When there is a warrant for your arrest, your basic rights are to know the nature of the charges and to have a reasonable bail set in your case.With that in mind... it sounds like this a failure to appear warrant after some type of ticket offense.  The county and district courts usually just arrest you and do not give you the option of paying a fine to avoid an arrest.  If this is a JP or municipal warrant, call the clerk of the court and find out the local court's policies.  Most will just let you pay the fine and they will then pull the warrant...and life goes on. A few will make you come it, take a trip to the jail... but most do not do that because they would rather not pay the jail for housing their inmates. If you are going to contest the charges, then contact a bondsman and have them help you walk through the jail (i.e. do a quick turn bond).  Thereafter, contact the court to get a new date set and then appear and present your defense.