{"id":462,"date":"2006-09-18T20:32:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T03:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=462"},"modified":"2006-09-18T20:32:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T03:32:42","slug":"tables-turned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/tables-turned\/","title":{"rendered":"Tables Turned"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can’t make this stuff up: Dog the Bounty hunter was just captured in his own home by bounty hunters and is being sent to Mexico to answer an unlawful imprisionment charge he picked up when in 2003 he captured an American, who happened to have raped 3 women in America, in Mexico. They caught the whole capture on film as A&E is busy taping the 4th Dog season and they are airing it tomorrow night in a special. This one I have to watch!
\nAfter the jump, read a long article about it and Duane Chapman, aka Dog.
\nA Cornered Pit Bull: Bounty Hunter Becomes Prey<\/strong> by David Carr
\nThe eight or so men crept quietly up to the house in the Portlock neighborhood of Hawaii at the crack of dawn. The woman inside was making school lunches for her children and noticed them too late. They bum-rushed the bedroom, capturing their target in cuffs before he knew what hit him.
\nDuane Chapman, known as Dog, the premier American bounty hunter, would have appreciated their artistry had he not been the guy in handcuffs. Mr. Chapman, the star of A&E\u2019s highly rated \u201cDog the Bounty Hunter,\u201d was transported to the federal detention center in Honolulu to await extradition to Mexico on a three-year-old charge stemming from his capture in Mexico of Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir who was eventually convicted of raping three women.
\nBack in 2003 Mr. Chapman and his colleagues were charged by Mexican authorities with \u201cdeprivation of liberty\u201d and held in jail in Puerto Vallarta before they made bail and slipped out of the country. Now, with less than a month before the warrant would have expired and in the midst of filming the fourth season of his enormously successful reality series, Mr. Chapman was the one being brought to justice. (Yesterday the Chapman family suggested that some horse trading was under way, pointing out that Francisco Rafael Arellano F\u00e9lix, part of a Mexican drug cartel, was handed over to United States authorities.)
\nAs American symbols go, Mr. Chapman is a pretty epic one. He has had 4 wives, 12 children, 18 robbery convictions, a conviction for being an accessory to murder, and, according to his math, more than 7,000 fugitives brought to justice. He belonged to a biker gang, but cries easily and enjoys vacuuming. His show, filmed mostly in Hawaii, is a mix of tweaking meth-heads and postarrest moralism, a business built on repossessing human flesh. But with Mr. Chapman, the drama always seems to continue after the cameras shut off. On the day he was to be married this spring in a filmed ceremony, his estranged daughter died. And now this.
\n\u201cHe leads a complicated, edgy life,\u201d said Lucas Platt, the supervising producer of the show. \u201cGoing after Andrew Luster was a risky decision, but he thought it was the right thing to do. Now it has taken an unfortunate turn.\u201d The turn won\u2019t hurt ratings. A&E plans a special for tomorrow night, and the stories about his travails will only add to the legend. The man who brought vengeance to thousands of bail jumpers found himself on the wrong end of justice.
\n\u201cI was totally freaked out,\u201d Mr. Chapman said on the phone Saturday after he had posted a $300,000 bail to await a hearing on extradition. \u201cThere were guys that I had put in there that were yelling all sorts of things at me.\u201d
\nHis wife Beth, a co-star in the series, worked frantically for his release.
\nThe 2003 Luster arrest, which catapulted Mr. Chapman to a new level of celebrity and eventually resulted in A&E signing him for the series, led to a lasting grudge on the part of Mexican authorities, who demanded that the United States extradite the bounty hunter.
\nOn Thursday night the Mexican attorney general released a statement suggesting that what Mr. Chapman had done was an affront to national sovereignty.
\nLarry Butrick, chief of the criminal division for the United States Attorney\u2019s Office in Honolulu, said that his staff was merely executing a valid warrant that came from headquarters in Washington.
\n\u201cThe court here really will just be looking at the legality of the extradition and if there is a fit under the treaty we have with Mexico,\u201d he said.
\nOne of Mr. Chapman\u2019s lawyers is hoping that the matter can be settled somewhere short of a Mexican prison.
\n\u201cI have a high level of confidence that we will be able work with the good will and good faith of the Mexican authorities in resolving this satisfactorily,\u201d said William C. Bollard, who represents Mr. Chapman, his son Leland and Tim Chapman (no relation), a bounty-hunting colleague, all of whom helped apprehend Mr. Luster. For now the Dog is at large, albeit with an ankle bracelet.
\n\u201cIf I have a fugitive on the run and have to go out at night, I have to notify them,\u201d he said, referring to federal officials. \u201cI have no problem with that.\u201d
\nIn the month before his arrest, Mr. Chapman was busy hunting jumpers for the benefit for those who posted bond, and for a nimble A&E camera crew that jogged after them. The show\u2019s template is simple and effective: The quarry is selected, a plan is made among the family members who make up most of his crew, the hunt commences and then capture, usually followed by a hug at the end, although a handcuffed one.
\nA bad guy made good by an 18-month stint in prison on the accessory-to-murder charge, Mr. Chapman sees an arrest as a kind of intervention, a way to let the runner face the music and begin a new life.
\n\u201cWe put families back together,\u201d he explained, even though they often do that by putting one of the heads of the household behind bars. It has been wildly popular \u2014 \u201cDog the Bounty Hunter\u201d is A&E\u2019s most-watched show \u2014 partly because his mix of mayhem and moralizing has a kind of outlaw sweetness. It is a bit of Ward Cleaver, though accompanied by multiple cans of Mace, just in case.
\nOn television, or in person during a recent visit by a reporter to Mr. Chapman\u2019s headquarters in Hawaii, the hunt is a spectacle to behold. On a hot day near the end of August, Mr. Chapman laid out the agenda for the day. Item first and last: putting bond jumper Monalisa Hartsock in cuffs.
\n\u201cShe has the letter R tattooed on her left breast,\u201d Dog told his colleagues at Da Kine Bail Bonds, which he and his wife own on Queen Emma Street in Honolulu. Speaking from behind major sunglasses that play MP3\u2019s including \u201cI Fought the Law\u201d and thumping an ornate American Indian walking stick for emphasis, Dog warned that Ms. Hartsock was one of the many island inhabitants who got lost in smokable meth: \u201cShe knows she is going to jail.\u201d The lowdown on Ms. Hartsock is followed by a shout-out to Jesus, who always rides point on any hunt.
\nHawaii is a near-perfect ecosystem for bounty hunting. It is a rock, after all, thousands of miles out in the ocean, so a person can hide in only so many places. Meth has overtaken the island, so there is no shortage of bail-jumping, tweaky perps. Dog crossed over after his prison time, but just barely, still working the corners of the law to substantial effect. The rest of his crew could not be cast any better: Beth, a large sexpot with brutal intelligence and an oft-hidden heart of gold; Tim, the wizened sensei who works himself into a quiet rage; Duane Lee, the normal guy with abnormal biceps who loves taking down bad guys; Leland, the wayward son swaddled in tattoos and mail from adoring fans, and \u201cBaby\u201d Lisa, the up-and-coming toughie.
\nMr. Chapman sees himself as a fisher of men, an enforcer who brings people to justice in what he calls \u201cthe cuffs of love.\u201d He first turned it around as the No. 1 Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman in the country during the early 1970\u2019s and now has taken his dust-busting ways to cleaning up the culture at large.
\nIn a single episode he works the gutters for data, deploys phony accents and white lies on the phone, and physically tracks a runner in a way that seems a bit supernatural. It helps that most crooks are dumb as a box of rocks, but still.
\nThe name Monalisa has Beth Chapman humming the song recorded by Nat King Cole. She has a lovely voice, albeit paired with a top-heavy endowment that borders on the architectural and a tendency to go junkyard dog when cornered. All honey for the time being, she convinces one of Monalisa\u2019s pals who posted bail to help them find her.
\nBeth gently explained to Desiree that while it is hard to give up a pal, \u201cthe alternative is you have to pay the bond.\u201d A call finally went through to Monalisa: Desiree convinced her to meet at a 76 gas station. The trap is set.
\nRight on schedule, Monalisa pulled in. \u201cThat\u2019s her,\u201d Desiree said. But Beth\u2019s car was momentarily blocked in by Tim\u2019s so she could not come around the other side; Monalisa saw Dog \u2014 tough to miss in his stunt mullet\u2014 hop out of Tim\u2019s car, and she began backing up. Leland flew out of Beth\u2019s car and filled the fleeing car with Mace, as did Duane Lee, but Monalisa tore out in reverse and careened through an intersection toward the highway, cars squealing to avoid her. Beth, in hot pursuit, filled the car with expletives : \u201cOf all the rookie moves in the world!\u201d she said. She fruitlessly crisscrosses the nearby neighborhood at high speed, while the car driven by Tim does the same. Mistakes were made. (Monalisa was finally captured by Dog and company early this month.)
\nDog freely admits later to messing up Monalisa\u2019s capture. He pleads guilty as well and to rolling around in his 15 minutes. \u201cI always wanted to be the good guy in the black hat,\u201d he said.
\nDespite the success of his show, his team had to scrape together money to bail him. Each member of the crew has a hard-knock history, no one assuming they deserve or can depend on success. They may have gone Hollywood, but their trashy roots are never painted over with peroxide.
\nBy definition, anybody Mr. Chapman catches is having a bad day, but when the chase is over, Dog always gives them a cigarette and The Talk, an echo of a life-changing discussion he had with a deputy who was taking him to jail so many years ago.
\nEarlier that same week in August the hunting was more fruitful. After looking all over Oahu, they found Jacob Falenofoa, another meth casualty, with the help of his wife, who co-signed the bond. They found him at the house of a girlfriend\u2019s parents in Pearl City. Riding back on H1, a highway that heads back to Honolulu, Dog went all biblical on Jacob, talking about how the drugs he was doing \u201cate his brain\u201d and how deep down he was a good family man. This being Hawaii, a rainbow bloomed to the north as the speech peaked.
\nDog said he was happy with the day\u2019s outcome.
\n\u201cI believe in what I do, I am good at what I do, and I want to be able to say that Jesus played a role in it,\u201d he said. \u201cNever, ever, has anyone ever escaped.\u201d
\nNot even Dog. A few short weeks later, the cuffs of love found Mr. Chapman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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