The Professional Bondsmen of Texas- Blog

Earlier this month, 28-year-old Henry Wilson only needed $10 to post bond and walk out of jail. According to his criminal history, he's spent more than a decade breaking into vehicles and stealing guns. "If you want to define a habitual offender, particularly a property offender, you've got to put Henry Wilson in your top five," said Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers. Since 2012, Wilson has racked up eight misdemeanor convictions and three felony convictions. "He's been in and out of the system multiple times," said Doug Griffith President of the Houston Police Officers Union.  And mostly for the same thing, burglary of a motor vehicle and stealing guns. "Half of Houston has been in that situation where they've had their car broken into," Griffith said. "I know it happened to me twice." "People like Wilson, property offenders wreak more havoc in a community than quite frankly a good percentage of violent offenders," said Ka...

  FOX 26's Randy Wallace and Crime Stoppers' Andy Kahan discuss the ongoing streamcast called BEHIND BREAKING BOND.  The guest is City Councilman Michael Kubosh.

"Every day when he woke up before he left for school, he'd give me a hug. Before he went to bed, he'd give me a hug. That's probably what I miss the most," said April Wright. Wright has gone 367 days with no hugs from her only son, 17-year-old Corey Lennard Thompson Jr.  Police say he was killed by 18-year-old James Sotelo, someone Corey thought was a friend. "Not only was he shot multiple times, he was shot in the back," Wright said. "He was obviously leaving the situation." "The guy was out on an assaultive offense then he gets charged with murder," said Andy Kahan with Crime Stoppers. "They originally ask for a $150,000 bond and they reduce the bond to $100,000. He gets out and a month later, he's charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon." "His bond was reduced not once, but twice. It's hard to see a judge doing that," said Corey's mom. "It's Judge Josh Hill, 232 Criminal Distric...

  Even though Criminal District Court judges can deny bonds to capital murder defendants, we have found more than 110 capital murder suspects free from jail on bond. At least four of them are accused of killing someone else while out on bond. There are good reasons why Texas gives judges the right to deny bond to capital murder suspects. "To receive a capital murder charge, it has to be multiple people, it has to be a murder in the commission of a felony offense, or you have to kill a law enforcement officer," said Doug Griffith president of the Houston Police Officers Union. "Either one of those three things you have proven that you are not going to be productive in this society." Keep in mind capital murder suspects are facing a possible death sentence or life in prison. "You've got to understand nine times out of 10, they're not coming back to court," Griffith said. On October 19, 2017, police say 20-year-old Jonathan Vera and two other men kill...