If you have a warrant out for your arrest in Tarrant County, more than likely you are going to have to book into jail, be arraigned, and bond out. Tarrant County only allows "walkthroughs" if three conditions are all met, which rarely ever happens. Board Certified Criminal Defense Lawyer Benson Varghese explains.
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00:00 What Should You Do if There is a Warrant Out for Your Arrest in Tarrant County?
00:20 Arrestable Offenses, Not Tickets
00:46 Going to Custody is Usually Unavoidable
00:59 Defendants Can Only "WalkThrough" When Three Conditions are Met
01:11 #1 Arresting Agency Has to Send Probable Cause Warrant to Tarrant Magistrate Before Arrest
01:33 #2 Magistrate Requires City to Have Set a Recommended Bond
01:57 #3 Attorney Must File a Waiver of Arraignment
02:26 Many Other Counties Do Still Allow "WalkThroughs"
02:39 Contact an Attorney if You Have a Warrant in Tarrant County
03:19 Questions? Comments?

Transcript
Benson Varghese: What should you do if there's a warrant out for your arrest?
In many jurisdictions, if there's a warrant out for your arrest, there are ways to avoid getting arrested. This video is about what you should do if you have a warrant out for your arrest in Tarrant County. Here, we're not talking about citations that have gone to warrant status. In other words, if you have a speeding ticket and you don't pay for it, that will eventually go into a warrant, and that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about arrestable offenses.

There's a warrant out for a new offense you're alleged to have committed, or there's a warrant out because you didn't show up to court, or finally, there's a warrant out because there's an allegation that you messed up on probation. In each of those circumstances, it is virtually impossible to resolve the warrant without going into custody. Let's take a look at them one at a time as it pertains to Tarrant County, specifically. Tarrant County over the last couple of years has instituted a policy that says individuals cannot truly waive their arraignment or have a walkthrough instead of an actual arrest, unless certain conditions are met.

These conditions, all three of them being met, become a virtual impossibility. The first condition is the arresting agency has to send the probable cause warrant over to a Tarrant County Magistrate before the person is actually arrested or attempts to do a walkthrough. This is extremely difficult because most of the time the detective will simply not respond, or the detective will be unwilling to send that PC affidavit over to a Tarrant County Magistrate. Second, the Tarrant County Magistrate is going to require that the city already have set at least a recommended bond.

That's virtually impossible because now in Tarrant County, essentially everyone gets seen by a Tarrant County Magistrate instead of a city magistrate. There's not a process in place for people to get recommended bonds in most cases. Conditions one and two are extremely unlikely to be met. The third condition is the easiest to meet, which is your attorney has to file a waiver of arraignment, which says, "Judge, you've already seen the PC affidavit. You've seen the recommended bond amount.

We are simply asking that this person not go through the process of having to be formally booked into jail and then arraigned by the magistrate and then book out because that process can easily take 12, 18, even 24 hours.