Recovery of bail fugitive
When a defendant released on the bail, fails to be appearing in front of the court for remaining trial, he is regarded a bail fugitive and the judge orders the bail bonding company to start the process of locating and arresting him. When this bail fugitive is captured by a bail enforcement agent or a bounty hunter, he is again sent to the judicial detention until the remaining trial completed. Here, one more charge of bail skipping is added in the matters or the charges to be considered against him.
A bounty hunter and the bail fugitive: Usually, where it is allowed by the state law, the bail bonding agencies hires a bounty hunter for their skip tracing and fugitive recovery services. A bounty hunter is a trained and experienced professional who uses his detective techniques to figure out the location of the skipper and finds the ways to capture him. He is allowed to use reasonable force to proceed the arrest and after arrest the defendant is sent to police custody again.
A skip tracer and the bail fugitive: The states where appointing a bounty hunter for fugitive recovery is not allowed, a legal professional called skip tracer is hired to apprehend the felony defendant. He is a private investigator type of person who is trained in specific circumstances to find the trace of the defendant so that he could be arrested. A skip tracer never perform any raid or arrest; he only gets the exact idea about the fugitive’s location and informs the assigner (bail bonding agency). Then the agency along with the law enforcement team sent their team to arrest him.
Law enforcement and the bail fugitive: In some very serious cases when the defendant was charged with some very serious offenses, refuses to appear to the court and skips the bail, the law enforcement team makes the efforts to recover him. In this condition either they can work along with the bounty hunter or skip tracer or they can commence and perform their own separate investigation using their departmental resources. But they are subject to various laws and legal limitations, so they can nor search without a warrant or cannot use force in fugitive recovery.
A law enforcement officer is also empowered to arrest a fugitive for whom the court has issued the bench warrant to arrest him. In both situations, an officer will arrest the felony and sent him to the departmental custody again.
The scene after
the bail fugitive is recovered: When captured the skipper is again booked in
the police detention till the remaining legal schedule completes. In the both
conditions while the bail fugitive is captured or not, his entire bail amount
or the collaterals deposited against his bail are forfeited by the court or the
bail bonding agency.
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