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...contempt of court, a finding that avoided the legal complications involved in a perjury charge. He sentenced Matusow to three years in prison, and ordered him held in $10,000 bail. At that point. Matusow's stock appeared to have reached a new low. An El Paso bondsman, only recently released from the penitentiary, where he served sentence for receiving stolen goods, said: "I wouldn't post bond for that S.O.B...
Salesman. In Tallahassee, Fla., Bail Bondsman Tony Johnson was ordered to answer charges that he 1) printed the county sheriff's office telephone number on his business cards, 2) had prisoners called to the jailer's office so that he could urge them to let him post their bail, 3) often slept in the county jail to keep tabs on likely new prospects...
...Jenkins' most publicized cases was his defense of Ed McNew, a camera-shy professional bondsman accused of shooting at a Knoxville newspaper photographer. The photographer produced a solid piece of evidence to support a charge of assault with intent to kill: a clear picture of McNew shooting at him. After postponing the case as long as possible, Jenkins produced McNew (who had been in an automobile accident) on a stretcher. A nurse and a doctor stood by, interrupting McNew's testimony to administer medications. After McNew faintly testified that photographers had hounded him, Jenkins argued that McNew...
...professional bondsman. Freddic Carbonne will help ya if anybody can. He only charges ten dollars. Lock him up, Al, put him in with that drunk, Sorry, kid, rules of the house, you know...
Business Trip. In Gaffney, S.C., Markie Bellew, arrested for assault & battery, escaped from the county jail, hiked 20 miles to Spartanburg, returned next day with a bondsman who bailed...