Hodgetwins examine the Bring Him Home Bail Bonds scandal where bounty hunters Alan Hinton and two accomplices kidnapped Hussein Al Sadi in Foxborough using stun grenades and AR-15s. Mistaking the 22-year-old barber for a federal fugitive based on a flawed 79% AI facial match, the group arrested an innocent immigrant while the real suspect remains at large in Iraq. Facing felony charges for this $500,000 bounty job that earned them up to $75,000, the incident exposes dangerous reliance on unverified intelligence and excessive force against a family who fled violence in Iraq. [Automatically generated summary]
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Wrong Suspect, Real Felony00:08:59
Three bounty hunters are facing felony charges accused of kidnapping a man they thought was a capital murder suspect.
Well, turns out he wasn't.
Foxborough's David Centre live tonight spoke with a man who was pulled from his family's garage and then thrown in a U-Haul.
David.
Yeah, the bounty hunters thought they had their murder suspect here in Richardson, but it turns out they had the wrong guy.
The real suspect is believed to be 7,000 miles away.
They say, what's your name?
I said, Hussein Al Sadi.
Who is Hussein Al Sadi, a 22-year-old aspiring barber whose family immigrated to the United States from Iraq in 2012?
A more pressing question, who is he not?
Well, he's not 23-year-old Hussein Al Sadi, who federal investigators say is on the run.
He doesn't even look like the same guy.
Different complexion, different hair.
Yeah.
Different face.
In Iraq, after cutting his ankle monitor while out on bond for capital murder by terroristic threat in Dallas.
Did you know this personality?
No, I never met him.
How does somebody get bombed with capital murder with terroristic threats?
Democrats.
In my life.
Never even heard of him.
Never.
Still, three bounty hunters now face felony charges, including...
Three sub-Saharan kidnapping for wrongfully apprehending Al Sadi, thinking he was the murder suspect.
I'm a professional.
Alan Hinton, the leader of the three bounty hunters.
We'll get back to him momentarily.
They just assumed it was me, but obviously they had the wrong guy.
Al Sadi was cutting a client's hair inside his family's garage in Richardson on June 1st.
That's when a U-Haul van drove up.
Three black males jumped out with guns and took Al Sadi, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
They threw two stun grenades and they just started aiming AR-15s on my head into my brother's head.
Home surveillance video motioning on only as the U-Haul drives away with Al Sadi inside.
They said they put over the U-Haul truck in 1999 and damn the title and bombed him with two stun grenades.
Yeah, they think they are Navy COTE 6 or something.
Imagine a U-Haul pull-up and two stun grenades.
These people dressed out like they COTE 6 and three Negroes.
You think you're getting wrong.
Last thing I would think of, I'm going to jail.
Yeah, I would say they finna kidnap me.
Yeah.
You're wondering for capital murder by terrorism.
I actually started laughing because I was like, oh my God, yeah, I have the wrong person.
An arrest warrant says three bounty hunters working for the security firm of a clandestine group were contracting for bring-em home bail bonds to serve.
Bring them home 24 set of bail bonds.
The clandestine group.
A warrant to Hussein Al Sadi.
Al Sadi had posted a $500,000 bond through Bring Hem Home after being charged in a capital murder.
How do you get a $500,000 bond for capital murder with terroristic threats?
How do you even get bail?
I know exactly.
What is stupid Bring Pope 24?
Well, three sub-Saharans did.
This sub-Saharan own business said, let's get in bail.
Yeah, so 500,000 bounty hunters get paid, I think, 10 to 15% of the bonds.
Something like that.
They make like $50,000 to $75,000 just for that one dude.
So they wasn't thinking about if it's the right person.
All they was count that money for his shit.
I know.
Yeah.
Through Bring Him Home after being charged in a capital murder at a suspected drug operation in Northwest Dallas in February 2024.
We refer to ourselves as fugitive recovery agents.
Alan Hinton and his team told Richardson police through months of intel and confidential informants, he and the Brigham Home Bail Bonds Company thought Hussein Al Sadi was their target.
That's a lie.
Take months of intel.
You had some informants.
That's all a lie.
Yeah, they try to cover their tracks.
Yeah, that is crazy.
They had a 79% facial recognition match using an AI tool, according to an arrest evidence.
Wait a minute.
79% facial recognition match.
Using AI.
Don't that's supposed to be 100% before you nab some.
Oh, we got a 79% match.
This is good enough.
Hey, Kevin.
Like, you got the picture of the guy that's wanted.
Yeah.
And you look at him.
You're like, yeah.
I don't think that's him.
Right.
He's got two different complexions.
Yeah, he's like black skinned.
Yeah, I'm not sure how the AI came up to, I mean, came up with 79% facial match.
When Al Sadi maintained his innocence, the bounty hunters contacted local police.
We instantly made those calls to Richardson PD.
So when did they ultimately realize that they had the wrong person?
After the fingerprint.
Richardson police detained Al Sadi until a detective on the FBI's task force arrived with a mobile fingerprinting device.
The results showed Hussein Al Sadi was who he said he was and was not the subject of the warrant.
Everybody's surrounding me in a circle, just waiting for the results.
And obviously after the results, the officer told them, yeah, this is not him.
And that's when you just see them get back in the U-Haul truck and then just drive off.
Well, what's the purpose of the U-Haul truck?
They broke.
And look, it's $19.99 a day, Kevin.
So obviously that business is not doing too hot.
Yeah, we'll get a U-Haha.
It's only $19.99 a day.
Andiginally, I'd have came in with a, I would have drove up in a FedEx truck.
Hey, I got a package for Hussein Al Dottie.
That's what I would have did.
Are you Hussein Al Dottie?
Yeah, here's your package.
Bam!
But I would have never did that because you look at the picture.
They don't even look like you.
And then just drive off.
A Richardson police detective spoke with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office and U.S. Marshals, both advising the detective that the capital murder suspect fled to Iraq after breaking an ankle monitor in August 2024.
The U.S. Marshals say no one from Brigham Home Bail Bonds reached out regarding the case.
And if they had, Marshals would have said this Al Sadi was the wrong guy.
I would just hope they actually take their information before they go do that and traumatize a family.
Hinton says Brigham Home Bail Bonds provided background information on the suspect.
And with that information and additional research, his team identified this Al Sadi.
Hinton says he's not a criminal.
It's just not who I am.
Just someone trying to make a living.
That was a criminal act you did.
Fegitive recovery aid.
They spent all this money on those expensive looking uniforms.
Make them look legit.
Y'all should have put kidnappers on the first fugitive task force professional kidnappers.
What is that that logo?
What is that?
That little goo looks crazy.
But we're talking sub-Saharan Y'all need to hire some white people.
Think about this, Keith.
The white person no matters.
Get y'all straight.
Hey, Q, you pull up in a rented U-Haul truck for $19.99, and then you throw two stun grenades.
And somebody, they actually think this dude skipped.
They actually think, these sub-terrans actually think this dude skipped bail and started a barbershop in his garage or somewhere.
Yeah, that's crazy.
They came there, look at him, stick around like this.
Boom!
Did that cut out?
Boom!
Man, that's crazy.
Hey, y'all need to get locked up.
Me, but we was thinking about doing this job.
When we was younger, it was probably best games.
I said, man, we're going to do some bail enforcement.
Yeah, we're just watching Dog and Bond Hunt.
I said, I want to be like Dog and Bond.
We're going to call it Hodge and Hogs Bail.
Bail enforcement.
That's corny.
Hodge and Hodge.
I believe right now law enforcement is overworked, and I do believe in having positive interactions with law enforcement and being able to assist them.
You know, I do a hard job, and without qualified immunity, it makes things a lot harder for us.
Hinton's attorney says his client was just doing his job.
My client has no criminal history at all.
Man, all you had to do was look at pictures.
From Bail Bonds to Kidnapping00:01:39
Yeah.
You said y'all put months of intel in this.
Y'all put...
Y'all had some informants.
Got AI.
I bet y'all did like a credit, checked his credit report.
Yeah.
And found all these people that had that name.
And then said, look, there's only one ear.
It's got to be him.
That's $100,000 sitting in our house right now.
Hey, John, but I was looking, he's in the garage.
He's cutting some other terrorist hair or something.
Let's go get him.
He was executing this warrant based on the law that's out there.
Al Sadi's attorney says that job comes with heavy responsibility.
And that cannot be taken lightly and cannot be callously.
Oops, I got the wrong guy.
Al Sadi says the encounter makes him think of his father.
I saw tears coming out of his eyes.
He says his family left Iraq after two of his uncles were kidnapped and killed.
His father wanting safety for his family.
I feel like I'm going to cry because my dad already been through a lot.
Sorry.
While thinking of what could have happened to his father, mother, brother, and special needs sister had the encounter at their home been worse, Al Sadi, too emotional to finish our interview.
If we could take a minute, please.
So we've reached out to Brigham Home Bail Bonds Company several times since we began looking into this story.
And at this point in time, they have declined all of our requests for comment or any sort of on-campus.