True, but is Mexico alone in making bounty hunting illegal then pressing kidnapping charges on the bounty hunter that takes the scum back to the US? The Mexican gov't scoffed at our request to extradite Luster for rape and murder. Our own judge oks a warrant on behalf of Mexico to arrest and extradite a US bounty hunter for arresting and bringing Luster back to the US.. WTF?
The fact of the matter is bounty hunters have no powers of arrest anywhere outside of the United States. The truth is Duane "Dog" Chapman as well as his son and brother are not only in violation of Mexican law, they were operating in violation of Reese v. United States, wherein the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that a bondsman’s or bounty hunter’s “power of arrest can only be exercised within the territory of the United States". This is well known by skip tracers.
Chapman operated as a publicity-seeking loose canon rather than a professional bail bondsman. Since he is in violation of not only Mexican law but of Reese as well, I doubt there will be much help forthcoming from the U.S. government.