AMERICUS, Ga. (WALB) – The Sumter County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a scam targeting families of arrested individuals. Sheriff Eric D. Bryant said scammers are posing as bail bond ...

Inside a mostly empty courtroom Monday morning, attorneys delivered closing arguments in the first bench trial for people accused of conspiring with Houston's AABLE Bail Bonds to spring men charged ...

An investigation into a Houston bail bondsman’s business practices started with an inquiry into how gang members were getting out of the Harris County Jail, a Houston Police Department sergeant said ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — On a night shift in January 2024, two deputies were sifting through thousands of bail bond records at the Onondaga County Justice Center jail. The deputies, Sgt. Ashley Keeney and ...

A raid in 2022 prompted an investigation that ended with the bail bondsmen, along with one of their colleagues, arrested. Four Florida bail bondsmen have been arrested in connection with a 2002 raid ...

KEY LARGO, Fla. — Four Florida Keys bail bondsmen, two of whom were already facing legal trouble in Miami-Dade County, were booked into South Florida jails on Tuesday and Wednesday. Authorities said ...

Four men have been arrested in South Florida after state investigators said they operated outside the legal authority of bail bondsmen, committing crimes that included armed kidnapping, battery and ...

Bail is a core part of the American justice system, meant to provide assurances that a person released before trial will show up for their court date. Some jurisdictions have abandoned or restricted ...

A Nashville judge ruled in favor of a defendant in a controversy over his bail bond after a grand jury declined to indict him. Edwin Ramos, 19, and some others had been required to pay bail two times ...

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President Donald Trump recently signed two executive orders targeting "cashless bail," the policies that permit the release of people arrested for crimes pending trial without requiring them to pay ...