$15K payday for this one

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Year on run ends when 'coke dealer' is seized in Bronx
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
One of Hudson County's most wanted fugitives has been tracked down and arrested by a bounty hunter in the Bronx after being on the lam since he skipped his arraignment in January 2006, officials said yesterday.

Rony Richardo Ventura, 23, of Madison Street in Guttenberg, was out on $150,000 bail after being busted with nearly a pound of suspected cocaine, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday.

"Mr. Ventura is allegedly a wholesale distributor of drugs and the apprehension of one of Hudson County's most wanted is appreciated," DeFazio said.

Ventura was arrested on Jan. 4, 2006 at 70th Street and Kennedy Boulevard in Guttenberg after selling 35 grams of cocaine to undercover officers, who then found 370 more grams and $900 in his apartment, DeFazio said.

"He's a good guy to get off the street," said Geoffrey Santini, a bounty hunter who spent a year following leads, paying informants, and working with the U.S. marshals and DeFazio's office in his hunt for Ventura.

After three days of surveillance, Santini spotted Ventura at a bodega on 233rd Street on Sunday, but a car pulled up with a woman in the back seat and Ventura jumped in, he said. He followed the car about three miles before it made a quick U-turn and doubled back to the Van Cortland Motel.

By the time Santini doubled back, Ventura was walking across the motel parking lot and the bounty hunter and his two associates tackled him, Santini said yesterday. It's a $15,000 payday for the bounty hunter.





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Kathy Blackshear
Blackshear Investigations
Blackshear Bail Bonds
Sales Associate, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.
Walsenburg, CO

Proud Member of the AB Reject Club

Kathy,
This is a sham. Santini is the silent owner of a bonding company here in NJ who was indicted for printing bogus bonds from Safety National a number of years ago and actually writing them, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. The county was so embarrassed of their screw up, he was NOT prosecuted to the full extent of the law, which would have put him away for a long while. He is being closely watched in our county, but this particular bond was written in another. From his conviction, he is NOT allowed to own a bonding co or write insurance ever again in NJ. When we become regulated in a few months, he will no longer be able to hunt either. As NJ does not need anymore black eyes, this incident will also be kept under wraps. Even the fact of an illegal apprehension, in NY. (don't tell Steve) lol ... This guy ranks with Barber & Zito and is one wave short of a ship wreck. This was also his OWN bond.

Great! So he gets a good "capture" story from writing a crooked bond. GEEZ!!

Seems to me that the county would have gotten more credit for exposing this than the embarassment of their ignorance. Then again, that publicity thing does reallly hurt all of us.

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Kathy Blackshear
Blackshear Investigations
Blackshear Bail Bonds
Sales Associate, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.
Walsenburg, CO

Proud Member of the AB Reject Club