Maryland Bail Bonds Blog

As Baltimore County Bail Bondsmen, we are always in the Towson Commissioners office taking notice of citizens reporting to the District Court Commissioner to be read their rights after recently being issued traffic tickets by the police. When pulled over in Maryland and you have been issued traffic citations, and at least one carries the possibility of jail time, you are instructed to report to the commissioner within 3 days.

The primary purpose of reporting is to learn your rights and be told that you are looking at a possible jail sentence if convicted of the charge. The confusing thing for most people is that often times you will get multiple tickets, but not every ticket carries a possible jail sentence. Some tickets, such as speeding, negligent driving, or fail to stop at stop sign are all payable citations. You can either pay the tickets, or fight them in court.

Many people think that if they pay their traffic tickets, they do not have to show up to court. Very few take into consideration that they have at least one "must appear" traffic offense that they cannot just simply pay. Examples of "must appear" traffic offenses are: DUI's, DWI's driving while license is suspended or revoked, driving an uninsured vehicle etc. If you do not show up to court for this type of an offense a judge will issue a bench warrant for your arrest.

By paying non-jailable traffic citations in advance you are admitting guilt to those offenses. If you have to show up for the "must appear" traffic citation anyway it makes most sense to fight all traffic citations at the same time. It is very possible a judge could waive or lower a fine at the time of court. So get a quality Maryland Traffic Attorney to fight it on your behalf.

If you happened to miss court for a "must appear" traffic offense, please call our Baltimore Bail Bonds Office to learn about the quickest turn-in and bail out service around. We promise to be able to get your Baltimore County warrants served and your bail posted quicker than any other bondsman in the state.

Once again, for better or for worse, the bail posting process has changed in Baltimore County. It was just a few days ago that a Towson Bail Bondsman could walk into the commissioners office and post bails for 3 different defendants at the same time. The process itself would take an average of 20 minutes or so depending on how busy the commissioners were at the time the bails were being posted.

Now, licensed bail agents of Baltimore County are allowed to post just one bail at a time. In addition to this, the bail paperwork must be faxed over to the jail for the defendant to sign authorizing his bail being posted. This part of the process alone can take over an hour easily. Before the next bail can be processed the bail agent must drive the release to the Baltimore County Detention Center so it can be hand delivered to a correctional officer there. From the time that the jail has the release it can take roughly another 3 hours for the defendant to be released from custody.

This changes things significantly for the bail posting industry of Baltimore County. For our clients, this could potentially delay the process of their loved ones significantly. Some Bail Bondsmen are going to be forced into making decisions as far as which bond is to be posted and which has to wait in line.

There are many bail bondsmen in this state that are one-man-operations. If one of these so called bondsmen were to ever get more than one bail at a time it would inevitably hold somebody else from getting released quicker. One can be assured that Big Boyz Bail Bonds of Towson Maryland has a plethora of licensed bail agents that are willing to individually post your bail. If we have 5 bail bonds to post in Towson we will have 5 bail agents there to post them simultaneously.

Thanks to the head judge of Baltimore County, by implementing this change it is forcing Towson Bail Bondsmen to show their cards. Unlicensed bail bondsman will not be able to call in their bails to a general posting agent as efficiently anymore because they will consistently be behind 10-15 other bails ahead of them. As a result, their clients will grow tired of waiting 2 days for an individual's bail to be posted.

Even most licensed bail bondsmen don't want to spend money in gas driving to Towson or even wait the 2 hours it might take to post the bail. It was so much easier to just call the bail into someone else to take care of it; well not anymore! If you want to make sure you bail bond is posted in a timely fashion in Towson, call Big Boyz Bail Bonds now! We have licensed bail bondsmen on stand-by.

In a recent New York Times article on Bail Bonds, it is discussed how particular bondsmen in New York take advantage of their clients needing bail posted. One particular bondsman, named George Zouvelos, is accused of adding clauses in his bail contract allowing him to charge families additional fees down the road. One particular example is when he decides to revoke a bond (also known as putting the defendant back in jail) at the client's expense. According to the article, there doesn't need to be a reason for the bondsmen to do this nor does he receive a penalty for doing so. One bondsman is quoted as saying: "If I bail a guy out today and I don't like him, I can put him back in jail, and it's O.K. to me, that's screwed up."

For licensed elite Maryland Bail Bondsmen, it is not as simple to revoke a bond. Although many people needing bond in Maryland carry the false pretense that throwing somebody back in jail is a straightforward process. Here in Maryland we have many rogue bail bondsmen who will call up their clients threatening to put their loved ones back in jail if they fail to make payments on their bond. This is nothing more than a worthless threat. This is primarily because the bondsman doesn't want to face the ensuing penalty.

In Maryland, bondsmen are forced to pay a penalty to the courts in order to revoke a bond. In order to revoke a bond in Maryland, the bondsman is forced to pay the 10% premium that they were required to collect at the onset of doing the bail. The state of Maryland implements this to prevent bondsmen from doing what they are apparently doing in New York. As a result of this, very few bails in Maryland are ever revoked. Most bondsmen don't have the money or care to put someone back in jail when many aren't even liable for the defendant to show up for court in the first place.

One significant parallel to the article written in the New York Times as it relates to bail in Maryland is the lack of regulation being taken by the Insurance Administration that is supposed to oversee and police the industry. As a result of this, we have "bondsmen" acting without proper licensing, without physical office locations, and convicted felons with extensive criminal backgrounds acting as the main decision makers as to which inmates get released and for what price.

Because of the lack of regulation in the Maryland Bail Bonds industry, it is actually the consumers who are benefiting for a multitude of reasons. Because of these advantages, the Maryland State Insurance Administration does not receive even close to the number of complaints that the New York State Insurance Department receives. Therefore bondsmen work in a war zone with virtually no rules because there appears to never be any repercussions for their actions. The only time the Maryland Insurance Administration might receive a complaint is when a family member attempting to post bail is had by one of these "bondsmen" who actually aren't bondsmen and are essentially robbing the family member without any force.

Big Boyz Bail Bonds posted a bond in Baltimore City Central Booking for a defendant from Montreal, Canada. The defendant was here for a college sailing regatta that was supposed to take place in Annapolis. Unfortunately for our client, he was unable to compete due to being arrested in Baltimore City on very petty misdemeanor charges. The charge is considered "a college prank" by his attorney Brian Thompson of Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin, and White.

The Baltimore Sun has written an interesting article as a result of this event questioning the functionality of the bail system. Our client was not the only person arrested during this event. There were three people in total being charged with the same charges. One commissioner set bail in the amount of $1,000 for a female. The two males involved received a $175,000 bail. Big Boyz Bail Bonds posted one of the males. The other defendant hired former federal prosecutor Andy White of Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin, and White to represent him at bail review. The bail review judge lowered the bond in line of the female co-defendant and set his bond at $1,000.

There is certainly a lot of information that a district court commissioner has to take into consideration when setting a bail for a person charged with a crime. The two underlying factors are the defendant's ability to show up for court and if the defendant poses a danger to himself or the public. With our client being from Canada, there is certainly some element of flight involved. With the "college prank" nature of the charges, many would argue that these accused defendants are not a danger at all. So how does one commissioner set bail at $1,000 and the next set bail at $175,000?

Any way you look at it. This is one of MANY issues concerning the bail bonds system here in Maryland. There are arguments that can be made that the state could survive without corporate bail while others would argue it's an absolute necessity in a city with an overflow crime rate. We hope that everyone reads the article to gain some additional perspective on this industry as a whole.

Posting bail bonds in Baltimore County has been the same for as long as most Maryland Bail Bondsmen can remember. Just recently however, Baltimore County District Court decided to tweak the system a bit for us posting your bail bond. It is still up in the air as to whether this is positive or negative change for the industry. But what is clear, is that most all bondsmen have their own view point about the change.

So what did Baltimore County change? The change is simply that bail bondsmen are not only required to list the fee required for posting bail in Maryland but we are also required to list the amount of money we took as a down payment. There has been no real reason given to Baltimore County Bail Bondsmen as to why this change has been put into place. However, there is much speculation as to why.

Technically, bail is not about the amount of money one pays to release somebody. As we have discussed in the past, the purpose of bail is to insure that the defendant appears for court. If we fail to do our job, the State of Maryland is guaranteed the total sum of the bond to be paid directly to them plus judgment interest. Of course the money is guaranteed to the State depending on which insurance company is backing the particular bond (but that is for another blog entry).

So why implement this change? One theory might be that high ranking officials such as commissioners and judges are intensely interested in seeing if the bails they set fits the crime. Are alleged criminal offenders getting out too cheap? Or are they looking into the integrity of the bail bonds industry as a whole? Are they setting themselves up for a statewide audit of the industry? One might hope that the particular "bondsmen" in question have the paperwork to back up their bail bonds affidavits.

Big Boyz Bail Bonds welcomes this change for a multitude of reasons. We are very much pro-regulation of this business, and if this is a step towards that then we back it 110%. It is our hope that one day, bail bonds can be seen for the public safety service that we provide and eventually clean up the tainted image that so many rogue bail bondsmen helped to create.

Last week a ruling came down from the Baltimore City Circuit Court that now
entitles "poor" or indigent defendants the right to counsel when they appear before a
commissioner at their initial bail hearing. According to a Baltimore Sun article if this ruling is upheld it could be a "historic leap in constitutional protection throughout Maryland."

The ruling was issued by Circuit Court Judge Alfred Nance, a reversal of his decision
from 2007. According to Nance "if bail is denied or set at a level that the defendant cannot afford, the defendant is deprived of his or her freedom, a fundamental right."

In theory this ruling seems like a no brainer. Individuals who cannot afford private
counsel would now be provided with a public representative throughout the entire legal process. Currently, indigent individuals could be incarcerated anywhere from 1-30 days without representation. Due to the fact that the demand for representation is greater than the supply of available public counsel, a defendant usually will not obtain this representation until after their bail review hearing. However, the lack of currently available public representatives is a major problem.

If the current supply of publicly available counsel is already stretched thin, how would
adding an additional task to their plate improve anything? The State of Maryland would need to hire a lot more lawyers to the Public Defenders Office in order to handle this increased demand. Initial Bail Reviews are also conducted 24 hours a day; this would mean that public counsel would be working all hours of the day/night. I would highly doubt that a new, young lawyer fresh out of law school would be eager to take on this task. This is going to present a major issue when it comes to finding additional lawyers to fill these positions.

"This is the first time that a Maryland court has recognized that poor people are entitled
to legal representation when they first appear before a judicial officer" according to Doug
Colbert, a University of Maryland School of Law professor. I would ask Mr. Colbert how he plans on funding this new endeavor. If the clients are without available funds, they clearly would not be assisting in the expenses. Thus, the only feasible answer would be to raise taxes on the citizens of Baltimore City who work for a living and are not out allegedly committing these crimes in the first place. I would also argue that although freedom may be a fundamental right, when you are being accused of commiting a crime you may in fact eventually lose that right.

Many bail bondsmen, particularly in Baltimore City, will advertise to their clients that they are the quickest bail bonds posters in town. Almost all of them are lying to your face. It is important to understand that there are many factors that may come into play which slow down the process.

To understand what we mean you have to take into consideration the "underground-nature" of this business. It is quite possible, that when you are dealing with a Baltimore City Bail Bondsman you are dealing with someone who is not even licensed to post bail bonds in Maryland. As a client considering a bail bonds company for hire ask to see their bail bonds license.

When you have paid a bail bondsman to post your bail, ask them if a bail agent from their respective company will be taking care of the bond. The reason that we are informing you of this is so you can realize that once a bail bondsman lures you in under the illusion of being the "Quickest Maryland Bail Bondsman" they have no intention of posting the bond themselves. Rather, they are calling the bail in to a separate office that then has to call the bail into a licensed bail agent who has no affiliation with the company you paid the bond with.

You might now be asking, what's wrong with this? Well simply the bail agent called to post your bail does not care if your bail gets posted right away or 6 hours from the time he gets the call. He might not even answer the phone call from the secretary calling the bail into him. The bail agent might find it more convenient to grab a coffee first, or say hi and chat to a girlfriend, or find a delectable chicken box off Monument Street to snack on. This simple fact could delay your friend or loved one from getting released for several hours.

When using Big Boyz Bail Bonds to post bail you can be assured that you are always dealing with a licensed bail agent and a contracted employee of this company will always personally handle your bail. We do not call the bail into another party to wait for them to post the bail. If you want to see for yourself and follow our agent to the respective location to post the bail we'd be more than happy to show you. And when we have a bail for Baltimore County and it's after the 8:00pm cut-off time we still post the bail and drop the release the following morning by 8:00am when the jail re-opens. We do not wait for a random bail agent to wake up from his slumber to waltz into the Towson Commissioners at whatever time he pleases.

There has been much attention devoted in this election to the heated race for Baltimore City States Attorney between Pat Jessamy and Gregg Bernstein. Many people have criticized Pat Jessamy's tenure in office and have demanded a change to help get Baltimore City back on track.

Maryland's most legitimate bail bonds company proudly supports and congratulates Gregg Bernstein on his election to the very tough and important position to the Baltimore City community. In a recent question and answer session prior to the election both candidates were asked the following question:

Q. If you could reinvent or "fix" three things in the criminal justice system -- in the State's Attorney's Office or elsewhere -- what would they be?

Mr. Bernstein: First, and foremost, I would focus prosecutor resources on violent crime. Things aren't going to turn around until law enforcement gets a handle on the relatively small number of violent, dangerous people who literally have been getting away with murder.

Second, I would create a State's Attorney's Office that has competitive salaries and programs for training and mentoring young lawyers that attract the best and the brightest law school graduates.

Third, I would improve the witness protection program to better protect victims and witnesses who feel threatened. As State's Attorney, I will work with law enforcement to identify and offer protection proactively to victims and witnesses at high risk of intimidation. I will not wait for witnesses to ask for protection but do everything I can to insure that witnesses at high risk are offered meaningful protection.

Ms. Jessamy: First, I would eliminate the bail bond system and allow for a process in which 10 percent cash is paid to the courts; individuals would get back the money posted (minus administrative costs) when they appear for trial or their cases are complete.

Second, I would increase the penalty for criminal cases which entitle individuals to a jury trial. The number of misdemeanor jury trials continues to rise and account for tremendous resource usage at the circuit court level. Reducing this number is a priority.

Third, working with the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), I would create an efficient system within the BPD to notify officers of their court dates, with computerized acknowledgement of receipt of the notice. I would recommend a fine or some form of discipline for officers who fail to appear for trials where they are necessary and essential witnesses.

As you can see, Jessamy is primarily concerned with eliminating the bail bond system from our criminal justice system. Someone in the position of Baltimore City States Attorney office should know and understand that Baltimore could not survive without a bail bonds system. The only way this would be feasible is if taxes were increased to build new jails hire more correctional officers etc. which affects much of the state financially in a poor economy.

Posting 10% only to the courts means that many people would be forced to remain in jail until their court date. Also, for those people able to post bail (such as family members) will not be as concerned with making sure defendants appear for court if their loved one is possibly looking at significant jail time.

We can however see why Jessamy wants to see the bail bonds system change. This is most likely due to the fact that so many bondsmen are taking advantage of the courts processing the bails and the families trying to get their friends or family members out on bond. As his been mentioned in this blog again and again, there are far more rogue bail bondsman than legitimate so it is important to discover a way to weed these so-called "bondsmen" out of the system as a whole. One day, elite bail bonds companies hope that this will come to fruition.

Lexington National Insurance Corporation backs the bonds written by Maryland's Elite Bail Bonds Company, Big Boyz Bail Bonds. Lexington National alongside Big Boyz Bail Bonds set out to accomplish what bail was intended to do, and that is to insure the defendant's appearance in court.

Currently in Maryland there are far too many bondsmen that could care less if the defendant they bail out shows up for court. This is a severe problem for the bail system itself as well as the general public at large.

Below is an example of a specific search of the Maryland Court Records database of bonds that were posted in Maryland in Baltimore City from March 1st 2010 until March 31st 2010. The search focuses on two of the top bail surety companies in Maryland which are Lexington National and Financial Casualty. Below are the results for Financial Casualty:

As you can clearly see, many of the cases are in a "WARRANT" status which ultimately means that the defendant Failed to Appear (FTA) for court. There are actually more warrants listed in this search but this was all that could fit on the particular screen shot.

Below is an example of the same exact search except this time we ran it for Lexington National. All the cases in this search are in a "PROBATION" or "CLOSED" status. This means that the bail bonding agencies writing these bail bonds successfully completed their role as Maryland Bail Bondsmen. Agents of Lexington National are professional people that have measures in place to call defendants reminding them of their court dates, and in many cases offer free transportation to their respective court house.

We are quite certain that if we were to run the same search for other months of the year we would obtain very similar results as from above.

Big Boyz Bail Bonds has established itself as one of the most prolific East Coast Bail Bonds companies. We are officers of the courts and are here to serve the public in a time of need and protect the public of defendants on the streets with open warrants. If you've Got Bail in Maryland are concerned of which Bail Bonds surety you want to handle your case, call Big Boyz Bail Bonds to get the elite service and information you deserve.

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.

Recently the District Court of Maryland changed its policy regarding preset bails on warrant cases that were previously set by a Judge. For the most part these preset bails are fair and reasonable with some exceptions, but to change this policy and to allow the District Court Commissioners the ability to change the bails that the Judge's previously ordered is quickly appearing to be a very frightening problem.

I think that the commissioners and sometimes the judges fail to understand some very important things here i.e. (THE PURPOSE OF BAIL). The SOLE PURPOSE of BAIL is to ENSURE OR GUARANTEE THE DEFENDANT'S APPEARANCE IN COURT. The Judges and or the Commissioners should not concern themselves with what percentage a Bondsman accepts to release a Defendant more so that the Defendant is not a danger to the community and that he or she not flee the Jurisdiction of the Court.

This is why it is so important for Defendant's to be released on bail. A Bail Bondsman has a strong financial incentive to apprehend and return the Defendant to court should he or she fail to appear. A Bondsman never stops looking for an individual that failed to appear on their bond because once they locate that person they are released from liability and or they recover their bond money that they forfeited to the Court.

I submit to you that a District Court Commissioner CANNOT ENSURE the Defendant's appearance in Court if he or she fails to appear thus making that individual a possible danger to the community with only the Police to search for them with very limited manpower.

I have been doing warrants for 13 years now and I can tell you for certain and I am positive that the Police would back me when I say to you that some of my most dangerous cases are Defendant's with misdemeanor charges. Now the Police Departments warrant system will triple soon and the tax payers will cover the cost once everything gets out of control which it will should this continue.

Bail Bondsman arrest and commit 97% of bail jumpers. The pretrial services of Bail Bondsman are privately funded with no red tape delays. The great citizens of Maryland as well as Baltimore City with all of the recent budget cuts to the Police Department will be happy to know that the great number of Fugitives will greatly increase very soon!

Big Boyz Bail Bonds posted a $500,000 bond in Baltimore City last night for a defendant who had been forced to sit and wait 11 days for his bail review hearing. Due to the record snow fall that hit Baltimore City this winter so many court cases and bail review hearings were forced to be put on hold.

When the defendant went in front of the district court commissioner in Baltimore City for his initial bail hearing he was denied bail. Fortunately for the defendant, his family was able to retain the service of a qualified private attorney. The result of his bond review hearing was a $500,000 bond.

Most bondsmen in Maryland have difficulties getting a bond of this magnitude posted. Many bondsmen don't even have the ability to post a bail of this size. Big Boyz Bail Bonds was able to give the family member signing for this bond an approval within 30 minutes of completing the bail application.

Needless to say, Big Boyz couldn't have made it any easier for the family and the defendant to get released on the half-a-million-dollar bond. Many bondsmen require that 3-6 people sign on a bail or this size, but Big Boyz Bail Bonds was able to execute the bond with just 1 person signing for the bail.

If you discover that one of your close friends or family members is detained on a bail of this size or close to it, contact us and we will be happy to work with you to get the person released as quickly as possible.

When a defendant gets arrested in Maryland and given a bail by a district court commissioner, they have the right to go to a bail review hearing the following business day. With the heavy snow storms that have engulfed the State of Maryland the last few days, inmates bail review hearings have been put on hold.

In many cases, the bond will get reduced at a bail review hearing particularly if the defendant doesn't have much of a prior criminal history. At the same token, the bail could get increased all the same so many people have been given extended time to try and come up with additional money in order to post bond prior to their bail review hearing.

Recently, The Baltimore Sun wrote a great article in regards to this problem that we are having currently in our criminal justice system. In addition to the bail review hearings being delayed, trials for cases are being postponed and one might have to wait many more months for a new trial date.

The storm has put a lot of our clients on edge wondering when the courts will be open next and if their court date is still on schedule. Of course if one of our clients out on bond fails to appear for court due to inclement weather they will be held accountable and a bench warrant can be issued for their arrest. So we have had many phone calls from our clients during this storm asking about the status of their trials.

Big Boyz Bail Bonds never closed during the duration of the record snow storm that took place. Even though many court commissioners were closed which made it virtually impossible to post bails we were here to help with your situation.

When one gets arrested in Baltimore County they are eventually transported to the Baltimore County Detention Center located at 720 Bosley Avenue in Towson Maryland. It is here that they will be held in a facility that has a release policy like no other detention center in Maryland.

The Baltimore County Detention Center is the only Detention Center in Maryland that has a cut-off for when they can accept releases for bail bonds. Every day this cut-off is at 8pm. In other words, if a Baltimore County Bail Bondsman does not have the bail posted and the release handed into the detention center by 8pm sharp then the defendant will have to wait until the following morning to be released.

It is important to understand that a bail bondsman can post a bail in Baltimore County 24 hours a day 7 days a week. The only restriction here is in the specific time period the jail is willing to accept the release. For example, if someone comes in to post a bail for Baltimore County at 9pm (after the cut-off) we will have to explain to the family that the bail will be posted immediately but the release will have to wait until the following morning at 8am. This can be a very frustrating fact for a family member or friend who is eager to get somebody released on bail.

In addition to the cut-off, it is one of the few places in Maryland that requires the bail bondsman to hand-deliver the release to the detention center. Fortunately, the court house where we post the bail is only a few blocks away from the Baltimore County Detention Center. But still, this has caused bail bondsmen's fair share of close calls as to whether they get the release handed in on time or not. If a bail bondsman gets the release at 8:01pm they are not going to accept the release.

So when contacting a Baltimore County Bail Bondsman concerning a bail for Baltimore County keep this info in mind if you expect to get your loved one released within the same day.

Yesterday, Big Boyz Bail Bonds in Baltimore Maryland was able to successfully post bond for a defendant held on $200,000 bond in Dorchester County detention center. The most significant factor about this particular bond is that it was posted for a mere 1% of the bail bond as a down-payment. To make matters more beneficial for our client, she did not have to travel to Baltimore from her home in Dorchester County to complete any paperwork. Information for the bail was taken over the telephone and signatures were obtained via fax.

In talking with the defendant's mother (who signed for the bail bond) it was clear that she did her research in evaluating all of her options available to her for getting her son released from custody. Rather than calling a bail bondsman initially for information she contacted the courts to find out what her options were. The courts explained to her that she had the option to use Maryland Real Estate, Cash, or a Bail Bondsman. This person had Maryland Real Estate, but did not have enough equity in the eyes of the court systems to secure the bail with her property.

Eventually she contacted our 24-hour Maryland Bail Bonds office for additional information about posting the bail bond. Rightfully so, she had a lot of questions due to her lack of experience in dealing with this particular type of situation. Since she never had to use a bail bonds service before, she inquired in great detail about her responsibilities as the signer for the bail bond.

When a family member or friend gets arrested it is important to not act too hastily or irrationally. It is important to act as this person did and do research into all of your possible options. Certainly when choosing a bail bondsman in Maryland there is literally hundreds if not thousands of options. It is important when contacting a Maryland Bail Bonds company to ask all the questions necessary. They do not teach bail bonds in school systems so don't feel like any question is a stupid question. As long as you are contacting a legitimate-licensed-bail-bondsman you will obtain 100% accurate answers to your questions.