He had already been issued an EPO, and was nearly immediately arrested after doing something that seemed to violate it.
IIRC the record of his arrest was for incest, though, not for violating the EPO.
This is how I believe things went down:
July 30: Wellness check performed at 14BLC. Enough was found to slap Chris with a call-in three day EPO. Chris sleeps in Son-Chu.
July 31: Morning - the EPO is made official on paper and upgraded to six days. Something is then found at 14BLC (or said by Barb) to have an arrest warrant made out for Chris for incest. Chris steals $750 from Barb and buys Some Lego. Null confronts Chris about the theft. Chris sleeps at the Regency Inn, Richmond.
August 1: Chris hides out in the Regency inn. At some point Null tattles on Chris to the police about the theft. Morning - weens. Afternoon - police arrive and arrest Chris on a warrant for incest. Chris sleeps in the Jail of Fail.
For Greene County to have learned of the theft, then made out a warrant (for incest), then broadcast it to the Richmond police (not in Greene County), then those Richmond police located Chris and arrived to arrest him in such short order, even with the "help" from weens, seems a little too responsive. I strongly suspect the warrant had already been made out before the theft was reported, and the police were already coming for Chris whether he'd stolen or not.
tl;dr: They found
something at 14BLC (or Barb said
something) to justify an arrest warrant on Chris, quite apart from the theft and possible EPO violation. The court certainly wouldn't have bothered with him this long if they hadn't.
That's pretty rapid for an arrest before he had even been formally accused of more serious offenses.
That's just it: I think he had been formally accused, but it took the police a day or so to learn he wasn't actually with Uncle Tom and Aunt Harriet, then find him and arrest him, all while trying to make sense of the barrage of weenery they were doubtless receiving. That seems more the speed of things for a relatively low priority case like Chris.
