Advice Please!!!

[ataribot]

What is the name of your state? Michigan

While returning from our recent honeymoon in Mexico, me and my wife were greeted with a surprise when trying to go through customs in Michigan. Apparently she has an outstanding felony warrant from Oregon that is over 12 years old, luckily Michigan does not extradite. She lived in Oregon during college and unknowingly shared a house with a drug dealer. He was apparently busted, house searched as a possible drug house and the dealer was arrested for having a gun in the house (this is to the best of her knowledge and what was heard from other people), but no drugs were found in the house. Everyone in the house was taken to the police station, fingerprinted, questioned, and released. Two months later she moved back to Michigan, after leaving her forwarding address with the police and after not hearing anything from them in two months. After not hearing anything from the police, fast forward 12 years and US customs tells us she has an outstanding felony warrant in Oregon from that time and will not tell us anything more.

We have contacted a lawyer in Oregon and he has told us that he cannot tell us the charges or anything more about it unless she actually goes to Oregon and turns herself in to the courts. He said it could just be thrown out as being an obsolete case or she could go to jail over charges. Here is the worst part though, her father has recently been diagnosed with cancer and has been given about 1-2 years to live. No way in hell are we flying her out there to spend the last days of her father's life fighting some bull**** court battle or worse yet sitting in jail halfway across the country!

Is there any legal way to find out what exactly we are facing here? I have tried at least three different online "criminal background checks" companies and have come up blank. How can we find out what the actual charges are and what the legal consequences for her could be? Maybe hiring a detective or something? This has all been quite a shock and we have no idea how to approach it. Right now Michigan is not extraditing, but the customs people tell us this could change anytime. Please, any advice would most appreciated.

[BelizeBreeze]

WE can't do anything since you are not a party to the warrant nor her attorney NOR licensed to practice law in Oregon.

SHE either needs to return to Oregon to dispose of this warrent or never return again.

the choice is hers.