We offer personalized, caring bail bonds in Whittier for families in need of bondsman services. We understand this is a personal, potentially embarrassing, situation. We handle all bail bonds confidentiality and We realize that each situation is unique. Each client will be treated with respect. Patel Bail Bonds is here to help. We have extensive knowledge of the Whittier jail system to help you as quickly as possible regardless of location.

You must be looking for Whittier bail bonds if you are viewing my site. If you have done a little research, you have learned that the California Department of Insurance regulates the bail bond industry. If you are looking around you will find that bail agents charge 10% of the bail amount. How do you pick a bail bondsman? What’s different here?

Please call Toll-free to discuss your unique situation at 1-800-598-BAIL (2245) or call 1-888-598-5288.

While we handle all charges and all bail amounts, We specialize in high bail amounts and family situations including DUIs and Domestic Violence Charges for Whittier bail bonds.

Bail Bonds – Essential Information

If you are considering bailing someone out of jail, you should understand some basic information about bail bonds. Likely, this is your first experience with a bondsman and the bail bond process. I want to ensure you understand the Whittier bail bonds process.

We offer many pages with additional information and resources:

How Bail Bonds Work

• What are Bail Bonds / Bail Bond Contracts
• the Purpose of the Bail System
• What to Expect When Bailing Someone Out of Jail
• Costs of Bail Bonds and Payment Options
• How Bail Bonds are Approved

The Arrest Process

• What Happens When Someone is Arrested
• Booking and Processing of an Arrestee

About the City of Whittier

Whittier is located in Los Angeles County, about 12 miles southeast of the City of Los Angeles. A five Member City Council under the Council-Manager form of government directs the City. Whittier is a charter law city and was incorporated in 1898. The Charter form of City government was ratified in 1955. The City covers 14.8 square miles and has an estimated population of 85,244. Businesses and industries in the area include 404 professional services, 506 retail stores, 193 family-type restaurants, 38 manufacturing plants, 11 hotels and motels, 5 automobile dealerships and over 231 specialty shops and boutiques, predominantly located in Uptown Whittier, the Quad shopping mall, as well as the Whittwood Town Center.

In 1784 Manuel Nieto, a retired captain who served in the Portola Expedition, was granted 300,000 plus acres of land by the King of Spain. The land grant, in what is now California, stretched from the hills north of Whittier to the sea, and from the Santa Ana River to the San Gabriel River. By 1822 Mexico had achieved political independence from Spain, recalled the Spanish-appointed Governor from Alta California and appointed its own. In 1834 Mexico began to “secularize” the missions and issued land grants to individual rancheros. Juan Crispin Perez received a grant for Rancho Paso de Bartolo in 1835 for land that had initially belonged to the San Gabriel Mission. Perez eventually sold five parcels of the Paso de Bartolo land to Pio de Jesus Pico (1801-1894), a ranchero who had already served as Governor once (1832-33) and was to become last Mexico-appointed Governor of California (1845-46). Pico built his home east of the San Gabriel River and South of Whittier Boulevard (El Camino Real), now the Pio Pico State Historic Park. The Park has recently undergone extensive renovations and re-opened in September 2003. For more information on the Pio Pico Adobe and Gardens.

Modern Whittier roots can be traced to 160 acres of public land acquired in 1868 by Jacob Gerkens. Gerkens was a German immigrant who paid $234 to the U.S. government for the land under the auspices of the Homestead Act. Mr. Gerkens built a small cabin on the property which stands today as the Jonathan Bailey House. The land changed hands several times before 1,259 acres were acquired in 1887 by a group of Quakers interested in founding a new community in California. The group acquired the land as the Pickering Land and Water Development Company. Many “Friends” on the East Coast bought lots from the Company sight unseen, but all “fair-minded people” were invited to settle here. Farmers in the area planted barley, beans, cabbage, corn, oats, peanuts, tomatoes and citrus. The town was named after fellow Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier, a famous poet, writer and newspaper editor. John Greenleaf Whittier never had the opportunity to visit the town that bears his name but he did write and dedicate a poem in honor of the new City.