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Update on Dog the Bounty Hunter (VIDEO)

April 6th, 2007 at 10:42 by MsUnderestimated

Allright, I’ll admit it already. Although I have it as one of my “must see TV” on my blog page, I very rarely post about it. That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t care about Duane and Beth Chapman and their family. I love the show, The Bounty Hunter, and watch it every week. Duane Chapman is a self-confessed convict turned good. The way that he and Beth try to get these crooks to go straight every week is a testament to their faith in God, and I love to watch the show. Dog always starts out with high energy, a passion to catch the bad guys, but an even stronger passion to show them how what they’re doing is wrong, and that their lives are headed in the wrong direction. In other words, he gives folks a second and sometimes third chance.

The Chapmans have been under a lot of stress lately, as they’ve been pursued by the Mexican government. Our government hasn’t done them any favors either, it appears, as all indicators right now lead to the fact that our government will cooperate with the Mexican government to extradite Duane, Leland and Tim over their capture of Andrew Luster in Mexico. Why? Because the Mexican government considers what Dog has done as a kidnapping. WTF? Luster was an FBI’s most wanted fugitive for 86 counts of rape in the United States, and the Dog and crew did their job. They snatched him up, yet the Mexican government has charged the crew with “Deprivation of Liberty” for their capture of Luster. How in the hell can our government allow Mexico to extradite these men back?

It seems that Beth and Duane have been long-time friends with Greta Van Susteren, and they were on her show this past week to give her an update. They have a lot of important people backing them. That list includes Tom Tancredo, among others.

From a piece in The Hill:

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) is questioning the legality of the ongoing extradition of bounty hunter and cable TV personality Duane “Dog” Chapman to Mexico. The lawmaker Wednesday contacted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about the case.
“News reports have come to light showing that the extradition agreement between the U.S. and Mexico may be nothing more than a wink and a nod between governments,” said Tancredo, who is running for president. “I hope that Secretary Rice looks into whether this agreement has the legal force before extraditing a man who put away a serial rapist.”

Mexican authorities arrested Chapman in June 2003 for capturing fugitive rape convict Andrew Luster in Puerto Vallarta. Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico.

Chapman made his $1,300 bail, left Mexico, and has been fighting extradition ever since.

The ex-con-turned-bounty hunter, who is featured in a TV show on A&E, was arrested again last September in Hawaii and charged with deprivation of liberty for the capture of Luster.

Tancredo based his inquiry on the congressional testimony of Alan J. Kreczko, deputy legal adviser to then-Secretary of State James Baker, who said the U.S. and Mexico had “exchanged letters” approving the extradition of bounty hunters for trans-border captures.

The lawmaker also cites a 1992 Supreme Court decision in which former Chief Justice William Rehnquist writes that the U.S.-Mexico extradition treaty “says nothing about the obligations of the United States and Mexico to refrain from forcible abductions of people from the territory of the other nation, or the consequences under the treaty if such an abduction occurs.”

Others are also highlighting this, like the Freepers. I think this will be a serious miscarriage of justice if this is allowed to happen.

Watch Duane and Beth on Greta about the latest news here.

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