Legal Question in Criminal Law in Pennsylvania

I was arrested for public intoxication in early June. I showed up in court on time and set up a payment plan to take care of my fine. I was given a year to pay this fine with one payment per month.

I have been late on a few of the payments and missed one completely last month. When I go to pay my fine online at the court's website, it says that the next month I will just owe double of what I normally would pay to make up for the missed payment. (Example: $80 due on **/**/** instead of $40)

This is fine, but the question that I have is... Do they issue out warrants for your arrest for missing a payment or paying late? If there is a warrant, would it go away once I pay the fine off? Would they come to my house and arrest me for this?

I have not heard anything about the late payments. I'm just a person with a fairly clean record and I worry about these things a lot. I'm worried that one day I'll be eating my dinner and a police officer will come knocking on my door for missing a fine payment.

Any insight on what would happen (if anything) would be much appreciated. Thank you.


Asked on 10/27/10, 1:26 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
SAUL SEGAN SAUL H SEGAN ATTY AT LAW

Call the Court and talk to one of the judicial clerks...they will tell you what you need to do...they are very helpful...There might be a small additional warrant fee, but the longer you wait, the more difficult the situation will become...

Good luck

215-732-4000 www.saulhsegan.com

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Answered on 11/01/10, 7:30 am


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