What is the name of your state? CA
First of all thanks to so many helpful posters in advance to my question. I'll be quick and to the point.
I just heard that I may have a warrant for my arrest on charges of grand theft. The warrant would have been issued in late 2004. I have been out of the country for a few years now on business.
Important details are as follows:
1) The charges are probably due to my name being the "owner" on an ebay account/company that ended up closing down after profitably running for a 2 years on ebay. Many customers were not shipped, but the company closed down 3due to mismanagement, leaving a lot of debt. Nobody was enriched by the company closing down.
2) I owned 0% of the company, was not employed by the company, but was a consultant and did let the owner use my ebay and paypal account because his was suspended long because of some stupid ebay rule many many years ago. I was not a signatory on any accounts, a personal guarantor, nothing. (All of this is on paper).
My questions are:
1) Can an attorney help get the charges dropped if they can prove to the courts/police that I'm not even the account owner or person behind the supposed grand theft without me flying back to the US? (I have all paperwork with me and can fax or send originals).
2) If the charges cannot be dropped, how long might I sit in jail for in order to clear up something like this?
3) Is there even a chance that this can be pinned on me soley on the fact that my name is ebay and paypal account owner? Bear in mind ebay new that there was a Corporate entity operating the business (of which I only provided consulting services, no ownership, no employment) and given that there was no "grand theft" as far as I understand grand theft to mean?
Thanks again to all the helpful voices.
First of all thanks to so many helpful posters in advance to my question. I'll be quick and to the point.
I just heard that I may have a warrant for my arrest on charges of grand theft. The warrant would have been issued in late 2004. I have been out of the country for a few years now on business.
Important details are as follows:
1) The charges are probably due to my name being the "owner" on an ebay account/company that ended up closing down after profitably running for a 2 years on ebay. Many customers were not shipped, but the company closed down 3due to mismanagement, leaving a lot of debt. Nobody was enriched by the company closing down.
2) I owned 0% of the company, was not employed by the company, but was a consultant and did let the owner use my ebay and paypal account because his was suspended long because of some stupid ebay rule many many years ago. I was not a signatory on any accounts, a personal guarantor, nothing. (All of this is on paper).
My questions are:
1) Can an attorney help get the charges dropped if they can prove to the courts/police that I'm not even the account owner or person behind the supposed grand theft without me flying back to the US? (I have all paperwork with me and can fax or send originals).
2) If the charges cannot be dropped, how long might I sit in jail for in order to clear up something like this?
3) Is there even a chance that this can be pinned on me soley on the fact that my name is ebay and paypal account owner? Bear in mind ebay new that there was a Corporate entity operating the business (of which I only provided consulting services, no ownership, no employment) and given that there was no "grand theft" as far as I understand grand theft to mean?
Thanks again to all the helpful voices.