Speaker 1: This is the seventy seven WABC Mini.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna focus on that in the back half of
Speaker 2: the show, the back half of the program today, but
Speaker 2: for the first half, we're doing something where I'm going
Speaker 2: to focus on someone who has spent his lifetime in
Speaker 2: law enforcement. He joins me right now. His name is
Speaker 2: John Mancini, and John spent years in law enforcement, but
Speaker 2: he put it all on the line even before his
Speaker 2: law enforcement days as a real life bounty hunter. And
Speaker 2: John has a brand new book detailing his years of
Speaker 2: tracking down fugitives and confronting danger. John Mancini and outstanding gentlemen,
Speaker 2: thank you for joining the program live. I'm doing well,
Speaker 2: so I want to talk to you about law enforcement.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about your bounty hunter days.
Speaker 2: And you know I've had the opportunity to meet you.
Speaker 2: You're one of the nicest comments guys that one could
Speaker 2: ever meet. Right, But then, I've seen clips of you
Speaker 2: on television from your bounty hunter days, and back then
Speaker 2: you had a beard, and you know, the John Mancini
Speaker 2: today doesn't seem to match the John Mancini of yester
Speaker 2: year in terms of the beard and going after these
Speaker 2: guys as a bounty hunter. Tell the audience what your
Speaker 2: book is about. The book is titled On the Run
Speaker 2: John Mancini, True Stories of John Mike in the Fugitive
Speaker 2: World of New Jersey.
Speaker 1: Basically, I started in as a private investigator and I
Speaker 1: met Mike at oar To Security. We started doing a
Speaker 1: couple of jobs together and we were getting results, and
Speaker 1: he used to be a bounty hunter and he kept
Speaker 1: busting me, saying, come on, come on, let's do it,
Speaker 1: let's do it. And I kept saying, you're crazy, you're crazy,
Speaker 1: and he said, finally got me down and he said,
Speaker 1: we'll just do one. If you don't like it, pack
Speaker 1: it in. We're good. So we did one and the
Speaker 1: adrenaline rush was unbelievable. And the difference is back then
Speaker 1: the world was different. I was much different. It was
Speaker 1: a pre nine to eleven. The world was just like
Speaker 1: a totally different place. And also back then law enforcement
Speaker 1: was our cue is to get the bad guy. You
Speaker 1: do what you gotta do, you get the bad guy.
Speaker 1: You know now not so much.
Speaker 2: Now not so much. So John is going to be
Speaker 2: taking you a telephone calls for the first half of
Speaker 2: the program about his days in law enforcement. His days
Speaker 2: are starting the K nine unit, one of the units
Speaker 2: in New Jersey, his days as a bounty hunter. But
Speaker 2: specifically on his book, the number to reach us live
Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty four, eight nine to two. So
Speaker 2: talk to me, John Mancini. You know, I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the chapters in the book. I loved the book. Some
Speaker 2: of the chapters The cost of being a bounty hunter.
Speaker 2: Next thing I see better be a badge. You can
Speaker 2: never be right one hundred percent of the time. Holy
Speaker 2: bleep leap, I'm on TV. What tell us about the
Speaker 2: book specific Well.
Speaker 1: It's pretty funny because you would think a book like
Speaker 1: that's going to be just like a rugged book, knocking
Speaker 1: down doors, and it really isn't. There's some of that
Speaker 1: in there. But my partner, Mike was it was actually
Speaker 1: a comedian and he was probably one of the funniest
Speaker 1: guys I've ever met my life. And there was just
Speaker 1: a lot of situations we were in and he would
Speaker 1: just throw comments and it just broke the air. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just very, very different. We were one of
Speaker 1: the few bounty hunters that were allowed to do deportation bonds,
Speaker 1: so we used to travel to Oakdale, Louisiana. Wow, take
Speaker 1: these little puddle jump planes either that had a curtain
Speaker 1: back then to to divide the pilot. But it was
Speaker 1: it was very very different back then, and what a
Speaker 1: lot of people see on TV is totally not what
Speaker 1: it's about. Very very rarely would knock a door down
Speaker 1: because you really don't know what's on the other side
Speaker 1: of that. You know you're going into their territory and
Speaker 1: you kind of don't want to do that. You want
Speaker 1: to get them when their guard is down. We used
Speaker 1: to love when they'd be walking to a car because
Speaker 1: now they're they're thinking of everything else. They got their
Speaker 1: keys in their hand, they go to unlock the car.
Speaker 1: That's when you grab a guy on each side and
Speaker 1: I'm saying keys. That's back when we had keys for cars.
Speaker 2: Right right, right, So explain so so and you know
Speaker 2: you have to know. John, I'm going to ask you
Speaker 2: this question. Is it like dog the Bunt bounty hunting
Speaker 2: that we used to see on television before he got
Speaker 2: in trouble.
Speaker 1: Oh god, no, it's not okay, So no, no, it's first, Well,
Speaker 1: like you said, I had a beard, I had long
Speaker 1: hair because I generally look like a police officer even
Speaker 1: if I'm not, so I had to, you know, blend in.
Speaker 1: He comes out in these outfits, and they came out
Speaker 1: with dogs right after we got out of the business
Speaker 1: and we were on Channel Mine a couple of times.
Speaker 1: So I really think that that was the prelude. But
Speaker 1: that's he went would all show and it was really
Speaker 1: that's not a good way of doing it. Nobody should
Speaker 1: even know who you are. You should be able to
Speaker 1: just slip in, go anywhere, blend anywhere. He can't really
Speaker 1: blend in anywhere, right, right.
Speaker 2: So you know, I was looking at some of the
Speaker 2: news accounts from you and your partner, and you guys
Speaker 2: would just roll up on somebody and and was there
Speaker 2: were there many times when they would resist. And I
Speaker 2: want to ask you, because I know you're big on
Speaker 2: law enforcement, how law enforcement officers are treated today. I'll
Speaker 2: get to that, but like, did you ever have any
Speaker 2: problem them with these guys that yet? And and then
Speaker 2: I want to ask you, how does the system work
Speaker 2: when when you go to catch somebody and does that
Speaker 2: mean they forfeit the bond? But but anyway, were there
Speaker 2: ever any situations with you and your partner with some
Speaker 2: guy who was like, I'm not going and then what
Speaker 2: do you do at that point?
Speaker 1: We had there was definitely a few that that were
Speaker 1: like that. We also had two dogs. We had a
Speaker 1: doverman and a rockwaller, so that that helped us out
Speaker 1: a lot because they might not have been afraid of us,
Speaker 1: but they were scared hell of the dogs. But again,
Speaker 1: you have to you have to act quick, you know,
Speaker 1: and and we knew what each weather we're going to do,
Speaker 1: so you really kind of want to go win quick.
Speaker 1: But we had we had guys that were big and
Speaker 1: my partner was a big guy that you know. We
Speaker 1: went through closets, over chairs, over water coolers, you know,
Speaker 1: but usually two against one we usually be able to
Speaker 1: once we get the cups on, it's it's pretty much.
Speaker 1: But we definitely we've had guys with guns. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was every year rest that you went on,
Speaker 1: and we did a lot of big bonds. You had
Speaker 1: to know that they've been in jail before and they
Speaker 1: didn't like it and they don't want to go back,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty much simple. So they're going to try
Speaker 1: and resist.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if I could do that job
Speaker 2: because they are going to try and resist. And so
Speaker 2: you went from bounty hunting into law enforcement, correct as
Speaker 2: an officer, correct, and you started I think the West Orange,
Speaker 2: New Jersey, is that correct, police department?
Speaker 1: Correct? The canine unit over there yet, And so you went.
Speaker 2: From having a dog with you two dogs as a
Speaker 2: bounty hunter, so you joined the police department. And I've
Speaker 2: even seen some videos of you as as a cadet
Speaker 2: at the academy. But you went from that to law enforcement.
Speaker 2: But then why did you get rid of the bed?
Speaker 2: Was it mandatory to.
Speaker 1: Get rid of it back then? Back then it was?
Speaker 1: And the beard's purpose was to make me not look
Speaker 1: like a cop. And Channel nine was they were doing
Speaker 1: stories on us like once a month about arrests. And
Speaker 1: then they actually helped a couple of rests because people
Speaker 1: saw them their wanted face on TV. And all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, we would get a lot of calls. That's
Speaker 1: actually one of the stories in the book. So we
Speaker 1: did that. We also got involved with the FBI and
Speaker 1: the Marshall Service because we were able to do different
Speaker 1: things that they really had their hands tied. So it
Speaker 1: was a nice, a nice relationship with that and it
Speaker 1: worked out well and we cleared up so many open
Speaker 1: bonds that you know, the work started dwindling, and then
Speaker 1: they came out with bail reform and it totally destroyed
Speaker 1: the whole bail industry.