Daniel Hurst, the son of Hamilton County Register of Deeds Pam Hurst, who, after being charged with his third DUI, fled to Alaska, forcing the sheriff’s office to spend $4,300 to go get him.A local bonding company is being told it must pay the cost of a trip to Alaska in which a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office investigator picked up a fugitive in a DUI case.
Daniel Stephen Hurst, 30, son of Hamilton County Register of Deeds Pam Hurst, remained in Hamilton County Jail without bond on Thursday. He faces his third DUI.
After his DUI arrest in Hamilton County in September 2010, Hurst used Card Bonding Co. to post a $7,500 bond before disappearing. The sheriff’s office has an invoice for $4,215 at the Criminal Court Clerk’s Office that’s in the process of being sent to Card Bonding, officials said. According to records, the sheriff’s office spent $4,322 to retrieve Hurst from Alaska.
Hurst left Chattanooga weeks before a scheduled court appearance in June 2011 for his third DUI. If convicted of a third DUI, he could face up to 11 months and 29 days in jail.
Before his court date, he sold his Jeep to his mother for cash then flew to Alaska with another Chattanooga man and did not return until he was brought back.