Should I turn myself in on a 26-year-old warrant

My husband has a 26-year-old probation violation arrest warrant out, and wants to turn himself in. When he was 19, he burglarized a home (nobody home, no weapons) and was put on probation for 3 years with a 5-year prison sentence suspended. He then left the state being young and dumb and so a warrant was issued for a probation violation/provoke suspended sentence. He now wants to turn himself in, and has had the advice that since it is a first violation of a first-crime probation, has had great loss already due to his poor choices, it might not be as bad as we think. It has been suggested the courts may re-suspend almost the entire sentence. Over 26 years, this has cost him plenty - an accumulative 108 days in jail and at least an accumulative $15,000. He has wanted to turn himself in prior, but was scared, really scared. He lives in another state and whereabouts have been well known by the state the entire time and on every past arrest for them. They declined to extradite. Now he hasn't had been convicted of a crime since 2001 and has been sober and in recovery for 5.5 years. Most recently for the first time in over 10 years, he was arrested in another state, lost our anniversary trip to Mexico. We are just too old for this and not used to being in trouble anymore. We would really, really like to take care of this. The unknown makes this really hard to go through with turning himself in even though he really wants to because he would like to be able to tell his employer something, anything, to hopefully hang onto his job through this. He is salaried and brings home the majority of income in our household. Any thoughts, any ideas?