Halstead has a police department but no jail, so anyone arrested here is taken to the Harvey County Detention Center in Newton. We are a Wichita bail bond company and we travel out to Harvey County to write bonds in person. Call (316) 833-8506 any hour and a licensed bondsman will answer.
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A bail bond is a service fee for putting up bail money to a court in order to allow you to get out of jail until your court date. The court will set a bail amount for you, if it is more than you can afford and you don’t want yourself or your loved one to remain in jail until that court date, then you need to talk to a bail bonds company who will put the money up on your behalf.
Co-signing for a bail bond means you are taking legal responsibility for the full amount of the bail bond. So if the court said the bail bond was $10,000, and the bail bondsman is asking you to pay $1,000 to them as their service fee, and the person skips out and runs from the appointed court date, the bondsman will come after you to get the money they put up to the court, which means you owe the full $10,000.
If they were arrested in Halstead, they are in the Harvey County Detention Center at 120 E 7th St, Newton, KS 67114. The Harvey County Sheriff’s Office is (316) 284-6960. City charges go to Halstead Municipal Court and the Halstead Police Department is at 316-835-2266. Felonies go to Harvey County District Court at 800 N Main St in Newton, (316) 284-6800. Call us at (316) 833-8506 and we will come post the bond.
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Halstead is a small Harvey County town of a few thousand people, and like most towns that size it has a police department but no jail. Anyone arrested here is driven to Newton. Knowing that up front saves you from spending an hour calling the wrong building.
We are a bail bond company based in Wichita at 700 N Market St, Ste 1, and we are staffed 24 hours a day. We do not have an office in Halstead. We travel out to Harvey County and write the bond in person. Call (316) 833-8506 and a licensed bondsman answers, any hour of the night.
Halstead has no jail of its own. Bookings go to the Harvey County Detention Center, operated by the Harvey County Sheriff’s Office at the Law Enforcement Center, 120 E 7th St, Newton, KS 67114. The Sheriff’s Office number is (316) 284-6960. The sheriff is Chad Gay.
That is a drive of roughly fifteen miles east from Halstead. If you were told your person is “in Newton” and you assumed that meant a Newton city facility, it does not. It means the county jail, which is the same building as the Newton Police Department.
What the county states plainly: charges and the bond amount come from Detention Center staff, a bond can be paid in cash for the full amount or posted through a bonding agent, and inmate visitation is by video conferencing through Prodigy rather than in person.
City ordinance violations and city traffic charges written by Halstead officers stay in Halstead and go to Halstead Municipal Court. Anything more serious goes to the county.
Small city departments do not keep a 24 hour front counter. If the arrest happened on a Friday night, nobody at a city desk is picking up until Monday morning, and the person sitting in Newton has no way to change that. This is the practical argument for posting a bond rather than waiting: the jail runs all the time, city offices do not.
Harvey County District Court sits on the second floor of the Harvey County Courthouse at 800 N Main St, Newton, KS 67114. The number is (316) 284-6800.
Harvey County is part of the Ninth Judicial District, which also takes in McPherson County. Judges cover both counties, so the schedule in Newton varies and a first appearance is not guaranteed to be tomorrow just because the courthouse is open.
Missing some of it is normal at two in the morning. Call anyway and we will start working while you track down the rest.
The judge sets the bond amount. We charge a percentage of that amount as our fee, and in most situations we can work from a down payment rather than the whole fee up front. The exact terms depend on the bond amount, the charge and the county, so we quote you on the phone instead of publishing one number that turns out not to apply.
The fee is what you pay for the service of posting the bond. It is not a deposit and it does not come back at the end of the case. That is how it works at every bail bond company in Kansas, and anyone telling you different is selling you something.
If you co-sign, you are responsible for the full bond amount if your person does not show up to court. Be honest with yourself about two things before you sign: whether they will appear, and whether you can stay in contact with them until the case is over. Most bonds that go wrong go wrong because somebody forgot a court date. If you co-sign, you are the person who remembers it.
We answer the phone at (316) 833-8506 24 hours a day, and our Wichita office at 700 N Market St, Ste 1 is open and physically staffed the whole time, not forwarded to an answering service. If your person is sitting in the Harvey County Detention Center in Newton right now, call and we will tell you exactly where things stand.
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