Keep Bailing

Earlier this week a bail bonds company located in Rancho Cucamonga was served a warrant under the suspicion that they have been violating rules of solicitation.

Bail bonds regulatory agency California Department of Insurance  investigators and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s detectives served a warrant to search the premises of the Bail Hotline Bail Bonds Company.

The bail agency is being accused of conducting solicitation through inmates to get other inmates to use their company, according to sheriff’s spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire, who further stated, “Let’s say a person is arrested and brought in and booked into jail. They cannot promote or encourage the use of certain bail bonds companies.”

Not only was the company accused of soliciting to inmates by their bondsmen, they are also under suspicion of using inmates to solicit to other inmates.

Wiltshire said, “So they could drum up business.” What kind of bail company does that? Not only is it illegal, it’s old-fashion ambulance chasing.

Under the Penal Code 160, and under Section 1800 of the Insurance Code, soliciting bail business is a huge violation.

The county’s DA’s office for violations will review this investigation.

Wiltshire gave a comparison of this process to a doctor going in front of the medical board. “They have to answer to how they conduct business,” further stating that “it is no different with the bail company. They have to explain.“