Multitude of Skips expected in Louisiana & Mississippi

I have spoken with several of the bail agents who lost their homes and businesses in New Orleans as well as one in Biloxi, Mississippi. I was told that all bail bond agencies located in downtown NO, near the court house, have lost most, if not all of their recent bail records, and many of the court house records were equally destroyed. They have no idea how to locate bail outs to repaper them, and don't expect any serious offenders to return to the agencies if they ran them down. They anticipate large numbers of them to skip.

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Rod Mitchell
Executive Producer
Champion Entertainment
Houston, TX
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That concept had never occurred to me...lol WoW...what a nightmare. If the records were destroyed at the courthouse as well, then the courts can't forfeit on any of the bonds either...so that might be the silver lining in that dark cloud.

From an investigative standpoint I would investigate the following:

1) Cops always keep thier own records...so any files that may still be salvageable through personal or pd computers could be used to recreate a case.

2) State Parole and probations officer records

3) jail house/intake records

4) State Troopers records

5) Sheriff's dpt records

6) State Prison records

7) FBI Records..cases that may have been sent to the FBI crime lab and had not been returned to NOPD yet.

The individual BEA's who were working active cases prior to the storm would have secured thier files. I keep a client case history with all of thier case #'s, charges, residences etc. Most of my local skips are repeat offender's, so I know I will have to chase them again down the road.

9) State of Louisianna NCIC records. If any of the fugitives were listed in NCIC as wanted by Louisianna, then those records are available from NCIC.

The frightening revelation here is that the fugitives are now scattered to the 4 winds with a fresh start...it will be so easy for a convicted felon to secure a new identity..unless his/her new home state runs a fingerprint check on everyone who has to replace ID documents..but then that becomes cost prohibitive for the caretaker state.

Some could claim they don't know thier ssn, give a fake name, a fake or destroyed address, etc..a convicted felon could now get a squeaky clean new identity and now be a regular john doe citizen.

WOW..this is frightening..!

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River City Associates
Decatur, Al. 35601

Since 911 States are becoming more strict about ID requirements, since there is no functional court house in New Orleans and the post office isn't delivering mail there the defendants haven't been notified as to when or where they are required to appear so they aren't really skips until all this mess gets straightened out.

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Chuck

I caught a news blurb wondering where all the sex offenders went.

Rex

They should send all the cops that don't like bounty hunters to go pick them up so we don't have to... cuz you know, they are on top of things like that.

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Rex I also caught a blip about the sex offenders gone missing. All of this could turn out to be a bigger nightmare than could be conceived. They have alot of missing criminals and a few have ended up here in jail. Some of the displaced here have been checked and found to be of the criminal element and taken into custody however, not all of our shelters have checked everyone to see if they are running from the law.

This might end up being quite a new show for you Rod. A bunch of BEA's rounding up the missing criminals that the Law Enforcement community lost due to the hurricane. It could turn into a big plus in this industry if it was worked out the right way.

I agree. Any assistance BEAs can lend in apprehending NO skips will help boost the image of the profession. After seeing how "law enforcement" is conducted in the Big Easy, I don't see how it could hurt.

BTW, I'm not aware of what is required to conduct bail enforcement in LA and MS, but if any BEAs are heading there to lend assistance in finding skips and willing to take someone along who is skilled at records managment and research the ropes, please let me know.

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