What Happened To Youngblood On Dog The Bounty Hunter

A&E reality TV series Dog the Bounty Hunter ran from 2004 until 2012 and over the years attracted many fans who enjoyed staying up to date with Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman, his late wife, Beth, and their family and friends as they worked at Da’ Kine Bail Bonds.

Life is very different now for Dog the Bounty Hunter and the former stars of the show. The series ended, however, some spin-offs continued to document Dog and Beth’s lives until she sadly passed away in 2019. In 2022, Dog appeared on The Masked Singer and he also remarried in 2021. He and his wife Francie Frane tied the knot in Colorado.

What happened to Youngblood on Dog the Bounty Hunter?

The 54-year-old, who was often referred to as Duane’s “blood brother,” delighted fans when he returned to the A&E series in 2010 after a one-season hiatus. Tim explained that he decided to take some time off after he was arrested in January 2008.

The third generation bondsman was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and indecent exposure after officers responded to a report of a man fondling himself in a vehicle parked outside a shopping center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

When he was asked to step out of the car, Tim got into the driver’s seat, jumped a curb near where a security guard was standing, and sped off. He later turned himself in to authorities and was initially arrested on suspicion of second-degree attempted murder and indecent exposure.

Tim’s lawyer, Brook Hart, called the incident a “massive misunderstanding,” claiming the reality star was changing his pants in the back of his Dodge Ram truck because he had spilled a drink on himself. He said his client drove away in an effort to avoid negative publicity.

“It was simply a man who wet his pants with orange juice inadvertently and was changing them, doing nothing wrong at all and believing he had sufficient privacy to do it,” Hart stated, noting that the vehicle’s backseat windows were darkly tinted. Article continues below advertisement

Tim allegedly had extra clothes in the car because he had recently moved out of the home he shared with his estranged wife. The California native was released on $11,000 bail.

One year later, an Oahu judge found Tim not guilty of indecent exposure a week after he was acquitted on the terroristic threatening charge. He told reporters that the trial had been a “waste of taxpayer money.” Article continues below advertisement

Though a woman testified that she witnessed Tim masturbating inside his truck, the judge found no direct evidence to suggest that he knew she was watching and acted intentionally.

“Its been a long year,” Tim said in an interview shortly after. “The only thing I really want to do right now is — I havent seen my kids in two weeks — just go home to my children.”

The native Californian is a single father and is said to have retired from bounty hunting altogether.

Tim “Youngblood” Chapman is one of dog’s associates who helped track down and capture the fugitives.

Distractify reported that Youngblood took time off for one season of the show after he was arrested in 2008.

He was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and indecent exposure after officers responded to a report of a man fondling himself in a vehicle parked outside a shopping center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Chapman’s lawyer claimed he had spilled orange juice on his pants and he was changing them.

It almost seems as though Tim “Youngblood” Chapman (no relation to Duane Chapman) has kind of dropped off the map these days, but one can hardly blame him when they take a look at everything that’s gone down in his life in the past two decades. The third-generation bail bondsman decided that bounty hunting would be the way to go and for a while it seems as though it worked out for him as he was given a purpose and a way to make a good life for himself and his family. But of course, as you can imagine, being a bounty hunter wasn’t always a glorious life filled with glamour and the thrill of the hunt. Chapman actually found himself in trouble a couple of times either due to behavior that he did his best to explain away or because of something that might have been avoided had he and Duane studied the laws of the country they were in a little further so that they might understand just what kind of trouble they’d be getting into. Honestly, not knowing that bounty hunting was illegal in Mexico might have been a good thing to research before crossing the border, especially given that the US and Mexico haven’t always been on the best terms throughout history.

It has been reported that he’s retired completely from the bounty hunting lifestyle and has full custody of his kids at this point, but apart from that his days of being the public eye have faded off and any mention of him at this point is usually relegated to old memories of his bounty hunting days and the trouble he found while attempting to make a living. A lot of people tend to think of bounty hunting as the hard-nosed, hardcore style that cops simply don’t get to experience and the guys that go in and do the job that law enforcement can’t do thanks to the rules and regulations that set them apart. But in truth a bounty hunter, while not quite as bound by regulations, still has to follow the law, they just don’t have to wear the uniform or worry over the bureaucratic mess that hampers a lot of cops when it comes to apprehending a fugitive. In simple terms, a bounty hunter is an average person that doesn’t have the need for as many regulations as a regular police officer that has to be trained, tested, and pay their dues to walk the beat or become a detective.

Chapman’s disappearance from the spotlight isn’t so much a bad thing as it was necessary in a big way since not only was the show on its way out, but the reputation of a bounty hunter is something that can rise and fall depending on how they present themselves and how they go about collecting their bounties. All in all it’s not a profession that’s truly respected by a lot of people but it is one that some folks tend to think of as being badass and kind of alluring in a way. The thing about being a bounty hunter though is that a person needs to realize, if they work with law enforcement things can go as rough or as smoothly as possible depending on their attitude and their approach to the job. Sometimes though going in with the wrong attitude can create more problems than a person is ready for, and can even end up getting people hurt. Thankfully for Chapman he walked away before the life could really get to him.

Still, he and Duane did manage to beat the rap on this even with the threat of prison in their future, and they continued to operate as they had been. At one point Chapman took a year-long hiatus from the show in order to attend to his family, but once he came back it was business as usual. His troubles didn’t cease however as at one point, as reported by Allison Cacich of Distractify, he was arrested for supposedly fondling himself in a car in public view, though his explanation was that he was attempting to change his pants in his car after having spilled something on them. The reason that he had extra clothing in his car at that point, as stated by his lawyer, was that he’d split with his partner at that point and had nowhere else to go. That seems kind of hard to believe considering how much the show Dog the Bounty Hunter was reported to have made, but when one considers that Chapman has a rather large family to support it becomes easier to accept. The legal troubles that he found throughout his career as well have been exceedingly expensive no doubt and it might be that he simply couldn’t afford the life any longer, from a financial and emotional standpoint, which could have facilitated a departure from the spotlight.

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