No more Mr. Nice Guy – Recovering Your Bond thru Collateral and Intimidation

Ok..here’s another example of resolving your bond skips without apprehending the fugitive. Sometimes having some sort of leverage on the co-signer can put an end to things.

This guy skipped on a $5,000 bond. At one time he was charged with attempted first degree murder. That case was eventually dropped and I bonded him on an alledged aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

I had some of his family as co-signers. They are originally from Albania.  So really all I had was a few addresses and knew he frequented a local strip club.  So I decide to go to all the addresses I had for him and the local police assisted but no sign of my guy anywhere. Being forced to hang out in the strip club he was a regular at also turned up nothing. Seems he up and vanished. So I decided to go to plan B.

I wait till its REAL late at night. I go pounding on the father’s door. I wake up the house. For legal reasons (hehe) I cannot reveal what was all said but lets just say I made some promises to his family that weren’t very nice. Sometimes the ONLY way to get things resolved is to get very nasty. These people need to realize this isn’t a joke and they need to pay this money or else.

So anyways after my little “talking to” the family came in the very next morning with $2,500 cash and two cars for me to sell to  get the other $2,500. Legally I cannot make money off the cars and the $5,000 would be returned to the family if the warrant is served. So if I had a lamborghini as collateral on this bond I could only sell it for $5,000.  I sold the two cars very quickly and paid the $5,000 to the courts. The defendant still has felony warrants for his arrest. Total bond recovered was $5,000.