hey some guy is threatening me that he has pressed charges and that there is a bench warrant out on my name so if I get pulled over supposedly I will be arrested and dragged to PA to face him. Could anyone explain this?

david Wrote:
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> hey some guy is threatening me that he has pressed
> charges and that there is a bench warrant out on
> my name so if I get pulled over supposedly I will
> be arrested and dragged to PA to face him. Could
> anyone explain this?
Probably not, because you have left out a lot of important deails.

And left out a lot of details, too.

k let me explain, I sold a set of AMG wheels to a guy on ebay. The guy send me a check. Then I discovered that one of the wheels is cracked and will leak air with use. i explained to the guy that I will be sending him a check back. I am in the Marines and do not get around the computer too often. I didnt get a chance to let him know for about 3 weeks. i explained to him earlier this week that I have sent the check. He emailed me last night stating that he filed charges yesterday and that supposedly there is a bench warrant for my arrest now, Could this be right or is he just pressuring me? I explained that he will receive the check either today or monday

A bench warrant is issued by the court, usually meaning you have failed to show up at the court at least once... If you get pulled over, you will be arrested, and held WITHOUT BAIL until the next court date.If I were you, I would ask him the phone number of the court in which the bench warrant was filed. If he doesn't tell you, then he is probally lying. I would contact the court just to be sure.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/2007 01:55PM by joe.

No there never was a court date issued to me, he told me he filed charges yesterday and that if I get pulled over they will take to PA??!!

also any place online or on the phone that I can check the accuracy of this or if there really are charges against me?

Erm... The court that filed the bench warrant? You haven't been charged with anything yet, he just is pressing charges. If this guy really were serious, I am sure you would have been contacted by the court. He's probally bullshitting.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/2007 01:59PM by joe.

If you are in the service go to the legal counsel at your base. The court wont tell you over the phone if you have any warrants. Your JAG office can make contact with the locals to find out if what this guy said is true. I doubt he is telling the truth, prob just trying to scare you to get his money back.

Also the JAG should be able to run a wanted check without the locals getting involved to let you know for sure if this guy got a warrant.

Sounds like he's blowing smoke up your ass. "Hey I got a cracked rim on ebay" "OK we'll file an arrest warrant for that no problem". But I agree with the previous post, go to wherever you are stationed or your closest marine/navy base for that matter and take to the JAG office and ask them to sort if out after you explain the situation. They will likely tell you not to worry but you never know.

WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING THIS!!??!??!?!?!?!?!
Hey genius, call the courts up in PA and ask them.....

I don't know of any court that will tell you over the phone if you have an outstanding warrant. If a person thought they were wanted and called the court over the phone and found out he was he would be on the next train out of town in most cases depending on how serious the charge.

That story is fishy. I think there may be a warrant for David -- somewhere along the line somebody added their own jargon and the warrant became a "bench warrant."

If David already contacted the guy and told him he would be sending a check, who cares about how often David uses his computer. You're either sending a check or you're not. Now that David knows about the warrant (three weeks later) he's a check writing, and excuse making, fool. Typical criminal behavior.

If David wants to minimize his problems, he should arrange to meet this "customer" at a police station in his town in Pennsylvania, pay him in cash, get a receipt, and turn himself in at the police station.

If David doesn't fix his problems, sooner or later he'll get stopped and arrested. And if he's out of state, he might expect to sit in jail for weeks before he gets transported up to PA.

I sent him an email asking some info. all he told me was that supposedly the police went to talk to my ex landlord and got the information off the check that my brother wrote for me to the landlord.(thats true my brother did write a check s thats accurate) Thats where he sent the check. My license goes back to my brothers house. The police supposedly showed up at the landlords house but not my license address, Also I have asked him to give me the officers name or what the charges are and he just ignorce those responses. He said he will drop the charge once he gets the check and he also told me that I have until the 7th , why would he give me a due date if he already filed the charges?

David Wrote:
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> why
> would he give me a due date if he already filed
> the charges?

It is probably for his own purposes... if he has a cutoff date and you ignore it or don't make it, then he can assume he'll never see the money.

Did you send the check with some kind of delivery confirmation?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/03/2007 08:15PM by pgens.

typical marine, dumb as a box of rocks.

496 Wrote:
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> typical marine, dumb as a box of rocks.

After some of your post your calling someone else dumb?

"After some of your post your calling someone else dumb?"

Why yes, I am. Now shut the fuck up, OK Dick?

496, you could have posted a bunch of dots and it would have made more sense than Richard's post.

Don't worry about it, David. The Baghdad po-po don't have time for shit like bench warrants.

k well here is his email after I told him that I went to ADC to turn myself in,there is no warrant. He wrote in response, just remember supposedly he filed this on friday afternoon:

"dont know why you would turn your self in wont do any good the bondsmen dont know, you were not bonded out as i told you it is in the district attourneys hands now and as of the money well see still dont beleve you at all and youll see, it has to do with mississippi. your nothing but a punk any way, not a man see you when i see you. dont beleve you that you tried to turn your self in any way."

I honestly think he is bullshitting me, trying to put fear in me. I am seriously about to just send him the cracked wheels or just dont give him shit, but I couldnt do that simply I just couldnt let myself do something like that.The cost of wheels was $2050

David, I mean this in the nicest way possible... you are too stupid to procreate. If you really went to ADC to turn yourself in, you are too stupid to walk amongst us.

Look I know that turning yourself in is not something a normal person would do knowing there is a possibility of being locked up. Its just the way I am I dont like living in confusing or having anything over my head. its just the way i was raised and the way I am

Don't appologize, David. I'm the one that is sorry for the flip comment I made up there ^.

Thank you for your service to our Country and the Corps. Be careful and Godspeed, Marine.

Thanks again.

496 Wrote:
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> typical marine, dumb as a box of rocks.


Typical lowlife, does nothing but point out how dumb others are.

Your most likely a Typical pussy as well, I would love to see you tell a marine that in real life.

park1 Wrote:
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> WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING
> THIS!!??!??!?!?!?!?!
> Hey genius, call the courts up in PA and ask
> them.....


Hey Mr. Genius, did you think about how some people wouldnt know what to do in this situation? Its great they come here and ask since we have geniuses like you right? Or are you a wasted genius that cant put 2and2 together about maybe he doesnt know what to do in this situation.....rather than helping.... you post "WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING THIS"....Hmmm is this a move a genius would make or a smart ass?.....

"Your most likely a Typical pussy as well, I would love to see you tell a marine that in real life"
If I could find a real marine I would. Most of the real ones are dead. The wanna be's today can most likely be foud in the shadow if the Iwo Jima having A JO party

I forgot to mention that my porn collection is mainly pictures of guys dressed up like marines (at least from the waist up). So my hostility is mainly because I'm constantly having to look and long for things I can never have.

K, that was out of place but here is his follow up email, any help would be greatly appreciated. I told him that I know for a fact there is no warrant this is what he wrote:


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you know it takes a couple of daysto get in the computer but go ahead and play you will seeso if you are on leave then i will file with the military on the bad check division thanks for the info you know how they are so thanks got ya ass hole. will be doing it. like i said you have until wednesday.then i will file with them giving you a chance to be a man but like i can see your a punk and if you and people like you are garding our country then 911 is only the beginning were all fucked.
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Is this guy just fucking with my head. I mean I told him I sent the check, whats the point for this interegation

The point is that you've already screwed with him. You claim that it took three weeks to send out the check because you have limited access to the Internet, but that hasn't seemed to be a problem since you started this thread.

I'll admit that the buyer sounds like an idiot (his English skills are worse than yours). But if you put yourself in his shoes, perhaps you'd understand his position a bit better. After all, you held his $2000 for three weeks. Of course he doesn't trust you. Why should he believe you now?

I'm sorry, but you acted irresponsibly. I hope you have no future plans to sell items on ebay.

Firret wrote:

Hey Mr. Genius, did you think about how some people wouldnt know what to do in this situation? Its great they come here and ask since we have geniuses like you right? Or are you a wasted genius that cant put 2and2 together about maybe he doesnt know what to do in this situation.....rather than helping.... you post "WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING THIS"....Hmmm is this a move a genius would make or a smart ass?.....
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No it doesn't take a genius, but it does require a little bit of common sense. If he has a legal problem in PA, why does he need to post a question about it on Fairfax Underground (which is in VA)?
I would think he could call the court house, or police station, or if that is out of the question, seek legal advice from an attorney.
No it doesn't take a genius, but it does take using your brain a bit, something that you have never done.

I am calling ffx police right now and pressing charges on that guy in New York who sold me the fake Ray Bans on Ebay!!!!

Have you contacted the JAG yet to see if there is even a warrant outstanding? That takes all of one min to do. They will check because they dont want to get caught having knowledge of a wanted marine and then look bad that they didnt do anything.
Its simple, if there is a warrant they will take you into custody if not dont lose sleep over it.

The best thing for you to do is to pay the guy in cash, then turn yourself in up in Pennsylvania. It's possible that there is a warrant, but it's not in the national system yet. If you show authorities that you are willing to be mature and responsible -- you probably won't get thrown in jail. If you let more time pass, they'll probably get approval for extradition, and one of these days you're gonna get yourself arrested and your car towed on a traffic stop. Good luck!

If you have really sent the check I would simply stop responding to the person, other than restating the date you sent the check. After a while you'll have the canceled check, and if you are later arrested for not paying for something you'll have an email from the guy stating what he felt he was owed and a canceled check to match it.

And I agree with G above... eBay has a number of perhaps well-meaning but nevertheless bad buyers and sellers. The buyer was dumb for sending a check for that much to a seller, and you should have thoroughly inspected what you were selling before listing it. In any case I'd call the cops too if if didn't have my money FedEx'd back. I wouldn't stop at the local police either... I'd be in the post office filing mail fraud charges as well.

But I would stop responding the the guy. If this gets into a larger legal mess you want fewer statements from yourself in writing, not more.

You really should post this on ebay's message boards. There are people with much more experience with issues like this on that site. Personally, I think the buyer is full of it and is trying to scare you.I've read a similar stories many times on ebay's boards. You never answered the question on whether you sent the buyer's refund with any sort of tracking and delivery confirmation.That's important.

Only have electronic contact with the buyer via ebay's messaging section and forget directly e-mailing him--he can always claim he didn't receive your email but can't deny a message in his ebay "my messages" section. Stick to the facts, tell him you were unavailable for x amount of time, realized the one of the items was defective, and that you had issued a refund for x amount and mailed it to him via x mail service. Save copies of all correspondence. You could also pull his contact information from ebay and call him directly. A phone call can often go a LONG way.

This all said, you shouldn't be selling anything on ebay if you consistently are away from a computer--especially for three weeks at a time. You should have at a bare minimum posted this fact (your lack of availability) in your auction listing. No contact for that long for a purchase of that amount would understandably freak a buyer out big time. For car stuff, stick to craigslist or something like that and save yourself and a potential buyer a similar headache.Shame on the buyer for paying you by check. Paypal sucks but at least the buyer could have filed a non performing seller report and gotten a chargeback.

Dude that guy is totally fucking with you. Checking with the legal counsel to be sure, but it sounds like this prick is just trying to scam you. I couldn't take anyone seriously if they emailed me that crap.

park1 Wrote:
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> Firret wrote:
>
> Hey Mr. Genius, did you think about how some
> people wouldnt know what to do in this situation?
> Its great they come here and ask since we have
> geniuses like you right? Or are you a wasted
> genius that cant put 2and2 together about maybe he
> doesnt know what to do in this
> situation.....rather than helping.... you post
> "WHY IN THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING THIS"....Hmmm is
> this a move a genius would make or a smart
> ass?.....
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----------------
>
> No it doesn't take a genius, but it does require a
> little bit of common sense. If he has a legal
> problem in PA, why does he need to post a question
> about it on Fairfax Underground (which is in VA)?
>
> I would think he could call the court house, or
> police station, or if that is out of the question,
> seek legal advice from an attorney.
> No it doesn't take a genius, but it does take
> using your brain a bit, something that you have
> never done.

Oh look you just pretty much said what he could have done mr genius.....Was that really that hard? I will keep a note of the brain comment and remmember how usless a brain is if you dont share what it knows.

Ive read your posts, and I have a couple question
This sounds suspicicsouly like a scam a couple years ago Ive heard of.

1. Did you cash the check?
2. Did the check clear and you have his approx $2000 in your bank account
3. the check you sent back to him... Was it one you wrote, or his old check.
4. and 4th , why the hell did you cash the check before you shipped his goods..you sound a little suspect here buddy.

Some people are fools..
Do you really think just any jack ass can go into a police station and say.. I want a warrant issued for so-and-so. NO .. NO they can not..other wise I would have got a warrant issued for you on general gullabilty.

He would have to take you to court and then get a subpeona issued,
then if you didnt show up, then a warrant would be issued,
then if you didnt show up to that, you would be tried in absentia
then there would be a real arrest warrant issued to the federal DB

this guy is fuckin with you .. Just make sure he is not pressuring you to pay him back with money you never had of his.. This is why you use pay pal..

Oh and by the way.. reciept of monies with no intent of providing goods/services while using the USPS as the instument is a FELONY.. ie Mail fraud... a Federal offense.

I sorry but this story does not add up.. try again .

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