Keep Bailing

The bail bonds company that posted the $1 million bail bond for Randy and Evi Quaid is quickly running out of time.

In 2010 the Quaids were arrested, taken to a Santa Barbara County jail and charged with trespassing and felony vandalism for allegedly squatting in a Montecito home they previously owned.  The Quaids then skipped to Canada after being bailed out of jail citing the need to escape a cult that kills celebrities. In continued made-for-Hollywood twists, Beth and Duane Chapman of Dog The Bounty Hunter fame, recently issued a warning for the Quaids.

If the bail bonds company fails to produce the Quaids to law enforcement officials before Read more »

According to the Santa Maria Times, a lawsuit filed by several local bail bondsmen was dismissed by the Superior Court Judge that alleged Sheriff Bill Brown and others were impacting their business by preventing inmates from making their free phone calls to bail bond companies.

A final ruling by Judge Thomas Anderle sustained a motion filed by the defendants that the lawsuit had no real legal basis.

The suit filed claimed that Brown, who Read more »

Santa Barbara County attorneys are attempting dismissal of a lawsuit filed by local bail bondsmen. The bondsmen’s suit alleges that Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown, and others, prevented defendants in jail from making free phone calls to the Santa Barbara bail bonds companies, which resulted in a loss of business. But the attorneys’ motion contends that there is no legal basis for this suit.

Securus Technologies and Evercom Systems, companies that provide the Santa Barbara jail phone systems, have also been named in the suit. In May of 2007, Brown entered into an agreement with these two companies that allowed him to monitor, control, record, end and block phone calls made from the jail whenever he chose. Evercom paid his department a “signing bonus” of Read more »