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It turns out Duane Chapman was being dogged by old charges.
"Viva la Mexico!" was Dog the Bounty Hunter's response when a Mexican judge ruled Monday that the statute of limitations had expired on the kidnapping charge he was facing stemming from his 2003 capture of convicted rapist Andrew Luster.
Judge Jose Alberto Montes of the First Criminal Court in Jalisco, Mexico, then dismissed the case against Chapman. State prosecutors immediately appealed the decision, but a ruling isn't expected for at least a few months.
"The weight has been lifted off my chest," said Chapman, who spent two weeks in a Mexican jail along with son Leland and pal Tim Chapman (no relation) in 2003 after collaring Luster and handing him over to U.S. authorities. The Americans posted bail and then left the country, leading to a warrant for their arrest.
Luster, an heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, ended up with a 124-year prison sentence and Chapman's role in the high-profile case landed him his own reality series on A&E, but bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico and authorities charged the Hawaii-based bail bondsman with "deprivation of liberty."
At the behest of Mexico, U.S. Marshals took Chapman and his cohorts in the Luster bust into custody last September and held him overnight at a federal detention center in Honolulu. Chapman was released on a $300,000 bond, his son and friend ponied up $100,000 apiece, and the trio have been fighting a push to extradite them ever since.
The three Chapmans were facing up to four years in a Mexican prison if convicted. All of them, according to their Mexican and U.S. counsel, have now been awarded "absolute and immediate freedom."
One of Hawaii's favorite sons, Chapman was honored in March by the state legislature for his contributions to the justice system. The 54-year-old who was convicted of being an accessory to murder in 1977 has since turned his life around, Hawaiian officials said at the commendation ceremony, and has gone on to catch more than 6,000 bail jumpers and become a positive role model in his community.
Referring to the charges pending against Chapman at the time, state Representative Gene Ward said: "It is not something the people of Hawaii and the nation are taking lightly. The Dog needs to be free from a Mexican jail."
Chapman's latest contribution to society, his autobiography You Can Run but You Can't Hide, is due out Aug. 7, and he's scheduled to appear on Larry King Live Friday to discuss his legal travails.
Dog the Bounty Hunter wrapped its fourth season in June and A&E will be showing the one-hour special A Man Called Dog on Aug. 14.
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