APP.COM - Posting bond so people can get out of jail sometimes means tracking them down | Asbury Park Press Online: "The black minivan glides to a halt across the street from a small yellow house in Jamesburg with a fenced-in yard. The occupants quickly cover the van's interior lights to prevent anyone from noticing them in the darkness.
Minutes later, Nick Stroboulis, Ali Mustafa and an assistant emerge from the vehicle and canvass the property, peering in windows and covering the back of the house. The blue light of a TV flickers in one of the front rooms.
Then, the front door opens.
'Fugitive recovery agents,' Stroboulis says to the shocked man at the door.
'Where's Jessica?' Mustafa asks as he enters.
Mustafa draws aside a curtain leading to another room and finds Jessica Richards. The 25-year-old, who was freed on $1,825 bail posted by bail bondsman Stroboulis, failed to appear on her court date on drug-related charges.
On the verge of tears, she agrees to go. She's placed in handcuffs, then the minivan. Her seatbelt is fastened.
'That's that, folks,' Mustafa says.
Another night in the life of a bail bonds agent.
In reality, much of Stroboulis' job as owner of Main Street Bail Bonds doesn't require hunting down bail jumpers, especially in the dramatic style of Duane 'Dog' C"
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