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None of your questions can be answered without learning what the DA intends to do. That will be based upon what they learn in their investigation, including what the arrested employee tells them when offered a deal if they testify against you. If you want reassurance that nothing will happen to you, no one can give that to you. You face potential criminal prosecution and jail if convicted. My advice is to hire an attorney now to deal with police and DA, to try to avoid charges being filed against you, and to defend you if they are filed.

If you have a warrant, yes, you could be taken into custody. Generally not if you go voluntarily to court, but no guarantees. To handle a warrant, you must turn yourself in to the issuing court, with or without an attorney. On misdemeanors and infractions like yours, an attorney can appear in court without the defendant being present which is safer and avoids immediately being taken into custody. You'll try to negotiate a recall of the warrant[s] and bail reduction or OR release. You'll try to negotiate a plea bargain on any Failure to Appear charge or probation violation that caused the warrant. You'll try to negotiate a plea bargain or take to trial the outstanding charge that caused the warrant. Turning yourself in voluntarily will result in a better outcome than being brought in chains to court after arrest on the warrant. That can happen if you come in contact with law enforcement or customs anywhere in the country. While this isn't a 'capital case', you now face potential jail and fines, so handle it right. Effective plea-bargaining by your attorney, using whatever legal defenses, facts and sympathies there may be, could possibly keep you out of jail/prison, or at least dramatically reduce it. Unless you're competent to effectively represent yourself in court against a professional prosecutor trying to put you in jail, most people hire an attorney who can.