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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
I have a feeling that this is a scare tactic and that if there was a warrant, you would not have been served a paper, you would have been arrested. I could be wrong, but that's my understanding.
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They'll serve a warrant for arrest at your last known place of residence with instructions to show up at such-and-such place at such-and-such time to be charged. Most people turn themselves in as instructed, make bail, and go home.
If they don't, usually nobody comes looking for them. They'll pop up in the system somewhere eventually and be taken into custody on the outstanding warrant at that time. Depending on the nature of the charges, or past criminal record, police may (rarely) be sent out to pick someone up.
This cop show business of kicking in doors and throwing a personally known suspect to the ground is not the usual way the process plays out.
I had a cellular company sell some a debt in my name to a collection agency a few years ago. As far as I could tell, they pretty much expected me to write them a check on their say-so that I owed them money. My basic stance was "It's possible I do legitimately owe this debt... document how you arrived at this number and my name and show it to me." No one bothered me after that and no one challenged getting it removed from my credit report as an error.
In my case I think they figured it would cost them more time/money to prove it was a legitimate debt than they'd ever actually collect so they just dropped it as a bad investment. It was not an insignificant amount of money but it wasn't anywhere close to $6K.