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    Did any of the participants on the Alabama Bounty Hunter forum hear the latest news from Mobile county. It seems that four bounty hunters broke into the wrong house and held a young mother and her two small children at gunpoint.

    I learned at last night, that at least two of the bounty hunters have felony arrest records and more charges pending that are unrelated to the break-in.

    I know Alabama gives wide latitude to bounty hunters but shouldn't the agency or jurisdiction check these guys out and ensure that they don't have felons running around with guns(a federal crime)?
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    Absolutely, the Alabama jurisdiction should definitely check out who they hire for any
    Law Enforcement job. Not only did two of them have undesirable backgrounds in which they shouldn't have been employed in the first place, none of them were trained. I feel
    sorry for that family. Imagine the mental anguish they felt and they will need emotional and spiritual counseling. Maybe this will be a lesson for this state and other states in hiring anybody to do a job that require to reinforce safety and security to all citizens. Public trust must be implemented at all times.

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    Good point, Max... One would think, they do. But again, it depends on the state...

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    Any more update on this story? Is there any standard procedure for checking on bounty hunters? Is every state different? Thank you for any information.

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    They've been tried in state court for the breaking and entering, assault and false imprisonment. They were convicted on all charges. I'm not sure the status of the federal firearms charges since two of three were felons in possession of firearms.

    I'll update the thread as soon as I hear an update.
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    The art of becoming a Fugitive Recovery Agent is something you can not learn from a book.

    I've been in the business for years now. One of the most problems is that the young and eager Fugitive Recovery Agents have is they don't have the proper training. Dog Chapman is not a great example of that. This business is that one needs to work with a Agent who now the laws of the state they reside in and the proper procedures of hunting and apprehension.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Degon
    The art of becoming a Fugitive Recovery Agent is something you can not learn from a book.

    I've been in the business for years now. One of the most problems is that the young and eager Fugitive Recovery Agents have is they don't have the proper training. Dog Chapman is not a great example of that. This business is that one needs to work with a Agent who now the laws of the state they reside in and the proper procedures of hunting and apprehension.
    Good comment, Steve.

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    WOW!!!!!!!!!!! This is a scary situation. Alabama needs to do something to insure something like this doesn't happen again. And other states needs to make sure that this doesn't happen at all. WOW!!!!!!! This is just amazing. THanks for posting it. Have a nice weekend

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    It is amazing that these some states have these types of inadequacies but in florida you can't even do privatize bounty hunting

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    Didn't a similar incident happen in Arizona or New Mexico a few years back, which ended in homicide, becaude the bounty hunters raided the wrong house?

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    Question Homework

    First of all, didn't these bounty hunters do their homework? If they did, they wouldn't have done such a thing. And to hold hostages? That's terrorism and in today's society, terrorism can get you the death penalty if you've got a good lawyer against you.

    State lisencing laws should do a more extensive check, do the piggy-back system like in retail to follow these prospective business associates of theirs to see if they are loose canons or not.

    Give them a year's probation at their job after they are hired so they can evaluate them on a job-to-job basis and make the ultimate decision to say "yay" or "nay" to their gun-slinging new compadres.

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