Fugitive Recovery

Fugitive Recovery is a job that requires physical endurance and intelligence as well. Tri-County Adjustment Bureau is a legal L.L.C. and is bonded and insured so we can head out and begin the hunt to keep the streets of Oklahoma clean and safe. We are trained and equipped to handle every situation in the most professional way possible.

To have Tri-County Investigations begin a fugitive recovery process, please print, complete, and fax the following Contract for Professional Services to 580-786-0154.

Contract for Professional Services

Oklahoma State Law

A surety may at any time and place in the state arrest his principal, or by written authority on a certified copy of the undertaking, authorize another of suitable age and discretion to do so. (OK S, Title 39.1328 & 1329) (Crim. Proc. 1107). Out of state bounty hunter or bond agent must be accompanied by peace officer or licensed Oklahoma bond agent when seeking to apprehend a fugitive (OK S 1750.14). UCEA H 1786/S 445 Regulates bail recovery agents

Notes

OKLAHOMA STATE STATUTE 21:440. HARBORING CRIMINALS AND FUGITIVES
Any person who shall knowingly feed, lodge, clothe, arm, equip in whole or in part, harbor, aid, assist or conceal in any manner any person guilty of any felony, or outlaw, or fugitive from justice, or any person seeking to escape any crime committed within this State or any other State or Territory, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding ten years. R.L. 1910:2204.

Bounty Hunting refers back to the days when rewards were offered for the capture or killing of any articulated person. You should notice that in today’s climate while rewards may be offered, it is only for information leading to the capture of a fugitive. Since professionals in our industry typically only work to secure the apprehension of a bail bond-secured defendant we are solely enforcing a bail contract on behalf of a surety on a bail bond. We work for professional fees, not bounties. In our industry, Bounty Hunter is increasingly being used in a derogatory manner.

Bounty Hunting originated in England hundreds of years ago. Back in the 13th century, bail was a person, not an amount of money. In 1679, the British Parliament passed the Habeas Corpus Act, which for the first time guaranteed that an accused person could be released from prison on monetary bail. This right was later written into the U.S. Constitution. The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibited the setting of excessive bail, and the Judiciary Act of 1789, which established the U.S. judicial court system. Federal bail law remained unchanged until the Bail Reform Act of 1966, which allowed the prisoner to be released with as little bail as possible. The bounty hunter was given broad authority starting in 1873 with the U.S. Supreme Court case, Taylor vs. Taintor. The case gave bounty hunters the authority to act as agents of bail bondsmen. Bounty hunters on trial of a bail jumper could "pursue him into another state" and, if necessary,"break and enter his house for that purpose." Today the laws are few when it comes to bounty hunting.

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