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Fake bail bondsman nabbed by the real thing after skipping court

A phony bail bondsman who jumped his own bail was nabbed by a real bondsman on Friday.

James Felix, 31, had been arrested July 15 for assaulting a man with a baton in Harlem while working illegally as a “bail recovery agent” – someone authorized to pick up a defendant who jumps bail, sources said.

But the man Felix busted was not the one he was looking for. Felix was charged with assault and weapons possession and sprung on a $10,000 bond.

When he failed to show up in court, a warrant was issued and a real bail recovery agent, James Carrion, took him into custody and handed him over to authorities.

Carrion, who works for Empire Bail Bonds, which wrote the bond for Felix, said he found the fugitive “naked, watching a porno movie in the hotel with his girlfriend.”

Michelle Esquenazi, the head of Empire, said, “We’re important people in the criminal justice system and this guy [Felix] made people like us look bad.”