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Plumber Sics Bounty Hunters On Woman
(CBS) AMESBURY, Mass. An Amesbury, Mass., woman is still fuming over
her recent run in with bounty hunters about an unpaid plumber's bill.
She was taken into custody in front of her children by a constable
and his son from another city.
For Jeanne Watman, a routine trip down her Amesbury driveway turned
out to be anything but was scared. I didn't know what was going on."
An SUV had blocked her right at the end of her driveway. In front of
her sons, trapped by bounty hunters over an unpaid bill - even though
a document shows the court dismissed the case in January.
The two men told her they were constables, flashing badges, informing
her she was under arrest and telling her to get her two sons in their
car with her.
"I said, 'Well I don't want to put the kids in the car,'" said
Watman. "He got all upset and said he was going to have to call
D.S.S."
They followed her to school, cuffed her and forced her into their
SUV. The school called police. With no record Watman's arrest,
officers searched as she panicked.
"You start to think, when you're in the back of this truck in
handcuffs like-who are these people really," Watman told WBZ-TV.
Police tell us one of the men isn't even a constable. The other is,
but not in Amesbury. WBZ-TV tracked him down at his Revere
apartment. "Yea, I 'm a constable. I'm not going to talk about
anything now," said John Harkins, who would only talk through an
intercom.
The district attorney says, "The case can't be prosecuted because the
relevant statutes and historical cases are in conflict. In other
words, there is too much ambiguity."
Watman is now considering a lawsuit. "It never should have happened,"
she said.
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