I Was A Co-signed For My Dad’s Bail, But He’s Now On The Run.

So last year on my birthday I bailed my dad out of jail, I was the co signer but my aunt paid the 5k to bond him out. (So his bail was 50k)

He told me that he’s been fighting the case for a while but that his lawyers didn’t care. (He was arrested for drug and weapons possession that he said didn’t belong to him) but while he was in jail, he told me that he had cancer and wanted proper treatment.

And I idiotically believed all of it. (I shouldn’t have ik now unfortunately)

He promised that he would show up to court and all that.

But in may, I get a call that he didn’t show up for court and I immediately called him and he once again promised that he’d speak to the bonds man.

Can you guess what he didn’t do?

Yup, you’re right, not only did he not contact the bonds man but he also went on the run.

After that I kept getting calls from the bonds man, investigators and even bounty hunters. All saying that they were looking for my dad, but believing that I knew where he was. (They never said that but I could tell) and they always reminded me that I would have to pay the 50k and it put me in a state of depression and anxiety.

The worst of it, after a week, my dad messaged me that he was back in his home country as he got deported. But I immediately asked for proof and he had every excuse in the book. “It’s going to take a while.” “It’s not that easy” and the worst of it. “Trust me.”

The only thing he sent me was his new ID which I immediately send to the bonds man. (He’s the only one who’s been nice to me really) and he let the investigators know (but for some reason they still didn’t believe it idk why)

And after that I blocked my dad and didn’t hear from the bonds man for 6 months.

Recently he calls me and honestly, I took the time to process everything, the betrayal, the lies, and the worry that I would have to deal with the situation eventually. So I actually wasn’t as scared, more mad than anything really.

So apparently my coward of a father, tried to submit a fake death certificate.

The bonds man informed me that the DA was looking to sue (them, not me) but that he was going down there with all the evidence we had, now they finally know that he was in a third world country.

I’m not sure what’s going to happen next, I just wanna be, emotionally, and mentally prepared for this.

So far they know that I haven’t had any contact with my dad or help him run and been cooperating. Hopefully this plays out at least okay :/

Edit: Ik the bonds is going to want the 50k from me if they pay the DA. And no, no collateral was put down, thankfully and yes, I’m aware that they can garnish wages as well.

But ppl are telling me to make a TikTok about it so they can help somehow? but Idk, is it worth it?

(Location: Texas)