"Dog" Chapman Arrested, Faces Extradition

TMZ ^ | 9/14/06 | TMZ

[Fighting Irish]

MSNBC's Rita Cosby is reporting that Duane Dog Chapman, star of the A&E reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," and two members of his bounty hunting team (including his son) were arrested by U.S. officials today for extradition to Mexico. Cosby is reporting that Mexican government officials wanted the three men sent back there in relation to a three-year-old case.

In 2003, Chapman traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to retrieve Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted in the U.S. on rape charges. Luster is now in jail, serving a 124-year term. The Chapmans were jailed in Mexico for a brief time for the incident three years ago. Bounty hunting is considered a crime in Mexico.

Dog's wife, Beth Chapman, said 12 armed marshals "came through the door" at 6:00AM this morning. She said they took their daughter's boyfriend down at gunpoint. Dog was sleeping at the time.

TMZ spoke with Nicky Credic from the U.S. Marshals Office. She said, "The arrest warrant was signed by a U.S. magistrate in Hawaii on September 13. The warrant was based on a formal request based on a diplomatic note from the government of Mexico."

[richandfamous]

Here's some info I saw on Websleuths.com Today, 01:37 PM
by Sundayrain



EMAIL YOUR CONGRESSMEN IN THE U.S. HOUSE AND U.S. SENATE BY CLICKING ON THIS WEB SITE

http://www.congress.org/congressorg...tory/congdir.tt

EMAIL OR FAX THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Alberto Gonzales -- Attorney General Paul McNulty -- Acting Deputy Attorney General Robert McCallum -- Associate Attorney General C/O


Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20530 Phone: (202) 514-2000 Fax: (202) 307-6777 mailto:askdoj@usdoj.gov Web Site: http://www.usdoj.gov

EMAIL OR FAX THE US MARSHALL SERVICE

John Clark, Director United States Marshals Service Washington, DC 20530 Phone: (202) 307-9000 Fax: (202) 307-9177 mailto:us.marshals@usdoj.gov Web Site: http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals

The Dog's website: http://www.dogthebountyhunter.com/intro.php
(you can email him and beth there)

[clayp72]

OK, He broke a mexican Law, mexican LAW?? Now that is the greatest oxymoron of all times. Anyway, if he hadn't gone their to get that perv he'd still be drugging and raping Mexican Women tonight. I am permanently boycotting EVERYTHING mexican from now on, food and all. If Bush were a real American he'd tell Foxx to shit in his sumbrero.

[Saundra Duffy]

Dog the Bounty Hunter is the best reality show on TV!!! Pure entertainment.

This makes me really mad. The country of Mexico actually encourages its people to BREAK OUR LAWS but let one of ours break an itty bitty law of theirs and just look at this.

I hope this goes nowhere!!!!

[Saundra Duffy]

I don't know how on earth they elected a republican gov over there. In reality the state of Hawaii is run by liberal democrats. I lived on the Big Island for 6 yrs and could hardly stand it. And the unions . . . and the corruption . . . and the plantation mentality. Barf.

[Stag_Man]

Woah woah woah. First of all Linda Lingle got elected because the sheer incompetence of the Hawaii Democratic party could no longer be ignored. I worked on her campaign and basically all we had to do to win was list the ridiculous garbage that happened under in the 8 years before she took office. Second of all Hawaii Democrats are not what we identify as "liberal Democrats" today. They are hardly activist or progressive. The same sex marriage ballot issue several years ago got vote down 80%-20% in a state with only 2 Republican state senators at the time. Hawaii democrats believe in big government, big unions and blatant patronage and nepotism.

I really do think things are changing for the better though. Our economy has become more dependent on small business and less on big plantation agriculture. Sugar cane growing has almost completely died out in Hawaii. The only agricultural product that isn't being rolled back in Hawaii is coffee (but that's because we grow the best coffee in the world and can sell it for $20/pound).

Furthermore, since elected ,Lingle has done a superb job and is wildly popular. The Democrats don't even have a viable candidate to run against her yet. This would have been unimaginable only 4 years ago.

May I ask where on the Big Island did you live? It sounds like you lived in Hilo. Hilo is epitome of everything that is wrong with old Hawaii. By contrast, on the other side of the island is Kona, which is the epitome of what new Hawaii can be. It's no accident that Hilo is a Democrat strong hold and Kona is VERY solidly Republican. In fact, because of Kona, the Big island was the county where Lingle had the largest margin of victory. i would also point out that your flag indicates that you now live in Kalifornia.

[Issaquahking]

Thanks for the commentary, sounds like the meh-hee-can government is trying to make waves with the wrong guy.It was a matter of time before the a$$holes could find a reason to go after one of the good guys.

Sounds like daylate-dollarshort has haole attitude. Coming from Alaska, I know what it's like not being from mainland U.S.A., not something you can explain in a day.

One the other hand, maybe now is a good time to take over Mexico? We could chop it up and make 4 states out it, install something like good leadership, and they'd quit flooding us north of the border!

[waiver]

"why was it necessary for Dog to go get the Max Factor guy if we have an extradition treaty with Mexico in the first place?"

Because he wanted the reward and because the american government didn't file an extradition request.

[richandfamous]

because andy was living large in a resort and paying bribes to corrupt federalies while the policia said they didn't know where he was...yeah right...mexican law....LMAO

[Stag_Man]

what he said

[richandfamous]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13417364/#060915a
Rita says:
Quote:
As the man known for nabbing thousands of bad guys now is behind bars himself, his many supporters see no irony in this, but only anger. We are working hard to find out what really happened here and find out what was behind the statement made to me by one of Andrew Luster’s own former attorneys, when he told me yesterday that they’ve been pushing the Mexicans to do this for some time, including making some recent efforts."

Looks like andy really did buy some of that good old mexican law!

[investigateworld]

12 Marshals on a 6:00 raid?
They we're looking to kill someone. Glad "Dog" didn't buy into it.


(And authorization for this come from very way up high)