Lowering the Bar - Well, it’s happened again. A person trying to dodge an arrest warrant has given the police a different name only to learn that there is also a warrant out for that person. I guess you don’t really have time to research names if you’ve been stopped by the police and need to come up with something fast, so normally I would attribute this to very bad luck. But sometimes people do contribute to their own downfall.
In the most recent case, a Texas woman named “Shareeka Strawn” allegedly gave police the name “Porshala Strawn” during a traffic stop. She did this because there were, at the time, five outstanding warrants with her real name on them. Unfortunately, it turned out that there was also a warrant out for “Porshala Strawn,” so Shareeka was arrested anyway. Her real name and the five warrants came to light not long after that.
The report doesn’t say whether she knew there was a real person named “Porshala Strawn,” or just picked a fake first name at random that happened to be a poor choice. The former seems more likely, under the circumstances. If so, that would also raise the question whether the two Strawns are related, and if they are, then this would be one of those cases where it would behoove one to know whether one’s relatives have criminal records.
This recent Florida incident was definitely one of those cases. Jacob Hisel didn’t want to give his own name when police stopped him in July, because there were two warrants out for his arrest. So he gave his brother’s name, which might have worked except that, as he presumably did not know, his brother is also wanted. Jacob was arrested on that warrant, and fingerprints brought his real identity to light.
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