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NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday

06-29-2003

Profile: History and industry of bounty hunters

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Well, you might have thought that bounty hunters vanished with the Old West, but we found out differently a few weeks ago when an American bounty hunter landed in jail in Mexico. This past week a Mexican judge said Duane Chapman should stand trial for capturing American fugitive Andrew Luster...

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	CANADY SCHEDULES THURSDAY HEARING ON THE BOUNTY HUNTER RESPONSIBILITY ACT Capitol Hill Press Releases ; 00-00-0000 For Immediate Release March 28, 2000 Canady Schedules Thursday Hearing on the Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act What: Legislative hearing on H.R. 2964, the Bounty Hunter Responsibility Act Subcommittee on the Constitution; U.S. Rep. Charles Canady, Chairman When: 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March
	PROTECTING CITIZENS FROM ROGUE BOUNTY HUNTERS Capitol Hill Press Releases ; 00-00-0000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 4, 1999 Washington Week Protecting Citizens from Rogue Bounty Hunters By U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson (Ark., 3rd District) Chinelle Moore, a working mother, tells the story of being jarred out of sleep at about five o'clock one morning by pounding at her front
	Profile: History and industry of bounty hunters NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday ; ... bounty hunters to obtain a license. To get one, they have to take courses in how to arrest people and how to use a gun. For NPR News, I'm Eric Niiler in San Diego. Content and Programming copyright 2003 National Public Radio, Inc. All rights reserved.
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	Virginia considers regulating bounty hunters, bondsmen.(Metropolitan Times) The Washington Times ; Billy Jack Pace has been a bounty hunter for nine years, and he's only had to break down one door. Sarah Strawser was the most scared she's ever been when five armed men broke through her front door and claimed to be bounty hunters looking for her roommate's boyfriend. Mr. Pace, Miss Strawser and

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