New Mexico Warrant Information

A warrant can be defined as a court order duly signed by a judge. The warrants are usually required for searching a particular location or premise or for the detainment of an individual accused of committing offenses. The New Mexico warrant is identical in nature and authorizes the law enforcement officers of the state to arrest a person so that he/she can be tried by a New Mexico court of law.

Types of Warrants

While the commonest type of New Mexico warrants is an arrest warrant, a number of other types of warrants are periodically issued by the authorities as well. The bench warrant is a specific type of New Mexico warrant and is usually issued when the concerned person fails to show up in court at the specified date and time. This warrant does not have severe consequences and the individual found to be guilty of ‘contempt of court’ needs to pay the requisite fine and appear before the court on the revised date and time in order to clear his/her name.

Records reveal that a number of offenders are not served with a New Mexico warrant on account of the huge backlog currently plaguing the law enforcement authorities of the state. Such warrants are termed as outstanding warrants. Persons absconding from the law also have outstanding warrants against them.

Information Obtained from Warrants

The name of the accused along with the probable cause of arrest needs to be mentioned specifically within a New Mexico warrant.  The last known residential address as well as the aliases of a habitual offender is included in a warrant as well. A search warrant, on the other hand, contains details of the premises to be searched apart from the address of the building. The date of issuance and the signature of the judge are essential for making the New Mexico warrant a legally valid document.

Warrant Records

One of the most effective ways of checking out the warrant records is to contact the local police or the Sheriff’s department in the area. Most of the law enforcement authorities are willing to impart the information over the phone although you might have to visit the department personally if you need additional information. The name as well as the location of arrest is required in order to retrieve a specific New Mexico warrant record. The Sheriff’s office of Bernalillo County also has an online resource for searching the warrants issued. A search can be conducted by name or the type of warrant by accessing http://www.bernco.gov/live/warrants.asp?dept_id=2318&link_id=3737.

Information about the arrests made in connection with domestic violence and DWI offenses can be retrieved online by searching through http://www.nmcourts.gov/caselookup/app. New Mexico warrant records maintained by the district courts, Municipal courts as well as the Magistrate’s court are included within the database of this particular online resource. The data is fairly recent and you will only be able to obtain information about specific court cases heard on and after 1997. You need to contact the individual courts personally in order to gain access to the warrant information prior to 1997.

Going through the various public records will also enable you to obtain details of an arrest warrant. Outstanding warrants can be retrieved by accessing the public records as well. http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/is the official website of the New Mexico Commission of Public Records and will enable you to find out the required information.