Possible Clues:

• Bump off prison guards and abscond from security
• Fail to turn up for trial, where posh politician's boy is put in prison
• Abandon security and barge head-down into custody
• Scoop follows tips of journalist urging politician to abscond
• Start trouble after beginning of business run illegally?
• Abscond after release from jail
• Give just cause to a bounty hunter
• Leave the bondsman in the lurch
• Start trouble when inviting bachelor to abscond