The Court has been made aware of a new scam involving fake United States District Court arrest warrants. The fake arrest warrants claim to be issued for failing to appear as a witness or for jury duty and use official looking United States District Courts forms, indicating they were issued by the United States District Court. Click here to view a sample fake arrest warrant.   

Neither this Court nor any other law enforcement agency will ever email or call someone to request the payment of a fine for failure to appear for jury duty (nor will personal information, such as a social security number, ever be requested over email or the phone). Typically, jurors who miss jury duty will be contacted by the Clerk’s Office and may, in certain circumstances, be ordered to appear in court before a judge. Any fine for failure to appear for jury duty will be imposed by a judge during an open session of court, and the summoned juror will be given the opportunity to explain the failure to appear before any fine would be imposed.

If anyone is contacted or has been contacted by someone requesting such payments, please do not make the payment. Instead, immediately contact the United States District Court Clerk’s Office at 877-377-1219, and state that you may have been a target of juror fraud. You may also report a scam or suspicious communications to the Federal Trade Commission.