Global Fugitive Recovery

01/21/2026

This guy should be in custody by now. He must have changed his looks.

Former Olympic snowboarder and Canadian national, Ryan Wedding, 43, has been added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

11/16/2025

ICE is seeking assistance with a “docket size” of 1.5 million, in which the agency will give vendors a batch of 50,000 last known addresses of aliens residing in the U.S. The bounty hunters are then to verify the people live at those addresses, or find their current location, and provide that information to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). ICE says bounty hunters are to start with online research such as Google or commercial data, before moving onto physical surveillance.

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

11/16/2025

Why does everyone want to know how we operate?

Fugitive recovery operations, like sensitive law enforcement investigations, utilize sources and methods that are confidential and are strictly not intended for disclosure outside of the industry.
The specific strategies and tactics employed by fugitive recovery agents are generally categorized as Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES). This information is considered sensitive and often proprietary; its unauthorized disclosure could severely harm enforcement activities by jeopardizing future investigations, compromising operational integrity, and creating life-threatening situations for confidential informants, witnesses, or enforcement personnel. The non-disclosure of these sources and methods is essential, particularly when the requesting party is a reporter and intending to publicize the information to make it accessible to career criminals or potential repeat-fugitives attempting to gain intelligence on our methods of operation.

Will Mike get caught or escape?

02/11/2019

Another state gives us a bail reform failure.

Mandatory catch and release system in Alaska allowed criminals to escape even though the bail reform algorithm scored them as a low flight risk.

08/29/2018

The amended SB 10 was not truly available to the public until Aug. 20, the day of the Assembly’s vote.

08/29/2018

So this is Kalmazoo, Michigan, July 10, 2013, just a couple of days before George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the murder of Trayvon Martin and about a year before Ferguson, Missouri police shooting and riots. This was before the anti-police movement and Black Lives Matter went into high gear.

The officer was attempting to arrest a fugitive - a fugitive that would be more likely to be quickly taken off the street by fugitive recovery agents if he was out on bail. This is an example of what happens when an understaffed police department (such as Santa Ana which is down 61 officers) has to deal with outstanding arrest warrants that bail fugitive recovery agents will no longer be handling if SB-10, which was signed by the governor today, survives court challenges and becomes law in October, 2019.

No more undercover bail fugitive recovery agents: 1.) developing intel through the fugitive's associates and neighbors, 2.) conducting patient surveillance on suspected hideouts, 3.) engaging in careful planning of an apprehension, 4.) conducting a metered ex*****on of the fugitive's arrest with an adequate team of agents. If SB-10 becomes law, these fugitive arrests will more commonly happen on traffic stops and some of these traffic stops which turn into fugitive arrests will very likely "go south" like the one in the video.

If SB-10 does go into effect in October, 2019 (although I am cautiously optimistic that it will not due to the many constitutional defects in both the law and the way it was passed), expect to see lots of warrants, more officer involved shootings and higher crime rates. Removing pretrial release and supervision from the private sector (the bail industry) and foisting this responsibility on the understaffed public sector (probation and police departments) is a recipe for disaster.

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12/26/2016

https://www.gofundme.com/sued-for-notifying-police-of-danger

In California, like most states, certified Fugitive Recovery Agents are required by to notify a local police department of their intended operations and often work closely with the police to locate and apprehend dangerous fugitives. In this case, on November 4, 2015, the San Diego police in Pa...

07/12/2016

Since the December, 2014 shooting of 2 police officers in New York, Sheriff David Clarke has been on record placing blame for an anti-cop movement upon President Barack Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder explaining that they laid the groundwork for "this war on police" by supporting 'activists' who have disparaged law enforcement based upon a set of lies, primarily, Black Lives Matter, which Sheriff Clarke describes as a subversive movement and a conglomeration of misfits from the occupy movement, criminals, black racialists, cop-haters and anarchists. Glad that my fellow CBAA Board members, Gloria Mitchell Maggie Kreins and Corrin Rankin had a chance to meet this great American. Good job Beth Chapman, president of PBUS, in your effort to bring Sheriff Clarke to speak at the 2016 PBUS Mid-Year Meeting going on right now in Biloxi, MS.

Minutes away from listening to Sheriff Clarke the law enforcement officer of the year and true friend of the bail industry.
PBUS CONVENTION

05/13/2016

Read through the Bannock County arrest reports on any day of the week and the reason you are more likely to see than any other… are for warrants. The number