Bail News from Other States

NV-According to KVBC-TV, Bondsman Dale Hazel, of Las Vegas, successfully deterred two armed robbers who tried to rob his bail bond office in the middle of the night. One of the accused robbers was later apprehended. He was a former client of the bail bond company. The other remains at large.

FL-The News-Press reports that bondsman Kevin McHugh made an appointment with a client to discuss payment issues in Bonita Springs, FL. When McHugh arrived at the residence, through an open window, he observed Charles See inside the apartment with drugs in plain view. McHugh called police, who seized 223 grams of marijuana and 1.2 grams of cocaine, 33 oxycoton pills and 40 broken pieces of Zanax pills.

FL-WFTV reports that Casselberry police might have never known about a meth lab had it not been for the bail bondsman who entered a house to revoke the bond of one of the residents. The bondsman discovered the small-scale meth lab in one of the rooms of the house. Agents with the DEA dismantled the meth lab.

NJ-According to Jersey Journal, three law enforcement officers and two bounty hunters have been charged with multiple charges for falsifying body receipts for defendants who have been placed in custody and bribery. Capt. Kenneth Sisk of the prosecutor's office and former sheriff's officers William Chadwick and Alberto Vasquez were charged with giving "body receipts" to bounty hunter Adel Mikhaeil to make it appear he brought 15 fugitives to justice, according to an indictment. The suspects actually had been arrested by law enforcement officers, authorities said. The indictment charges the former officers with official misconduct, falsifying records, theft by deception and conspiracy, while Chadwick was additionally charged with acceptance of unlawful benefit. It is alleged that Mikhaeil gave Chadwick, who served as captain of the sheriff's fugitive unit, $5,500 in return for six "body receipts." Neither Sisk nor Vasquez, a detective in the sheriff's fugitive unit, is accused of taking bribes. Mikhaeil would then turn in those fake "body receipts" to collect higher fees from the insurance companies that had posted bail on the fugitives. Mikhaeil was also accused of passing more than $5,000 in bribes to James Irizarry to steer more cases to him through his former employer, which helped locate fugitives for insurance companies that insure bail bonds. Trevor Williams, one of Mikhaeil's bounty hunter crew, also faces numerous counts including charges he helped Mikhaeil cover up $92,000 in commercial bribes allegedly paid to an insurance company executive in return for business.