Maryland Bail Bonds Blog

Big Boyz Bail Bonds also sometimes referred to as Kings of the Pens (thanks city paper) will be introducing a brand new and fresh style T-shirt that will put all the imitator bail bonds companies to rest. Many bail bonds companies will try to keep up with the massive quantity of promotional material that we order on a yearly basis but most all will fail. More than 50,000 shirts will flood the streets of Baltimore City and a new order of 400,000 Big Boyz Pink and Yellow Pens will be in all your favorite Baltimore restaurants and convenience stores.

Beware for imitator bail bonds companies trying to promote their fly-by-night bail bonds operation and get the real-deal by flagging down one of our many Bail Bonds Trucks on the roads or swinging by one of our office locations to pick up these fresh T's. The bail bonds shirts have been ordered and are in the production stage. Check out the new real Baltimore Bail Bonds Shirts below:

Bail Bondsmen in Baltimore City are constantly faced with many challenges on a daily basis. One of the most difficult aspects of the bail bonds business is satisfying our clients by successfully posting bail for a defendant before there bail review hearing. For those that do not know, all inmates that are arrested are given a bail by a district court commissioner and if they aren't bailed out by the following business-day they appear in front of a judge where their bond can be raised, lowered, or remain the same. Many families are concerned about bails being raised which put more pressure on the bondsman to make the bail happen before bail review time.

Unfortunately for Maryland Bail Bondsmen there are many factors that make dealing with bail review a nightmare. Recently, our Anne Arundel County Bail Bonds office had a client come in to bail out her son. Her son was arrested the previous day and she came in at approximately 9:30am the following day to do paperwork and arrange for the $25,000 bail to be posted. The cut-off time for bail to be posted in Anne Arundel County is 10:30am. The client finished everything with our Anne Arundel County Bail Bondsman by 10am which gave us roughly 30 minutes to post the bail before her son would be taken in front of a judge for bail review.

Our Glen Burnie Bail Bondsman successfully posted the bail in just 15 minutes after our client left our Anne Arundel County Bail Bonds office. You might be thinking that impeccable service was provided in this instance by Big Boyz Bail Bonds. The only problem that occurred was that even though the bail was posted they still took our clients son to his bail review hearing. At the hearing, our client's son was released on his own recognizance. Since the defendant was released at bail review our client demanded our paperwork be canceled and asked for a refund. Unfortunately since the bond was paid prior to bail review we were unable to give her a refund.

One might think that this is unfair for our client. From the perspective of a customer it is undoubtedly unfair. However, for a bail bondsman, what are we to do? Our job is to provide prompt and reliable service. Bail Bondsmen are not mind readers. What if the bail was raised to $100,000 prior to us posting the bail? Then our client would be even more upset to have to pay more money. Bail Review is nothing but a catch 22 for a Maryland Bail Bondsman.

In Baltimore City we had a customer that wanted to bail someone out on a $2,600 bond. We had a Baltimore City Bail Bondsmen at central booking from 8:30am all the way up until the time we were finally given the go ahead by the records department to post the bail at 12:55pm. The only problem aside from having to wait for the jail to give us our paperwork after 4 hours of waiting was that they took the defendant to bail review at 12:45pm. At the bail review hearing the judge raised the bail to $75,000. Unfortunately, this was too high for our customer to post and even though we were there and ready to post the bail at $2,600 the jail was not ready with the paperwork for us to be able to post it.

Big Boyz Bail Bonds' CEO, Ross Nochumowitz has received the Baltimore SmartCEO 2010 Circle of Excellence Award in the field of Marketing. The SmartCEO Circle of Excellence Award recognizes 10 Greater Baltimore CEOs who have excelled in specific leadership attributes that have made them gain a competitive edge within the community.

At this point, if you have ever been to an establishment within Baltimore you surely have come across one of the famous Pink and Yellow Big Boyz Bail Bonds Pens. The Big Boyz Bail Bonds Pens have become such a phenomenon, that it's hard to find a business that does not have their free supply sitting on the counter. Ross Nochumowitz, the CEO of Big Boyz Bail Bonds, was honored in the May issue of the Baltimore SmartCEO Magazine for helping to grow and nurture this guerrilla marketing campaign.

The Circle of Excellence categories for which CEOs were nominated and honored are:
• Hot Startup
• Serial Entrepreneur
• Marketing
• Young Entrepreneurship
• Family Business
• Product Innovation
• Lifetime Achievement
• A Classic
• Philanthropy
• Customer Service

"Circle of Excellence winners are not only selected and honored for their accomplishments, but for demonstrating success in applying a unique leadership attribute that significantly benefits their business and the community," said Craig Burris, Publisher at SmartCEO Magazine. "We are honored to recognize Ross Nochumowitz as one of Greater Baltimore's standout leaders."

Baltimore SmartCEO magazine is a regional "growing company" publication. SmartCEO believes that a "growing company" is really determined by the spirit, drive and dynamics of a company's owners and managers, rather than by the size of its building, the number of its employees, or its sales volume. Each month, a variety of businesses in the greater Baltimore and greater Washington areas turn to its pages for features, case-study advice and trend analysis, all with a uniquely local flavor. SmartCEO is read by more than 31,000 business owners in Baltimore and Washington DC.

For a complete list of winners or more information regarding the program and event, visit www.smartceo.com.

Just the other day, WJZ Channel 13 news station took a visit to the ever dreadful Baltimore City Central Booking facility. It was interesting to hear one officer inside the jail describe the booking process as a "fast pace, high energy type of operation." I believe our clients bailed out of Baltimore City Central Booking would say the contrary!

Click Here to read the WJZ story on Balimore City Central Booking.

Click Here to view the WJZ video on Baltimore City Central Booking.

In fact, there is nothing fast pace or high energy that gets done inside that jail. Our Baltimore City Bail Bonds office sends licensed bail agents to the facility on a regular basis and we experience firsthand the rigors that are involved with completing bails for our clients. Baltimore City Central Booking is the only jail in Maryland that one cannot post bond for a defendant immediately after seeing the district court commissioner. Anywhere else in Maryland, once the defendant has been seen by the commissioner and been given a bail their case becomes active and bond can be posted. In Baltimore City there is an average of around 12 to 16 hours after one sees the commissioner before their bail bond can be paid.

To Central Bookings credit, their task is not necessarily a simple one. Due to the high volume of inmates being processed on a daily basis and employees manually processing their paperwork into their "Jail System" adds to the overall time delay.

One of the central issues however with Baltimore City's jail system is that there is no real management person as a regular and forceful presence on a given shift. This generally leads to employees taking extended periods of down time due to nobody watching over them. As the saying goes, "when the cats away, the mice shall play."

One of the most frustrating elements of Central Booking is trying to get a hold of someone that can give you accurate bail information. Before Big Boyz Bail Bonds makes any attempts at posting bail for someone we verify if the incarcerated inmate has any additional warrants or detainers in place. Unfortunately you could try for hours to get through to someone without getting any kind of a response. To make matters worse, when you finally do get in contact with someone you can be thrown on hold or transferred to another employee in the facility.

WJZ did a nice job giving viewers a glimpse of inside the jail. But what many don't realize is that some of the real horrors of Baltimore City Central Booking take place when one makes attempt at posting the bail bond itself. Please call Baltimore City Bail Bondsmen at Big Boyz Bail Bonds if you would like to inquire more about the Baltimore City booking and release process.