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There are only a few reasons to conduct a free warrant search…

• You have committed a crime and wonder if there is a warrant out for you (arrest warrant)
• You have forgotten to pay a fine and wonder if the police are looking for you (bench warrant)
• You suspect you are a victim of identity theft and want to find arrest warrants and clear them up
• You wonder if someone else – an employee, relative, babysitter – has any warrants they aren’t telling you about

How do I conduct free warrant search

The bad news is that many sites promise a free warrant search. You type in your name, address, zip, email – whatever they want – and they pretend to do a warrant search. The result is a name and city pulled from a phone book database or the web with a big “BUY HERE” button telling you that you need to pay for the report. Right… the search is free but the results and the report are not.

Accurate Free Warrant Searches

You can do nothing and receive an accurate free warrant search. Just get pulled over by the police. They will be happy to perform a thorough and complete warrant search under your name – for FREE. The county courthouse will conduct a thorough warrant search for you as well. However, both sources may land you in jail.

The county courthouse is likely to only have warrants issued in that county. The police (hopefully) have information for a broader area – possibly state wide. The information the police and courthouse use is freely available but not always online. In many instances the county warrant records are only available in person at the county courthouse¹.

Search for free arrest warrants in public records

Arrest warrants are public record. That means they show up in all sorts of places – like background checks performed by employers. It also means that in a perfect world you could run your own free online warrant search and find anything and everything you were looking for. Unfortunately the reality is that many of these records are not online.

Paid Arrest Warrant Search

Paid services are intended to make your life easy by compiling all the correct information, providing easy to use search features, etc.

If you have a Warrant – Get an Attorney Today!

The initial criminal defense attorney consultation is FREE, take advantage of it

Why get just a warrant search if you are going to need a lawyer anyway? Any warrant search that turns up a active warrant will mean you need to get legal help. The initial case evaluation is free so contact an attorney and tell them you want a case consultation.

The initial criminal defense attorney consultation is FREE, take advantage of it

If you know that you’ve committed a crime then you know that there is a good chance that a warrant has been issued on you. If so, then your best course of action is to get a lawyer and turn yourself in. It’s either turn yourself in or constantly wonder when the police will come knocking on your door.

You’ve forgotten pay a fine and now you wonder if you have a bench warrant

You could have a warrant for silly reasons, like forgetting to turn up in court or failing to pay a fine. If this happens then you most likely have collected a Bench Warrant. Just like an arrest warrant, a bench warrant will get you arrested.

You are going to need a lawyer anyways…

What happens if you find out there is an arrest warrant or a bench warrant out with your name on it? You could do what a buddy of mine did, go to the courthouse, pay your fine (I think it was an old parking or speeding ticket), and have them arrest you anyways…

That’s what happened to him. They took his ATM card and all of his cash. He couldn’t even bail himself out and had to call his wife. This all happened on Friday afternoon so he missed a good chunk of a work day in jail – try explaining that to you boss – and got to enjoy the deluxe accommodations of the county jail overnight since his wife couldn’t get there until after the clerks had left for the day.

I don’t know about you but I’d like to avoid that scenario myself. A lawyer could have warned him ahead of time what to expect and either prevented his arrest or at least gotten him bailed out before everyone went home saving him from a night in jail. If you have a warrant – major or minor – you will want a lawyer to handle it.