Activities of bounty hunters in the United States.
Bounty hunters may get into serious legal problems if they try to track down fugitives from other countries. Laws in nearly all nations outside the U.S., which do not permit bounty hunters, would label the apprehension of any fugitive “kidnapping” or the bail agent may incur the punishments of some other serious crime. Noted bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman (of the TV series Dog the Bounty Hunter fame) was detained in Mexico after he had tracked down the millionaire rapist and fugitive Andrew Luster. Chapman was later on announced a runaway by a Mexican public prosecutor and was later on apprehended in the US to be extradited to Mexico even though under Mexico’s laws, Dog and his members worked under correct policy and didn’t break any laws. Likewise, Bounty Hunter Daniel Kear pursued and apprehended Sidney Jaffe at a home in Canada. Kear was deported to Canada, and convicted of kidnapping. While the American Government commonly grants the activities of bounty hunters in the United States, the government doesn’t tolerate these activities when they cause troubles with other nations. Several bounty hunters have been arrested for killing a fugitive or for arresting the wrong individual, mistaking them for a suspect. Unlike the police, bounty hunters have no juristic securities against injuries to non-fugitives and little legal protections against injuries to their real targets. In a case in Texas, bounty hunters Richard James and DG Pearson were apprehended in 2001 for felony charges during an arrest. The charges were put forward by the suspect and his family members, but were later on dismissed against the hunters after the suspect’s wife shot a police officer in another arrest attempt of the fugitive by the police department. The hunters sued the fugitive and family, and won the case for wrong prosecution with a verdict sum of $ 1.5 million.
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