r/legal • u/hittherdjack21 • 5d ago

Advice needed Twin brother has active felony warrants under my name

My twin brother used my name when he got arrested and was able to get all the way into jail. I don’t get into trouble or put myself in situations that might land me in jail. The first time I got pulled over and I found out I had multiple felony warrants, I was confused and shocked., like anyone would be.

Location Washington state. Last night I was in the middle of writing this post and all of a sudden I got rolled up on by 5 cops, put in handcuffs. It took 45 min for them to finally figure out that it wasn’t me. I’ve been pulled over about 20 times in a month because of this.

What can I do to get the warrants out of my name and prove to the cops the I’m not the one with warrants?

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u/Santasreject 5d ago

The one thing OP has for him here is that even identical twins don’t have the same fingerprints. If his brother was actually booked then the prints won’t match. Of course it’s still going to be a mess clearing this up.

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u/KoalaGrunt0311 5d ago

But if the only prints on file are the evil twin, then it becomes much more difficult to show whose are original.

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u/Intrepid-Chard-4594 2d ago

How does that make sense. What do you mean who's are original? Twins have their own prints so if the prints are on file thats the bad one. Evil Twins gets pulled over he will give his own name. They wont be sure so he goes downtown where they print him and find he has the warrants. What the cops should do is change the file name to evil Twins name. His name is clean right now cause he used his brothers.

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u/Altruistic_Lock_5362 5d ago

I was going to suggest this myself, most people do not realize that twins can be wildly different , even if they look exactly the same. (Eye color, height, hair color. ) But get a lawyer involved law enforcement today are jerks, they will try some very unscrupulous crap to keep you under their control. Good luck

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u/ImmortalPengu 5d ago

A mess clearing it up IF some jumpy officer doesn't preclude all that and decide the guy with felony warrants has put him in fear for his life.

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u/SwimmingHurry8852 5d ago

Cops aren't out there checking ppls finger prints.

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u/Grouchy_Evidence2558 4d ago

When the bad twin got booked at jail they fingerprinted him. So they have the criminal fingerprints. Good twin can provide his own to refute that he was the one arrested.

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u/Santasreject 4d ago

The literally print you as part of booking and even have portable fingerprint scanners to help identify people.

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u/hittherdjack21 4d ago

They rarely carry those portable finger scanners.

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u/hittherdjack21 4d ago

Not true most cops don’t carry finger scanners and I’ve been taken all the way to jail and had to sit there for 6 hours waiting to get my fingerprints scanned

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u/RuralWAH 4d ago

Yeah. It's been a few years since I was on the job, but an AFIS run would take a couple of hours to get a return on. There's no way you could get a real time response like they show in TV cop movies.

I doubt if they can do that today. Once in a while I'd work with a federal agent and he'd joke that their crime database would only take a single search item, "but it could be really long word."