Word: johnsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would earn 10% of the bond, in this case $13,700, plus expenses and a bonus...
...capture was quick and dirty, so Jaffe claims. He was returning to his condominium from an afternoon jog when he was lured into a car, handcuffed and then taken south to the U.S. border at Niagara Falls. "This is a gotcha," Johnsen allegedly told Jaffe, who contends that the bounty hunters beat him. Local police, alerted by Jaffe's daughter, refused to intervene when he appealed to them at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Kear and Johnsen took him aboard a chartered jet waiting to fly to Florida...