Bail Bonds Related Crime Tops Ohio Enforcement

The Ohio Department of Insurance released their list of the top insurance enforcement actions and fraud for 2010. Bail bonds managed to secure one of the top spots, when Darryl Ables, an Indiana bail bond agent told an Ohio family he was able to write bail bonds for Ohio courts. The family paid him $100,000, which he then stole according to the courts. He was sentenced in September of 2010 to four years in prison and four years of community control on one count of theft by deception. Ables also was ordered to make restitution to the victims.

Bail Bonds Refund Scam Results In Two Convictions

As everyone knows, once a defendant appears in court as ordered and fulfills their legal obligations the bail used to secure their release will be refunded. Shandarrick Barnes and Nathan Jones were recently convicted of using their company Refund Solutions to fraudulently get bonds that had been posted by other people.

Sounds like a sure fire to make a lot money. You get other people's bail for nothing. It also sounds like a sure fire way to go to jail. Common sense says that can't go on for too long before people who rightfully are entitled to their bail refunds come looking for their money. Everything started to unravel for the duo when an actual bond poster tried to obtain their $38,000 from the court and were told it had been released to Refund Solutions. As you can imagine, signatures and id cards are required to walk away with the bail money. Of course, a false driver's license and a forged signature were used to fraudulently obtain the bail refund.

 Shandarrick Barnes was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to defrauding the sheriff's office and Cobb County Superior Court clerk and Sheriff's office. Mr. Jones, has not yet been sentenced for his crimes.