can you get arrested for driving over a lawn a week later??

I was just wondering if I had any case to prove in this matter...please help!! I drover over someone's lawn for a stupid reason and I fess up to that. But the police never did anything that I knew of since they now claim that they had my plate # since the day it happened which was monday night. then on Sunday night they pulled me over in the lot where i work and arrested me saying that there was a warent for my arrest? Is this possible? I would think that if anything they would give you a ticket and make you go to court not arrest you and make you spend the night in jail then go to court in the morning. And to top it all off they impounded the car I was driving on Sunday which WAS NOT the car I drove over the lawn with. What if anything can I do? I though about fighting it but I am not sure. I now have to have this car fixed as they damaged it when they towed it! Please help.

I forgot to list the state that I live in and that is Rhode Island!

[racer72]

Yes you can be arrested. You can be arrested a year later. Time to pay the piper.

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[asdf]

Can they prove that you were driving the car? I mean, besides your confession here.