Who are you? Can you prove it?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Mike, at work, needed to get his van inspected, so he left at lunch time to drop it at the garage. On the way there a local Cop pulled him over because his inspection had run out.

The Cop takes his papers back to the cruiser, returning in a few minutes to ask Mike if he'd been to Texas. Mike said no and the Cop goes back to his car.

Another cruiser arrives.

The Cop comes back and asks Mike again if he'd been to Texas. Mike said no, and the Cop goes back to his car.

Another cruiser arrives.

The Cop comes back the third time and tells Mike his name keeps coming back "Hot". A person with that name is wanted in Texas.
So arrest, handcuff, police station, mugshot, fingerprints and cell. An hour or so later, after considerable questioning, they have a faxed copy of the mugshot and fingerprints for the Texas perp and decide Mike is not their man.

Mike is both releived and annoyed, so he asked the Cop what the Texas perp was wanted for, but they wouldn't tell him. He did say they questioned about credit and credit cards quite a bit.
So he asked the Cop if there was anything he could do to prevent this from happening again, to which the Cop said no, nothing except avoid the police.

Mikes name is not that unusual, although not Jones/Smith common. A 5 minute search on the internet showed 65 guys in Texas with the same first and last name. Half a dozen with the same middle initial and two of those in the same age group. I'd guess the search could be expanded to 50 states and come up with similar numbers.

Just with this one name, there could be a whole lot of people at risk of the same treatment, should they be in contact with the police, anywhere.
By extension there must be thousnds of names being posted by the 50 states, as wanted people, without much more info than the name.

You could be "wanted" by the police.