Maryland Bail Bonds Blog

Vampire? Doctor? Zombie? How about trying to be a little more creative and going with a celebrity that has made headlines recently. Michael Jackson? Kate Gosselin? (Jon & Kate plus 8) Lady GaGa? Bernie Madoff? This is the big question that everyone faces every year around this time. What am I going to be for Halloween?

If you live in or around Maryland, chances are that you have signed your check with one the Big Boyz Bail Bonds famous pink and yellow pens. The pens have become so popular that the Maryland Bail Bonds company recently launched a new website bigboyzpens.com that restaurants, businesses or individuals can go to and request big boyz pens for free. It's a good thing that they did! They recently received a request from a fan that said that she wanted to be a Big Boyz Pen for Halloween.

Genya Shimkin, a 23-year-old young woman who works downtown for a public health non-profit came up with the idea after giving her friend one of the pens. "The idea actually came from a friend of mine. He's about to leave for Africa, so for his birthday I gave him a Big Boyz Pen- it's portable and will remind him of home while he's away. While chatting about the ubiquity of the pens, someone suggested it as a Halloween costume. I don't think they thought I'd go through with it."

Genya wore the costume last night to Nightmare on Bourbon Street. "The bouncers and staff totally got it, and were really excited," she said. "The crowd inside was mostly college students and many of them didn't get it at first. However, because my friends and I were handing out pens all night people caught on pretty quickly." Everyone loved the costume so much that they encouraged her to enter the costume contest that night, which sadly she didn't win. She has higher hopes for tomorrow night when she will be in Fells Point, "I think it will be a lot better in Fells Point, it will be a much larger crowd."

So, how can you become a Big Boyz Pen for Halloween you may be asking? This is how Genya did it. "Making the costume was a labor of love. I've never been a crafty person, so it was quite an undertaking. First I bought a white sweatsuit. Then I cut off the right sleeve, which I dyed pink. I dyed the rest of the suit yellow, and then sewed the sleeve back on. I used stencils to spray paint "Big Boyz Bail Bonds" up the right side. I bought pink slippers to match my pink hat (onto which I sewed a toilet paper roll covered in pink tissue paper) and the pink glove for my right hand. To complete the costume, I mixed red and white face paint and painted my entire face and neck. It was my first time dyeing, sewing, and spray painting!"

The Big Boyz Pen may just turn out to be the costume choice of many people this year. Keep your eyes open, and if you need any pens contact Big Boyz at www.bigboyzpens.com

Big Boyz Bail Bonds is officially announcing the arrival of our new and improved pink and yellow Big Boyz Pens. 300,000 new pens will be delivered to all of your favorite local restaurants, bars, night clubs, and even to your front door step. Request our Big Boyz Bail Bonds pens for free from our website.

The new prototype can be seen below. We our including all 4 address locations of our bail bonds offices, just in case you might run into a jack-pot. In addition, both of our websites will appear on the pens, bigboyzbailbond.com and bigboyzpens.com. One final feature to the pen will be our "cezane" font that so many of you are accustomed to seeing appearing on our t-shirts.

Baltimore Bail Bonds Company Big Boyz Bail Bonds takes pride in helping local businesses supply their staffs and clients free pens to subdue costs. We process many pen requests per week so please be patient as we work on getting the pens delivered to you as quickly as possible. Any additional comments or questions you might have in regards to our pens, please visit our pen website and send us an email.

Yesterday, Big Boyz Bail Bonds in Baltimore was contacted by a defendant in regards to needing transportation to court. We posted a $10,000 bond for the defendant in Baltimore County back in April of this year and she was finally due for court here in October. This defendant was considered a "high-risk" bond for us because on her commitment papers she used an address in Beaumont Texas.

Her court date was set for 8:30am so we had her at the Towson District Court House in Baltimore County by 8am. She was one of the first citizens to enter the courtroom that day and was very appreciative of this service. She successfully utilized our fundamental purpose as a bail bonds company in Maryland, which is insuring the defendant's appearance for court.

We urge more defendants out on bail to call their bail bondsman if they are having difficulties making it to court. One of the most common excuses this day in age for a Failure to Appear (FTA) is lack of transportation. We hear stories all the time about the bus showing up late, or their car broke down, and nobody ever thinks to call their bondsmen who bailed them out.

Big Boyz Bail Bonds is ready and available with agents standing by to provide this service to our clients in need. If your bail bondsman is unwilling to provide this service for you then they are not a quality bail bonds service and should not be in the business at all. Most people have the misconception that our sole duty is to release the defendant from custody. In reality, our responsibilities go far beyond just bringing someone back home.

Unfortunately for this particular defendant we took to court, she was re-arrested while in court because there was an arrest warrant for her. They took her into custody and issued her a $20,000 bond. Big Boyz Bail Bonds is ready and eager to post this bond for her because she has a great understanding of our purpose and the importance of appearing for court and "facing the music."

The Carroll County Detention Center is located in City of Westminster fifteen minuets from the Owings Mills/ Reisterstown area. When picking up a family member when bail is paid, the address to come to is 100 North Court Street directly across from the Carroll County District Court.

After the Defendants bail has been paid if he/she is already upstairs the typical wait time is around two hours for their release. The defendant will be released from the same area where they allow visitations. If you're lucky and the defendant is in the Central Booking area the wait time is only five to ten minutes and he/she will get released from the bottom area of the detention center.

Overall, the employees in the detention center are very nice to deal with and will answer any question you have. If you feel you have a question regarding picking an inmate up or posting a bail bond in Carroll County, please contact us any time. We are available to post bails in Carroll County 24 hours a day. 410-857-9440.

Carroll County release process can take longer on the weekends than the weekdays. On the weekends, the Carroll County Commissioners are on call. This means when your Carroll County Bail Bondsman arrives and the Commissioner is out of the office, the commissioner must be paged to come and process the bail. The commissioner has up to one hour to come to the detention center once being paged. After arriving the usual wait time is an extra five to ten minuets for them to get logged in to their systems. This is largely due to the fact that there is not a very high volume of crime in Carroll County.

Many people that are attempting to bail out one of their family members or friends want to know if the defendant incarcerated has any outstanding warrants or detainers. You might now be asking, what is a warrant or detainer? Most simply, a warrant is another charge that the defendant could have that has not been settled in court or could possibly hold the person in custody. A detainer is a warrant that can be placed upon the defendant and make it so the defendant gets transferred to the location the detainer is for.

Regularly, Big Boyz Bail Bonds in Baltimore helps people deal with these situations. Good bail bondsmen in Maryland will call down to the detention centers the defendant is being held in to verify their bail information. This will usually give the bondsmen a good idea if there is anything else outstanding that could possibly hold the defendant in custody. It is not always a 100% guarantee however that the information we get from the detention center is correct. Warrants can pop up at any moment and there is no way any bondsmen can get 100% accurate information.

In some instances a detainer may have a pre-set bail for a failure-to-appear for court (FTA) or a violation of probation (VOP). If there is a pre-set bail for a detainer a family can pay that in advance and when the defendant gets transferred to the location the detainer is for, Big Boyz Bail Bonds can post the bail. In some instances a detainer can be pre-set at "no bail" which means the defendant would not be able to get out on bail once the detainer has been served on the defendant. In most cases it does not make sense to post a bail while somebody has a detainer unless they plan on paying the bail for the detainer as well.

However, we have had cases where a family will post a bail, while knowing about a detainer with no bail simply to get the person re-located to a different facility. Most people who have been through the system once or twice before would rather sit in Baltimore County detention center versus Baltimore City Central Booking if they had the choice for example. So they may want to post the bail in Baltimore City so they would be transferred to Baltimore County to be served with their detainer.

This very rarely occurs but the benefit of posting a bond in these circumstances speeds up the process of getting a court date.