Yes, you are vulnerable if you fail to carry with you certain documents to prove who you are when stopped by police.

In the USA, a drivers license and passport are not enough to avoid arrest when you name is the same as another person who is wanted.

The best preventive method is to request a warrant clearance document from the FBI to carry with you at all times.

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Here is the latest FOX NEWS account of someone who could have avoided being jailed fro a week if he had the warrant clearance document from the FBI:

Wrong Man Jailed for Week
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Authorities say a 44-year-old North Carolina man spent a week in jail because he has the same name as a suspect 23 years younger.

The News & Record of Greensboro reported Saturday that Jesse Ray Hardy Jr. of Greenville was arrested Monday, then taken to jail 160 miles away to face charges of resisting an officer, breaking and entering and failing to yield to a pedestrian.

Court officials say the real suspect shares the same name and hometown, but is not related.

The mix-up wasn't realized until Friday, despite court appearances in both Pitt and Guilford counties.

Judge Susan Bray apologized to Hardy as she worked to get him released.

But he didn't have a way home.

Bray, prosecutors, defense attorneys and bailiffs collected $58 to buy Hardy lunch and a bus ticket back home.