A name can mean everything.
Below is a list of 14 of Ohio’s most colorfully named or to-the-point bail bonds businesses and their agent or registrant. Each business is listed as active with the state. (Source: Ohio Secretary of State’s Business Filing Portal)
Call My Mom Bail Bonds — agent/registrant CTM Management L.L.C, Reynoldsburg
Bad Boyz Bail Bonds Inc. — agent/registrant Cxolleen Friga, Cuyahoga Falls
AA Don't Worry Call Murray Bail Bonds — agent/registrant Murray & Son Bail Bonds and Insurance LLC, Fairborn
Bustin' Out Bail Bonds — agent/registrant Jeff Brown Bail Bonds, LLC, Springfield
A & A Walk Free Bail Bonds — agent/registrant Gary Akbar, Dayton
Cops Bail — agent/registrant CSA Bonding Co., Cleveland
Free Bird Bail Bond Agency, LLC — agent/registrant National Registered Agents, Inc., Cleveland
You Walk Bail Bond Agency of Toledo, LLC — agent/registrant Michael McLennan, Toledo
Be Free Bail Bonds, LLC — agent/registrant Carl S. Cochran, Middletown
Bail - Me - Out Bail Bonds — agent/registrant John G. Spisak, Rome
Big Dawg Bail Bonds — agent/registrant Dawg Town, Inc., Cleveland
Break Free Bail Bond LLC. — agent/registrant Jacqueline Burton, Cleveland
Feet on the Street Bail Bonds — agent/registrant HLSl Bonding, LLC, Columbus
Bail Outa Jail — agent/registrant Castle Bail Bonds, Inc., Springfield
Keley and James “Jonesy” Jones are offering “freedom,” but not exactly in the way Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed.
The couple borrowed a phrase from King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech for Free at Last Bail Bonds, the bondsman business they launched in August.
The tag lines for the business housed in the former Airgas Dry Ice building near the intersection of First and Keowee streets in Dayton are “Let Freedom Ring” and “Your Freedom is our Business.”
The Joneses were looking for something that would grab attention when they came up with the name.
They say it is working.
“People absolutely love the name,” Keley Jones said.
The Joneses and their clients seemingly aren’t alone in their affinity for “Free at Last” as a bail business name.
There are unaffiliated bailsmen businesses called “Free at Last” in Nashville, Atlanta and other southern cities.
The Joneses’ business includes a mobile bail service.
Cartoon characters representing varies creeds, classes and colors decorated the former Dayton VA shuttle bus now used as Free at Last’s mobile office.
The Joneses drive the van to clients who cannot get to their office to set up bail for their loved ones. They use it to transport those people from jail. There is no extra cost for the mobile service.
“We deal with a lot of grandmas and aunts trying to get — I call them ‘Jimmy’ — out of jail,” James Jones said.
He said the idea is to make things easier for customers.
“Even good people can make a 30-second bad choice,” Jones said. “We just try to help people out.”
As many as 13 clients can fit in the van at once.
While based in Dayton, the Joneses — like many bail business operators — work in various parts of the state.
While they say their business name grabs attention, the Joneses say its name is not alone in its creativity.
See the list below of other bail bonds business names that catch the eye and/or get straight to the point.
Contact this columnist at arobinson@DaytonDailyNews.com or Twitter.com/DDNSmartMouth
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