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Sacramento Bounty Hunter Suing Casey Anthony

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - Casey Anthony is out of jail after she was found not guilty of murdering her daughter, but she's not out of legal trouble.  Sacramento-area Bounty Hunter Leonard Padilla is suing Anthony.

Padilla says he is filing a lawsuit against Anthony and her attorney Jose Baez. He's seeking $200,000 for the money he spent searching for Anthony's daughter, Caylee.

"Somebody should've definitely come forward and said, 'hey we don't need you guys'," said Padilla.

Padilla was one of a few people to talk face-to-face with Casey Anthony in 2008 after he flew to Orlando to post her bail. He says that after talking to the 22-year-old mother for 10 minutes, he revoked her bond because he didn't buy her story.

Padilla says he knows where Casey might be hiding out.

"I've said she's down in the palm springs area, I believe," said Padilla. "The airplane that she left Florida in belongs to a fellow an attorney that was involved in the case, and he's down in that area. He's got a couple places down in that area."

Padilla is confident he'll see his money. He says Casey is working on some sort of movie or book deal and that some of the cash will trickle down to him.

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