Bounty Hunter For Hire – Fugitive Recovery Stories

Once again sorry for slacking on the new posts. So this guy here claims he has numerous medical problems.

I bonded him out on some alleged Driving on suspended license, DUI crash and some other minor cases. However, back in 2001 or so this guy served about 15 months in the State Prison system for… Driving on a suspended license!  So about a month ago he missed a court date.  I contact him and he said he was in the Hospital.  So giving him the benefit of the doubt, I rescheduled his court date for him and got it reset for July 20th 2009.

Welllllll…….. Once again he claims to be sick and in the hospital and again misses court.  So I go out to his house today (22nd) and knock on the door.  His wife answers and I notice him in the back of the house.  I go back and arrest him.  Now the problems start.  Apparently he has ALOT of trouble walking and needs a wheelchair for the most part.  Even though I seen him walking around I don’t take any chances.  He also has about 10 different medications prescribed to him.  So as I go to get him ready to go to jail he urinates himself.  This is getting to be too much.

So I tell him I’m not gonna take him to jail and for him to reschedule his court date.  I then proceed back to my car which is hidden from view.  I get in and call the local police.  When they come out, regardless of medical problems, pee pants or whatever, they will take him.  So the local police come out and I explain to them I’m not comfortable transporting him with his medical issues.  They proceed to go with me to the house and arrest him for me. They then call a transport van and have him transported to the Pinellas County Jail. Total bond recovered was $22,000.

From CJAD.com – Montreal’s only live 24 hour newsroom:

“Bounced retirement home cheques. Tens of thousands in unpaid income taxes. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in possibly lost life savings. Authorities allege the man behind this apparent Ponzi scheme is Montreal financial planner Bertram Earl Jones.

The whereabouts of Jones remains unknown.”

On the air, Craig took a few moments to answer some questions, and here is a partial excerpt from the conversation.

NOTE: Craig’s last name has been replaced with his first name in the following transcript, where applicable, to protect his identity

CJAD: “Some of those investors are thinking about hiring a bounty hunter – CJAD reporter Shuyee Lee decided to investigate. How much does that sort of thing cost, and how do you go about that?”

Shuyee Lee: “Craig is a Bounty Hunter For Hire, working out of Florida, in the business 4 years and he’s seen it all – murders, escaped convicts, deadbeats, and now a lot of so-called money managers.”

Craig: “We get quite a few calls, you’d be surprised how many people pull ponzi scams.”

Shuyee Lee: “He says while bounty hunters don’t come cheap, averaging $5000 to $10,000 dollars per case plus expenses, they usually get their man.”

Craig: “We know a lot of tricks, there’s a lot of tricks out there to find somebody. In some instances we might be more qualified than a law enforcement officer to apprehend someone.”

Shuyee Lee: “But Craig says without an arrest warrant, even if they find the guy, he’s basically still a free man.”

The broadcast will be airing all day, Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at random times throughout the day and you can tune in by going to http://www.cjad.com/player/player where they will be discussing the Earl Jones case all day.

Once again, we’ve added a few more cities and sites to our Nationwide Network of Bail Bonds and Bail Bonding Services, otherwise known as All Estates Bail Bonds. The newest additions include Bail Bonds in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Bail Bonds in West Palm Beach; Bail Bonds in Orlando, Florida; Miami Florida Bail Bonds and also Bail Bonds in Miami.

Miami is a tough market to get into for Bail Bonds, so we’re running two domain names here in an effort to double our chances for gaining the new Miami Bail Bonds traffic and it will help us further test our marketing ability. We will also be able to test the effectiveness of these two particular domain names we’ve just chosen, which both differ slightly from our original concept of “bail bonds in cityname .com. And if that wasn’t enough, we decided to go ahead and try out Bail Bonds in Pinellas County as well. Our studies show that most people search for the city they are looking for a service in over the county, but we figure why not gauge how many people search for the county anyway – what have we got to lose?

Business is growing, our TOLL FREE number, 1-877-WHY-JAIL has been ringing constantly with calls coming in from all over the county. For any Bail Bondsman in any of the cities we cover in the All Estates Nationwide Bail Bonds Network, you have the option to take over the lease of the website or take the leads we send you for a small referral fee. This fee is of course determined by the laws in each state, and we’ve been working with the Departments of Insurance for every state to work out the legalities of such a referral service. Apparently, something like this hasn’t really been tried before, so we are pioneering the way – we’ve already made huge progress, and we’ve only just begun! 90% of our Bail Bonds sites are in the top 3 in Google, do a search for “Bail Bonds in Clearwater” or “Bail Bonds in Tampa” if you don’t believe us.

As the web tech, one thing that constantly irritates me is trying to figure out exactly what makes Google tick. We have a Google Maps listing for Bail Bonds in Clearwater, and when you search for it, our listing used to come up 1st and 2nd. Now we’re getting 2nd, replaced by a company that goes by the name “Almost Out Bail Bonds”. Well we studied the listing, and apparently it was put up by a “gary@officialbusinesslisting.com”. What is funny to me, is that after going to officialbusinesslisting.com, I learned that they charge $3 a day to put up and “maintain” a Google Maps listing. Someone is actually paying over $90 a month for something I can set up in about 2 minutes or less.