Los Angeles Bail Bonds …just another day

There has been an uptick lately in bail scams in Los Angeles County.  Yesterday afternoon, as a client was getting out of their car to come into my office in El Monte, a truck pulled up and asked the people if they were getting a bail bond (talk about gorilla marketing!).  They told them not to go into my office, they can write the bond.  They proceeded to tell them that they could do it faster (I guess because they were on the street) and would do it for a $1,000 discount (which is illegal, by the way).  The public needs to be aware of these people and not deal with “bail agents” who work out of their car on the streets.  The bail industry has a hard enough time keeping it’s image above water without these hoodlums running around making us all look like decrepit, money grubbing, con artists.