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Thursday, April 20, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Agencies post jail bonds for fee
By TOM RAMSTACK
Police are not the only ones who put criminals behind bars in Douglass County.
There are two agencies in Lawrence that post bond for people in jail, as well as bantt and the local law enforcement agency.
Sentinel Bonding Agency, 5 E. 7th St., and the Gene Done Agent, 824 Massachusetts St., will provide a jail bond for almost anyone arrested by the police.
The bondsm for the agencies will post bond if they think that a person who has been arrested can be held responsible to the court appearance and will not "burrow bond."
Bond is posted as assurance that a person charged with a violation of the law and released from jail will appear in court to prove his charge, fails to appear, the court keeps the money.
However, a person who jumps bond can be taken to jail by anyone who has a certified copy of the bond, according to Vanessa Mack of Sentinel Bonding Agency.
SENTINEL BONDING Agency collects a premium of 10 percent on bonds of $500 or more. There is a slightly higher charges for smaller bonds.
Mack, 24, said yesterday that since the Sentinel Bonding Agency in Lawrence opened last September, only one man had larned bond.
She said that she reported the man to the agency's headquarters in End, Oka. The agency had never been charged with rape.
She also said that two other men who were bonded had failed to check with Mock weekly as they had agreed, but that it was not certain whether they had jumped bond.
A WOMAN EMPLOYED by Sentinel Bonding Agency in Enid would sometimes assume the role of an angry girlfriend, who was killed when she jumped bond by calling their friends.
Mckay said that the most serious offence for which she had made bond was an armed robbery. She also claimed that the
"I don't really care what they're in there so just lone as they understand they have to be careful."
"If I ever had anyone really heavy skip on me, I would take my dad with me. He was the top pistol for the National Guard's pistol team."
Mock said that she also might take her husband or someone else who had offered his services with her if she had to go after someone who had jumped bond.
However, when she collected information on people who were bonded, she said she got to know them well enough that she probably could have accompanied her to jail without violence.
ALTHOUGH SHE DID not carry a weapon, she said, she had a plastic strap around her wrist.
Mock said that she first became interested in bonding from her father, who
manages a Bentinel Bonding Agency office in Salga.
Gene Danee, of the Gene Doaney学院,
said his insurance company also made jail
Doane said usually two or three of the people he had bonded would jump bond each year, but that they represented only a small percentage.
"If more than one to two percent of the people jumped bond, you go broke."
Douis has written jail bonds for 25 years, he said, including bonds for several armed criminals.
Doune said he had never gone alone to return someone to jail who had jumped bond. Instead, he usually paid men $25 to $50 and used that amount as much as $500 if the bond was for $5,000.
DOANE DESCRIBED the procedure he used to anorehend someone.
"First I slip in behind you and make sure the doors are covered. Then I ask you to come along with me. While you're thinking about throwing your arm in the car, and away we go."
Staff Photo by TIM ASHNER
"I brought in one guy from a motel in Nadaima, Mo. "Doe said," all he had on was a jacket and a pair of jeans." And of smark on the way home, and it was winter so I just opened the window a little bit. That
"I ran into one guy's uncle on the street who told me he was married and living in Mississippi. Then I checked with the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Mississippi to find out who he married and traced him through his in-laws," Doane said.
Doane said that he sometimes traced, through relatives, the whereabouts of people who were killed.
"I CALLED a Buddy of mine who goes on trips with me. We jumped in the car drove us and then we got hit by a truck."
He said that he trapped the man who had jumped a bond of $1,500 for a parole violation alone in a feed store and returned him to jail in Lawrence.
Bounty hunter
*venus Mask, of Sentinel Bonding Agency, spends most of her working time on the phone talking to students. Her job entails bonding for压房 in jail, as well as
The deadline for registering for the 17th annual Lawrence Art in the Park exhibit is Saturday, Judy Well, publicity chairman for the event, said yesterday.
This year's Art in the Park will be held from noon to 5 p.m. May 7 in South Park, Well said. Registration applications are required. The museum room 300, at the Lawrence Arts Center, Ninth and Vermont streets, and at the South Park Recreation Center, 1411
Entrants must be at least 18 years old, Well said, and all exhibits must be original. The categories are painting, ceramics,
Well said a $2 fee would be charged to all students and art quid members. The
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Art fair deadline nears
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Doane said that he never carried a gun
"The bad bondsmans actually has more power than the law." Doane said. "The bondsmans can take a bond with him and bind him in any state. The state must extradite.
But, he added, "I'm not a tough guy. I'm a peaceful citizen trying to make a living and
Douaie said that he sometimes hired off-duty police officers to help him apprehend
the robber.
Most of the bonds written in Lawrence, Mock said, were for driving while ill.
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