Felony warrant extradition question Florida to Rhode Island

[nicolelynn]

Good Afternoon,

I have a question regarding a felony warrant. My husband was arrested last night in Florida on a felony warrant from the state of Rhode Island. The warrant is approximately two years old for a non-violent paperwork crime (small time embezzlement apparently).

I was told early this morning that we have to wait until Monday to see if Rhode Island even wants to bring him back. My question is this, with him being arrested in Florida on a non-violent felony warrant, what is the likelihood that he will be extradited back to RI? This is completely new territory for me and I am not trying to excuse or minimize what he did I just need to know so I can try to move forward.

Thank you.

[retdetsgt]

Hard to tell. That can vary from county to county, much less state to state. It will depend entirely on whether or not the prosecutor is willing to spend the money.

[marinepilot]

They should have received a confirmation of extradition before even bringing him to jail. At least that's how it is in my agency. I once got out with a guy who had a warrant from Georgia for Vehicular Manslaughter, and they told us they wouldn't extradite him, so I let him walk. Not worth it for me to drag him to jail only to be letting him go a short time later.

Seems kinda weird that they are holding him over the weekend and waiting for an answer on extradition until Monday.

[retdetsgt]

Most felony warrants have a notation in NCIC as to whether or not they will extradite and/or from how far away. If nothing on them, we assume they will. I don't think it's required that they say on the NCIC entry. There's probably no one available to make that decision in R.I. on the weekend.

[G35 Mass]

When a person is stopped with a warrant in the FBI computer system (NCIC), the arresting agency has to confirm it with the entering agency and confirm extradition. This is federal regulations set forth by the FBI.

It looks like hubby will be taking a trip back to RI.

The "MIS" field of the NCIC query must contain limitations of extradition.

[retdetsgt]

The "MIS" field of the NCIC query must contain limitations of extradition.

Another change.... (sigh)

[mcsap]

Gerogia puts traffic TICKETS into NCIC with extradition limits of surrounding COUNTIES only !

EVERY NCIC hit that I have ever had , showed the extradition limitations as part of the hit. There were times that I had someone for a felony with surrounding states ( and VA for instance doesn't border us but is still close) and I called them to ask if they would extradite. Most of the time they won't but I have had a couple of times that they were willing to change it.

The only way I can lock someone up for a NCIC hit is if there is APPROVED extradition.

Tell your husband to quit doing non-violent embezzlement crimes and he won't have these problems. he HAD to know about this offense and chose to run. I have zero sympathy for him. Looks like he stole from someone and it is time to pay up.

[ChesCopPodz]

Hell, we put warrants in that are within city limits only.

[Switchback]

The extradition limitations listed in the entry are not necessarily binding. That is why the ori holding the warrant must respond to the hit with their intent to extradite.

The ori an extradite for anything they want. Around here, there are different levels of felonies (D, C, B, A) The Ds usually have a 50 mile radius or within county. The Cs will get you anywhere in the state Bs can be just adjacent states or nationwide. The As are nationwide extradition.

Now with that said, I have had guys extradited nationwide on D felonies. Those are usually for 2 reasons: 1) they pissed off one of the politicians or 2) They are wanted for questioning on a more severe charge. Conversely, I had a guy for rape (class A felony) snatched up in an adjacent state (about a 5hr drive away) and the county refused extradition. Go figure.

So, what do you take from this? Wait and see.

[mobrien316]

Our state's attorney will indicate on the back of each warrant if extradition will be authorized.

When it is (which is not often), it is most often listed as, "...from NY and New England states."

Sometimes it reads, "From Eastern U.S. states." (I always wonder why it is okay to spend the money to extradite someone from Florida but not Wisconsin...)

AFAIK, we only have one warrant on file that basically says we will extradite from anywhere. That is for a guy who molested his daughter repeated and fled the country as soon as he heard we were looking for him.

[kels]

My last arrest on a warrant from the east coast lasted 6 days.
They finally decided they were NOT going to come get him after he waived extradition.

[nicolelynn]

Thank you everyone for taking the time to reply to my question. Unfortunately this all took place around 1am on Saturday morning so right now we are waiting to speak to someone in RI about it. Time will tell I guess. I don't have my hopes up, he comitted a crime so anything that happens he brought on himself, I just wanted to know about the extradition likelihood.

Thank you again, appreciate the work that all of you LEO's do.

[limeade]

With no other information I would say no, they will probably not pick him up. However the mere fact that he was arrested leads me to believe it's a good possibility that he will. I can only speak for my agency, but in Houston we call and make sure they are willing to extradite the individual, otherwise it is wasted time.

[nicolelynn]

Again, thanks for all the replies. As of now we are still waiting. No one has given him a status update at all so I am not even sure what is going on... I don't know if this is "good" news or bad news. I hope they make a decision one way or the other so I can move forward...

[Sgt. Slaughter]

I hope they make a decision one way or the other so I can move forward...

Plan for the worst and hope for the best.