"Dog, The Bounty Hunter" To Locate Jerry Airola

ANN APRIL 1st "SPECIAL" EDITION: They don't have a lot of money left... but they're putting it towards a common goal.

About 6,000 former students of now-defunct Silver State Helicopters collected their loose change -- and recently held a number of charity bake sales -- in order to raise enough money to hire infamous bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman to find and capture former Silver State CEO Jerry Airola, who has been conspicuously absent from a number of US Bankruptcy Court hearings.

"If anyone can find him, I know the Dog can," said former SSH student Richard Guzman.

Chapman, 55, is arguably best known for his television show "Dog The Bounty Hunter" on A&E, and his June 2003 hunt and capture of Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster -- which later included his own brief incarceration in a federal prison in Hawaii.

"I don't usually do white collar crimes," Chapman said, "but this guy [Airola] evidently gave his former students a royal [deleted] -- taking their money and running away from authorities. I'm gonna find him, believe me."

Authorities urged Silver State Helicopter students to promptly turn Airola over to them upon capture, rather than risking charges of their own by taking matters into their own hands.

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