<prompt> Human: A the title said, my roommate was arrested three felony charges with unregistered gun charges on top of that and I dont think he will be getting out anytime soon or able to return to his job if he does. Now Im in an apartment that I cant afford by myself. I work 40-55 hours a week already. Im 20, have about 6 months worth of bill and rent payment as credit, and I dont have any relatives that live near. Really concerned about what to do. Should I try breaking my lease? Are there any clauses about if someone on the lease gets arrested?  <response>: Unless you are renting a room and both have separate leases the lease will say you both owe the full amount jointly and severally liable. If you dont pay the landlord can sue one or both of you for the full amount. Given you are not in jail the landlord is more likely to go after you for the amount. You can then sue roommate to recover the money, but good luck collecting on that.Unless you have a lease that somehow mentions getting arrested this would be really weird then getting arrested has no effect on the lease. I would give the landlord a call. Explain the situation to them. Landlord doesnt like having people that cant pay, having to evict, sue, garnish wages etc. so they have some incentive to work with you to fix or mitigate the problem. Unfortunatly winterholiday time sucks for finding new people to rent at full price so there is a decent chance the landlord is reluctant to let you out of the lease, but if it looks like getting money from you will be a huge hassel he might.Your best case scenario is to find a new person to take over the lease and getting past roommate and the landlord to agree to the new person taking the place of the roommate, but you would have to find that roommate I dont know how hard that will be.Good luck unfortunatly there is no magic solution that will fix this. 