![]() They wouldn’t look for them the way we did.” If they weren’t able to, they wouldn’t have pursued it. “The police would have sent a warrant out to L.A. “We were able to move faster than the police,” he said. ![]() It cost him $5,300 to cover the cost of returning the two men to York. The chase cost $35,000 for traveling expenses and rewards paid to informants, Udoff said. It took two months, but Udoff was able to track the two to Los Angeles, even though they had given false names and told their bondsman they were from York. Udoff hunted for and found two suspected Los Angeles crack dealers who failed to show up for court on his company’s $300,000 bond. The powers can be traced to old English law, which said when you bond somebody, his body belongs to you. “If we know a guy’s in his house, we can kick the door in. Those working for bail bondsmen have broad powers to search for and arrest fugitives – powers police don’t have. Most of ’em couldn’t find their own feet.”Ĭare has to be taken when using bounty hunters, Udoff said. We have people come in here all the time and say they want to be a bounty hunter. “We use only a couple of them (bounty hunters),” he said. Occasionally, he turns bounty hunter himself to track a fugitive. of Baltimore, knows about bounty hunters. “But, by the same token, they are operating legitimately.”īarry Udoff, treasurer of Fred W. We can’t allow that to happen,” Rebert said. “We had a local situation where they had the wrong man, forced their way into his residence and assaulted him. Stanley Rebert said that while he doesn’t have any reservations about the kind of work bounty hunters do, he does have some reservations about they way they do it. But, as York Police Chief William Hose said, “We don’t have any problem with them as long as they operate within the law.” They do not have to be registered with authorities or have a license.Īll of that power worries some authorities. They can bring a fugitive back from out-of-state without extradition. They can enter a house without a search warrant. A bounty hunter – armed with a bailpiece, the arrest warrant issued when a defendant skips bail – has the right to track down a fugitive and bring him to justice. The successful bounty hunter knows the cops and the crooks. Modern-day bounty hunters have more in common with private investigators than the cowboys of the Old West. They are freelancers, mercenaries bringing fugitives to justice for 10 percent of the bail the outlaws have jumped. ![]() The bounty hunter image is one of a lone horseman riding into the corrupt western town and cleaning it up single-handedly, much like Clint Eastwood in “High Plains Drifter.”īut the modern day bounty hunter is more apt to drive a four-wheel drive truck than ride Old Paint, while operating in a shadowy world at the fringes of the law. He lights another Winston, his third in an hour, and waits. “This guy did things to little boys,” he said. But he insists it’s not the money that drives him to hunt. Bringing the guy who’s now in Tennessee to justice will earn the Bounty Hunter $5,000.
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