Dallas Warrant Roundup Sunday
Warrant roundup starts Sunday
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Don't let this be you.
The city of Dallas needs money. People with outstanding, unpaid traffic citations and other un-served warrants — aka: scofflaws — owe the city a fair chunk o’ change.
Dallas, meet scofflaws; scofflaws, Dallas.
Dallas residents who owe the city money might want to get a good night’s sleep Saturday, wake up pretty early Sunday, and get cleaned up and dressed. If a knock comes at the door at 6 a.m., some of those people might wind up on the 6 p.m. newscast.
Dallas City Marshals start their semi-regular warrant roundup at 6 a.m., Aug. 1, as part of the Scofflaw Program that targets individuals with outstanding arrest warrants for unpaid traffic and non-traffic citations. They invited members of the media to ride along, so there could be some insult added to financial injury.
The ne’er-do-wells could have satisfied their debts to society by paying the citations at the Lew Sterrett Justice Center lobby or the Courts and Detention Building before the gendarmes show up to extract their pound of cash.
Otherwise, the fugitives can’t renew their automobile registrations, and that’s just another ticket waiting to happen.
They also risk jail time, and it’s got to be worth it to pay a few bucks to stay out of the hoosegow. The city needs the money. Don’t make them drag those deadbeat butts to jail to get it.
Bruce Felps owns and operates East Dallas Times, an online community news outlet serving the White Rock Lake area. His deadbeat butt is paid in full after getting tickets last month … and the month before.
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Posted Saturday, Jul 31, 2010 - 11:00 PM CST
