MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The hound turned into the hare when U.S. bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman, arrested on the job in Mexico, jumped bail himself and fled to the United States.
Local police chief Marco Roberto Juarez said on Wednesday his force had asked Interpol for help to track down Chapman and two relatives detained in the resort of Puerto Vallarta in June for the illegal abduction of fugitive U.S. rapist Andrew Luster, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune.
Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico and Chapman, who boasts of 6,000 captures in his long career, fled to the United States after being released on bail of $1,700. He failed to appear in court for a hearing on Monday.
"It's a fact that they've gone to the United States," Juarez told Reuters by telephone.
Marco Antonio Castaneda, Chapman's lawyer, confirmed that Chapman had crossed the border, saying he had last heard he was attempting to collect his bounty in Los Angeles.
Chapman was arrested after seizing Luster in the street in Puerto Vallarta with the aim of taking him back to the United States to serve a 124-year jail sentence for drugging three women and raping them.
But passers-by alerted police who detained millionaire Luster, the bounty hunter, two relatives helping him and a U.S. TV crew.
Local police chief Marco Roberto Juarez said on Wednesday his force had asked Interpol for help to track down Chapman and two relatives detained in the resort of Puerto Vallarta in June for the illegal abduction of fugitive U.S. rapist Andrew Luster, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune.
Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico and Chapman, who boasts of 6,000 captures in his long career, fled to the United States after being released on bail of $1,700. He failed to appear in court for a hearing on Monday.
"It's a fact that they've gone to the United States," Juarez told Reuters by telephone.
Marco Antonio Castaneda, Chapman's lawyer, confirmed that Chapman had crossed the border, saying he had last heard he was attempting to collect his bounty in Los Angeles.
Chapman was arrested after seizing Luster in the street in Puerto Vallarta with the aim of taking him back to the United States to serve a 124-year jail sentence for drugging three women and raping them.
But passers-by alerted police who detained millionaire Luster, the bounty hunter, two relatives helping him and a U.S. TV crew.
