Take a deep breath. He’s not going to prison (at least not for the unpaid debt- if he makes a judge mad about something else, who knows).
As for wage garnishment- that’s certainly a possibility, but usually the first step is to get the judgment debtor to appear so that (hopefully) a voluntary payment arrangement can be set up. It sounds like this guy failed to appear despite multiple notices, which is what led to the arrest. Also, wage garnishment requires knowledge of the judgment debtor’s employment (assuming he is employed). Getting the judgment debtor to appear provides an opportunity to ask questions under oath about his financial situation, including current employment.
Yeah, this thread and the article is click bait. They aren’t arresting people, they arrested one person who appears to be a very special case in many senses of the word.
$1200 for an arrest? Probably doesn’t cover the cost. There were SEVEN marshals sent to his home. He had guns. Transported to court by two officers. Court time with a judge (probably a federal magistrate), paperwork by clerks.
If you’ve gotten a traffic ticket lately, you’ll see that the fine may be $100 but the fees that go with it are sometimes 3x that.
I think that all federal student loans should be just scholarships — with the fund coming from a special tax on the top 0.1%. This federal student loans, weighing down on students from the low income family, siphoning their low wage after college, to keep the poor students poor for longer time, is really a sin … that keeps the low economic mobility even lower.
"The statement said “the situation escalated” when he threatened two deputies, saying “he had a gun.”
“After Aker made the statement that he was armed,” the statement read, “in order to protect everyone involved, the deputies requested additional law enforcement assistance.”
@dadofs While I agree that loans and college funding in general need a lot of reform, I’d rather this particular change not happen while many thousands of dollars in loans are still going to for-profit colleges.
I did read before commenting. That doesn’t mean I am not allowed to comment and express my disappointment. Taking the brief time it takes to check on something is a worth wild effort.
Not correcting it after it was pointed out is also an issue is not the fault of the article
It would be lovely if they had garnished his wages. We don’t know if he had a job that wages could be garnished from. He could be self employed or working under the table or not working at all.
To take it out of his Social Security he would have to be qualified for Social Security. A person must have had a job for about ten years total during his working career that paid into Social Security. A lot of people on the margins of society manage to not qualify. Since Social Security is meant to support a very minimal life style I’d hate to see that garnished.
A friend of mine just told me about 5 students being arrested at a SUNY for stealing mozzarella sticks from the cafeteria. She was not kidding either. She said there was an article in the paper about the arrests. Five students in one week at one SUNY. The students will have to hire a lawyer, go to court and will have a record if convicted. Talk about doing lousy things to your own students that could harm them for a very long time! So if a SUNY arrests their own students for stealing a few pieces of cheese, arresting people for not paying their student loans is not the least bit surprising.
Well it did happen that 5 students at a SUNY were arrested for stealing mozzarella sticks. Can you believe it? I’ve heard the most amazing stories about cars being booted, campus police sniffing out dorms and searching rooms for pot and then actually arresting students for very little on SUNY campus. Why would a university go after its own students so vigorously? Why would they want to ruin the lives of students for minor violations. Hearing that made me think nearly anything can happen.