This is what I suspect happened: the video rental store made a report to the police when their tape wasn't returned. They pursued the case, and an arrest warrant was issued for the renter. The police either couldn't locate the renter, or didn't bother to try. The warrant stayed in the file until the renter was pulled over on a traffic stop and his name was run.
This is a common issue. Arrest warrants, with a few exceptions, are valid until served or recalled. Some courts place expiration dates on their warrants, but that is the exception, not the rule. There is no statute of limitations issue. That applies only to charging someone with the crime, and that happened a long time ago.
I once served a ten-year-old arrest warrant for a failure to appear on an original charge of "dog running at large." An animal control officer wrote the dog's owner a citation, and she blew it off.
Don't blow off citations, or think that past transgressions will just go away on their own.
Read other answers by Tim Dees on Quora:
- How do law enforcement officers handle it when a law has been found unconstitutional by the courts but is still on the books?
- U.S. State Law: If you have a misdemeanor warrant in Nevada and are arrested in California, will you be held so Nevada can come get you?
- If a cop's word isn't enough to convict someone of murder, theft, etc., why is it enough to convict someone of a traffic offense?
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