Victoria and Port Lavaca Police begin search for people with unpaid tickets and fines on Saturday
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Have A WARRANT?To find out if you have warrants go to the city of Victoria website www.victoriatx.org/court/index.asp, look for the section titled "Are you going to jail?"; stop by the municipal court at 107 W Juan Linn St.; or call ...
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Have A WARRANT?To find out if you have warrants go to the city of Victoria website www.victoriatx.org/court/index.asp, look for the section titled "Are you going to jail?"; stop by the municipal court at 107 W Juan Linn St.; or call 361- 485-3050
For more information, contact Victoria Municipal Court Clerk Tracy Musch at 361-485-3050 or the police department at 361-485-3700
In Port Lavaca, contact Inez Sanchez, municipal court clerk, at 361-552-9793, Ext. 226 or Port Lavaca Police Chief John Stewart at 361-558-3788 Ext. 264.
People who have unpaid parking tickets or traffic fines in Victoria or Port Lavaca have until Friday to pay or face being arrested.
The Victoria Municipal Court and Victoria Police Department are participating in this year's Great Texas Warrant Roundup. Port Lavaca's Police Department and Municipal Court are also participating.
From Saturday through March 13, the Victoria and Port Lavaca police departments and more than 260 Texas law enforcement agencies will roundup and arrest people with outstanding arrest warrants at their homes, places of employment or anywhere else they are found.
Anyone with an outstanding warrant can go to the municipal court to take care of fines and tickets before Saturday.
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Just want to share some information taken from the victoriatx.org warrant list. There are 90 pages of warrants, the average fine total per page came out to $17,980. So that calculates out to approximately $1.6 million dollars. This is just the warrants, now lets say that only 10% of the people who get tickets end up on the warrant list. That means the total fine money for Victoria is in the 16 million dollar range. Now the majority of these fines can be "sat out" and the taxpayer takes up the bill...that is a problem. The system is the system it will not change...just live with it and stop trying to act like a parent of society...but in closing 16 million is a lot to me and thats a conservative number....
March 4, 2011 at 10:29 a.m.For all you who DON'T think it's about the money..........
March 4, 2011 at 7:54 a.m.There is a lot of money out there that has not been collected. That money is due the city by the perps that commited the crimes. If you do the crime then pay for the crime. That is the way it works. If you got a ticket shut your mouth and pay it now! I pay my tickets asap. They WILL come get you! They WILL take you away to jail! So to stop this embarrassing situation, just pay the bill. Or you do have the option of moving out of state. Just a thought
March 4, 2011 at 5:57 a.m.I get tired of hearing people say tickets are revenue. There maybe some truth to that is smaller cities, but not in cities our size. The "revenue" excuse is nothing more than a person who got a ticket that can't take responsibility for the action that got them their ticket. Life is full of consequences. Deal with them and quit crying!
March 2, 2011 at 8:42 p.m.I guess this is how they are going to bring in money to offset the dept.
But that don't really matter. If people owe it then they should pay it and if not then they should be arrested.
March 2, 2011 at 7:36 p.m.