My husband has an outstanding balance of $500 to his defense attorney for services he received last year. I am the actual person who signed the paperwork as he was incarcerated at the time. I received a phone call from the attorney’s secretary yesterday and was told that if I did not pay the balance by the end of the week that they were going to file criminal charges against me complete with a police report. Can they do that? I would think that would fall Cipro under a civil suit instead of criminal.