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Fri 27 Feb, 2009 10:29 pm
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. – The Carter County Sheriff's Department is trying to serve an 80-year-old warrant for the arrest of a man who wrote a $30 bad check, although unsure if he is alive. The warrant, issued in August 1928, calls for the arrest of J.A. Rowland. It says he owes $30 for the bad check, $2 for the arrest fee and 50 cents each for the affidavit and warrant.
Clerks at the Glynn County Sheriff's Office in Brunswick, Ga., recently found the warrant buried in a records storage room while cleaning and mailed it to Tennessee.
Current Carter County Sheriff Chris Mathes told The Elizabethton Star he is still under a legal obligation to find Rowland.
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For the life of me, I can't figure out why the warrent is still valid.
Weird.
(Oh, by the way, I just noticed the reply box is roseate! delightful...)
I can't figure the motive on this. To precipate a cleanout practice of some sort?
Wild scrupulosity? Almost screenplay fodder.
Once when I went to renew my drivers license they cited me for a parking ticket that was 12 years old! Since that ticket was issued I had renewed my license twice and my car registration six times and no one ever told me about it! When I protested I was allowed to pay 'only' the $15 face value of the ticket and not the late fees. The DMV is all heart!
The part that bothers me is that there seems to be no statute of limitations for a parking or driving offence, but there is for molestation of children.
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