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Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman on Wednesday contracted a private search and rescue K-9 team to search an island called Egmont Key off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida, in his search for Brian Laundrie. A crew of four people carrying backpacks and other supplies left on boats with three K-9s. Chapman confirmed to Fox News that he hired the team. [snip] "We're out here at the island," Chapman said in a video posted to Twitter on Wednesday. "This would be and could be a perfect spot for him to hide, not too many people out here." Egmont has...

Chapman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2017 after having a nagging cough checked out, family spokeswoman Mona Wood-Sword said. Chapman was declared cancer-free after removing a tumor. But she was later diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. Chapman was hospitalized in Honolulu Friday after having difficulty breathing and passing out momentarily. Doctors put her in a coma to spare her from pain during treatment, Wood-Sword said. The A&E series “Dog the Bounty Hunter” was canceled in 2012. The Chapmans, who live in Honolulu, later starred in other similar reality shows, including Country Music Television’s “Dog & Beth: On The...

“Dog the Bounty Hunter” is joining the manhunt for a man who allegedly said he wanted to “put a bullet” in President Trump’s head. “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” whose name is Duane Chapman, told the Mansfield News Journal he was joining the search for Shawn Richard Christy, 26, a Pennsylvania man who allegedly threatened the commander in chief. Christy has been on the run since June 19 after allegedly threatening John M. Morganelli, the district attorney of Northampton County, Pa., and Trump in a Facebook post that has since been deleted. “Keep it up Morganelli, I promise I’ll put a...

US brewer offers $1m Bigfoot reward US brewer Olympia Beer is offering US $1 million for “the safe return of “Bigfoot”. The year-long contest has started in “an effort to highlight the proud histories of both Bigfoot and Olympia Beer in the [US] Northwest”. The grand prize of $1m, will be paid to any person who finds “irrefutable evidence” of Bigfoot’s existence in compliance with the contest’s official rules. The brewer has joined forces with Bigfoot experts at The Falcon Project for the contest, which promises to be one of the most comprehensive searches for the mysterious beast. Evan and...

Do any freepers know of any reputable online background/trace checks

Bounty Hunter Offers Services to Find "Missing" LawmakersSam Cohen FOX40 News 6:04 p.m. PST, February 25, 2011 SACRAMENTO A Sacramento bounty hunter is offering his services to track down Democratic Lawmakers from Wisconsin. The lawmakers have reportedly fled to neighboring Illinois to delay a vote on a bill that would cut public employee benefits and take away collective bargaining rights. The bill was suggested by Governor Scott Walker to help the state of Wisconsin balance their budget. But it has split the legislature along party lines, and Democrats fled the state last week to boycott the bill. Bounty hunter Leonard...

SEATTLE — A Washington bounty hunter says an anonymous donor has offered $50,000 to a 19-year-old fugitive suspected in multiple burglaries across state lines and in Canada if he turns himself in by next week. Everett bounty hunter Mike Rocha (ROACH'-uh) said Thursday that the offer is genuine: The money's been placed in the trust account of attorney James Johanson (Jo-HAN'-son).

Just after admitting he was "astonished" hearing about Jesse James' alleged affair on Sandra Bullock with Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, Duane Chapman from "Dog the Bounty Hunter" has told the world about his own infidelity. According to TMZ, "Dog" was on a Minnesota radio station when he admitted to being a cheater -- and then went on to say that his wife had no knowledge of it. (Note to Chapman: she's certainly going to know about it now!) There's no word yet on if, like Jesse, the "other woman" involved in this case is a tattoo model decorated with controversial statements.

RAYMONDVILLE — Two bounty hunters remained in the Willacy County Jail on Wednesday after they nabbed an 18-year-old Raymondville man they mistook for a fugitive, a police detective said Wednesday. “They had the wrong guy,” Detective Andres Maldonado said. “They pretty much abducted him.” The three bounty hunters nabbed Ruben Sanchez, 18, after they stopped his car in the 200 block of San Francisco Street at about 11:30 p.m. Monday, Maldonado said. Troy Berry, 47, of Mississippi and Bruce Berry, 38, of Tennessee remained in jail Wednesday morning, Sheriff Larry Spence said. Shane Valverde, 32, of Alice, a third bounty...

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) -- A Mexican judge has ruled to close the criminal case against bounty hunter and TV reality star Duane "Dog" Chapman, but state prosecutors have appealed the decision, officials said Thursday. In the July 27 ruling, Judge Jose Alberto Montes ruled the statute of limitations had expired on the case, said Guillermo Diaz, assistant prosecutor for the state of Jalisco, where Puerto Vallarta is located. Chapman was arrested in September by U.S. authorities on a Mexican warrant stemming from his 2003 capture of fugitive convicted rapist and Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster in Puerto Vallarta....

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What does the man have to be apologetic about? Capturing a convicted serial rapist who should never have been in Mexico in the first place? Maybe for not saying "may I" first? Perhaps he should apologize for taking all those millions of Luster pesos out of the hands of that impoverished and corrupt little country? Dog was in constant contact with US and Mexican authorities, and had even paid a Mexican cop to come along on the arrest. The cop, (being Mexican and all,) hightailed it when the tortias hit the fan! The FBI and other authorities then disavowed any...

Television bounty hunter Dog Chapman set free on bail in Hawaii By Associated Press Saturday, September 16, 2006 - Updated: 12:08 PM EST HONOLULU - TV reality star Duane “Dog” Chapman and two co-stars accused of illegal detention and conspiracy in the bounty hunters’ capture of a cosmetics company heir in Mexico posted bail and were released Friday. Chapman was released on $300,000 bail after spending the night in a federal detention center and his co-stars on the popular A&E show “Dog The Bounty Hunter” were freed on $100,000 bail each. Chapman, his son, Leland Chapman, and associate Timothy Chapman,...

MSNBC's Rita Cosby is reporting that Duane Dog Chapman, star of the A&E reality series "Dog the Bounty Hunter," and two members of his bounty hunting team (including his son) were arrested by U.S. officials today for extradition to Mexico. Cosby is reporting that Mexican government officials wanted the three men sent back there in relation to a three-year-old case. In 2003, Chapman traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to retrieve Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted in the U.S. on rape charges. Luster is now in jail, serving a 124-year term. The Chapmans were jailed in Mexico...

Mullett headed TV bounty hunter Duane 'Dog' Chapman and two of his co-stars were arrested yesterday in Hawaii. Chapman, his son Leland and Timothy Chapman were brought into custody on suspicion of illegal detention and conspiracy in a kidnapping dating back three years. US Marshal Mark Hanohano says the arrest "went down without incident". Mona K. Wood, publicist for Chapman's show Dog The Bounty Hunter, insists he will be vindicated, "He arrests the bad guys - and he is definitely not one of them." The charges date back to Chapman's apprehension of Max Factor heir Andrew Luster in Puerto Villarta,...

The brawny, long-haired, leather-clad ex-con with a soft side -- known to reality television fans as "Dog the Bounty Hunter" -- swept into a Daly City park last year with cameras rolling and city police officers in tow. Duane Chapman and his Hawaii-based "posse" of family members, who star in A&E's most popular series, were after an elusive bail-skipper who had played for the Daly City Renegades semipro football team. What happened next is the subject of an unusual civil rights lawsuit filed Wednesday at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. Chapman's son tried to grab and restrain one...

The owner of a Hayward pizza parlor will serve four months of home detention and pay a five-thousand-dollar fine, after pleading guilty to illegally transferring money to a bounty hunter out to kill Osama bin Laden. Forty-one-year-old Noor Alocozy also was sentenced to three years of probation today in federal court. Authorities say Alocozy transferred $1 million dollars out of the country between 2002 and 2003. They say some of that money reached Jonathan "Jack" Idema, a jailed American mercenary who claimed he was on a counterterrorism mission with the U-S government. Authorities say Idema -- a former Green Beret...

I'm curious to know what other Freepers think of this show. He's a Christian yet curses like a sailor, still on the other hands shows kindness to folks who do not deserve it and talks to them about Christ. I'm sure he's probably helped some straighten out. Well, what are your thoughts?

A HOSTAGE held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one. Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30. Mr Hjertstrom has since claimed he shared information with US and Iraqi troops about Mr Wood which led to the release of the 63-year-old Australian engineers two weeks ago, after 47 days in captivity. Now, he wants to find those responsible. "I have now put some people to work to find these...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Domino Harvey, a model-turned-bounty hunter who's being played by Keira Knightley in the upcoming action movie "Domino," has died. New Line Cinema Image Actress Keira Knightley plays Domino Harvey in the upcoming film "Domino." She was 35. The British-born Harvey was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She was taken to the hospital after being found in her West Hollywood home. British news reports say Harvey was found unconscious in her bathtub. Local police, however, say no information about the case will be made public pending completion of the investigation. An autopsy is...