There are a few things I wanted to talk about today. First off I figured I would put some law out
there. Some people who sign the
paperwork and bail another out just don’t pay attention. I could talk to these people until I am blue
in the face and they still will not understand what I am saying. Second I am going to run through how my last
skip tracing went. I will say that it
did not go to well.
It really makes me angry when people do not listen to
me. I am not explaining things to myself;
I am doing it for you, the client. If
you don’t want to listen to me it’s not my problem when you are out $5,000 or
your car when your “best friend” skips out.
Read the contract before you sign it!
When I say that you are responsible for the FULL AMOUNT OF THE BOND, that’s
what I mean! Second thing I really hate
is when people start telling me laws from other states; such as California and
Nevada. This is ARIZONA and I follow
ARIZONA LAW!
Now that I am done ranting about not listening and reading
what you are signing let’s get into some law.
I guess this part might end up a little boring but it’s just something I
want to put out there. A bail bond is to
ensure the defendant appears in court when they are told to, not when it is convenient
for them! People do not seem to
understand if your miss court and then the very next day you show you can lose
the entire bond. Yesterday I was trying
to explain this to a client. She thought
that if the defendant went in by himself the bond would not be forfeited, but
that is just not the case. The only guaranteed
why the bond will not be forfeited is if the BONDING COMPANY arrests and
surrenders the defendant. Recently we paid
out $500 after the defendant appeared in court on his own but he had already
missed a court day. The other
misconception is if the police arrest a defendant that has missed court the
bond is safe, but once again not the case, more times than not we will pay at
least a partial forfeiture.
Second if a defendant misses court and I go and arrest him
or her you WILL PAY ME for an arrest BEFORE any collateral is returned. I do not work for free!!! You should be thankful you only have to pay
an arrest fee and not the full amount of the bond.
I can understand if after you bail someone out you find that
you have made a mistake. Tell me where
they are and I will go and arrest them. I
can’t understand when people claim that they didn’t understand what they were
doing because I read you the contract and the conditions of release and I gave
you a copy of it all. Also don’t call me
saying that you want off the bond and defendant surrendered if he has already
left town! I am sorry you put your trust
on an untrustworthy asshole but you signed that paper you don’t get off the
bond just because you want to. The defendant
has to be back in jail for that.
Okay I am sure you are all bored as hell after listening to
my rants but I think this may get better.
I set out last Friday to look for a skip in Kingman. I decided first place to start with the
address Alex had put on his application.
I found the house without any problems.
The first look of the place was not promising. There was a NO TRESSPASSING sign post but
there seemed to be one on every yard. I
guess that is just the thing to do. I
entered the fence and almost had a heart attack when right to my right side a
dag starts growling. I was only about a
foot or so away from the neighbors fence, so, the dog was only about a foot
away from me and was not happy.
Thankfully the dog decided I wasn’t worth the effort of jumping the
fence and just settled on growling and barking at me.
As I approached the covered porch to the front door I had to
wade through a sea of trash and clothes.
When I got to the front door it was wide open. There were a few second of indecision but I figured
I would have to go in. I made my
presence know and slowly entered the house.
I of course had my trusty side arm drawn and ready. I slowly and quietly cleared the rooms. There was trash, clothes, dirty diapers and
old broken toys piled to the ceiling in some spots. By this point, I was not worried about
meeting a live person but sadly think I might find someone dead behind a pile
of clothes or trash. You ever seen one
of those Hoarding Shows? Well that is
what this house looked like. After going
through all the rooms I found no one and nothing useful in my search for
Alex. On my way out I figured I would
shut the door and made sure not to leave my print anywhere, I mean who knows
how my crimes have been committed in that place.
As I was exciting the property the neighbor wanted to talk
to me. The first thing he asked me is if
I was looking for the squatters. I
figured I was. The second thing he said
was there were probably about 4 different sets of them that had move in and out
of the property in those 4 weeks. The
worst part of what he told me was most people that had come through there had
children with them. The horror of having
a child in there is too great to even think about. The truth of the matter is most people don’t
think about these things. They go
through there comfortable life day by day and don’t have to face these types of
things. I left that place with a heavy
heart knowing there would children that are being drag from place to place like
the one I was just in by no fault of their own.
I also felt bad for the neighbor who seemed like a straight up kind of
guy. To have to live next to a place
like that and wondering what kind of people were living in it would make anyone
uncomfortable. However, the hunt
continues and I have a job to do.
I had a second tip I need to follow up on Alex. It wasn’t a very good one but it was all I
had. The directions went like this.
Turn on to Gemstone (changed name)
Take the first Left
Take the last Right.
Half way down the road there is a trailer facing the road in
a drive way.
Well let’s just say that in this particular part of town
known as BIRLAND due to the street names.
There are ONLY TRAILERS and all of them face the road in the driveway. They lady never got back to me with a color
or description of the property. BIRDLAND
is known for tweakers. For those of you
who don’t know what a tweaker is they are so high on drugs most the time they
cannot sit still. Most of the time out
here the preferred drug is METH, it is easy to come by and cheap. Most tweakers will pick at themselves until that
bleed. It is really rather disgusting. L
Well I started driving down that last road and really didn’t
find anything promising but if first you don’t succeed try again. No one seemed to notice me that first pass or
at least I didn’t think I had been noticed.
The second time if seems like there were more people in the driveway or “working”
in their yard. I thought since I was
there I would drive through just one more time.
Just for good measure. Leave no stone unturned. One my third trip I think EVERYONE was blatantly
giving me the once over as I drove by.
My car was to clean. I was
driving to slow. They all knew I was
someone that shouldn’t be there and I was up to something. As Robert said later it was the “Jungle
Telegram”. I knew after that third trip
doing a canvass with my pictures would have gotten me nowhere. I guess I should have done that before
everyone noticed me. Lesson learned,
once again, the hard way and I went home empty handed.
On a last note I want to say that most people don’t realize
the poverty today. I mean sure you see
it on the news read about it in the paper but if you are getting on Facebook
everyday you’re really not getting on that bad.
I see it most days sitting in my office.
I am not saying that everyone I see is living in poverty but a lot are
not working. I know that some are just
criminals and don’t have a job because they are doing other things for
money. Others turn to crime to support themselves
and that is just the way it is. Poverty
promotes crime. Idle hands are the
devils handy work.
I guess nothing really to laugh about today. That’s just the way it goes sometimes. If you have gotten this far I hope that you enjoyed
and I thank you for reading.
Susanne
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