CA: $1 million warrant issued in frat brawl

SJ Mercury News ^ | 1/30/03 | Mercury News

[NormsRevenge]

Long Duy Tran's family hadn't seen him in more than a week, so they called police to report him missing.

The next day, investigators kicked in the family's front door and served a search warrant on the home near Flickinger Park, where Tran was accused of deadly assault for his part in last week's fatal brawl between rival San Jose State University fraternities.

[Brandybux]

What is a $1 Million warrant? What does a million dollars have to do with a warrant to arrest someone?

Is this a kind of reward? A kind of pre-set bail?

Can't the police arrest someone without attaching a dollar amount to their warrant to do so?

What gives here?

[WorkingClassFilth]

Nothing like the College days. One knife wound for the Gipper, I always say.

[Billthedrill]

You got me. I'm sure there's a warrant for his arrest, and maybe they expect bail to be set at a mil, but they don't usually set bail until the suspect is in hand, I don't believe. FReeper lawyers, help us out here...