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...this is Texas, and this is the week of the Great Texas Warrant Roundup, an annual statewide event that functions as a sort of “America’s Most Wanted” for an unromanticized subset of the Texas outlaw: the misdemeanor kind.
Each year in late February and early March, dozens of law enforcement agencies and municipal courts in big cities and small towns across the state take to the airwaves and to the streets seeking out, apprehending and otherwise rounding up Texans who have ignored their unpaid speeding tickets and other minor infractions for too long....
Few towns or cities have been conducting as enthusiastic a roundup as Hale Center, a city about 35 miles north of Lubbock that has one restaurant (Owl’s Café) and no bars (alcohol sales are banned). It spent roughly $600 on the two-page ad in Friday’s six-page paper: a list of the names of nearly 600 men and women with outstanding misdemeanor warrants in Hale Center, along with their offenses....
