The Truesdale Board of Aldermen will look into stiffer fines for skipping court dates, following multiple incidents when other law enforcement agencies released people with active Truesdale warrants.Truesdale’s current fine for missing a court date is $100. In some cases, it’s zero, so long as the accused person receives a recognizance bond, a release without having to post bail.Truesdale Police Chief Andrew Huston said the penalty is not steep enough. While listening to a police scanner he heard multiple instances of officers from other departments detaining, then releasing people with active Truesdale warrants because it was not worth their time.“I’m hearing a lot of our warrants come across the radio, the county, Warrenton, Wright City, Foristell, etc.,” he said. “Due to the fact that most of our bonds are $100 bonds or O.R. (own recognizance) bonds, nobody ever picks anybody up on one of our warrants. Our warrants just stay out there.“They will walk up to a person and say ‘Hey, you have a $100 bond or $100 to post bond.’ If they (the accused) say ‘No I don’t,’ they don’t even bother wasting their time to make an arrest. They move on … I don’t know why all of a sudden it has changed. It used to be $300 and it got bumped down to $200, now it’s $100.”Huston said even serious offenses such as driving while intoxicated, traveling more than 20 miles per hour over the speed limit and driving with a suspended license have a $100 failure to appear bond.He estimated there have been five or six instances in the past month where officers from other municipalities have released detainees with Truesdale warrants.“It deters a lot of officers from making an arrest,” Huston said. “If I’m a Marthasville officer or out in the county … It’s a waste of my time to bring them all the way up here (Truesdale) just to book them through and just release them, right back out they go. I don’t want to waste any other department’s time, but I don’t want our warrants just to be pushed to the side.”Huston said passing a bond increase is not simply a vote of the board, but will require the city to present a plan to Warren County Associate Circuit Judge Richard Scheibe. Once Scheibe approves the increase, then it would have to go to the board of aldermen for final approval.City of Truesdale