Get Out: Bail Bonds Edition

"Bail Bonds Neon" by Flickr contributor spike55151.
Further proving there really is a Flickr group for everything, we found this in the Flickr Bail Bonds Group.

Seems to be a big day for bail bonds and crime stories, and little else, in Seattle today.

First comes the story of Tammy Gibson, who attacked a new neighbor with a baseball bat last week. The new neighbor? A 7-foot-3-inch registered sex offender. After the assault, both Gibson and William Baldwin, the man she attacked, were arrested. Gibson was arrested for felony harassment and second degree assault and Baldwin for failing to register as a sex offender at his new address. Both had been in jail since the incident, but today Tammy Gibson is a free woman. An anonymous individual paid Gibson's $15,000 bail bond last night Lucky for her, someone with a fat wallet appears to be a big fan of vigilante justice. Baldwin on the other hand, remains in prison.

Stories like the following make Seattlest think that karma is a wonderful thing. Samuel Lucero Jr., a 25-year-old bail bondsman is facing $50,000 bail himself today for extortion and trafficking in stolen goods. Lucero was feeling all Sopranos, it would seem, and told a former client that he would revoke his bail unless he stole ten plasma TVs for him. Lucero's former client had obviously learned that crime didn't pay the last go-around, so he set up the bail bondsman with a Fife police officer to exchange the stolen goods.

Lastly, $1 million bail has been set in the heartbreaking case of the Federal Way infant that was burned to death in a backyard fire pit this weekend while his father was asleep. Yesterday, the King County Medical Examiner ruled the infant's death a homicide. The seven-month-old child suffered burns on 100% of his body and soot was found in his throat, indicating the baby was alive when he entered the fire pit. While Rios claims he was asleep (or passed out drunk) during the baby's death, the fact the seven-month-old was not crawling yet places considerable doubt on his claim. While we are all about being "innocent until proven guilty," we're having a real hard time keeping that in mind when it comes to this tragic death.