Finally after a long nine months of anticipation justice has been served. Judge Beverly W. Snukals of the Richmond Circuit Court sentenced James E. Carr to fifty years in prison. The sentence includes 40 years in prison for murdering unarmed bail bondsman James W. Woolfolk III and will run consecutive to the 10 years that Carr had in Henrico County on a prior robbery conviction.
James W. Woolfolk, 39, was shot to death on March 6, 2008 while trying to arrest James Carr for skipping a court appearance on a felony drug charge. He was brutally shot three times from behind after finding Carr hiding in a bedroom closet.
James W. Woolfolk is the first bail bondsman killed in Virginia while on duty. Woolfoolk was a hard working bailbondsman and businessman. He was survived by his 14 year old daughter.
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Recent Comments
Bail Agent James Woolfolk was a friend of mine when I first entered this sometimes brutal and cursed business-we met at a bail bonds related class in Richmond-James and his brother Kermit who is also a bail agent, are and were great people-I have tried to get the Virginia DCJS to add his name to their private security memorial website-they have not yet and probably will not add James to their web-site tribute memorial-for all those concerned, please call the Virginia DCJS and ask them to please consider James, for he payed the ultimate price to try and insure a defendant complied with the court judiciary.
Virginia Bail Agent Vince Rera
Gladiator Bail Bonds-Hampton Roads Virginia
It’s the job of the police to find criminals. If you choose to hunt your fellow countrymen, like the nazis hunted the jews, then don’t be surprised if you get killed. Bailbondsmen are no better than the criminals they go after, and no one should have any sympathy for them.
Anonymous
Thats a terrible and uneducated position to have. yes while chasing down criminals “alone” might not be the wisest thing to do. It is not the job of the bondman to determine guilt or innocence. and in the united states of america you are considered innocent until other wise otherwise has been determined by a group of peers. a person who has been detained should have every right and opportunity to defend their position.
clearly you what up early 3/26/10 at 442 am not happy with the direction and/ or the position of your life. i encourage professional help. to attempt to find a correlation between the moral compass of a convicted criminal/ repeat offender and a bondman is just ridiculous, idiotic and ignorant. but it take all kinds to make the world.