Police stop pursuing nearly 79,000 fugitives

[Lee-Lee]

9. This is nothing new- anytime someone is wanted the agency says how far they will extradite

And it's not uncommon at all for police officers to find somebody with warrants but that the agency who issued them won't come get them.

When I worked in NC, for example, if you had a warrant issued on you for burglary we were probably going to list extradition as NC and adjoining states. If you ran to New York and got pulled over the police would find you have a warrant, make you wait while they contacted us, get told we were not willing to come get you, and they would let you go.

I probably ran into 1-2 people a month with outstanding warrants who were outside the extradition area. And some regulars I dealt with had piled them up from lots of states and just kept moving.