If her name had been Juanita Gonzalez, they wouldn’t have even bothered with arresting her.
Ah, how those big brother government databases come back to bite you in the a$$ .... they never forget, once in there, always in there.
No statute of limitations?
Almost forty years ago I parked my car in a parking lot next to a drugstore to pick up a newspaper. The parking lot was owned by a university. It was about 8:00 p.m., and there were no other cars in the lot. I no sooner got out of my car and began walking into the building than a college cop ran out of his car from his hiding place and put a ticket on my window. I never paid the five dollar fine. Sixteen years later when I went back to college to get my degree, I thought they’d have my name flagged. Nobody ever said anything. So I’ve been a criminal scofflaw for almost forty years now. Come and get me coppers. Neaaaaaahhhh!!!!
In 200 years, they’ll be making musicals and movies about this.
Well, an outstanding warrant is an outstanding warrant, be it for murder or stealing a pack of smokes 22 years ago. Local LEO probably doesn’t have a lot of discretion on this, and the woman *did* fail to appear for her court date.
Still, I feel bad for her in the sense that this might hurt her in the here and now. She’s obviously done alright for herself if she’s a designer in the aerospace industry. Hate to see her career get damaged because of two stupid mistakes (the first being the theft, the second being the failure to appear) when she was a teenager two decades ago.