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right now is exactly where where when i'm working the streets if you instructor is a native american called rex when a tour contract unfortunately is the area of expertise is bounty hunting other people are going to be taking their their twelve hour course this weekend they started friday night working until about four o'clock am sunday to get to twelve hours to get my classes actually closer to eighteen hours for small sum anybody can take part in this training as soon as tomorrow these freshly trained bounty hunters will be scattered throughout the city on the trail a fugitive active down in southern california who i trained in pretty licensing and on the streets. and we also have kara kara is a student of mine who has taken this class in the past she's been not been out with us once before in two separate arrests and she will be continuing her street training because one of the things that we do that's different from the other delegation providers that we don't just train them in the bounty hunting aspects of

jail we also take them out streets and train them to get to be really close to real real. ok here future trackers are learning how to overpower a fugitive just like the instructors are old bounty hunters. these professionals know every trick in the book to catch criminals on the run ok i'm i'm agent number two he's got the taser on him number three comes up from this i lay your course do i want to put money in the back of the snack no. there was four ice agents put me in the back of the neck fractured guys neck didn't realize it didn't give him medical tent for twelve hours they are serving four years in federal prison. ok from here that key don't think that. transition can't transition given your hand give me other hand he doesn't little bit of ping applied to the hand give you the hand. and then we're there we're back up here well

it's easy for girls to get jobs in this profession just because it's of my ability not to have a female on the top if you're resting up you know that you know for certain she's a man long already this. is a lot of what i know is that men would have said women don't count in the job i think it's fine i don't think it's any more dangerous for us or something else i want to try i don't want to do something with it but if i make a couple of dollars along the way it would have. to. the back row deck is also a bounty hunter weapons are his speciality compline you knows everything about them from assault rifles to tasers doctor the whole time they're trying to get away from me because it hurts it's not incapacitation to pepper spray is about ninety percent psychological that's all it is people nowadays have been out of jail probably been sprayed half a dozen times if you care less nobody really cares. i could care less if you spray

me it doesn't matter if you live in order to become a bounty hunter no education is needed nor is any weapon experience required for improper use of any of the result. so don't take it upon yourself to learn how to use it and you use it improperly and you're going to get. the united states has the biggest number of criminals there are two million inmates and just as many on the run. track down by not only stayed in force. but also bounty hunters. catching so called wanted brings in billions of dollars every year to the hunters. in the us law is a business. every year in the united states more than thirty five thousand bailed out offenders never show up to court most of them are caught by seven thousand bounty hunters working for bail bondsman. tony brown is a bail bondsman established in sacramento he runs the tony brown bail bonds

a firm which specializes in bailing out offenders before their trials. in the bond out the. bonds that we use to bail people out. in the us freedom has a price the more severe the crime the bigger the bail is in order to get out of jail before trial for example cruelty towards animals is fifty thousand dollars use of firearms is twenty five thousand dollars attempted homicide is half a million dollars contract he has a contract the contract stipulates you understand that anybody that is for this person you know stand will be liable and we will be held accountable for the person that actually be allowed. to build ninety percent of the money needed for the release the remaining ten percent is paid for by the criminal or his relatives. a contract to cosign by the offender gives full power to the bondsman. you go to

court. we have no problem but the minute he misses court and the court send me a full version no notice let me know that he is actually actually did go to court that's when my bout in one department takes over it all comes a bit about what is look at to tony brown's bail bonds to actually. we are going to follow the bounty hunters who track down petty criminals they are very popular but also controversial this week they are going to try and catch two drug dealers with rewards of thirty five thousand dollars and fifty thousand dollars on their heads. but they are not alone the united states government has its own law enforcement agency dealing with fugitive they are the well known u.s. marshals popularized by hollywood thanks to special also i say shoot from the justice department we were able to follow them in action marshals seek the most

dangerous fugitives like to gang members wanted on murder charges and whose rewards are over a million dollars. sacramento capital of the state of california. a city of two million inhabitants stemming from the time of the gold rush. the man in the cowboy hat is leonard padilla. he is a bounty hunter. yeah. that's fine carrier and. he calls himself the most famous bounty hunter in the world. to beretta. nine millimeter. all the american military. carries the same weapon i feel naked i'm uncomfortable and i don't like it i got

a lot of guns i got more guns at home but if you make one serious mistake in this business. we're back with our two instructors. they are going out for real with their students the first client is shawna richard webber. and. he has a felony nobel warrant that means if we pick him up he's not getting back out. the reward on the head of this fugitive is thirty five thousand dollars he's a small dealer bailed out by tony brown the bills and the man is far from suspecting that he's enjoying the last hours of his freedom we were getting ready to go after a bail jumper the morning or the evening before we go after them we've got to make sure that there are four features are still active we can't pick up somebody if they took care of their bonds or if they were picked up on a ward the actual bond that they're out on still has to be an act of forfeiture

here in the photo authorization. after a few hours of class bounty hunter trainees kara and lori are going to do some practical work supervised by dylan and his two assistants suitable girls that's all i remember. i'm lucky i don't know how i got so lucky to be with you know everybody in this room but i'm looking for but everybody can only just knowledge and experience they have the training everything that maybe other people don't know what to do they don't know how to go about doing. you know all the trades. are not as good at it as rob and his partner is see them here because. they're probably a lot younger than i am a lot more patient than i am and i just want to go out and get the job done and all that but they they tend to be better at it than i am. the stuff that i do i mean and i've told a lot of people that i get to the front door then once where the print door hey you guys with they got superb training you got to go. so that's where we're at.

rocky road to go. dia and his crew are certified bunty hunters they are fully authorized to carry weapons. the over the top uniform has one main goal to intimidate the offenders. on the phone. call make sure they're. taking. a lot of these cases have drugs and. it's because it's the nature of these

individuals to steal and rob to buy drugs and the more drugs they use the more drugs they need the more they got to steal the more they got. so i would say seventy five percent of the crimes are drug related. see one of the problems that. the home of the fugitive smother. a quick glance at his files shows that he might be hiding here. hunters come in numbers and are well armed without a second thought they spread around the house. and the newcomer even has a weapon against in his arsenal. without authorization rob breaks in on the left side of the house. take care of the front door. hey lou are.

you whatever dealer's mother was home to make her talk says one of her son's friends i don't know where you get it running late i always say this is the address he gave me that he lived at while he was in next year and he got a phone number i can reach him. yeah i don't even know. i don't have a cell phone i don't know. why i am not there to get it from his i don't know why does every word oh you know what ok now you know he's wanted you told me yeah can't you do anything in the reports like tighter that that's a felony to start take people in for that now ok so if you happen to speak to him or the noble way to get ahold of him it would be any way of you to let us know barbara i didn't ask you where he was because if you did you wouldn't tell me right now no i'm not a gardener i didn't ask you because if you knew where he was you wouldn't tell me

if i'm going to go with this is if i knew i would tell you because i got a warning i'm going around i don't want nothing to do with him anymore when's the last time you came. i don't even know last year his girlfriend came over to her friend oh that's. i don't know it used to be. her name now she got married. i don't know what i mean where does she live what part of town you got to help me. or he. ok with his girlfriend the bounty hunters have a serious leak. they follow it without losing time with the help of the internet they find the telephone number of a. girlfriend's cousin she knows the fugitive.

ok don't do anything till we get down there i'll call you back. what you got going home there's nothing going on. well here's the thing we really don't disclose information when it gets this close because we don't know who you really are. you could be somebody that's just trying to trick us. yeah very good. well i think we got the address or at least we're real close to the. the girlfriend's cousin is still on the phone with padilla she is ready to corporate after all she posted bail for the fugitive and even agrees to lead them to his hideout we won't you know ok. girlfriend's house the cousin make sure the dealer is here. they got no guns on the house. on the phone padilla continues to ask for information comes up with news the fugitive is

in another house in the neighborhood. ok it will follow you don't go too fast. we're following the go. there you know is the lady that's responsible for the bond she has. she is the. girlfriend. so she says follow me the bounty hunters wonder if it's going to be able to pin down the fugitives location. time goes by and padilla starts having doubts suddenly the cousin comes out and gets in her car that's the signal for them to move. is he there. ok how many people are there. ok i want to work what are you wearing what you're wearing white t. shirt blue shorts let's go ok let's go to the back. of.

the trap has closed on the fugitive. and his men have the house surrounded weapons at the ready. for. the bounty hunters break into the house without a warrant they have no concern for the women and children terrified by the assault but how is the target escapes they can forget about the five thousand dollars reward. if the bounty hunters are in possession of a warrant they have less power than police officers as it is against the law to barge into people's homes and get it wrong. so in order to reach their goals they use strength and surprise tactics. dick runs to the back alley to prevent any escape attempts. but then a radio message comes through. laurean

has neutralized the dealer with a taser. because a molly was jumping over the fence you know he had told you but you hear me ok i mean all of your fugitive who was shot with five thousand votes is stung unable to resist that running over. running don't you know why you're doing it for the fire eating school. watch here i can't read it i am not here let's get out of here just tell them there was going to hurt that this could be them over the current one forgetting what the coverage was for you know that much coverage. was actually pretty good. got any weapons oh sure. no. well i'm sorry it's cost me to.

stand up for your stand up. because you're right no no for the stuff that guys will come up with we'll put over you. that's all right don't be sorry sorry. we're. looking for a. son for. you got him. you get to bright as a. french television baby urgent i'm going to bring them back i don't know larry and so i'm in the back yard to jump some fences running around attacking the writer and where i should think things are going to look like a way to. understand. what . they're going to commit you know no you'll get out there. it was that when you

really i didn't care how much what you want to tell me sir. because i stuck with three grandchildren. my my daughter started drinking heavily and just left the kids she better damn. well as i do he hit me with that taser right that's why i'm a little bit imo small but. hey you guys are better than cops and they. could wind caught me. you've done hundreds of fences and shit. on their more air if you shouldn't cause this if you have now the faster. faster don't give up. now you're tired this is the first time this happens to you you. i mean. when i was younger i ran one time that's nonsense because for half an hour's time i've got one fancy blowback. since the second time you're been somebody

you. already knew i was going to jail how long have you been the fugitive for seven months so how is your life for seven months terrible. worst thing that happened but i'm going to do that i. love you like your friend you know. that. this is the end of the room for the fugitive and another trophy for padilla in thirty five years the man hunting is delivered more than four thousand offenders to the justice department but not everybody in the state approves of the methods used by bounty hunters in los angeles at loyola marymount law school laurie levenson a criminal law specialist is very familiar with bounty hunter legislation. bounty hunters are sort of a throwback and archaic part of our law and it goes back to a time when people would write out of their horses in the wild west and pick up

these fugitives important into the sheriff for prosecution we don't exactly have that system anymore and that way i think some bounty hunters are the dangerous because they don't get the same training and they don't have the same standards to become a police officer you have to go through a long process of selection and have to go through months of the academy and be trained and then you're accountable to the court if you violate someone's civil rights battle you understand too that they go through a very abbreviated if any kind of training and when they go out there they've got weapons and you have to hope that nothing bad happens. however the biggest game still eludes the bounty hunter. they fall into maine of one of the oldest u.s. law enforcement agencies the u.s. marshals. this is tony burke a living nightmare for criminals of southern california. tony leads the special

task force in charge of arresting the most dangerous fugitives and he loves his job . but. man hunting is the daily job of tony burke smaller cells fifty of them are ready to intervene in southern california on the slightest lead to apprehend a fugitive they are equipped as top class soldiers of assault rifles satellite phones and armored vehicles in case of a shootout. their targets are the real criminals the ones which have nothing to lose you know and i mean that's what the task force was formed for office to get. our focus of violent crime you know rape robbery murder. you know child molesters. kidnapping the more violent crimes because those are the people when you get off the street i mean there are one violent violent actions against people in the community. these are lead cops have nothing in common with bounty hunters to

become a u.s. marshal you need to have graduated from law school or to have served in the military or you tony for instance is an ex marine. i've got john warner getting like four people together ok. for this guy here. this public enemy has been on the run for nineteen months this guy. he killed one of his rivals in cold blood his head is worth two million dollars. tony's men have located him in a residential neighborhood north of los angeles. has been a u.s. marshal for ten years because one of those in charge of the arrest from venezuela andrus is thirty eight years old has two kids and a wife that is a flight attendant in his unit each marshal manages about thirty cases from a book on the. really dangerous people. most of them have already killed

somebody. or not and nothing scares them on so. we take your futurist since you never knew their reaction during the arrest. and since the. beginning you. see so you have to be very careful to listen. to my grandma looking like california surfers with tattoos and his colleagues don't resemble a typical american policeman. in order to keep a low profile u.s. marshals wear plain clothes and drive unmarked cars his cars like my office i spend more time in my car. office. good idea of simply. war against each other. they always try to defend their territory that you sell drugs out of and that's why. they're at

war and they are. not only to protect themselves from the police. to protect themselves from other gangsters. in a few hours andres will once again have to confront armed criminals. it is never the same here for example i never know what's going to happen today. there might be nothing going on. there are guns on this yes i don't think i run away from us and that's what i like about my job i said and you never know what you're going to do next and never gets interested in the sampling that is something going on with. the u.s. marshals meet in the parking lot there are twelve of them. the man in charge is rolled morales one of the best specialists on anti gun warfare. that. his orders are clear and i curate every move away either on the east side of the building or the west side of the building and we have time to maneuver and get in

this way and do it that way all right my wife and i want to tell you that. again we're not chasing simple people were chasing killers and you've got to keep that in mind i mean this person shot somebody he's looking at the death penalty or life in prison so killing one more person or killing a cop doesn't mean anything to him you know it doesn't mean any difference for him so he'd be very willing to shoot us if we give him the chance so we've got to be careful and i don't afraid is the word but definitely caution.

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