Betrayal, Murder, and Greed by Mike "Darkside" Beakley

Author:Mike "Darkside" Beakley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New Horizon Press
Published: 2011-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Hide and Seek

When Pam had introduced Mike to Mark Straub, the bounty hunter she knew, they were working for different companies. But as time went on, Mark and Mike trusted each other working on many of their separate cases. Then when Chris joined Arnie’s, the four of them all worked well together. Pam was the first to confess that having the guys knocking on the bail jumpers’ doors helped to avoid a lot of potential problems. About 99 percent of the time, you can tell if someone is going to put up a fight before he or she makes a first move. Pam knew with these guys standing in their living rooms, the fugitives would go peacefully unless they were either mentally deranged or just plain stupid.

People won’t usually fight, but they will hide. The firm had several methods of knowing whether or not a bail jumper was home. Once the team knew for sure that the fugitive was in the house, he or she never got away. Mark and Chris were good at rooting them out, but Mike felt it was his niche. “Warrant for your arrest! Everybody get down!” he yelled entering a house, getting an adrenaline rush. However, once you’ve entered that home, either with or without resistance, and you know your subject has gone into hiding, everything changes. Suddenly, everything becomes very personal.

During Mike’s SWAT team days, he had the backup of several guys searching the house together, covering doorways, watching one another’s backs and leapfrogging through the building until they located the target. That’s not the case with bounty hunting. Usually, there are two bounty hunters, maybe three, if they’re lucky. More often than not, other people are in the house with the suspect. In that situation, one partner has to keep an eye on the additional occupants while the other has to search for a hidden fugitive all alone. Often the team members don’t know if the fugitive is simply hiding or lying in wait to ambush them, but it’s their job to find him.

One summer day, Mark, Chris and Mike hit the house of the fugitive for whom they were searching. It was a family member’s home and it took several minutes for someone to answer the door. They’d heard the fugitive was home and had the back covered so the guy couldn’t get out of the place. As Chris and Mark began searching the house, Mike talked with the family members. One of them kept looking Mike in the eyes then, without moving his head, moved his eyes straight up toward the ceiling. Mike pointed one of his fingers toward the roof and the guy opened his eyes wider, the only tip-off so the other family members wouldn’t know that he snitched.

Casually Mark, Chris and Mike finished their search, ending up at the attic access. They opened the access hatch and Mark, being the tallest, stuck his head through the opening to see what he could see. Immediately Mark dropped to the ground.

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