Posted on 09/19/2006 6:19:46 PM PDT by Hal1950
Mexico - where bounty hunting is illegal - claims Chapman jumped bail after being charged with illegally detaining Luster in June 2003.
A new special about last week's arrest will air tonight (10 p.m.) on A&E.
Chapman, who is out on $300,000 bail, said on yesterday's "Today" show that if he goes to prison in Mexico, he will be killed by inmates avenging the thousands of fleeing felons he's brought to justice.
"I won't last two days," he said.
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They could have demanded his extradition the second he didn't appear as he promised back in 03, but they waited 3 years.
And IMO, yes a Mexican judges feelings got hurt and probably chaffed him that Chapman was a big star even when he stiffed his court, probably akin to the victim's family of ira einhorn who was living openly and luxuriously in France.
But like I said if Chapman had not skipped his bail and showed up when he promised to, he would not be in this jam.
Wouldn't drug lords pay far more money that Chapman with his little watched cable TV show?"
I wonder what has happened to the drug lord's property in Mexico?
At the time, Dog was a nobody. He had embarrassed Mexico officials by catching a fugitive and possibly cut off a source of their income. He is a bounty hunter. It doesn't take much imagination to think that the guards might let that information loose. Then it's just a short shrug, "We are a poor country. We had to put Chapman with everyone else..."
Have you ever dealt with Mexican Federales? Personally, I mean. I have. Their corruption is LEGENDARY.
Have you?
Doh!
She says she has, right there in that last sentence!
Yes, I have. Well, there were two guys dressed as Federales, with radios that didn't work (but they talked into them and pretended to listen intently) while they insisted we were going to jail unless we paid them off.
So did you call their bluff and make them prove they were or did you just pay them off?
Not everyone who is accused of a crime can afford bail money, which can run into the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars. In those cases, a bail bondsman will step in and put up a bail bond -- sort of like a loan -- in return for a percentage (usually 10 percent) of the total bail."Bounty Hunting - It is an act carried out according to contract."The bail bondsman will then secure a bail bond from an insurance company. The bail bond acts as insurance guaranteeing that the accused will show up for his or her scheduled court appearance. But if the accused decides to skip town and miss the court appearance (which about 20 percent do), the bail bond must be paid -- and it's the bondsman who must pay it. (For this reason, bondsmen usually require collateral from the accused, such as property or a car title.)
Because bondsmen are liable for the bail bond amount, and the police can't always find their man (or woman), many bondsmen hire a professional bounty hunter -- or bail enforcement agent, as they prefer to be called -- to track down "skips." ...
In return for their services, bounty hunters typically receive anywhere from 10 percent to 20 percent of the total bail bond.
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... bounty hunting is legal, although state laws vary with regard to the rights of bounty hunters.
In general, they have greater authority to arrest than even the local police. "When the defendant signs the bail bond contract, they do something very important. They waive their constitutional rights," says Burton. "They agree that they can be arrested by the bail bond agent. And they waive extradition, allowing bondsmen to take them to any state."
Geez, Mexico, get over it ...
two guys dressed as Federales, with radios that didn't work (but they talked into them and pretended to listen intently)TOO FUNNY and the second oldest trick in the book (the oldest being to wear a sidearm and swagger around importantly ) ...
"Strangely it smells clintonesque."
Strangely, it does REEK of the clintoon-technique-to-get-what-you-want MO.
"Do they not see that 70%+ of the population wants the bastards (illegals) out?"
They really don't care. Our place is to pay it.
Then don't go there. We can wall ourselves in and just stay inside the wall and then you don't need to worry.
I never watched this "dog" character but then again I don't watch much TV at all. He must be one spectacular human being to attract so much adulation.
After 40 minutes of badgering (during which I was under the impression that we had no cash), my husband's friend coughed up $20 and they let us go.
They declined our request to accompany us to the border to visit an ATM and wouldn't let us look at their ID. We weren't quite sure what would happen if we tried to just walk away.
Okay, but you really didn't need to tell me. I've been there and saw enough that I don't need to be told not to go back.
my husband's friend coughed up $20 and they let us go.They must have been short of 'lunch money' that day ...
So, you don't know for sure if they were in fact "Federales"? BTW, what did they say your "crime" was?
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