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.
