When you need to bail someone out of jail, you’re going to want to talk to a large bail bond agency. Don’t pick a small agency or a single bondsman, and make sure they’ve got a good history of bailing people out of jail, before you talk to them. When you talk to the agency, they’re going to ask you a few specific questions. These will generally be things like the name of the arrestee and your own personal details, but bear in mind you will need proof of identification. Make sure you bring these details with you, or have them ready, when you speak to a bail bonds agency, because it’s the very first part of the bail bonds process.

Once you’ve given them your details, you’re going to need to sort out the collateral and pay the 10% premium of the bond. Make sure you take your time with this decision and talk to the agency about the different options you have. It’s important that you aren’t risking your own financial future too much.

Once you’ve done that, the arrestee will be released when possible by the jail. The next part is highly important, because you need to keep track of that person until they appear in court when summoned. If they skip out on their bail, you will have to pay the full amount of the bond, which is a horrifying prospect. Once the court date is finished, you can breathe easy, safe in the knowledge that you have beaten the bail bonds industry.

If you can trust your friend completely not to skip out on his or her bail, then you really should have no hesitation about initiating the process. You’ll want to talk to a bail bondsman with specific knowledge of the way your area works (for example, a Fort Lauderdale bondsman), and who has years of experience under their belt. You’ll have to provide some information about the inmate, and yourself, in order for the process to truly get under way. Once the preliminary administration is carried out, the whole process can be very quick indeed. You’ll be asked to pay a 10% deposit (that’s 10% of the full bail amount) and also possible provide collateral. Collateral could be any type of asset that the Fort Lauderdale bondsman can sell at a later date to cover the costs of the bail, if your friend fails to fulfil the conditions specified by the court.

Once all that is done, it’s a simple case of waiting for the jail to release your friend. This can take a few hours, or a few minutes, it all depends on the jail and has nothing to do with the bondsman in charge of your case. If you follow instructions, you could be your friend’s new hero in a matter of hours.

Building up a solid network of contacts is something that can take years to do, and often relies on experience and a good sense of community. However, you can speed the process along by taking a step back and looking at the people in your area. Is there anyone who pretty much everyone knows? Are there people who see everything that happens in the neighbourhood? If there are, you should be talking to them and building a relationship with them, these are the people are who going to make you money in the future, so be polite to them.

You should also be looking to get inside the mind of the person you are trying to catch. It’s not enough just to start wildly chasing them as soon as you get the job, you need to understand who the person is, what they are like, and where they are likely to go. You’d be surprised how stupid some criminals can be, and often they will go to the most obvious places, just because they lie slightly outside the area people normally think to look in. If you know your fugitive, you’ve got a massively increased chance of catching them. Bounty hunting is all about having an arsenal of techniques and strategies, and you need to be flexible to match the situation you are given.

When dealing with a federal arrestee, you can use the Federal Inmate Lookup Service, which has details about the arrestee and their circumstances. This is a useful database but most bail bond agencies will also be able to use their own databases to find information about an arrestee. The co-signer of the bail bond will also usually have to attend a nebbia hearing when dealing with a federal bail bond. This is to ensure that sufficient collateral can be raised by the co-signer to cover the amount of the bond.

Dealing with federal bond cases will generally take a little longer than when dealing with county or state bail bonds; more details need to be gathered and, because of the higher risk, the bail bond agency will want to make sure they know exactly what they are dealing with. It is extremely risky unless all parties concerned can be absolutely sure that the defendant will appear in court when summoned, since federal cases are highly serious and potentially dangerous if the defendant cannot be found. This is why federal bail bonds are usually much higher than standard bail bonds, because the risk of the defendant not appearing in court when summoned is very high.

1. Have the defendants name and date of birth
2. the county where the defendant is being detained
3. The bond amount and the charges
4. Access to to some for of fax, printer fax, or similar.  You will need these things in order to do Bail-by-Phone.  If you do not have a fax, most office supply stores have this service.
5. A form of payment, either credit card or western union arrangements

Call our offices, we have most all of the necessary bail forms available for download on our website.  Making the call to our office first will also help the process.  This way we can start notifying our Florida Bondsman of the situation.  1-877-422-4599