Pretty much all you can do is to get your state to order extradition or refuse it on the warrant. The defendant can still fight it, but there will be an extradition hearing. Most of the hearings win on the side of the extraditing state, so the person is extradited. If the state then refuses to extradite, or if your state refuses to pay extradition when the bondsman is usually held liable for the cost, you should have a viable option in your state to win a motion for exoneration due to legal inability to enforce the bond.
I have only had extradition costs be an issue two times. One was for another bondsman, and the other for one of my bonds. In both cases, I got permission from my local sheriff to do the actual transports, so the county wasn't liable for the cost.
Our work depends on many things. We can be hired by a bondsman to locate and apprehend a person, but may run into issues when dealing with various state laws. When I was dealing with the other bondsman, the other state held the defendant for an extradition hearing. Once he was extraditable from that, it was up to the local sheriff to determine who provided the extradition and who paid for it. In the case where it was my bond, the person got arrested because of LE contact that I had made, but I still had to prove myself with the jail to get custody of him. It was a combination of my right to arrest, being the agent on the bond, along with being the approved transport agent that saved me.
Know your local laws, what rights you have, and the costs/rights/expected costs of who you work for. just because a person doesn't charge what they can and should isn't your problem.
_________________ Kathy Blackshear Blackshear Investigations Blackshear Bail Bonds Sales Associate, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc. Walsenburg, CO
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