I hope this person made out okay.. I had a bench warrant coming back to the US and was picked up in Palm Beach Co. (just walking down the street in broad daylight) and that whole " not worth the cost of extradition and just cut you loose" talk that kept coming up in conversations with my duplicitous atty turned out to be a lot of malarkey; there are a lot of "shark" lawyers in Palm Beach who prey on people
that get into this type of jam. Feel free to PM me, OP, I know a few good lawyers down there and might be able to help.