If someone you know has been arrested and taken into custody at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff Station and needs your assistance to bail them out, it can be stressful for all those involved. We understand, and we can help. When a person is arrested and taken into custody, it usually comes as a surprise - leaving those [...]
When someone has been arrested and taken into custody, he or she is almost always going to be eligible for release via bail bond. While the eligibility for bail is almost universal (it's guaranteed by the 8th Amendment, actually), the amount of bail is not the same for everyone. Once someone has been arrested in [...]
A Modesto, CA. bail bondsman awaits trial on allegations of holding clients against their will in an effort to extort additional payments from them. As yet, no trial date has been set and Aleo John Pontillo must wait an additional two months to find out if he will stand trial or not. A preliminary hearing [...]
Recently, some California legislators have considered reducing penalties for small drug possession offenders in order to cut prison costs. It’s not a radical change, but it may be a move in a positive direction. But, what are the repercussions for California’s felons, individual citizens and the bail bond industry if such a move is made? [...]
One of the concessions that George Zimmerman’s lawyers had to make in order to have him released from jail on bond was that he wear a sensitive GPS tracking device. With it, the police can track his exact whereabouts to within a few feet and make sure that Mr. Zimmerman does not stray far from where [...]
Hollywood has brought us a fair amount of pretty good Bounty Hunter films. Movies such as, Dominoe, starring Keira Knightley was loosely based on the life of Domino Harvey, and helped to illustrate the rising popularity of bounty hunters in modern U.S. culture. Famous movie stars have stepped into these roles, such as Steve McQueen, [...]
