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03/14/2024

In St Louis City(22nd Judicial Circuit) is the ONLY Circuit in the entire state to make Private Process Servers to pay a fee to the Sheriff of St Louis City so process servers can serve papers in the city.

This started in 1992 by then Sheriff James Murphy as a way to control concealed weapons even though RSMo 506.140 authorized “anyone who issues or serve process not without standing.” Approved by the Court En Banc.
There are several reasons why this local court rule needs drastic change.
It’s a conflict of interest for process servers to pay the Sheriff a fee to serve process.
Basically there are no concealed weapons law in Missouri now.

When the current Sheriff is asked where are the fees being used, his reply is that they are being spent for training and equipment for his deputies. Since when are private process servers supposed to subsidize the Sheriff’s department?

I have stated openly it was a conflict of interest. Also the issuance of licenses to private process servers is not in his purview according to State Statutes. Currently there is a checking account with over $28,000 from the fees collected. One major problem. In going back over the minutes of the Court En Banc has NEVER authorized fees that Sheriff’s Office is charging Private Process Servers.

So for 32 years the Sheriffs have been collecting fees they were never authorized to do. It has become a slush fund for the Sheriff. There has been no outside persons to keep track of how the monies were spent.

I have refused to pay said fees to my competitor so I can serve papers in the city. One process server calls the fees “ransom”.

I have stuck my neck out on the chopping block because of the reasons previously stated.
Because I have, some attorneys feel like I’ve upset the apple cart and demand I don’t serve their papers Even papers that are issued from other Judicial Circuits.
I’m doing something that should of been done 32 years ago and I’m being punished for bringing this whole matter to light. Where is the fairness in me being punished? Was I right or wrong for bringing the facts to light?

I would appreciate your thoughts and comments.

St. Louis judges and a special court committee are demanding answers from the city’s sheriff about a long-collected fee, to the point that Missouri’s Attorney General may get involved.

01/05/2024

Today is the start of my 39th year of serving papers, locating people, doing some investigative work. I have developed skills that solve problems for lawyers and individuals. I have driven over 1.3 million miles these last 39 years. Well over 25 thousand papers served. All the stories we could tell in these last 39 years. As Harry Bosch states “Everybody counts or Nobody counts.” It’s something I do believe in.
Process servers are a bit quirky. I look at things in a different angle than others. It seems to make me looked at by others in a different light. I’m okay with that. I have special skills that are needed. I’m glad I can use them to help where I can.
Thank you Cheri Boucher for taking a chance on me and seeing the potential I had. I have always thought that this was going to be a “bridge job” leading to something more. The engineers seem to keep making it longer.
I want to thank the attorneys that have trusted in me to get the job done for them.

11/08/2023

Everyone

06/06/2022

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted. I’m dealing with the aftermath of Covid. I have long haul symptoms. Shortness of breath, fatigue, anxiety, depression and some brain fog occasionally.
I’m still working. I’m not on supplemental O2. I will always take on new clients.

01/02/2018

Later this week I will be starting my 33rd year of serving process. From that afternoon of being declared the new savior for Legal Temps in Peoria, Illinois on that cold January afternoon in 1985 to having a reputation of getting the job done.
Over the years I have served thousands of papers, found countless defendants, located natural families for adoptees, including finding my own biological father, helping get several people with warrants arrested, including a man that was wanted for statutory r**e and child molestation avoiding arrest for over 7 years.
I feel the best of what I've accomplished has been finding the family of an adoptee who was born in Chicago in April of 1936 and finding her family in less than 2 days in the Summer of 1987. Discovering that she had a sister that knew nothing of my client as she was the family secret.
The other occurred in 2014 when I exposed a woman that had committed bigamy saving “husband #5” from having to pay maintenance and more when the evidence I found caused the “marriage” to be voided by the courts. This story eventually made its way to “CrimeWatch Daily”.
I enjoy challenges and being a professional in the “Hide and Go Seek League”.
If you need a process server that is smart, dedicated, and very experienced with reasonable rates, please give me a call.

07/25/2017

To the Attorneys I'm connected to on here. You have those cases you just can't get service on. The one where your client is calling your office to see what the problem is. Where the server or the sheriff's office keeps charging you for attempts but not getting service.
I understand loyalty to your server but you've noticed the enthusiasm isn't there. The non ests are becoming more and more with no real answers.
To put it bluntly, I want your service and locate work. I have been serving and locating people for over 32 years.
I am persistent, thorough, reliable, and reasonable in my fees. I look at things differently when looking for someone. I have been told I should have been hired to find Bin Laden.
I ask that you take a chance on that problem case and let me see what I can do.
Rick A. Burrows
www.ubnsrvd.com.
314-406-0526

You've Been Served brings you over 25 years of experience. Rick brings you knowledge of the local court and county systems, i.e. Recorder of Deeds, Tax Assessors, Voters Registration and municipalities.

01/19/2017

I started serving papers January 4th(I think) 1985 in Peoria Illinois.
I fell into it after watching an episode of Simon and Simon triggered a question I received an answer for the next day.
As I go into my 33rd year, I have served thousands and thousands of papers. I have found thousands of people for lawyers and even a few looking for lost relatives and natural families.
It is a long way from the ideas of what I wanted to do after I got my EMT license and short time as a Corpsman in the Navy.
I do what I do because I have become very good at it.
I have used my developed talents to reunite children too natural parents, and to use those skills (along with DNA) to find someone's natural father (she's my new cousin) and to find my natural father.
I hope to provide several more years of serving and finding people.
I will continue to do it like I have since 1985, honest, direct, and respectful.
Thank you Cheri Boucher for letting me the "savior" to Legal Temps.

10/09/2015

A case that I am involved in.

Part 1 http://youtu.be/8fyL6B15z_k

Part 2 http://youtu.be/znfZuEEXB64

Jason Mattera speaks to two men who accuse Suzi Bozich of bigamy. Watch what happens when they knock on her door. Check local listings at CrimeWatchDaily.com.

10/08/2015

Another link for a case I am involved in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IScKrplGg0Y&sns=em

10/06/2015

Preview of bigamy case I helped expose.

10/06/2015

Preview of bigamy case I exposed. To be shown locally on 10/8/15 at 2 PM on KTVI Channel 2. Online showing a 10/9 air date.