Once a criminal has been sentenced, it is up the guards to catch him as described in the NPC section and the PC guard section. When you go to a terminal and bring up the warrant page from the Justice Tab you will get the following dialog:
You should select a district in the drop down box in the top right corner and click on Show District. This will bring up a list of all outstanding warrants in the left list. The names are followed by a reward offered for their capture. In order to support the capture of the criminal, everybody may offer a reward. there is no punishment if somebody offers more money than he actually has. In case the criminal is apprehended, the money offered is transferred from the account of the character who offered it and divided until all characters who participated in the final KO of the criminal or to the PC guard who did the apprehension. If an NPC guard got the criminal, no reward is paid.
When a wanted criminal is attacked, the attacking character will not flash and when he KOes the criminal there will be no assault crime. However if the criminal is permakilled, there will still be a murder crime. The goal is, to send criminals to prison, not to exterminate them.
Guards always have the opportunity to ask a criminal to surrender, but non-guards can only KO a criminal in order to send him to prison.
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