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<a href="/biography/leland-chapman">Leland Chapman</a> was born on December 14, 1976, in Groom, Texas, to La Fonda Sue Darnell and Duane Chapman, Sr. His parents divorced while he was very young leaving him and an older brother named Duane Lee Chapman, Jr. Leland to lead very different lives. Chapman spent the majority his tumultuous childhood in Pampa, Texas before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado in his teen years. During his teens, Chapman ran away from home and got into the habit of skipping school which soon led him to become involved in a gang. At the age of 13, Leland was put in a boy’s group home when his mother could no longer handle him. This led to resentment toward his mother which strained an already struggling relationship.

Chapman was eventually offered a choice; he could go to live with his father or stay at the group home. He opted for his father’s home since he wanted to be with his father rather than complete strangers. He completed high school in 1995 and started training for mixed martial arts and boxing as he turned seventeen. The physical challenge gave him great joy and offered a way for him to focus his attention on something positive. But just when he felt he was beginning to reach success in martial arts he was forced to give up them up entirely in 2003 due to a knee injury that required surgery.  After the surgery, his doctors told him that he could never fight again without risking losing his leg completely. He knew he would rather keep his leg and not fight than to fight for a short career and never be able to walk again so he chose to quit fighting altogether Leland is the only Chapman <a href="/biography/leland-chapman">sibling</a> to complete high school among the children that Duane Chapman fathered before meeting and eventually marrying <a href="/biography/beth-chapman">Beth Smith</a>. Chapman went on to have two more children with <a href="/biography/beth-chapman">Smith</a> and he even adopted her pre-teen daughter as his own.

While living with his father, Leland also went to work for him at Da Kine Bail Bonds, a company founded by his father. On September 14, 2006, Leland and his father Duane and <a href="/biography/tim-chapman">co-worker</a> <a href="/biography/tim-chapman">Tim Chapman</a> (no relation, though they have the same last name, and Duane Chapman often referred to <a href="/biography/tim-chapman">Tim</a> as his "brother" while they worked together.) were seized by the U.S.Marshals. They were charged with the "deprivation of liberty" of fugitive serial <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Luster">rapist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Luster">Andrew Luster</a>, whom they tracked to Mexico. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Luster">Andrew Luster</a> was hiding out in the country and trying to avoid being captured by law enforcement who wanted to bring him to justice. The men were working in the capacity of bondsmen when they captured him in Mexico and took him back to the U.S to face charges in June of 2003. The Mexican government arrested them at that time because they did not have the authority to practice bounty hunting in Mexico. Roughly this translates to they didn't grease the right palms in the local government. They were soon freed on bail and returned to the United States.

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Next thing they knew, they had become the very fugitives fleeing bondsmen they were trying to catch. The men including Leland decided not to return to Mexico to answer the charges. This ultimately meant they violated the conditions of their bail, the exact thing Leland hunted people down for. Later, the U.S.  Marshals at the request of the Mexican authorities arrested and detained all three men. They waited in U.S. custody to be extradited to Mexico to answer for the charges. Eventually, they were sent back to Mexico where they spent some time in jail for practicing bounty hunting during their previous visit. On August 4, 2007, the Mexican government announced that the charges against the bounty hunters would be dropped. The charges had become more hassle than they were worth and the right payments were made.

Leland, along with his brother, Duane Lee and half-brother Wesley, began a venture called Chapbros Media. This is one of those ideas you come up with when you are really drunk and it sounds great. The venture basically had a website which dealt with launching an internet-based talent contest which the two brothers thought was a brilliant idea. They named the contest "Show Off" but neither really had the expertise in talent management or show production to make the whole thing work. Needless to say, the company ultimately was not successful and was a miserable failure.

Leland did, however, go on to become a TV star himself after becoming a mainstay on the hit bounty hunter show with the legendary Dog the bounty hunter. Leland went on to appear in dozens of episodes of the television series, Dog The  Bounty Hunter. Leland was in episodes of Dog the Bounty Hunter that aired from 2003 to 2012. He also appeared in a similar series documenting the adventures of Dog but this time with his wife in the hit show Dog and Beth: On The Hunt from 2013 to 2016. Another film credit of Leland's includes a 2006 made-for-TV movie called Dog: The Family Speaks.

In 1995, <a href="/biography/leland-chapman">Leland Chapman</a> married the love of his life, Maui Chapman. The Chapmans went on to have two sons together named Dakota and Cobie. Their marriage was short lived however and at about the same age Leland was when his father divorced, he too divorced his wife. Leland and Maui were divorced on April 25, 2005, leading to the beginning of a rocky road for his sons. After trying and failing to make their relationship work, Leland eventually moved on and had a brief relationship with a woman named Lynette Yi. He went on to have a daughter with Lynette Yi and they named her Leiah Breanna. In 2016, Chapman fell in love with yet another woman and decided to marry her. Her name was Jamie Pilar Chapman. <a href="/biography/leland-chapman">Leland Chapman</a> currently operates his own bail bonds company known as Kama'aina Bail Bonds. Leland also runs his dad's business Da Kine Bail Bonds located on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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