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Posted on 04/05/2010 12:49:57 PM PDT by FoxPro
17 News discovered a youtube video of Kern County Sheriff's Deputies and a bail bonds enforcement officer entering a local woman's home after she told them they couldn't come in without a warrant and her consent. With the evidence she caught on tape, the law seems to be on her side.
"I don't need a warrant," the bondsman said as he appeared to enter on his own into the home from a back door on the youtube video.
There were also sheriff's deputies at the front door. Deputies and bail bond enforcement officials have different laws but a local bail bondsman not affiliate with this case said what happened in this case was against the law.
"If you see the person go in, you can go in," Glenn Pierce, the owner of Gotta Go Bail Bonds said. "But you just can't go in randomly."
The woman who lived at the home told 17 News her name is Star. She said she is in hiding because threats were made against her. She also said deputies and the bail bondsman violated her rights by forcing entry into her home after she stated she was the only one there.
Attorney H.A. Sala says based on the video evidence, the Sheriff's Department could have a lawsuit on its hands because of the way they forced into the home without any knowledge of the wanted person being in the home. "They have to knock, state a purpose, say they have a warrant and give time for the person to surrender," Sala said.
Authorities were looking for Joseph Baker who was arrested for battery on a peace officer in September. They were also looking for a man named Alan Gjurovich because he co-signed on Baker's bail bond which Baker forfeited by not showing up in court. Gjurovich is in hiding but spoke to 17 News by phone. He said the sheriff's department is trying to stop him from filing a lawsuit against the county that could damage county judge and clerks' credibility.
"They're trying to scare us out of town and out of the county," Gjurovich said. "The message I was getting, they were giving us a 48 hour ultimatum--give them what they want on Joe Baker or they will personally come down and arrest me."
Sheriff Donny Youngblood confirmed the deputies in the video are from the Kern County Sheriff's Department, but he said he can't comment because an internal affairs investigation is being launched.
That’s what I figured, but sometimes the law does weird crap.
Thanks.
There is no private bounty hunting in the state of Oregon. Only actual police may detain individuals for bail skips. Dudes like “Dawg” don’t exist here. So, it would be illegal here. It’s probably hard to make generalizations about what is and isn’t legal for bounty hunters/ bail bondsmen to do, as it is all controlled by state law.
Whats you talkin bout?
“There is no private bounty hunting in the state of Oregon. “
I imagine it is harder to get bail there, too.
a company called FoxPro (DOS based) supplied the software for our maintenance department at the airline I worked for..
I have never heard of it, but I believe I know who wrote it.
Here is the video. It is 7 minutes long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOallUDsSzc&feature=player_embedded
They definitely require a warrant. They cannot take the bail enforcers word for it and enter a home with out a warrant.
The bail enforcer has no legal or lawful right to be in the house.
The deputies erred in by answering her question “why are you in my house?”.
“well, ma’am, you opened the door”, on officer said.
Opening a door is not an invite nor is there implied permission. She did not give expressed permission and they are in error as well.
Hate to say but, the fellow they are looking for may have been in the house, at one time. However, without lawful reason, no one has the authority to enter her home.
At the end of the video the Dweeb and the deputies just simply walk out the door. No evidence and no person in cuffs.
The bad guy will be caught eventually. Meanwhile she will be living high on the hog after she sues the bail bondsmand and the surety company pays.
Then she will go after deputies and the county they represent. The deputies will get a letter in their file and the countly will by her an upgraded mobile home. She will by a new Yugo, have it limousined and tricked out with dingle berries hanging from the windows and a bean bag chair in the back for loungin while drinking Mickey 40’s.
She will probably decide she is too fancy for the neighborhood she is living in now, due to her new found wealth and she will homestead in the Oklahoma panhandle or some other area where the tumbleweeds outnumber the residents.
She might even hire a banjo quartet for the weekends so she can hear her fav-ah-a-rite tune over and over again
See here for an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8
She might even start a little hog farm and have some pet goats.
But,... At the end of the day none of those men had a lawful reason for being in her house and searching it.
Let’s see...4th, 5th, 9th, 14th, unreasonable, bill of attainder, etc.
They were probably trying to earn a little on the side; deputies don't generally get paid all that much. Money talks...
“Then she will go after deputies and the county they represent. The deputies will get a letter in their file and the countly will by her an upgraded mobile home. She will by a new Yugo, have it limousined and tricked out with dingle berries hanging from the windows and a bean bag chair in the back for loungin while drinking Mickey 40’s.”
LMAO!!
(probably deadly accurate too)
;-)
Actually I’ve never seen Dawg go into a house without permission. Maybe I missed a few episodes.
The law everywhere says the bounty hunter is supposed to turn the perps into the local autorities. That’s typically not done because of the cost of extradition. So, they’re actually kidnapping them when they take them across state lines. But, the perp usually doesn’t have very good standing to complain. Like I said, he signed away his rights when he was bonded out.
I have seen any number of illegal actions by him and his crew. However, the production company gets the people not to file complaints.
At this point the show is pretty much staged and they are not doing a lot of it in Hawaii. They are not real popular there and there is increasing disruption of their filming locally. Even reality shows are real PITA to neighbors and all it takes is one boombox to mess up the audio.
Sooner or later someone will figure out it would be their 15 minutes of fame and get them a mentioned in Wikipedia to take out Dog or one of his gang.
I read recently that all of those reality T.V. shows are staqed. Repo Man had too many stupid things happening for it to be real. And you can tell Dawg is, too.
This same motto was on 1/2 dozen patrol cars and " We'll bite your ass" was on a couple of K9 units, this was a decade ago. We have good and bad cops here, but the bad cops are really bad.
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