Tweeker Seeker

Well this was certainly a first for me. Yesterday, thanks to the help of sfredbook.com, I arrested an escort / burglar / fugitive in San Francisco. Oh, and by the way, the girl that exposed me to MRSA the other day is a regular ho on sfredbook too. I pity the fools that date these girls and bring home these disgusting diseases to their spouses and children. I wonder if these guys have ever really considered the fact that their paying for sex from a heroin addict with potentially deadly disease. Really? Also, girls, if you’re going to be stupid enough to commit a crime and even more stupid to jump bail, the least you could do is remove your ads from sfredbook, craigslist, erosguide, etc.

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Yea, and I’m sitting here the day after, feeling sick. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the exposure but I was exposed to MRSA yesterday by a junkie I arrested in San Francisco. For those of us who don’t know what MRSA is, it is a Staph infection that is resistant to antibiotics and, in some cases, can be deadly. The fugitive didn’t bother to tell me until after I cuffed her. Silly me for expecting a Fugitive heroin addict to tell me prior to being arrested that she has a potentially deadly infection. Not to worry, I suppose, I’ve already been exposed to Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Scabies (disgusting) and several other communicable diseases. This is just one more perk to being a Bounty Hunter I guess, or just something for my resume.

Well if you do and it’s for a non-violent, misdemeanor crime then December is your lucky month. Santa Clara County is running and amnesty program this month that will allow you to stay out of jail. I used the program last year to convince a few fugitives to themselves in. All you have to do is get down to the Sheriff’s office on Younger Ave in San Jose and they will take your finger prints and issue you a new court date. The process normally takes about an hour depending on how busy they are. Under normal circumstances, if your warrant is over $5,000.00, the Police will take you to jail and you will either have to post bond or wait and see a Judge. Under this program it does not matter how big your warrant is as long as it’s not for a felony or for any type of violent crime (assault, domestic violence, etc.)

Here is a link to the press release if you want more information.

We all know that most criminals are not the brightest people. In fact, most of them are really stupid and that’s why they commit crimes and why they get caught. So let’s all just agree that criminals are dumb, okay? Alright, now that we got that out of the way let me give you some proof. A couple of months back my partner and I were in Watsonville, CA. waiting for defendant to make himself visible. We were pretty sure of the address so all we had to do was wait. About an hour into our surveillance an older model pickup truck pulls up in front of the house. Inside the truck was the defendant and what appeared to be his father. The defendant climbs out of the truck and immediately jumps into a beat up old black Camaro and starts burning rubber in front of the house; just like any smart fugitive would do. Nice way to lay low idiot.

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This article appeared in the Morgan Hill Times. This guy was on bail with us and was assigned to my partner. Unfortunately I wasn’t with him when he made the arrest. Good Job! Peter L. Mastroieni, 38, was arrested without incident at his residence on the 500 block of Lexington Court in Los Banos.

Peter L. Mastroieni - Arrested in Los Banos

I’m here sitting in our office talking with my partner and I started thinking about my very first arrest as a bounty hunter. Actually my first arrest ever. I remember it like it was yesterday. You know, like the first time you had sex or the first time you robbed a liquor store. A memorable day it was. It was in San Francisco, she was about the same age as me but quit a bit larger. No, not my sex partner, my first arrestee.  Anyway, I was there with a more senior investigator and he was going to “show me the ropes”, you know, “teach me how it’s done”. I remember it being very hot, standing in front of San Francisco Hall of Justice on Bryant Street. We were waiting for this girl to show up across the street, next door to a public parking lot. I was anxious and a lot of thoughts were bouncing around in my head. Thoughts like, “Am I going to get hurt?” and “What happens if we get into a fight?”. For some strange reason I was wearing a sweat shirt and my body armor (bullet proof vest). I was really hot and the sun was beating down on my bald head. It was starting to hurt and I was sweating profusely.

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Gotta love this one. I got this new case on a guy who beat his girlfriend silly and then held her against her will. He was charged with kidnapping and domestic violence and stopped going to court when he realized the best he was going to get was 8 months in county jail. I started working the case by looking for his mother and his “friend”, both of whom had bailed him out. Neither address was good so I started doing drive by’s on his address. He lived in a not so very nice neighborhood near Highway 101 and Oakland Road in San Jose. His 50′s era house was surrounded by commercial and industrial buildings on a very narrow, seedy street.

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I made a promise when I started this blog that I would never disclose the name’s of my defendants, coworkers or the company that I work for. So, as much as I would like to tell you who John Doe is I have to stick to my guns and respect everyone’s privacy. I had been looking for John since September. He was wanted for failing to appear in court on drug related charges and was originally arrested in Sunnyvale. John and had been living out of his van and I learned through friends that he was a pretty decent guy who was doing what he could to makes ends meet.

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I made a decision that I’m going to try to write shorter articles. I want to write more often but I’ve found that I’m starting to dread it because of how long it takes for me to write each article. I really enjoy this process and I want to increase the frequency in which I write. Otherwise I may get discouraged and stop all together. Writing for me is a tough process. I have no formal training and each paragraph is a painful. I’m still learning how to phrase my thoughts and keep my grammar and syntax errors to a minimum because I can’t spell for shit. Thank God for spell checkers.

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I spent a few days last week working in Salinas and, as you already from my previous posts, I dislike working there. So rather then dive into more rants about the ire of Salinas I will jump right into a pretty funny story that happened a few months back. I was reminded of this story in Salinas when my partner and I arrested this guy and after a few minutes with him we both looked at each other and said “Melinda Jones” (not her real name).

Melinda was a lady that I arrested twice in 3 months and prior to that she was arrested by another investigator out of our office. My last arrest would be the last time we bailed her out. You will understand why we wanted nothing to do with her after this.

When I was assigned the first case I did little to check on any previous cases. It seemed simple enough. She lived in a wealthy peninsula city and had been at the same address for 20 or so years. She was in her early 50′s and thus had no reason to worry about my safety. After all how much damage could a 50 something female actually cause? Ha!

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