Bail agent Aleo J. Pontillo, 40, of Modesto, who owns AJ’s Bail Bonds, and bail agent and office manager Janelle Llorens, 27, also of Modesto, happen to be billed with kidnapping clients with regards to extortion and insurance fraud, states California Insurance Commissioner Dork Johnson.
Bail for Mr. Pontillo and Ms. Llorens was set at $2,000,000 and $1,000,000, correspondingly.
“The busts of those unscrupulous licensed bail agents should send an extremely obvious message,” states Mr. Johnson. “The harshness of their alleged crimes only will 't be tolerated.”
Based on the Department of Insurance, the 2 billed committed insurance fraud by posting bonds to Stanislaus County to wrongly represent that the fugitive from the court have been apprehended which Mr. Pontillo and Ms. Llorens conspired to kidnap believe it or not than six of AJ Bail Bond client’s, all whom were former arrestees glued from jail through the business, for that sole reason for extorting a bail bond premium debt.
The AJ Bail Bond clients were apprehended and moved to AJ’s Bail Bonds, held and threatened with go back to jail when they couldn't generate or get yourself a premium payment from family or buddies, states the condition.
If money was acquired, a few of the arrestees were launched in the office - other people who couldn't create a premium payment, were surrendered to jail without cause, prosecutors say. An believed $500,000 continues to be retrieved in bond forfeitures by Stanislaus County since 2009.
“This criminal conspiracy mistreated individuals who had already compensated reasonably limited bond for his or her release from jail,” states Mr. Johnson. “To ask them to grabbed in the street and extorted for further funds or face the threat of go back to jail is abhorrent.”
Also taken into custody of the children was bail agent Mark Davis, 49, of Modesto, whose bail was set at $500,000.
