Maryland Heights police on Tuesday charged Gerald "Jerry" Cox, owner of Cox Bail Bonds in St. Charles, with burglary, kidnapping, tampering with a motor vehicle, felony theft and failing to inform law enforcement of fugitive apprehension.According to a report published today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the 65-year-old Cox and his son James ordered four men on August 17, 2008, to break into a Maryland Heights hotel and kidnap a man who owed Cox $5,500. The man's mother ended up paying the mon
photo of Jerry Cox by Jennifer SilverbergThe saga of St. Charles-based bail bondsmen Jerry and Jim Cox took another dramatic turn yesterday, when the pair filed a civil lawsuit against the City of Maryland Heights and three members of its police department.The father-son pair alleges that Maryland Heights police falsely imprisoned them, then issued statements to the media and shared information with other local officials that defamed their business, Cox Bail Bonds, resulting in losses
