ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. –

The month is August, and the year 1928. The Carter County, Tennessee Sheriff’s Department has issued a warrant for the arrest of J.A. Rowland. Mr. Rowland is accused of writing a $30 bad check. He owes $33 total. $30 for the bad check, $2 for the arrest fee and 50 cents each for the affidavit and warrant. Somehow, after the warrant was issued it was subsequently lost and forgotten about.

Fast forward 80 years to the present. Clerks at the Glynn County Sheriff’s Office in Brunswick, Georgia find the buried warrant while cleaning out a records storage room and mail it back to current Carter County Sheriff Chris Mathes. Mathes says he has no idea if Rowland is still alive, but is still under a legal obligation to find and serve him.

The moral of the story: Isn’t it obvious? Don’t write bad checks in Carter County, Tennessee.

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