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Bail bondsmen wait for the phone to ring or wait for the client to walk into the office.

Bondsmen do not solicit business by showing up at the jail.

Authorities reportedly believe that bail agent Paveen Singh visited the Modesto jail under the guise of a private investigator in order to speak to gang members in order to ask them to commit the crimes on his behalf.

Such investigator visits to the jail are considered legal visits and were therefore unrecorded and unsupervised.

Judge Thomas Zeff of the Stanislaus County Superior Court has set a hearing date for accused Modesto bail agent Paveen Singh.

The hearing will take place on March 26. At that time, Singh’s attorney, Jak Sodhi, will argue that the prosecution has insufficient grounds to charge his client.

The prosecution filed charges against Singh in December for soliciting the commission of a robbery and soliciting the commission of a shooting of an inhabited home. Singh has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Sodhi will argue during the March 26 hearing that the prosecution does not have enough evidence to charge his client with the crimes and that the charges should be dropped.

The prosecutor said that his information about the crime was obtained through a confidential informant.

It is believed that the drive-by shooting was planned in order for Singh to get revenge on his neighbor, a correctional officer, whom Singh blamed for the death of his koi fish. Singh believed that his neighbor had poisoned the fish in their pond which was near a shared fence.

Singh has also been under investigation since February in connection with a separate homicide. There have been no charges filed in that case.