Release from jail with outstanding warrant?

[Mssr. Eleganté]

If (hypothetically) somebody was released from the San Bernardino County jail today, and they had an outstanding warrant from LA County, would the person be handed over directly to LA County or would they be released from custody and expected to deal with LA County on their own?

[tyrist]

Depends on the warrant. If LA county refused to release the warrant then they would be released from jail in San Bernardino and still wanted in LA county.

[retired]

To add to tyrist's comment, the dollar amount of the warrant play a big factor also due to the crowding in the jails.

It's been a long time, but I recall when the jails were overfilled back in the 1990s, the warrant had to be for $7500 or more to arrest someone. After the Rodney King incident, the arrests went down dramatically and they lowered the dollar amount to $500.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

The bail amount for the LA County charges used to say $30,000 on the web site. But today I just noticed that it changed to "Misd. Warrant Release". So I'm guessing that means he is free?

[tyrist]

The bail amount for the LA County charges used to say $30,000 on the web site. But today I just noticed that it changed to "Misd. Warrant Release". So I'm guessing that means he is free?

Was he arrested for the LA county warrant?

[yzErnie]

What "Misd. Warrant Release" means is he was released from Sas Bernardino Co with a notice to appear for the misdemeanor LA County warrant.

[Mssr. Eleganté]

Was he arrested for the LA county warrant?

I'm not sure. He was arrested on a SB county warrant and ended up in SB county jail for a couple of months. The SB county inmate look up web site listed the LA county outstanding warrants at the bottom of the page. Maybe LA county issued the warrants because he was in jail in SB and couldn't show up to court in LA.

What "Misd. Warrant Release" means is he was released from Sas Bernardino Co with a notice to appear for the misdemeanor LA County warrant.

Thanks for the info.

[CSDGuy]

I've seen that here... not a LEO, but... in that specific case, it all depends upon whether or not LA County wants him enough to either go get him or have him sent to them.

[yzErnie]

I've seen that here... not a LEO, but... in that specific case, it all depends upon whether or not LA County wants him enough to either go get him or have him sent to them.

Inaccurate...San Bernardino Co will issue notice to appears on warrants under a certain dollar amount. It does not matter if LA Co wants him or not.

[Ron-Solo]

LA County's current minimum aggregate bail amount is $25,000 for misdemeanor warrants. If you have two for $15,000 we will keep you. If you have one for $24,999.99 we will issue you a ticket with a new court date. When you fail to appear on that, the judge will bump up the bail to $30K and you stay. The ticket is referred to as a "starter set" for the next jail stay.

The bail amount varies based on jail crowding. It's been $25K for a while. A few years back it was $100K. With the budget crisis, it may go back up if they have to close jails.

Some misdemeanors are not cited out, such as domestic violence and indecent exposure for political reasons.

[El Gato]

Happens all of the time...
the county with the body will call the county with the warrant...county with the warrant will say... "we won't extradite... cite him to appear on such a date at such and such a place and time"...and he is cited to appear... and released...in Kern they are doing about 1/3rd time on a sentence and released... if they have even a minor felony in some counties, they are cited to appear...

had a felony warrant out for one of my probationers... OC cited him out the day after he got out of the hospital after being beaten very very badly in their jail... dude showed up in my office a couple of days later..dazed...his sister/whatever... brought him in after he had hitchhiked and taken most of his pain pills.. hitchhiked high on pain pills and ozin' puss and blood from his now infected wounds...when I called the OC Sgt. he just said his county didn't want him any more and didn't want to pay the ambulance cost to ship him to bako as he was so badly hurt...so they just kicked him with an outstanding warrant....felony warrant...so that his "sister" could transport him to Kern...go figure... Sgt. could have been telling me the back story and the official line was something else... at least unofficially the Sgt. was giving me the straight scoop....Kern Co. jail took him after I took him to the hospital...

doesn't happen often...but stuff like that does happen...

[BigDogatPlay]

The days of getting locked up on a small potatoes warrant are over. The percentage of warrants cited and released is growing all the time.

Hat tip to El Gato... that is easily the story of the week. No fiction writer could ever beat real life.

[desmark6]

I know around here we can book on warrants as small as $500, I am sure the jailers cite them out shortly after, but, they can/do get a trip to jail.

An you always have to wonder about the extradition, I had to let a guy go on a no bail felony warrant for drug charges out of Washington state since the would not extradite. Sooooo, guess he gets away with it as long as he never goes back to Washington!

[BigDogatPlay]

Thats something that has always bugged me on out of state warrants. If they either won't extradite or will only extradite from a state with a direct border, why even bother to put it in NCIC?

[oddjob]

NCIC

I spoke with some LEO's out of Wash State on a fella I arrested on their warrant. Unofficially they asked me to tell the suspect to stay in California and he won't be in jail in Wash. I know their not supposed to put the warrant in the system if they won't get him, but it happens. The suspect agreed to stay in California. I don't remember if they ever pulled the warrant out of NCIC.