A Utah bounty hunter is about $1,000 richer and Coulsen Mountainlion is back in the Elko County Jail less than two weeks after he was placed on the Elko Most Wanted list.
Mountainlion was originally arrested is September 2013 on a variety of drug charges and after posting a bail bond of $14,510 returned home to Bridgeport, Utah with a promise to come back for his arraignment. The cost of a bail bond is usually 10 percent of the total bail. It is forfeited if the subject does not appear at his or her appointed court date. In such a scenario the bondsman either can make good the total bail or retrieve the suspect and deliver him or her to the court.
Mountainlion was a no show, a warrant for his arrest was issued and the man was picked up near his house by an unidentified bounty hunter who put him under a citizen’s arrest and the two traveled to Wendover where he was handed over to the WWPD. Mountainlion was then transported to the Elko County Jail.
This story is not accurate at all.
I work for a local Wendover Business and distinctively remember this situation playing out as a different scenario. Certain employees at a “local business” played a part in the capture of Coulsen Wagner Mountainlion and he was actually caught and arrested approximately 1 week ago. It is unclear when and how this story of a bounty hunter came about but I can assure you that what happened 1 week ago is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and there is also more details.
According to Elko County Sheriff’s reports Mountainlion was first apprehended in his home town and then transported to Wendover. editor
That makes no sense. Why would he be transported to West Wendover where no jail exists ? Bad info or bad reporting ? Either way the story is not correct.