Originally Posted by
catocony
We spent a few hours in the drunk tank, then were released on PR. No fingerprints, no mugshots, nothing more than something about the size of a speeding ticket.
That sounds like an excessively prolonged detention rather than an arrest. A formal arrest involves a booking process which includes the taking of mugshots and fingerprints. The prints are then entered into statewide and nationwide databases. Based upon my experience as a lawyer who has handled numerous criminal cases, it would appear that the case may have been a prosecutor's reject and was not even filed. Folks regularly show up in court pursuant to a notice to appear after they were released from jail only to find their names on the list of cases that were not filed.