Tweeker Seeker

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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This happened a few months and I am not sure why I forgot to write about it. It involves a defendant that we had previously arrested and and since failed to appear again. We knew were he was living and the first time we visited the house his wife was more the cooperative. She allowed us to search the house and was very open about the defendant’s drug problems. She told us that they were separated and he was living between houses in Modesto and San Jose. She promised that she would call if he showed up at her house but he was eventually picked up my the police and returned to court. Case closed…

I get the new case and we immediately drive to the wife’s house. She lives on the border of San Jose and Santa Clara with her mom and her 2 young children in a fairly nice neighborhood. It’s a single story house with a 2 car garage and a fairly large backyard. Since she was so cooperative in the first cast we decide to just knock the door and find out if she knows where he is.

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It seems I have a knack for finding escorts. Not for personal use, of course, but for the purpose of finding fugitives who also happen to be escorts. Since the advent of the Internet prostitution has moved from the side streets of downtown cities web sites and online forums. There are many sites that cater to people who are looking for escorts and escorts are basically no different then any other fugitive, they break the law and fail to appear in court. There is one difference though, most other fugitives don’t advertise on the Internet.

My tactics are always the same. I find them on Craigslist.com or Erosguide.com or Cityvibe.com or sfredbook.com and simply make and appointment with them and make my arrest. My advice is either go to court or take you ads down until you grow up and turn yourself in.