Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

This is a case invovling a relative of mine that I"m helping with.

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He was charged with 7 charges of Grand Theft and 4 charges of non-sufficient check.

This took place back in 2005, and there is a currently a warrant out. The bail is set at $20,000.00

I went to the superior court to look in the case file and it had nothing in it except the felony complaint warrant which simply has the different counts.

The incident occured back in 2005, where 4 checks were written and deposited in two opposit banks when there was no money in the banks.

The four checks written total $10,000 but NOT all that money was able to be withdrwan from the banks due to portions of it placed on hold.

However, after that incident he left the country due to an emergyncy and now is back in the US, but not in CA.

It looks like they slapped a grand theft charge for every non sufficient check charge.

I know complete jail time can be completely avoided. The guy has a clean record and has never been invovled with the law before. The bail amount seems very reasonable. This whole case is about depositing checks into one account from another account that has no money. Like I stated before, the total amount involved here is $10,000.

I tried obtaining a police report from several cities in Orange County but couldn't find anything. I don't know if a police report for this case was even filed.

Can someone please give me information on how much this case would cost if you were to take it. Can the amount be divided amongst a few payments, perhaps 3?

I know he would have to surrender himself and we could post bail, but what would the process after that involve and what is the time frame?

Thank You

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