Grand Jury Indicts N.M. Bounty Hunter

Carlsbad, N.M., bounty hunter Jarrod Neal Flaming, 41, was indicted for murder Thursday.

Flaming, 41, also was indicted by a Hale County grand jury for execution of capias or arrest warrant and unauthorized contract with bail bond surety.

His partner, Morgan E. Moore, 41, also of Carlsbad, was indicted for execution of capias or arrest warrant and unauthorized contract with bail bond surety.

Police said on Feb. 9, 2010, Moore, an employee of Bad Dog Bail Bonds Inc., of which Flaming is president and CEO, knocked on the door of an apartment at Central Apartments, 910 W. 28th, just before 8:30 p.m. and was allowed in by the resident.

When Moore attempted to take 31-year-old Derek Graves into custody, he reportedly jumped out the kitchen window where Flaming was waiting, police said. Graves then fled on 29th Street and into the backyard of a residence at 1111 W. 29th where he was found by officers with one gunshot wound from a 9mm handgun.

Graves, who was living in Amarillo but temporarily staying in Plainview with family, was wanted on a Potter County warrant of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

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New York Mom of 4 Hires Hit Man to Kill Husband For $20,000

A NEW York mother of four embroiled in a nasty divorce was arrested for trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband for $20,000.

The New York Post reports today Susan Williams, 43, of Long Island, NY, was arrested yesterday authorities said.

She contacted an unidentified man February 19 and said she wanted to arrange the murder of her husband, Peter Williams, according to Nassau County District Attorney (DA) Kathleen Rice.

The unidentified man alerted the DA's office, which arranged for him to tell Susan Williams to meet an undercover detective posing as a hit man.

At that meeting Sunday - where Susan mentioned her pending divorce and "said she wanted him dead" - she was told the job would cost $20,000, said Rice

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Bounty Hunter Faces Murder Charge

Plainview police revealed this afternoon that the bounty hunter accused of murder did not have the proper licenses needed to take a bond jumper into custody.

Jarrod Neal Flaming, 41, of Carlsbad, N.M., remained in custody at the Hale County jail this morning on a $75,000 bond.

Flaming was charged with murder after shooting 31-year-old Derek Graves in the 1100 block of West 29th Street on Tuesday night.

Capt. Manuel Balderas of the Plainview Police Department said Flaming and another man were attempting to serve a Potter County warrant of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance to Graves at Central Apartments, 910 W. 28th.

Flaming reportedly is president and CEO of BadDog BailBonds Inc. in Carlsbad.

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Bondsman Convicted in Murder-for-Hire Case

Today, one of the bail bondsmen profiled in our story was convicted for a murder-for-hire plot, also chronicled in the April 16 story.

Glen Thomas Dotson, 43, was, "[A]ccording to court documents and the testimony of an ATF agent... a bounty hunter who worked for [Virgil Lee] Jackson, helping him to beat up people who failed to appear in court while out on bond. Currently free on bond, Dotson is charged with providing Jackson the revolver that, according to court documents, was to be used in the murder-for-hire scheme."

Here are excerpts from a press release issued today:

"Glen Thomas Dotson was convicted of charges stemming from a 2005 murder-for-hire plot to kill a St. Charles bail bondsman, United States Attorney Catherine L. Hanaway announced today."

"Testimony at trial detailed how Mr. Dotson and Virgil Jackson plotted to kill a rival bondsman to eliminate their competition in the area," said Hanaway. "Mr. Jackson is serving a ten-year sentence for his part of the conspiracy, and now his partner is facing the same amount of time."

"Dotson, 43, of Silex, (Missouri), was convicted of one felony count of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire and one felony count of conspiracy to provide a firearm to a convicted felon. The six-day trial was held before United States District Judge Henry Autrey."

"Dotson now faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000, per count, when he is sentenced on August 7, 2008."

Bondsman Embroiled in Murder Plot

A St. Charles County bail bondsman was sentenced this morning to 10 years in federal prison for plotting the murder of a competitor.

Virgil Lee Jackson pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire charge in August and admitted trying to arrange the murder of Gerald “Jerry” Cox. Cox, a former Democratic state representative from St. Charles, was not harmed.

Jackson wanted to kill Cox because he thought Cox was steering customers away from his business, prosecutors have said, and had threatened Cox before.

After Jackson's application for a general bail bond license was denied in September of 2005, he met with a confidential informer at a St. Charles restaurant and told him how to kill Cox, prosecutors said.

Jackson said he'd supply the gun and bullets and told the informer to shoot Cox outside his business and dump his body in the Missouri River near St. Charles.