Denver7 Investigates uncovers pattern of bounty hunters arrested on the job

[@SinkrSwim]

Seems like bounty hunters shouldn't have convictions for violent crimes or sexual assault. Might be time to change some laws if they're allowed to have previous convictions for robbery and false imprisonment.

[@SpartacusColo]

Why? How many bounty hunters are out there who have caused no problems? How many apprehensions have occurred without such incidents? It seems the checks and balances are working alright since this guy is caught and in jail. 1st Stop Bail Bonds can also get sued for this.

[@arthurcharlesstewart4617]

Im a retired county law enforcement officer. Ive leaned to loathe todays Bounty Hunters. And America got flooded with them after thst dumb Dog The Bounty Hunter tv show. Every buffoon thought they can be a "DOG:. All ststes must develop tough regulations ,licensing for Bounty Hunters.

[@mrwonderful2142]

My state will not give licenses to them. Our residents would introduce them to the business end of the second amendment It's law enforcement's job to go after anyone with arrest warrants, and if the warrant is from another state they won't bother if the issuing state doesn't care enough to extradite them out of here.

[@arthurcharlesstewart4617]

@mrwonderful2142 Look I get the necessity of Bounty. But also as a Retired county law enforcement officer,,might I state we never had enough time n $$ to go after all bond jumpers. FYI ,, Ive bern retired near 30 yrs. The staff shortage, money crunch in law enforcement agencies is not new. So dont get pissy with us. Unless ,until you pay a lot more in taxes to fund more law enforcement officers.

[@williamthomas4617]

@@arthurcharlesstewart4617 my police department received $256 million dollars, this year. My sheriff’s department received $160 million. That’s a huge part of the city’s budget. Officers are getting six figure salaries, and treating the citizens that pay them like trash. These highly payed officers will show up six deep for a minor parking violation, which suggests they have more than enough resources. So, don’t get pissy with us… just because citizens expect you to work more, and spend less time eating donuts with your mistress (on the taxpayers’ dollar).

[@wolverineeagle]

@@williamthomas4617 Basic logic would tell you that there cannot be enough officers to effectively police millions. NYC had 34,000 cops for 8 million people. It’s an outlier. LA has a fraction of that as do most cities. Citing a budget is a bit misleading. We all know government wastes huge sums of money. For example, $700 billion is spent annually on k-12 education yet many schools cry poverty. If citizens wouldn’t treat each other like crap we wouldn’t need cops. Alas, they can’t help themselves. Raging against cops while ignoring the far more prevalent criminality of citizens is fucking stupid.

[@danor6812]

And none of the people watching that stupid show. Understood it was all BS, it was all fake, a TV show.

[@haroldtalaski4955]

Make them take classes and a license plus liability insurance

[@amberandrews6842]

And pass an FBI background check! Lord I do taxes for a living, and go through a yearly background check...

[@michaelking6895]

No Felon anywhere in the USA shall possess a firearm or ammunition unless expunged by a Judge 🧐🧐

[@johnsommermeyer4649]

So it says........doesn't work like that.

[@Adam-je2cp]

that is unconstitutional

[@xusmico187]

so guy does not run background before training?

[@danor6812]

I caught that too.

[@Christopher-d3z]

Good reporting good looking out

[@Radmountainbiking59]

A job like this that doesn't require any background checking is just nuts.

[@Parasclepius]

Bounty hunters are garbage. Every single one I've met has been a wannabe blue canary who was too stupid or crazy to even be a talking traffic cone. They're somewhere between a repo guy and the stuff that grows on your toilet when you don't clean it often enough.

[@Parasclepius]

@Look_What_You_Did 👍🏽

[@pcfire0364]

Correct. You have to be looney to be a bounty hunter..after over 1500 captures I’m a total paranoid nut bag.

[@dsloop3907]

@@Look_What_You_Did No. Thinking that shows how stupid you are.

[@BubbyBold]

​@@pcfire0364 noise on the internet

[@DaYooper33]

@@pcfire0364 I’d say more on the retarded side.

[@bruces4515]

We need to stop this bail bond system. Only one other country in the world does that.

[@Adiscretefirm]

How about if we are going to give private citizens the right to enter someone's home at gunpoint without a warrant and confine them we make sure they aren't criminals first?

[@danasturgeon149]

Well we have illegal immigrants doing it why not private citizens

[@petejackson9946]

Bunty hunting is outlawed is several states. Hopefully others will follow suit.

[@The_Feral_man]

Criminals catching Criminals 😂😂

[@SpartacusColo]

What extra measures need to be instituted? 1st Stop Bail Bonds should get sued into oblivion for hiring a criminal for such work, and this type of hunter should be locked up for the offenses they've committed. Private contractors can be background checked: they can legally affirm that they have no criminal record at the very least.

[@KushiteComplex]

Looks like cops, bail bondsman and criminals look very much I like.

[@VagaBond-m6w]

There needs to be background checks, accountability when anyone takes another person into their care, control, or custody. Doctors, nurses, cops, psychologists,military,paramedics are all given background checks, so why not a bounty hunter? Bounty hunters are allowed to use techniques for taking people into their custody that cops are not allowed, so they should be given a backgoiund check just as much as any cop.

[@amberandrews6842]

I do taxes, I have a background check done annually.

[@DavidClements-jr2zd]

Bounty hunting should be banned in all fifty states, leave the law to law enforcement

[@phubarnow5388]

Jacob Monroe trying to act like, "it aint my fault they are criminals"

[@xusmico187]

what civilized citizen would live in this state

[@vanpearsall]

Illegal citizens

[@ronpeacock9939]

Yeah, just ask the Phoenix Chief of Police after they broke into his home in the middle of the night... boy did they get a shock. I never knew much about bounty hunters where I grew up because I later found out.. it's illegal in NY. (might have changed since I left).. But honestly, I see them breaking the law all the time.. they ignore so many laws because they are not police.. So they also don't have anyone making sure they follow the law.

[@iDropRocks]

Weird that scumbags that prey on scumbags are scumbags

[@Yeah-i2f]

Why are we dealing with bounty hunters, seems like a liability. Some left over 1700 Dutch laws

[@nedludd7622]

Why do bounty hunters still exist? It appears that other countries don't allow them. The entire bail system in the US needs to be reformed.

[@bradanderson1627]

Go figure a badge and a gun will commit any crime we want and all other even the Gestapo badge gang will cover each other?

[@JohnSmith-xd8do]

Denver is on the side of criminals

[@danor6812]

It's never a danger to the public, until that one person makes it a danger to the public. If they had the laws in place to do background checks and licensing. He never would have been allowed to become bounty hunter. So how was he able to carry a firearm? I mean he is a felon.

[@leonardfleming723]

Criminals chasing criminals chasing criminals...

[@danasturgeon149]

Well I guess we would'nt have to get desperate enough to hire bounty hunters if we could get the government and police to abide by the law

[@me8042]

This gentleman? I think not.

[@user-neo71665]

Too stupid to be a cop become a security guard. Can't make it as that become a bounty hunter.

[@KushiteComplex]

IQ limits aren't imposed on security guards, but police on the other hand, are well known for rejecting anyone with an above average IQ.

[@stoneengeron6166]

Just cuz it's not required doesn't mean they don't have to don't judge all of them cuz there's a handful of shitty people

[@davidplatt8915]

I had a career in bail bonds for 25 years. Only once did I ever hire a team to recover one of my clients. They did the job with no problems. The rest of the recoveries I performed myself because I didn't want to end up in a news story like this one and, thankfully, I never did. Glad to be retired from it these days. Cashless bail and liberal courts, the growing disdain for the law and no consequences / no 'skin in the game' revolving door justice have ruined the industry.

[@twangshanty9559]

I had bounty hunters showing up at my rental in Glenwood Springs CO, one pretending to be a US Marshall, two coming around twice in a month. My boss rented out a house a block away to some kind of investigators, all watching my house. He thought it was funny they had replaced a front window with a two way mirror. I had fun with it, flipping them off as I walked by and talking sh@t to them. This was all because the previous renters won the lottery, took out huge loans they didn't pay back and funded all their friends meth habits for a while and pissed off God knows whoever who took out bounties for them. I even brought take-out to one of them pretending to be homeless. The real US Marshalls where the real clowns. I laughed and called them idiots when one dressed up as a Rastafarian greeting another man in full character. It was so hilarious. Colorado scrapes the bottom of the barrel for cops while the bounty hunters are found in the sh@t pile under the barrel.

[@Jameywells777]

Duane Chapman.

[@xusmico187]

chomo suruved lockup?

[@BackyardDogPark9862]

Natalie, you're doing great work, but I'd recommend keeping the blush/rouge below the cheekbones.

[@Justiceforlesli]

That's all you got

[@raherc3330]

Nothing new 😂old news 😂you guys are LATE LIKE ALWAYS

[@user-ie1ij9nr7e]

Our Constitution gives people the right for bail. And if somebody doesn't cooperate, someone's gotta get them. Only problem is there usually creeps.

[@SinkrSwim]

Please finish school, *they're* not allowed to sexually assault people under their custody.

[@user-ie1ij9nr7e]

@SinkrSwim Until they do it anyway.

[@SinkrSwim]

@user-ie1ij9nr7e but really do finish school, your education is really low.

[@nunyadayumbusiness591]

@@SinkrSwim Please go back to school, he never said that was allowed. So either your reading comprehension is abysmally pathetic, or you're combining an ad-hominem attack with a straw-man argument. I'll give you a little credit and assume it's poor debate skills instead of supreme ignorance.

[@troycross5104]

That person “teaching” is just trying to cover his ass. I will BET he’s violated peoples right just like every other wannabe cop..

[@nunyadayumbusiness591]

Most of those "courses" only teach the hands on detainment and arrest part, the good ones recommend a BA in criminal justice or criminal investigation. If there isn't an exeption in the state's laws, you're supposed to get deputized to gain the right legal powers - otherwise you'll wind up pleading the fifth over violating someone's 4th. (If you avoid kidnapping charges) Advantage: You aren't held to department policies. Disadvantage: You have to follow the laws like every other civilian.

[@troycross5104]

@ people like those watch dog the bounty hunter on repeat, she’s dead and he’s a has been!

[@DaYooper33]

Bounty hunters always have been, and always will be, a joke.

[@alanhovenic8678]

Can we used to say you sure do have to have a background check