A woman in Michigan is claiming that a bounty hunter attacked her as he was taking her husband into custody, an assertion that has led to a police investigation. At the time the bounty hunter was apprehending 29-year-old Richard Allen-Bass, …
Despite the somewhat renegade image that people outside the profession have of the bail bonds industry, there are very strict state and federal laws that must be adhered to in order to post bonds for convicted criminals, and then recover …
Two men were chained to the door of the Dothan County municipal courtroom in Dothan, Alabama last month by bounty hunter Rickey Stokes. Earlier this month, one of those two men, 34-year-old Greg Tiller of Dothan, was arrested by police …
A panel consisting of three judges from the 5th United States Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld a ruling regarding sheriffs in the state of Mississippi and their authority to make decisions about who can and cannot write …
Jordan Casey Young is once again in custody after a nearly deadly encounter with a pair of bounty hunters. He had been approached by the pair of bounty hunters who were seeking him for skipping bail in Polk County. In …
Reality television and popular motion pictures have made the bounty hunting profession appear to be much more glamorous than it truly is. That isn’t to say that maintaining a career in bounty hunting isn’t an exciting and rewarding prospect, but …
The essential job function of a bounty hunter is to find a fugitive from justice and bring that person back into the criminal justice system within an allotted amount of time. Bounty hunters are always on the move to find …
Bounty hunters in New Orleans are complaining about the fact that the city does not have a well-maintained, up to date, database of wanted criminals. This lack of information has resulted in bounty hunters having to house fugitives after catching …
The federal statutes governing bounty hunters in the United States have been on the books for well over 100 years. In that time individual states have implemented their own legal definitions for the profession, but by and large bounty hunters …