Dog the Bounty Hunter’s future is looking a bit brighter
Dog the Bounty Hunter, AKA Duane Chapman, as well as his son Leland Chapman and “brother” Tim Chapman, has seen the Mexican authorities granted an order that halts the criminal legal procedings against the trio.
The Dog remains unleashed — for now. Attorneys for TV reality star Duane “Dog” Chapman on Friday said the Mexican federal court has granted them an order that halts the criminal case against Chapman until further evidence and witness testimony are gathered.
U.S. Marshals arrested Chapman here on Sept. 14 along with his son Leland and another associate after Mexico issued a warrant because of his capture of fugitive convicted rapist Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir, on June 18, 2003, in Puerto Vallarta. Bounty hunting is considered a crime in Mexico.
Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending a night in a federal detention center. He and his crew have been facing extradition to Mexico since then.
At a circus-like news conference Friday, the star of the popular A&E show “Dog the Bounty Hunter” said the “tide is changing a little bit.” His side of the story, he said, is finally being told to the court through his lawyer, William Boller, who spent the past month in Mexico.
Things are finally looking up for the Dog. This case has caused such an uproar in the US, that the world’s top bounty hunter might end up in a Mecican prison. It even sparked twenty-nine congressmen to send a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in which they askedher to deny the extradition of the three Chapmans.
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May 24th, 2007 at 4:05 am
I think that what Duane and his crew did was the best thing that could ever happen. Andrew Luster deserved to be back here in the US to be put behind bars for the rest of his piggish life. If bounty hunting is so against the law in Mexico then why did the authorities help in the aprehension of Luster then. Why did they help Dog if it was against the law. The authorites should be the ones to be punished for breaking their own laws then, not Duane Chapman, Tim and Leland. They did the right thing and they shouldn’t be punished for it. They saved alot of future womans lives. If Luster wasn’t captured then he would have then raped and murdered the Mexican woman and then would have came back to finish what he had started here in the US. He even had a hit list that the authorities had found as for what he was and who he was going to do it to when he got back. Thank god Dod stopped him. I think that since the authorities made the mistake of breaking their own laws that they should just let it go or if they are going to punish anyone it should be their own police men who helped Dog and his crew. This is definitely an outrage and should be stopped. The Mexican Authorites by doing all of this is telling people that they can hide out over there when they rape and murder. Anotherwards, the rapist and murderers can get away with it because they have a place to go. How would the Mexican authorites like it if Luster would have gotten ahold of their own woman and daughters. Well thanks to Dog and his crew they will never find out and thanks to Dog and his crew all the women everywhere are saved from Luster from ever trying that again. This has to stop…..