crowman2010 said:
The "one phone call" thing is a crock of crap. You get as many collect calls as you want when you first get booked. Trust me on this.
I didn't.
Way back, I was 17 years old, got a PI. Had just started my car after eating breakfast at Denny's on I-35, baylro cops pulled up behind my car. One said I was lucky, as if I had put it in reverse, they could have gotten me for DWI.
Anyway, got booked into the city jail. They held me for 8 hours before I called my Dad to come get me out. Funny part is my parents were pissed off at the cops more than they were at me. They had been up all night after calling in a missing person on me.
Cops couldn't find me because I sitting in their jail.
Maybe a year later, that got removed from my record. The Mom of a girl I knew worked in the city government, on her own, she got a judge to take it off my record. Maybe two years later, I was living in Arlington, & saw a story that the Mom got arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from the government.
Anyway, my record got cleared. I had to go through security checks for a US government contractor in the aerospace business.