
Hoyt, who relaxes by riding motorcycles - what he calls “wind therapy” - is the president of the Inland Northwest Chapter of the Guardians of Children motorcycle organization. “I am not saying I am not motivated at times,” he added. “You can’t take anything personal in this business. “The thing is, I don’t take anything personally,” he said. “My partner has got his tooth knocked out got a thumb broke.” “It was right underneath my vest,” he said, pointing to the old wound with his finger. Hoyt has been shot at and stabbed once in the lower back. “Animal has a wrestling background, and I have jiujitsu background, so we have no problem grabbing somebody and going to the ground with them,” Hoyt said. “We got to talking, and he asked me if I’d be interested because he was doing some work for one of the local companies,” Hoyt said.

Hoyt, who was head of security at a nightclub in northern Idaho, hired Zook as a bouncer. Two of his sons and his youngest daughter want to join his business, Hoyt said.īecoming a bounty hunter was Zook’s idea. He isn’t married but has an 11-year relationship with a woman who has two children.

He grew up in a house on East 12th Street. Hoyt’s family moved to Port Angeles from Arcadia, Calif., when he was 4 so that his father, a machinist, could work at Peninsula Plywood.

“It kind of depends because you may have the ones that aren’t criminals yet, and they might be scared enough to where they are not acting rationally just out of fear,” he said. The third group falls somewhere in between and generally “don’t run,” Hoyt said.
