Duane 'Dog' Chapman Says Feds Sold Him Out to Mexico in Exchange for Drug Lord

Fox News ^ | 19 September 2006

[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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[Dianna]

TOO FUNNY and the second oldest trick in the book (the oldest being to wear a sidearm and swagger around importantly ) ...

I'm just glad it only cost us $20. I am a law abiding woman (female college student at the time, accompanied by my now husband and his best friend-both of whom were in the Navy) but I was seriously contemplating what part of the head I should aim for with my Kahlua bottle. And we were there long enough for me to wonder at myself for having that thought.

[Binghamton_native]

Perhaps the illustrious Luster with his money has friends in high places and it is payback time.

[Texasforever]

That's the great thing about having a choice. You went you saw and you didn't like.

[pepperdog]

You are a very brave person. You persist in inferring that someone who paid off crooks who were dressed as law enforcement officers in a foreign country wasn't quite smart. You, of course, would have verbally or physically put them in their place and probably had a written apology and a free bottle of tequila. Who are you, that "24" guy Jack somebody?

[pepperdog]

You were wise to keep quiet and get out when you could. We have some foolishly brave comments on this thread.

[pepperdog]

I think that's and interesting and insightful comment, and very probably could play a part in this whole thing. Maybe not the biggest part, but a part. I could imagine someone paying off a Asst. Attorney to pursue a small incident. I would hazard a guess that perhaps it's happened before. Maybe even currently in LaPlame affair.

[Dianna]

So, you don't know for sure if they were in fact "Federales"? BTW, what did they say your "crime" was?

Public urination. My husband had walked up to the public restroom and found it locked. He was walking away when they ran up to us and started yelling, "You piss! You piss on de door!"

It's funny now, 15 years after the fact. My husband saying back, in broken english, "No piss, no piss! Door locked!"

[daylate-dollarshort]

"Geez, Mexico, get over it ...

Sorry but you need to rethink your argument. First, "Dog" Chapman was not the bondsman in this case and thus no contract existed between Luster and Chapman so the essential information provided by your post is irrelevent. Luster poste his own bond- no bail bondsman was involved.

"They agree that they can be arrested by the bail bond agent. And they waive extradition, allowing bondsmen to take them to any state."

Unfortunately, this statement is true only in the United States- not foreign countries. See Reese v. United States, 76 U.S. at 21 where the Supreme Court ruled that the arrest powers of the bail bondsman or bail enforcement agents do not exist outside of the United States.

Also the charges lodged against Duane "Dog" Chapman et.al. are indeed felony charges not misdemeanors. Misdemeanors are not extraditable. If they were misdemeanors, this thread would not exist........ ;^)

[Dianna]

So, you don't know for sure if they were in fact "Federales"?

No, we don't know if they were Federales. But if locals wants to pass themselves off as such and scare college students and squids into paying them money, I feel ok about painting them with a broad brush.

[isom35]

watch the drug lord post bond and then jump bail. it will be like a tv show. then some suit will pound his fist on a table and yell, "get me the dog!" then some weakling yes-man will say "uh, he's in jail in mexico sir"

[Texasforever]

You are a very brave person. You persist in inferring that someone who paid off crooks who were dressed as law enforcement officers in a foreign country wasn't quite smart.

No, the only implication I made was that there was no way of knowing if they were actual cops or not without forcing them to prove it. They did the right thing because it is not worth the risk to find out.

[Global2010]

Prayers For The Chapmans

[antceecee]

My husband and I and another couple have a really strange, scary, federales-search, lost on the mesas, given bad directions, south of the border four day weekend story from the 70's. Suffice it to say we at least made it back to the US in pretty good condition. Never really wanted to travel by car across the border after that.
We walked across at TJ about 16 yrs ago when our daughter was about 6 years old. After about one hour she begged us to take her home.
I have to admit that Baja is really beautiful and for the most part so are the people. Tragic that the government in Mexico is so corrupt.

[antceecee]

LOL!!!

[Texasforever]

No, we don't know if they were Federales.

Thanks.

[_Jim]

Sorry but you need to rethink your argument. First, "Dog" Chapman was not the bondsman

It works like this: Perp pays --> Bondsman who pays/contacts --> Skip tracer who fetchs --> Perp

So, yeah, you're right, but I never SAID he was his bondsman, so you're not right.

Unfortunately, this statement is true only in the

Don't care; to my way of thinking the agreement one makes with a bondsman is and should be a private, contractual affair.

Just because certain agreements don't exist outside a certain territorial limits doesn't make it the right 'thing' between men and/or countries IMO.

Didn't Mexico nationalize the oil companies in - 1938?

See: In 1938 President Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized the petroleum industry

Soooooo ... can you tell me what is absolutely 'right and wrong' between countries again?

[_Jim]

PS - nationalize meaning 'to steal'; take possession of w/o paying; make one's own w/o reimbursement; esp. to convert from private to governmental ownership and control ...

[My Favorite Headache]

President Bush better step in..after watching the A&E special..our government better get in there and help Dog and his family....NOW

[Manic_Episode]

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