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Bounty hunters who tried grabbing Carlstadt man didn’t have licenses, indictment charges

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trio of Long Island-based bounty hunters trying to collar a Carlstadt man on outstanding warrants were indicted on charges of operating without a license.

Photo Credit: Courtesy CARLSTADT PD

A 2nd Street resident called police after four men with a dog came to the door just before midnight Sept. 9 and one tried opening a window screen, Police Chief Thomas Nielsen said at the time.

The group fled and Carlstadt police issued a be-on-the-lookout alert, Nielsen said.

Soon after, East Rutherford Police Officer Michael Podiea said he was approached in the parking lot of a Route 17 Exxon station by three men in a minivan with New York license plates.

The trio told him that they were bounty hunters looking for a resident at the 2nd Street apartment, Nielsen said.

Podiea escorted them back there, where they were met by Carlstadt Officers Scott Jordan and Jonathan Rood, he said.

The men “produced paperwork that indicated that one of the residents of the 2nd Street address had two outstanding warrants from New York jurisdictions,” the chief said, so everyone went to Carlstadt police headquarters.

There, Nielsen’s officers discovered that the warrants weren’t extradictable and that none of the three was licensed to operate as a bounty hunter in New Jersey.

A grand jury in Hackensack returned the single non-licensed count against James Carrion Sr. of Kresgeville, PA (above, left); James Carrion Jr. of the Bronx (middle); and Thomas Avila of Poughkeepsie (right).

All three, were with Bounty Hunter Grid Investigations of Garden City, NY, authorities said.

MUGSHOTS: Courtesy CARLSTADT PD

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