Duane Lee Chapman II and Leland Blane Chapman are bail bondsmen and appeared on his A&E Network reality show until they quit in dramatic fashion.
In 2011, Leland (born December 14, 1976) and Duane Lee (born January 21, 1973) quit working with their father and stepmother Beth Chapman, and severed ties with their family.
The March 21, 2012, episode showed Duane Lee telling Beth: “You want me fired, you gotta fire me.”
And as the two stormed out, Beth refused to back down, and told them: “It’s not on me, Leland. Call your dad! Call your dad!”
Beth took to Twitter to let fans know there was plenty of action to come from the show yet.
She said: “It will take six weeks to get through the whole thing. Tonight’s just the beginning.”
Since leaving the show Leland Chapman operates his own bail bond company, Kama’aina Bail Bonds on the Big Island of Hawaii and runs his father’s business, Da Kine Bail Bonds in Oahu.
He resides with wife, Jamie P. Chapman whom he married in 2016 and is still working as a bail agent.
Meanwhile, Duane Lee has managed to keep an extremely low profile following his departure from the show.
Chapman’s ex-wife La Fonda Sue Honeycutt divorced him when he was in jail, and married his best friend.
Leland did leave his father’s first reality series in 2012, but he hasn’t given up his well-known career as a professional bounty hunter. Since leaving the show, he has operated his own
company in Hawaii, Kama’ina Bail Bonds. In 2015, he relocated to Alabama and began living with his current wife.
He resides with wife, Jamie P. Chapman whom he married in 2016 and is still working as a bail agent.
Duane Lee Chapman II and Leland Blane Chapman are bail bondsmen and appeared on his A&E Network reality show until they quit in dramatic fashion.
Meanwhile, Duane Lee has managed to keep an extremely low profile following his departure from the show.
And as the two stormed out, Beth refused to back down, and told them: “It’s not on me, Leland. Call your dad! Call your dad!”
Beth took to Twitter to let fans know there was plenty of action to come from the show yet.
Thankfully, a hunt in March of this year ended in similar success and without injury for Chapman. In March, the bounty hunter shared a photo of himself taking a suspect, who was wanted in Mississippi, into custody in Jacksonville, Florida. That post was met with congratulatory messages from followers applauding his success.
In a Saturday, Oct. 2-dated photo shared to Instagram, Chapman took his 509,000 Instagram followers behind-the-scenes of his latest hunt. Although the did not show Chapman capturing a fugitive, it did show him decked out in protective gear including a bullet proof vest, his badge visible, as he approached a door. Chapman teased in the caption, “come out come out wherever you are.” The post generated plenty of comments from fans, with one person writing, “get them !!!!!” Another person wrote, “be safe and thank you for all you guys do.”
In his years as a bail bondsman and bounty hunter, Chapman hasnt shied away from sharing his experiences. Back in July 2019, he sparked worry among fans after being hospitalized following the hunt for a suspect who was charged with domestic violence. During the hunt, Chapman suffered a torn ACL, though he still managed to take the suspect into custody.
Although Chapmans post also generated plenty of remarks from those commenting on the search for Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old boyfriend of Gabby Petito, the travel vlogger who was killed while traveling the country with her boyfriend, Chapman is not currently working on that case. While his father has been confirmed to have joined the manhunt for Laundrie, Chapman works separately from his father. After leaving Dog the Bounty Hunter in 2012, he now operates his own bail bond company, Kamaaina Bail Bonds on the Big Island of Hawaii, according to The Sun, which also reports that he runs his fathers business, Da Kine Bail Bonds, in Oahu.
Leland Chapman may have left his familys beloved series Dog the Bounty Hunter back in 2012, but he is still following in his father Duane “Dog” Chapmans footsteps. Chapman, who like his father is a bail bondsman and bounty hunter, recently gave fans an up-close look at his day job as he was on the hunt for criminals.
He told ET that the injury left him feeling like he was “walking on sand.”
“And right at that second, instead of opening the gate, I knew he was still right behind it, so I tried to kick it open. He was a bigger guy, [so I was hoping] the gate would hit him and knock him down so we could get him.
Dad-of-three Leland and his hardman father Dog, 68, were chasing a domestic violence suspect in Colorado when a scrap broke out.
Since leaving the show, Leland Chapman operates his own bail bond company, Kama’aina Bail Bonds on the Big Island of Hawaii and runs his father’s business, Da Kine Bail Bonds in Oahu.
“When I went to kick the gate, it kind of flexed, and then it completely severed off my Achilles tendon. So it broke. Snapped it right in half,” he added.
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