Maryland Bail Bonds Blog

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.