Why would someone be charged with resisting and evading arrest with no other charges?

Question

Long story short, I watched someone get handled by the cops like she was just seen shooting someone. She hadn't, of course. She is booked at the detention center for evading arrest and resisting arrest, but there are no other charges. What were they trying to arrest her for in the first place? Very shady. She whole long situation was shady...but isn't that a little weird? "We are charging you for evading arrest but we aren't charging you for something to get you arrested for."

Answer 1

Easy. Any number of vehicle code violations that warrant a stop and possible arrest; suspicion of an outstanding warrant also comes to mind.

Answer 2

Here is a scenario that I hope will explain it for you:

A vehicle passes an officer with a burned out tail light

The officer turns on the lights and attempts to pull over the vehicle

The driver takes off and refuses to stop and the police chase them

The vehicle is stopped (using stops sticks, PIT etc) and the police pull the driver out.

They search the vehicle and find nothing

The person is arrested for evading arrest (or fleeing and eluding depending on the state) and gets a ticket for the tail light. the tail light charge would not appear on a booking report as it is not a criminal charge.



One of the funnest ones I saw on cops is where this guy runs from the cops in his car and then tries to run after he crashes. They catch him and ask why he ran. He said "I have a warrant". They run the warrant check and he comes back with no warrants anywhere. Ran for nothing. Could have just dealt with a minor traffic ticket. Instead went to jail charged with a felony.

Answer 3

Maybe that's all she did, evade the arrest.



Many times, minorities and people inexperienced with the law get frightened by the red and blue lights. They may keep driving out of hope that it isn't them that is getting pulled over.



Another thought, when some is resisting arrest or evading it, who knows why? Their intention may be to hide themselves, get away from the police, they may have a weapon, narcotics, you never really know.



Sure, from where you were standing it looks "shady" but put yourself in the officer's shoes, you never know who you're trying to apprehend and why they were running in the first place.

Answer 4

we could See here dwi, resisting arrest, evading arrest YOUR SCREWED the main suitable which you would be waiting to get out of that's a plea deal finding on your previous you ought to probable enter a Plea Deal and enter an SOC (Stipulated Order of Continuance) leap via all the hoops that the court docket set's until now you and FOLOW via With the orders and perchance you may get the fees droped after a three hundred and sixty 5 days or so,

Answer 5

'Evading' means preventing your arrest; 'resisting' means not allowing yourself to be arrested.



Even if she did nothing wrong, if the police went to interogate her about something and she flees, that's evading and if she struggles or fights being handcuffed, that's resisting arrest. You don't have to have commited a crime to have commited 'evading' or 'resisting arrest', because they are separate offenses that need not be attached to an initial incident.

Answer 6

She was probably going to get arrested for something petty, but she got all "I have my rights" on them and they decided resisting arrest was a better charge than "public stupidity."





Addition:



Yeah, I'm sure it went down just like you said. (rolls eyes)