Admittedly I am not familiar with this guy (and his potential real intentions), but my vote is Yes, with strict conditions. I figure why not? If she gets out and doesn't help as agreed, can't he pull bail (I may be totally wrong here?)?? Isn't anything worth a shot at this point to get this girl to talk? And who cares if he gets publicity out of it if it keeps Gabriel in the news. Now, if there is reason to think this would hamper finding Gabriel that is a different story....
He's a bounty hunter, so it would be a third party actually bonding her out, with him putting up the money. There is a sticky situation with that, given that he can put the money up, but would have to depend on someone else to actually bond her out. The people bonding her out would control any aspect of pulling bail, not LP. He did this with Casey by going through his nephew, Tony, a bondsman... Tony set the stuff up with a bonding place in Florida... but I would be SHOCKED if Tony would get on board with another situation like the Anthony case... Tony, in his own words here on WS, was very critical of and none to happy with LP for making stuff up/lying, to get media attention, when things weren't panning out for LP.
Would LP stepping in hamper finding Gabriel? if he starts making things up like he did in the Anthony case, it could waste precious time and send people in the wrong direction. Now, it would ramp up media attention for LP, which would put more focus on Gabriel, in the media... that could help a lot, but one would have to ask theirselves if it is worth having to deal with the Padilla cirucs. He loves the cameras and wants face time in the media, by his own admission... he is VERY honest about loving media attention, so the family needs to understand: they bring him on, expect it to be the Leonard Padilla show... that is just how he works things. If a search happens, he will not be there to actively search, but will be there to talk to media, take pictures with fans and give out autographs, which he loves doing. (I think he even did that when he showed up at the site where poor Caylee's body was dumped, as LE excavated the site for her remains). The family also needs to know that he is direct with his words... he doesn't hold anything back and can come across as harsh, at times... he doesn't sugarcoat anything. On the good side, he can tell it like it is: he was very blunt with Cindy Anthony and said things to her that were harsh, but really needed to be said... he faced Casey and called her out on her BS (I applaud him on that... unfortunately, he was kicked out of the house when he did it). On the bad side: LP see's dollar signs in these cases and he has never denied the accusations about the things he said to Tim Miller about making money off of holding up Caylee's skull to the cameras from a dive LP wanted TES to do. And he has a bad habit of taking his theories and presenting them as facts to the media... which can get to be aggravating if you don't realize until later that he was just actually throwing out theories. (this stuff can be researched in Nancy Grace transcripts).
It could be a good thing, or it could go bad thing... it all depends on how well it is going for LP. He is a very successful bounty hunter... even his detractors will say that he is good at what he does when it comes to skip tracing. But one has to keep in mind that finding bail jumpers and finding missing children: 2 totally seperate venues...