in a night raid to knock out sleeping scribes to prevent them from awaking and destroying vital evidence. This counted as "engaged in a preemptive attack on employees of the Bronze House" and such was a "heinous crime" according to the scenario. This was made all the more ridiculous because the party was given a writ allowing them to "detain any persons found to be engaged in such unlawful practices as the possession or looting of such goods" and there was enormous amounts of looted goods in the Bronze House that the employees must have known about.
This scenario basically just sets the players up.
PCs who didn't have that 5PP already banked were marked as dead due to rotting away in jail, no way around it - not even other players could bail them out with their own PP. We however DID have the resources to escape an arrest (dimension door etc.) but just couldn't due to how the scenario is written.
Add that all to the fact that this scenario runs too long, and makes it basically impossible to do if running out of tier (even if combat goes well they take longer because the enemies have much more in the way of hit points).