Bounty Hunters mistakenly bombard Phoenix Police Chief's home
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[QUOTE]Talk about being on the wrong side of the law.
An Arizona bounty hunter was booked after he and his team mistakenly bombarded the home of the Phoenix police chief while looking for a fugitive, authorities said.
Brent Farley, owner of NorthStar Fugitive Recovery in Mesa, along with members of his team and those from Colorado-based Delta One Tactical Recovery surrounded Chief Joseph Yahner's home late Tuesday night, police said.
Police spokesman Trent Crump said they received a 911 call from Yahner's girlfriend around 10 p.m. MST (12 p.m. ET) that several bounty hunters were surrounding the home, shining flashlights inside. At least one bondsman was armed, banging on the door and yelling into the home.
It turned out to be a mistake of epic proportion when the slim, white, police chief answered the door in his underwear, awoken from his slumber, rather than an expected 310-pound, black, male suspect — wanted out of Oklahoma on drug charges.[/QUOTE]
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How could you make that kind of mistake :vs:
Why are bounty hunters even a thing in the US? Did it just stick around from the old western days or what. :v:
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;48394051]Why are bounty hunters even a thing in the US? Did it just stick around from the old western days or what. :v:[/QUOTE]
Kinda, some really old court rulings (just shy of 200 years now if I remember correctly) about bail bonds basically let bondsmen hire mercenaries to bring in bail jumpers, and give them some pretty absurd leeway in what laws they have to adhere to while doing such.
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;48394051]Why are bounty hunters even a thing in the US? Did it just stick around from the old western days or what. :v:[/QUOTE]
It's nowhere near the same and depends on the state. It's usually for bail bondsman to have a way to put someone back in jail for not paying off their bond, and usually based on low risk individuals. It's a lot cheaper (in terms of resources) to have a bondsman/bounty hunter arrest them than to get a cop.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;48394096]Kinda, some really old court rulings (just shy of 200 years now if I remember correctly) about bail bonds basically let bondsmen hire mercenaries to bring in bail jumpers, and give them some pretty absurd leeway in what laws they have to adhere to while doing such.[/QUOTE]
Considering they let "Dog" the bounty hunter do it and he's a convicted felon, yeah I'd say the rules are a little uhm, relaxed, when it comes to it.
Police departments send SWAT teams to raid innocent people's homes in the dead of night, murder dogs and sometimes even people, based off of the word of an anonymous informant: nothing happens.
Bounty hunters poke around the exterior of a police officer's home baesd off of the word of an anonymous informant: they're all arrested.
Hmm...
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;48394051]Why are bounty hunters even a thing in the US? Did it just stick around from the old western days or what. :v:[/QUOTE]
I really don't know, them and bondsmen are an antiquated, horrible mechanism that should be left in the past
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;48394817]Police departments send SWAT teams to raid innocent people's homes in the dead of night, murder dogs and sometimes even people, based off of the word of an anonymous informant: nothing happens.
Bounty hunters poke around the exterior of a police officer's home baesd off of the word of an anonymous informant: they're all arrested.
Hmm...[/QUOTE]
That's because the police generally do it in the role of public servants based on information of an on risk situation.
Bounty hunters are civs who often lack the right to do stuff like that.
[QUOTE=chipsnapper2;48393789]How could you make that kind of mistake :vs:[/QUOTE]
by getting your intel off social media
lol
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;48394817]Police departments send SWAT teams to raid innocent people's homes in the dead of night, murder dogs and sometimes even people, based off of the word of an anonymous informant: nothing happens.
Bounty hunters poke around the exterior of a police officer's home baesd off of the word of an anonymous informant: they're all arrested.
Hmm...[/QUOTE]
Police officers need warrants to raid private properties.
[QUOTE=Leon;48395246]by getting your intel off social media
lol[/QUOTE]
Gotta love social media. So easily exploitable.
only if you're an idiot and you believe everything that pops up in your newsfeed
god damn i love this state
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;48394051]Why are bounty hunters even a thing in the US? Did it just stick around from the old western days or what. :v:[/QUOTE]
"bounty hunters" don't really exist anymore. they're not chasing bounties, they're after people who have skipped bail. people call them bounty hunters because the job is similar in that they're freelance agents searching for a criminal, but that's where the similarity ends.
the proper term for what we have today is "bail enforcement agent"
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