Thousands of people who live in this area have less than 3 days to take care of outstanding arrest warrants before facing the possibility of going to jail.

Starting Friday local law enforcement will start arresting offenders for class C misdemeanors like traffic tickets and minor drug charges.

College Station City Marshal Chadd Harkrider says the city gives these offenders a courtesy automatic phone call, and a mailer reminding them to take care of their warrant.

"We want people to comply with the judgements. It is not necessarily to put them in jail. That's the last effort that we are trying to get them to comply," said Harkrider.

The city also gives residents an amnesty period weeks before the state-wide warrant round up.

Dozens of people made their way to the College Station municipal courthouse, but not many take advantage of the warning.

Out of more than 3000 warrants last year, 151 were cleared during the amnesty period. Only 80 were cleared through arrests.

This year, there are around 3500 active warrants, 105 have been cleared so far during this amnesty period.

When asked if the warrant round up costs more than the amount of money the city receives, Harkrider said," I don't think so. I don't know what the numbers actually are but no. The main thing is these are judgements that are passed upon people by a municipal court judge, and they are to comply with those."

The low number of warrants cleared is attributed to the time it takes tracking offenders.

"It is searching for the people out on the street at their residences, at their place of employment. We do spend a lot of time trying to find them out there," Harkrider said.

If fines are paid in full, a $50 per case warrant fee will be dropped.

The amnesty period ends Friday. City marshals, police officers, reserve police officers and constables will arrest some of the people who failed to pay their fines .