Keep Bailing

It’s a warm day in spring; summer is right around the corner. Take in the delicious aroma of mouth watering Mexican food, the guitars and trumpets of the Mariachi music; bright colors, streamers, and beautiful traditional Mexican dancers in costume. What better way to celebrate with family and friends than getting together for the annual Cinco de Mayo celebration?

In Los Angeles, the Cinco de Mayo holiday has quickly become the leading Mexican holiday. It has surpassed Mexican Independence day which lands every year on September 16th.

The Cinco de Mayo holiday also comes with the connotation of heavy drinking, wily crowds and numerous arrests. There are millions Read more »

Lately, I’ve been asked many times, “Your business must thrive in this economy, right?” Or, “I bet bondsmen don’t worry about a bad economy; you must be thrilled.” We’ve even had people inquiring about a job because they think that bail bonds is a recession-proof industry.

I know most people have never had first hand experience with bail bonds. Apparently, the common school of thought is that crime goes up in an economic down-turn.

Last December, I took a call from Tony Castro at the Los Angeles Daily News. He asked several questions about the economy and bail bonds. Mr. Castro subsequently wrote an article about Van Nuys bail bondsmen “bailing out”. I spoke with Mr. Castro a fair amount of time and even though he quoted me on a couple of points, there were several issues I discussed that were left out. Since then, I keep feeling there’s so much more to be said. So, today I’ve written a follow-up article about bail, crime  and the economy. In this article, I’ve attempted to answer: Read more »

When you think of jail, you probably don’t picture one that has the aesthetics of a high profile, ultra modern building. Neither did I until recently. 

Last week, I received an email with various photos of a building – each photo daring me to guess what was pictured. A university? A modern gym? Museum? No, the email told me, it was a Cook County Correctional Center in Chicago. Suspicious, Read more »

Upon hearing that I am a female bail bondsman, the first thing I’m usually asked about is Dog The Bounty Hunter. However, several people have excitedly talked to me about Stephanie Plum. Honestly, however, I had never heard of her before someone asked me about two years ago. When the first person who told me about her wacky adventures, I could easily confirm that Ms. Plum was purely fiction.

Recently, I was on vacation and there were three Janet Evanovich books on the bookshelf where we stayed. I thought that the perfect opportunity to find out what Stephanie Plum is all about. It only took me to page 3 of Three to Get Deadly to see Read more »