Recently, Big Boyz Bail Bonds received notification that a bail that we posted for a Spanish defendant in June of 2009 failed to appear for trial. Due to the FTA, we were issued a warrant for the defendants arrest by a district court judge. In many cases, detaining a Spanish defendant can be a daunting task due to the fact that in most cases they do not speak great English and tend to change addresses frequently.
One would think that this was definitely a case that needed to be taken care of by our Fugitive Recovery Agent Joey Orlando to search and locate the defendant. However, in some instances Big Boyz Bail Bonds seeks alternative methods in taking care of these particular types of warrants. In this case, we decided to call our defendant to see what happened.
Our defendant was very cooperative and didn't even know he had missed court because he never received the summons. This was an unfortunate situation for the defendant because he claims he was never made aware of the court date and now has to face going back to jail. We told him to come into our office to sort matters out. When he missed court, the judge issued a $10,000 bail at 10% cash. What this means is that once the defendant see's the commissioner the defendant's family could take $1,000 to the commissioner and post the bail. And once the defendant appeared for court they would receive their $1,000 back.
When the defendant arrived in our office we placed him under arrest. But rather than just taking him straight to Baltimore City central booking (where it could take 24 hours for him to get processed) we allowed him to make all the necessary phone calls he needed to make to come up with the $1,000 cash. Once he arranged his money, we transported him to a local Baltimore County Precinct to get processed on the warrant.
When most people think about bail bonds in maryland, they immediately think about Bounty Hunters. This is an instance where no bounty hunter was necessary. We were able to successfully touch base with our defendant and set up a scenario for him where he could be processed on the warrant and post bail all within only a couple hours.
