Bail Bond Company Donates to Boys & Girls Clubs

PITT COUNTY, NC –  The Pitt County Bail Bondsman Agency has donated 50 backpacks to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Pitt County. The backpacks are filled with school supplies and are intended to help children start the school year with everything they need to succeed through the year. The director of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Pitt County has expressed his thanks to the Pitt County Bail Bondsman Agency for their generosity. Read the full article here.  Read More →

Social Media-Savvy Bondsmen Help Capture Felons

FAYETTEVILLE, NC – Fayetteville police say that bondsmen using social media have helped them capture a suspect. Leonard Jason Baker was arrested for conversion and police say that bondsman Bryan Myers of A1 Bail Bonds Inc. helped them find Baker. Myers was using his mobile phone when he noticed an alert about a wanted man. Myers recognized Baker as someone who he had worked with as a client and who was wanted on outstanding warrants. Myers stopped by a place where he knew Baker tended to spend time and was quickly able to apprehend the man. Baker... Read more

Philadelphia Considers Bail Money Solutions

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia’s Senate panel is considering ways to improve Philadelphia’s system for collecting bail. The panel considered alternatives to cash bails and using bondsmen to find the cash. The city now has 47,000 outstanding bench warrants and is owed approximately $1 billion in outstanding bail. The Clerk of Quarter Sessions office has been accused of not seeking bail collection measures. In many cases, the money cannot be easily collected because the statute of limitation has passed on some amounts and no accurate records... Read more

Controversial Initiative 92 Scheduled for November Vote

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Initiative 92 is a proposal which would allow only defendants facing a nonviolent first offence to be eligible for pretrial release programs. The proposal goes to voters in November. Opponents of the bill say that the proposal will cost the community $2.8 million a year in increased jail populations. Supporters of the program note that Initiative 92 will help keep dangerous offenders and repeat offenders off the streets. Bondsmen have been strong supporters of the measure and some local bondsmen have worked hard to drum... Read more

Employee Targeted in “Bondsman” Scam

AUGUSTA, GA – A restaurant employee has told the North Augusta Public Safety officers that he has been scammed. He says he was contacted by telephone by someone claiming to be a bondsman in Colorado. The employee was convinced by this person that one of his co-workers was in jail and needed $800 for bail. The employee was told to wire $800 to Colorado and take a receipt to Richmond County Jail to bail out his co-worked. When he arrived at the Richmond County Jail, however, he was told that his co-worker was not in jail and had never been arrested... Read more

Court Officer Pleads Guilty in Bondsman Payoff Case

WICHITA, KS – Court collections officer Kaylene J. “Katie” Pottorff has pleaded guilty to changing records in exchange for money from a bondsman. The bondsman paid Pottorff money so that she would alter records so that the bondsman would not have to be liable for bond forfeitures. Pottorff is one of three people indicted in the case. Bond  agent Alicia Bell has pleaded guilty in the case and bondsman Jessie Garland is scheduled for trial in the case. Read the full story here.  Read More →

Inmate Escapes as Bondsmen Hand Him Over

LAFAYETTE, LA – Steven Guillory briefly escaped from authorities after being captured for missing his court date. Bondsmen arrested Guillory and were handing the felon over to deputies.   While the handcuffs were removed from Guillory for the process, he escaped.   Guillory was recaptured again within one hour.  Guillory was a parish inmate and faces several charges. Read the full story here.  Read More →

Cameramen Disgusted by Bounty Hunter Tactics

NASHVILLE, TN – Tony Michello, working for A&A Digital Productions in order to shoot a reality TV show, says that he and other cameramen saw excessive use of violence  by bounty hunters when taping the show.   Michello notes that in some tapings, bounty hunters failed to identify themselves as bondsmen and forced their way into homes.   In one instance, Michello alleges, bondsmen kicked a man they were trying to apprehend.   Michello claims he stopped working after observing one bounty hunter misidentify himself as a federal agent.  ... Read more

Bond Business Faces Allegations of Solicitation

Rancho Cucamonga, California — Bail Hotline Bail Bonds is accused of soliciting business, violating bail bond industry regulations in the state. Sheriff’s detectives and the Department of Insurance investigators served a search warrant on the bail bond business following an investigation. The company is accused of using inmates to solicit other inmates in prison and using agents to solicit inmates. Soliciting by bail bond companies is prohibited under Section 1800 of the Insurance Code and under Penal Code 160. Click here to read the full... Read more

Bail Industry Loses One of Their Own

Rancho Santa Margarita, California – The bail bond industry lost one of their own, when bondsman Dean Patrick Maldonado was shot and killed in a private residence. Police have not released details of the shooting, although a guest in the home allegedly shot the bondsman Click here to read the full story.  Read More →

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