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[DrForester]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bounty-hunters-storm-police-chief-phoenix-arizona-home-botched-raid/

Police in Arizona are investigating a botched bounty hunter raid at a home they surely didn't mean to hit, CBS News' Don Dahler reports.

Nearly a dozen bounty hunters swarmed a house in Phoenix Tuesday night, but instead of finding a man wanted in Oklahoma, they found Joseph Yahner, the police chief of the sixth largest city in America.

"When the chief goes to the front door, he is confronted by an individual who is out there with a gun drawn," Phoenix police Sgt. Trent Crump said.

The team of armed bounty hunters woke up the police chief and his wife.

"Uh, we have, some, I don't know if they're bounty hunters or what they are, but they're, uh, they just banged on our door, and they're looking for somebody," a Yahner resident told police dispatch.

That somebody was Roderick Battle -- wanted in Oklahoma on drug charges.

The team was apparently acting on bad information from an erroneous tip posted on their Facebook page.

"There were 11 people out here; one was an 11-year-old child that had on a toy gun belt," Crump said.

Police arrested 43-year-old Brent Farley, the owner of one of the bounty hunter teams, for criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct.

"We don't know if the chief was the target specifically or if the bond companies were a target and sent there by someone," Crump said.

Farley is a convicted felon, which means he is not legally permitted to own a handgun. Police are investigating whether or not this was just an honest mistake or a prank.

 

[Syriel]

Should be treated as a criminal act.

 

[Taco_Human]

Maybe it wasn't an accident. Sounds like it's too much to be just a coincidence.

 

[Mimosa97]

Bounty hunters can enter homes without a warrant ?

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

That is some good trolling on the anonymous tipper's part

 

[DemiMatt]

At least the Police Chief didn't kill anyone for knocking on his door late at night.

 

[Ether_Snake]

I guess they weren't a bunch of black bounty hunters.

 

[DrForester]

Bounty hunters can enter homes without a warrant ?

I guess I should have said "Raids property" They didn't' go inside, but there were nearly a dozen people swarming his house.

 

[Mimosa97]

I guess I should have said "Raids property" They didn't' go inside, but there were nearly a dozen people swarming his house.

Oh ok thanks

 

[UnluckyKate]

Sounds like a prank and the bounty hunter leader is just a big morron for going head on with an unregistered gun while on probation. Just sayin'

 

[MJPIA]

I feel like a simple google search could've avoided this.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news...ngbondsmen-trespassed-chief--police/31184159/

The event, which a NorthStar employee said has been “all blown out of proportion,” was captured on a cellphone camera.

“They were filming this like it was made for TV,” said Sgt. Trent Crump, a Phoenix police spokesman.

“After awakening him (Yahner) from a dead sleep, he comes out in protection mode,” Crump said. “And when he does come out and he challenges them, I think they quickly come to realize (the mistake), with the exception of one of them.”

Crump said Farley refused to leave the property and continued to give commands to Yahner until another bounty hunter pulled him aside.

Bounty hunters are often outfitted just like policemen, with bulletproof vests and weapons. And they are not hindered by rules that typically govern law enforcement, such as needing to go before a judge for a warrant or a subpoena.

John Burns, former president of the Arizona Bail Bondsmen Association, said Arizona is one of the few states that don’t require bail bondsmen or fugitive recovery agents to be trained or educated. Burns has been working to push a bill that would require both, he said.

Weak laws, he said, allow virtually anyone to be “John Wayne all day long, without any education or training.”

Rules?
Training?
Who needs those?


"You wanna be a bounty hunter?
Hell yes!
Got any training?
Nope
Got educated?
Nope
Fantastic you'll fit right in!

 

[boredofcanada]

Saw a couple of bounty hunters in Phoenix last week. They looked like total douchebags. I wonder if this was the same dudes.

 

[antonz]

Yeah someone basically swatted the Police chief using bounty hunters. idiocy on the Bounty Hunters at every level. Taking tips without investigating them, Having an 11 year old child present during the "raid"

 

[Log4Girlz]

Who swats the swat?

 

[Azure Dream]

I feel like a simple google search could've avoided this.

Rules?
Training?
Who needs those?


"You wanna be a bounty hunter?
Hell yes!
Got any training?
Nope
Got educated?
Nope
Fantastic you'll fit right in!

Required Last Week Tonight link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5mwymTIJU

 

[TAJ]

If this happened at pretty much anyone else's house then that guy wouldn't have been arrested. Gross.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

No one died? Luck break..

 

[Malreyn]

Required Last Week Tonight link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5mwymTIJU

This is exactly what I was thinking of when I read this thread. At 6:20 he covers how bounty hunters just have a ton of power.

 

[dan2026]

So 4chan or somewhere could just post anything on these morons facebook page and Obama will be waking up to the sound of 20 idiots on his doorstep.

Also why the hell is bounty hunting even legal in America!?
What is it about America where it still has practices that most of the sane world has banned for being goddamn crazy?

 

[Acorn]

I am the dawwwwwg the big bad dawwwwwg - better be in possession of a hall pass