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The disgraced Max Factor heir who was convicted of 86 counts of drugging and raping unconscious women in 2003 is set to be released early after his crimes were reclassified as 'non-violent' under a 2016 law change masterminded by Kamala Harris, DailyMail.com can reveal. Andrew Luster, now 60, infamously fled to Mexico during his rape trial – only to be tracked down by Dog the Bounty Hunter and hauled back to the US in chains. Now one of his victims has bravely come forward in an exclusive interview to talk about her fears at his imminent freedom. Tonja Balden, 51,...

Duane "Dog" Chapman is upset a $300,000 federal bond remains in place even though a Mexican judge has dismissed charges against him. The TV bounty hunter posted the bond and was freed after being arrested last September as he fought extradition to Mexico. He had been charged under Mexican law with "deprivation of liberty" for his 2003 capture of a fugitive convicted rapist in Mexico. Mexican Judge Jose Alberto Montes dismissed the charges last month, ruling the statute of limitations had expired.

Television bounty hunter Dog Chapman set free on bail in Hawaii By Associated Press Saturday, September 16, 2006 - Updated: 12:08 PM EST HONOLULU - TV reality star Duane “Dog” Chapman and two co-stars accused of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters’ capture of a cosmetics company heir in Mexico posted bail and were released Friday. Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending the night in a federal detention center and his co-stars on the popular A&E show “Dog The Bounty Hunter” were freed on $100,000 bail each. Chapman, his son, Leland Chapman, and associate Timothy Chapman,...

MSNBC's Rita Cosby is reporting that Duane Dog Chapman, star of the A&E reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," and two members of his bounty hunting team (including his son) were arrested by U.S. officials today for extradition to Mexico. Cosby is reporting that Mexican government officials wanted the three men sent back there in relation to a three-year-old case. In 2003, Chapman traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to retrieve Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted in the U.S. on rape charges. Luster is now in jail, serving a 124-year term. The Chapmans were jailed in Mexico...

VENTURA, Calif. (AP) -- The Max Factor cosmetics heir who was convicted of raping three women filed for bankruptcy protection after he was ordered to pay nearly $40 million to two victims. Property records show that Andrew Luster, the 40-year-old great-grandson of cosmetics legend Max Factor, sold his beach house near Santa Barbara for $1,000 several days after he was caught in Mexico. "That doesn't look like a sale to me," attorney Barry Novack, who won a $19 million verdict for one of the women, told the Los Angeles Times for its Friday's editions. Novack said it appeared Luster was...

<p>State authorities have issued an all-points bulletin for three U.S. bounty hunters who left the country while awaiting trial on criminal charges related to the illegal capture of convicted rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster.</p> <p>The authorities took action after a judge declared Duane "Dog" Chapman, his son Leland and brother Timothy in violation of their bail, which required them to sign in at court each week, state prosecutor Roberto Juarez said late Monday.</p>

<p>Mexican immigration authorities issued an alert Tuesday for Duane "Dog" Chapman (search) and two relatives who failed to show up for a court date on charges they illegally detained fugitive cosmetics heir Andrew Luster (search) here in June.</p> <p>The men face charges of conspiracy and deprivation of liberty for a pre-dawn seizure of Luster, a great-grandson of cosmetics legend Max Factor (search) who had been convicted in absentia in California of drugging and raping three women.</p>

LOS ANGELES &#8211; A bounty hunter who calls himself "Dog" captured convicted rapist and cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, but it has cost him time in a Mexican jail and the disdain of his colleagues. Duane "Dog" Chapman &#8211; his nickname is God spelled backward &#8211; and two others took Luster down at a taco stand on Wednesday, witnesses said. Luster, 39, was deported to California Thursday, but Chapman and four others remained in Mexican custody, facing potential charges ranging from entering Mexico illegally to kidnapping. Fellow bail enforcement agents, as they prefer to be identified, were disgusted. "This Chapman ......

An heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune was accused yesterday of being a serial rapist who drugged and filmed his victims.Andrew Luster, 37, appeared in a California court to face multiple counts of rape, sexual assault, sodmy and poisoning. If found guilty he could face a sentence of up to 150 years.The great-grandson of the make-up tycoon was arrested two and a half years ago after a 21-year-old woman alleged that he had spiked her drink with Liquid X, a slang term for the date rape drug hydroxybutrate or GHB.When officers searched his home they found photographs and videotapes...