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Posted on 08/26/2025 1:49:42 PM PDT by DFG
RICHARDSON, Texas — Three bounty hunters face kidnapping charges after mistaking a man for a suspect with a similar name and taking him into custody at a home in Richardson, police said.
Alan Hinton and Devon Allard Carter each face charges of aggravated kidnapping and execution of a capias or arrest warrant, according to a statement from Richardson police.
A third suspect also faces charges, but he has not been arrested yet, police said.
The incident unfolded on June 1 at a home in the 3800 block of Aberdeen Court in northeast Richardson, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The affidavit said the bounty hunters were searching for a capital murder suspect and believed they had tracked the man to a garage in Richardson, where he was giving a client a haircut. The bounty hunters told police they used an AI facial recognition tool and that the tool provided a 79% recognition match to the man they were looking for, the affidavit said.
The bounty hunters drove up to the home in a U-Haul van, threw a flash bang in the garage and arrested who they thought was the suspect, according to the affidavit.
But the man they snatched was not the suspect. The actual suspect, it turned out, had fled to Iraq, according to the affidavit.
The man the bounty hunters took into custody had an evading arrest charge "that is being sorted out," the affidavit said, but he's been checking in weekly with a bail bonds business in Garland. Also, the bail bonds business the victim is using is different than the one the bounty hunters were working for, according to the affidavit.
The man told police that he was cutting a client's hair when he heard a flash bang go across his face and explode, the affidavit said. Then he heard people yelling at him to get down on the floor. They were armed with AR guns and were aiming them at his face, the affidavit said.
After the bounty hunters took the man away, they eventually let him out of the van and he waited for police to arrive.
Police ran the man's name and found that he didn't have any active warrants for his arrest and did not look like the capital murder suspect the bounty hunters were searching for, the affidavit said.
Hinton, one of the bounty hunters, told police they were working on a contract with a group out of Houston. They had body camera footage, which police reviewed. On the bounty hunters' video, police could see the encounter unfold, including the flash bang that went off in the garage, the affidavit said.
When the bounty hunters took the victim from the garage and into the van, they drove away while asking him questions, the video showed. The victim told the bounty hunters they got the wrong person, the affidavit said.
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Well, excuuuuuuse me!
Cops ok... Bounty Hunters no no...
Too bad the “bounty hunters” are still alive ...
Dumbasses.
“...an AI facial recognition tool and that the tool provided a 79% recognition match to the man they were looking for, the affidavit said.”
How the heck do you green light your harebrained operation at 79%?
The man wanted for capital murder fled to Iraq. Could that possibly mean that he is an Iraqi? Naw, don’t want to jump to conclusions.
“Three bounty hunters face kidnapping charges...”
When these dudes go to TDC, they will learn very good lesson on bounty hunting.
Wouldn’t that mean that 21% of the world could look that similar?
Crazy!
Just such as this is what set Jesse James off.
I saw the movie.
Bounty Hunter boo boo.
Cutting a client’s hair warrants a flash bang and going in screaming brandishing AR-15s?
Unless there is more to the story and this version of events if false, even if he was the right guy, this behavior doesn’t appear to be warranted.
Those bounty hunters should get max charges. Add terrorism to the list.
The civil suit should be a big one.
That is a good way for someone to end up dead.
And now everybody sing.....!
You're a dumba$$
You're a dumba$$
You're grade A,
number one,
Bona fide first class
You're a dumba$$
You're a dumba$$
And you'll be one all your dumba$$ life
Wrong. This is how the bail bond business catches people who skip out. Bounty Hunters have been around since the concept of bailing out of jail began.
However, Bounty Hunters have to make sure they do everything just right. For sure, they have to be certain they have the right person.
My point was Cops can kill the wrong people at the wrong address and it is fine. Bounty hunters get thrown in jail for less.
Here is where LE become a special class with special privileges and immunities. They are both “just doing their jobs” for the legal system to keep criminals off the Streets.
Bounty Hunters have to get licensed, cleared, and are under the same legal scrutiny as Officers.
It is a double standard...
Years ago, two bounty hunters tracked their target to a Dallas (Texas, y’all) car dealership sales office and went in to arrest him.
As the target was seated, he pulled a gun and fired at the two bounty hunters from just feet away. The bounty hunters returned fire from a couple of feet away and one BH firing with his gun touching the body of the target.
All were shot multiple times and all three died in the office.
This was also a FR thread with CCTV video of the event.
Good point.
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