Bail company loses $50K over man deported from Morris

An insurance company that covered the bail on a man accused of molesting a child in Morris Township, and later deported to his native Honduras, has been ordered by a judge to forfeit the $50,000 bond.

Superior Court Judge John B. Dangler late Friday upheld a colleague's ruling in April that Texas-based Financial Casualty & Surety Co. had to forfeit the $50,000 bail it provided to TBA Bail Bonds in Woodstown when it wrote a bond for sexual assault suspect Carlos Ulloa Murillo, 21.

Murillo was charged in April 2008 with sexually abusing a young girl and posted $50,000 bail in August 2008.

While Murillo was in the Morris County jail, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency filed a detainer against him for being in this country illegally, and picked him up from the jail two days after he posted bail. An immigration judge in September authorized Murillo's removal to Honduras — leaving the criminal charge against him unresolved.

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Bond Fees Bring Thousands to Upshur County

Upshur County has collected more than $8,000 in felony bond forfeitures, according to District Attorney Billy Byrd.

The money came from people who had been arrested for felony offenses and made bond, but did not appear at their hearings, Byrd said.

Byrd said his office asked all bondsmen to appear in 115th District Court on Dec. 19, and he was able to settle some of the cases.

The court collected a total of $8,389 in seven cases, with the money turned over to the county, he said.

Some of the money will cover court costs and the rest will be placed in the general revenue fund, he said.