My son was violated on probation, as a result of not reporting an address change. His mother said, he could stay at her home when he was charged, he is 24,and we are broken family, anyway she changed her mind after an out of state trip she took him on to West Virginia. And when the oficer showed up at the home she told him that he never lived there. So now he is on the lamb, scared of being locked-up he is livinging in motel rooms and has told me that if he lives west of the Mississippi he will not be extradited. He does have a violation warrant issued and the original charge for the probation was pawning two items that he did not know were stolen. He did this for his brother who is in jail currently and was the owner of the items in question, at the time they were living together and needed to pay their electric, but his ID was expired, so the pawn owner sent them to another store associated with there chain of pawn stores and told my son to use his current ID so they did and sure enough the stuff was stolen mean while his brother went to jail for unrelated charges and the state filed charges over the pawned items we went to court and was given an option to put it off on his brother but could not do it in good faith, so he opted for a pley bargain and is on the lamb as a result of a residence violation. Someone has convinced him that if he gets at least 500miles from this state, being Florida he will not be extradited. That he with be able to start a knew life somewhere west of the Mississippi and this stuff will go away in Florida in about 7 years. Could this be true? I have always told my sons to face their mistakes. I do find it admerable that he could have beat this, but chose not to take a chance that it might come back to haunt his brother who is already in enough trouble. I love my sons very much and have bent knees to God with them in prayer on many occasions. I need to know the facts please. Thank you for your time and patients, Concerned Dad

Someone has convinced him that if he gets at least 500miles from this state, being florida he will not be extradited. That he with be able to start a knew life somewhere west of the Missisippi and this stuff will go away in florida in about 7 years. Could this be true? Hello hd:

Nope. Not even close. Warrants last FOREVER, and if Florida wants him bad enough, they'll go all the way to California to bring him back.

excon

Ok, first the warrant will last forever, and every time he ever gets stopped they can and will detain him to check to see if they wish to take him back this time.

Now they can take him back from Alaska if they want to, but honestly often they will not pay the cost if he is far enough away.

Of course he won't be able to renew a drivers license, normally can't work a regular job, since if they run a background check a warrant will show up and no one hires people with a warrant.

So he can start a new life, one where he has to never drive a car legally, can't get insurance and can't work legally. But heck I guess it is a life.

And the silly thing, he only had probation, nothing, and had it merely went in most likely no big deal

The longer he stays on the run the worst, actually the best thing you could do is talk him into turning hisself in and hiring him an attorney.

Thank you for the advice, Excon and FR_Chuck, I do have a lawyer standing by and I am sure he will face this so it will bring him closure and that is really starting a new life... Thank you for all your incouagment, God bless you guys--Hdvbob