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Much of the sympathy for Williams stems from dissatisfaction with the courts and the police. Dean is a twice-convicted felon with a total of 28 arrests since 1970, some for robbery and rape. A month before the Williams incident, he had been set free on $2,500 bail (actual cost to Dean: $250) facing charges of sodomy and sexual abuse of his girlfriend's 15-year-old sister. Some black residents argue that the inability of the city's predominantly white police force to cope with crime in their areas also lies behind rage like Williams...
Suspect Dean, who maintains his innocence, is currently being held in isolation on $250,000 bail. He faces life imprisonment if convicted on charges of kidnaping, burglary and sodomy. Meanwhile, a grand jury is looking at the evidence against Williams. A softspoken, Bible-quoting man with a tenth-grade education, Williams is confident he will be vindicated. Said he: "God is on my side, and God looks out for his people...
...West, when a sheriff could afford to ride only so far from town in pursuit of a criminal, bounty hunters acted as de facto freelance deputies, collecting rewards for bringing back fugitives. Times have changed, but the bounty hunter survives, working now for bail-bond companies eager to capture bail jumpers. True to tradition, local authorities still ask few questions about the methods used in returning a suspect to their jurisdiction...
Foreign governments, however, can prove more sensitive. For months now, Canada and the state of Florida have been locked in a legal battle sparked by two American bounty hunters who nabbed a Canadian millionaire wanted for jumping bail in Florida. Last week the international dispute grew so hot that Secretary of State George Shultz and Attorney General William French Smith took the unusual step of asking Florida authorities to back down...
...Toronto land developer, failed to appear for a pretrial hearing in rural Putnam County, Fla.; the charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would earn 10% of the bond, in this case...