've worked so hard for will be gone. So yes, one of these days.
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I second the idea that you get this handled so you can move on with your life... with no fear.
Are you posting your real name, your drug history and the fact that you have a warrant?
I hope for your sake that you use caution on the internet. This is a scary world.
Are you posting your real name, your drug history and the fact that you have a warrant?
I hope for your sake that you use caution on the internet. This is a scary world.
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Side note: I'll listen to the police scanner from time to time at home, and it absolutely astounds me how many people get pulled over that have warrants out for them. Most of them are pretty minor things, but I'm shocked that people that have warrants out for them still drive in a manner that makes them likely to get pulled over. Most of these are pretty small and for other local jurisdictions, but for those, I'd say about 4 in 5 they end up arranging a meet to turn the person over.
To the OP: Why not take the train or a bus? Flying seems to be a gamble.
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Also, no Amtrak into Vegas, only Greyhound, so OP would have to take the train somewhere and transfer to a bus in what is probably a 36-40 hour trip. Not my idea of a good time. And not any cheaper than flying, at $400-500 round trip.
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What are you basing that on? Speculation, I imagine.
Since the inception of SecureFlight, we have not seen one news story indicating that TSA scans for ordinary criminal warrants or, if they do, that they pass that information on to local LE resulting in arrests. Given that TSA brags about any case in which they are involved in the aprehension of a criminal-- even if their officers were just standing there-- the absence of a news story is a strong indication that the OP will be okay. Not 100%, but far from "a gamble".
Since the inception of SecureFlight, we have not seen one news story indicating that TSA scans for ordinary criminal warrants or, if they do, that they pass that information on to local LE resulting in arrests. Given that TSA brags about any case in which they are involved in the aprehension of a criminal-- even if their officers were just standing there-- the absence of a news story is a strong indication that the OP will be okay. Not 100%, but far from "a gamble".
Last edited by Ari; May 21, 2013 at 7:51 pm
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Since the inception of SecureFlight, we have not seen one news story indicating that TSA scans for ordinary criminal warrants or, if they do, that they pass that information on to local LE resulting in arrests. ...
the absence of a news story is a strong indication that the OP will be okay. Not 100%, but far from "a gamble".
the absence of a news story is a strong indication that the OP will be okay. Not 100%, but far from "a gamble".
Now what does seem to happen is if TSA or the passenger calls over a LEO as part of an incident at the checkpoint, the LEO seems to reflexively take the passenger's ID and do a warrant check even though there is usually no justification for doing so. So my advice to the OP, other than getting the warrant handled, would be to minimize interaction and conflict with TSA to avoid potential interaction with the police.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/09/ny...iq-scores.html
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2012/01/0...t-to-be-a-cop/
It seems management doesn't want their officers understanding complex subjects like selection bias.
IMO the root cause of so many negative police encounters with truly innocent citizens (photographers, bicyclists, Harvard Professor Henry Gates, whatever) is the police assuming everyone they encounter is a hardened criminal and needlessly escalating the situation to assert dominance/control. Making it worse is that the average law-abiding educated citizen likely has no real experience dealing with the police by virtue of being law abiding. Such citizens also are probably unaware of unintentional triggers that can cause the LEO to instinctively and rapidly escalate a situation out of self-preservation--e.g., hands not in sight or reaching for a cell phone, or, in way too many cases, use of a camera.
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What are you basing that on? Speculation, I imagine.
Since the inception of SecureFlight, we have not seen one news story indicating that TSA scans for ordinary criminal warrants or, if they do, that they pass that information on to local LE resulting in arrests. Given that TSA brags about any case in which they are involved in the aprehension of a criminal-- even if their officers were just standing there-- the absence of a news story is a strong indication that the OP will be okay. Not 100%, but far from "a gamble".
Since the inception of SecureFlight, we have not seen one news story indicating that TSA scans for ordinary criminal warrants or, if they do, that they pass that information on to local LE resulting in arrests. Given that TSA brags about any case in which they are involved in the aprehension of a criminal-- even if their officers were just standing there-- the absence of a news story is a strong indication that the OP will be okay. Not 100%, but far from "a gamble".
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I wonder how many people with outstanding arrest warrants fly each year - it certainly would make it safer for the general public if the TSA (or rather a computer checking passenger lists) was detecting them rather than some non-existent terrorist.
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For the O/P information, Oregon only will extradite in the Northwest. Shoot, in my other life as a highway patrolman, we stopped a guy wanted for a serious sex charge and Oregon wouldn't come twenty miles south of the border to pick him up.
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