Sure people of wealth rape, but the only time it is publicized in is cases like this. If she wasn't black and they weren't from wealth, we would not know about it because she wouldn't be going to these lengths.
Don't forget about this disgusto. And this guy videotaped
Inside the take-down of Andrew Luster
Fugitive rapist and cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, with new facial hair in this Puerto Vallarta mugshot, was collared Wednesday.
By Matt Bean
Court TV
Duane "Dog" Chapman, the bounty hunter who took down fugitive rapist Andrew Luster in a Mexico showdown Wednesday, beat an FBI attache to the case by mere hours, said an FBI official as details of the frantic struggle emerged late Wednesday.
The scramble for Luster, who skipped out on a crumbling California trial on rape and drugging charges, came down to an early morning confrontation in the street.
After more than five months on the case, Chapman caught up with Luster in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, a resort town of cheap drink specials, discos and American tourists. The bounty hunter brought his sons, Leland and Tim Chapman, and a two-man camera crew.
Leads generated from his Web site had fueled Chapman's five-month search, but this time it was a tip from an American tourist couple who had been in contact with Luster in Puerto Vallarta that set him off.
The couple later tipped off the FBI as well, but Chapman, who boasts 6,000 collars and had followed Luster's trial from Ventura to Santa Monica and beyond, had a head start.
He found the fugitive heir, who had been using the alias David Carrera, in Zoo Bar, near the intersection of avenues Mexico and Honduras. Using mace and handcuffs, Chapman and his crew seized Luster. As the men wrestled Luster outside and piled into two trucks, a Chevrolet Suburban and a Chrysler Voyager, local merchants alerted police to the scuffle.
Chapman's spokesperson, Beth Smith, told Court TV she was on the phone with the burly bounty hunter as he snatched Luster. "[Luster] freaked out a little when he saw Dog," said Smith. "Dog never carries a weapon of any kind, only mace," and it didn't seem like anyone got hurt.
After the take-down, said Smith, the crew headed for the airport. Then the abduction went wrong.
"Duane was taking him to a more secure location and the local cops grabbed him," said Smith.
In Mexico, kidnapping, of a fugitive or not, is an arrestable offense. All six men were detained.
But while Chapman may have been responsible for Luster's eventual return to the U.S., authorities appeared unimpressed with the vigilante's efforts.
Law enforcement officials bristled at the mention of Chapman in a press conference late Wednesday, chastising him for going too far, and signaling that they would not help the bounty hunter dodge potential kidnapping charges.
"I think his actions are just beyond the bounds that I can condone," said Ralph Boelter,
the assistant special agent in charge of the FBI's Ventura office. "He's out there acting on his own ... Certainly it is not something the FBI would condone. We will not be acting on his behalf."
Chapman had his eye on Mexico as early as January. "All these rich guys have their hole in the wall," he said then. "There's always a place where they think there's no cops."
In Mexico, he said, resort employees and local residents often respond to one timeless tactic: handing a potential tipster half of a torn hundred-dollar bill, and promising the other half when their tips pay off.
A Puerto Vallarta newspaper reporter, Angela Corelis, said that fugitive take-downs are commonplace in the resort town. "Once a week they pick someone up down here," said Corelis. "They get drunk and cry about [what they did] in bars."
Ventura County Sheriff Bob Brooks, who said he had six officers working leads on the Luster case at some points in the investigation, told reporters he wasn't embarassed that Chapman scooped his department.
"We were surprised but not embarassed," said Brooks. "He's off the streets."
Just how long it will take before Luster is returned to the U.S. remains to be seen. If Mexican immigration authorities confirm that he was in the country illegally, he could be deported — a quick process. Extradition proceedings would likely take longer.
When Luster does touch down in California, Ventura County authorities will take custody of him.
Officials said Wednesday that it was unclear whether Chapman would qualify for a $10,000 reward for Luster's capture, or for any of the $1 million bond he posted before skipping bail.
"His arrogance was his downfall," said Beth Smith, Chapman's spokesperson and companion. "This is an arrogant person and his his arrogance was his downfall as Dog said it would be."
Luster, the 39-year-old great-grandson of cosmetics king Max Factor, was convicted in absentia of 86 counts, including multiple rape charges connected to assaults in 1996, 1997 and 2000. Police say he videotaped sex with unconscious women after drugging them with the date rape drug GHB.
(from courttv.com)
