To all you Ladies and Gentlemen that are truly professional bail agents and recovery agents, you have my deepest respect. I just left the PBUS meeting this morning that featured Beth Chapman, as I guess a motivational speaker. I can say that there was a lot to be desired in not only in her presentation but her professionalism. Actually her lack of professionalism.
Her talk was OK. Nothing earth shattering, inspersirational or educational. There was a Q&A afterwards. Most questions were softball, drippy love fest type questions.
So when the topic of the Luster arrest came up and how it was performed, I asked a simple question. "Who hired them to go arrest Luster?"
Mr Chapman started to answer then Mrs Chapman jumped in. Blaming a "group" from New Hampshire for going to Mexico to tell the authorties there to arrest Mr. Chapman and a California "director of a bail agent association for writing the court to ask that the court deny the Chapmans any part of the bail forfeited."
Now the story I heard was that they did not want the award. Then later they wanted a reward. Finally today they said they wanted their expenses paid for capturing Luster. So I don't know what is the true facts.
However, back to the meeting.
So, the answer both of them shouted to me was that, being a U.S. citizen, anyone has the right under the U.S Constitution to make a felony arrest of a wanted fugitive. I tried to ask a follow up question and was talked over by Mrs Chapman that went like this:
"If you sir are in a convienence store and you see a robbery going down and you don't do something, you are a WEASEL! You have the obligation to do something!"
So what did that have to do with Luster?
So Mr Chapman had to talk over her and stated,
" I arrested a guy wanted for 86 rapes and return him to justice........"
Could not hear all the rest because Mrs Chapman was shouting and acting like she does on television.
At that point I started to walk out and she yelled out did I answer your question. I stated no you didn' t, but actually they did as no one hired them or gave them any legal authority to enter a foreign country to arrest anyone.
So, I'm now famous.
I AM THE WEASEL
