Parents hire detectives to keep an eye on children vacationing in Goa

The next time you head to Goa for the year-end break, take special care to plan your itinerary- one of the several unknown faces that you come across. may actually have been tailing you all through your visit.

When Arti Chhabra was questioned by her parents about her late night parties at Anjuna while holidaying in Goa, she was aghast. What shocked her more were the pictures her parents had of her wild celebrations in this coastal state.

Arti's parents had hired the services of a private investigating agency to track her movements in this 'terrifying' coastal state.

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Tom Cruise accused of hiring a private investigator to wire tap a magazine editor's phone

Tom Cruise is accused of hiring a private investigator to wire tap a magazine editors' phone lines in 2001. The court documents were published by Radaronline yesterday. The magazine editor, Michael David Sapir wants $5 million in damages and says he has evidence that Cruise hired private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who is now in jail for wire tapping, fraud and unauthorized access of national law enforcement databases.

The lawsuit also names Bertram Fields, who was Tom's lawyer back in 2001 when Tom sued Sapir for $100 million dollars. The 2001 lawsuit stemmed from Sapir's efforts to prove Tom was gay. Sapir was the Editor of Bold magazine, who promised to pay $500,000 for video proof that Tom Cruise had indulged in homosexual activity. Sapir then issued a press release saying he had received an email with a video file attachment that could prove Tom was gay.

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Private investigators take up Townsend missing-girl case

Robert Reinhart said he and his colleagues have no more than four months left to solve the case of 13-year-old Deborah Ann Quimby, who disappeared May 3, 1977.

After the self-imposed deadline, they will announce their theories regarding her disappearance, said Reinhart, an investigator with the Missing Persons Special Investigations Unit.

The Washington, D.C.-based company, formed earlier this year, takes on unsolved, "cold" cases for a $10,000 fee. It has yet to solve a case.

Reinhart said his company took on the Quimby case on its own in mid-October. It has not been hired.

Police Chief Erving Marshall Jr. said he learned about Missing Persons after residents called the Police Department reporting letters soliciting donations to help pay for the private investigation.

After doing some of his own research on the company and talking with Reinhart about his probe, Marshall has embraced the company's help.

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Hunter rejects plea offer for mistaking investigator for turkey

An Annsville man accused of shooting a private investigator with a shotgun after mistaking him for a turkey earlier this year rejected a plea offer Wednesday in Oneida County Court.

The attorney for William Wehnke, 51, of Briarwood Lane, declined to disclose what kind of punishment prosecutors offered Wehnke if he pleaded guilty. Nevertheless, the attorney said his client has no plan to accept guilt at this time.

“It doesn’t matter what the offer is, because he isn’t going to plead to anything – it’s a hunting accident,” Assistant Public Defender Mark Curley said on Wehnke’s behalf. “No offer is a good offer if you’re innocent.”

Wehnke is facing charges of felony second-degree assault, misdemeanor fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and unlawful manner of taking, a violation that alleges Wehnke was using the wrong type of ammunition for turkey hunting.

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Private investigator takes plea in Vero Beach eye institute case

A private investigator linked to illegal electronic surveillance of some doctors at the Florida Eye Institute in early 2008 has entered a plea that could spare her jail time.

Brenda Doan Johnson, of the 3400 block of Atlantic Boulevard, pleaded no contest on Tuesday as part of a deal reached with the State Attorney’s Office, her attorney, Andrew Metcalf said.

Circuit Judge Robert Hawley is scheduled to sentence her 1:30 p.m. Feb. 11.

None of the doctors were present as she entered the plea.

Outside Hawley’s courtroom, Johnson tearfully said she apologizes to doctors Karen Todd, Val Zudans and Mark Gambee.

“I didn’t know this was illegal,” she said.

The criminal case is the only one to come out of a deep disagreement between former Florida Eye Institute partners that led to a civil lawsuit and a breakup of the partners.

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Cleveland investigator solves case, reunites daughter with family

The case of a missing 16-year-old girl hit private investigator Paul Baeppler in the heart.

The Cleveland-based investigator knew that if his daughters disappeared, the pain of not knowing their fate would be worse than death.

The woman on the other end of the telephone line said in a thick Polish accent that the missing girl, her niece, left her home on the southern coast of New York's Long Island in September with a man from Ohio whom she met online.

The girl's parents had filed a missing person report in Suffolk County. Detectives exhausted their leads.

Then, a little more than a month ago, the girl called home. She spoke quietly as though afraid someone nearby would hear, then abruptly said she had to go and hung up. Using the phone number from the caller ID, the authorities tried to track the girl, but again hit dead ends.

The aunt knew an attorney who knew a second attorney who had referred her to Baeppler. Could he help?

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PRIVATE EYE SAYS “TIGER WOODS GOT BITTEN BY THE TECHNOLOGY BUG”

Rhode Island Private Eye, Vic Pichette, of Genesis Investigations, a 22-year veteran says “ It is amazing to me that a person like Tiger Woods did not know that everything he was doing on his and others people’s cell phones and computers is out there for all of us to see. I have no idea what he was thinking.

“What I refer to as “The Bug” Pichette says is how communication technologies can easily be tracked just like a BUG, and if you are not informed, that bug will come back and bite you.

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t get calls from someone who suspects a spouse or employee is using the cell phone or computer for suspicious activities. People have to understand that even if they delete information from a cell phone or the computer, in does not mean that is has been completely removed, and the information can be found by savvy investigators.

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We're watching you: NRL recruits private eye

The NRL has hired a former police officer to investigate off-field incidents and report his findings to a panel to be set up to determine whether clubs have taken appropriate action against misbehaving players.

Under the new guidelines, to be introduced next season, clubs will remain responsible for the initial investigation into allegations concerning player behaviour - and any subsequent punishment - but will be required to submit their findings for independent assessment.

The report from the club will then be reviewed by the NRL's private investigator, who may decide to conduct his own inquiries and issue a separate report for the panel - chief operating officer Graham Annesley and former players Michael Buettner and Mark O'Neill - to consider.

Annesley, Buettner and O'Neill won't have the power to impose penalties but will make a recommendation to NRL chief executive David Gallop on whether a club has taken sufficient action.

Gallop will retain the power to decide if further penalties should be imposed on the player and club.

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Tiger Woods Affair - Why the Famous Cheat - accoding to a Private Detective

Reports of Tiger Woods' infidelity place the legendary golfer on a diverse list of high-profile people caught in extramarital affairs in recent years.

Woods has dominated sports pages and gossip columns for the last week, beginning with the unusual single-car accident in front of his home. Rumors circulated that Woods' wife Elin Nordegren used a golf club to smash the car's back window to get her husband out of the car.

As Woods tried to keep the matter private, reports circulated from other women who claimed to have been romantically involved with the golfer. Woods ultimately confessed to "transgressions."

Woods has joined other prominent figures who have admitted to adultery, including former ESPN analyst Steve Phillips, late-night talk show host David Letterman, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, tennis legend Chris Evert, former presidential candidate John Edwards and NBA star Kobe Bryant. Former Ravens quarterback Steve McNair was shot to death July 4 by a woman with whom he was having an affair.

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Gun permit lies trigger probe of Syracuse private eye

Noah Felice regularly dangled his private investigator license on a chain around his Courtesy of Onondaga County Sheriff's OfficePrivate investigator Noah Feliceneck for all to see, his former business partner said.

Felice had two antennae attached to the top of his trunk to make the vehicle look like an undercover police car — but they were wired to nothing, said Leigh Hunt, Syracuse’s former police chief who owned a PI business with Felice until they had a falling out in 2006.

Felice claimed in a History Channel broadcast last year that, in 1980, extraterrestrials used a beam of light to crash the plane he was piloting. The show’s producers said his credibility made the case seminal in the history of UFO sightings.

But for years, Felice has been working under false pretenses, according to police in two jurisdictions.

Felice, 58, of 5421 Springview Drive, Fayetteville, was charged in recent months in Syracuse and Pennsylvania with using deceit to obtain pistol permits and his PI licenses.

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Man Shoots Private Investigator, Claims He Was Aiming For Turkey

An Annsville, N.Y., man says he was aiming for a turkey, not a private investigator following up on his workers’ compensation claim, before firing his shotgun earlier this year.

William Wehnke, 51, pleaded not guilty to assault charges in Oneida County Court Dec. 2, according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Wehnke was arraigned on a three-count grand jury indictment that included felony second-degree assault and unlawful manner of taking, a violation that claims the man used an inappropriate type of ammunition for hunting turkey.

Wehnke’s indictment does not say he knowingly shot at a person, but accuses him of recklessness in causing injury to Matthew Brady.

In May, Wehnke said he spotted a turkey in a nearby cornfield and took aim and fired, hitting Brady with a shotgun blast in the side of his body, his back and legs. His injuries required surgery. Brady was investigating Wehnke at the time of the shooting to monitor his workers’ compensation claim, according to the report.

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SPOOFEM.com Donates Services to Private Investigators

Ericka Holman, Interim President of SPOOFEM.COM, will be donating SPOOFEM cards to licensed law enforcement, private investigators, and bail bondmen professionals to give them a feel for the Spoofing service for the month of December. Applicants can register online at www.SPOOFEM.com by clicking on the investigator icon located on the homepage.

"We want to give these professionals the experience of using our products and services. It is important for them to know how it works, and is it going to fit into their organization," says Holman. "We hope to give them the feedback and response they need when searching for people, to see if this may be a quick way for them to get information without going through the normal channels."

The main service these professionals will be able to benefit from is the Caller ID Spoofing service. Caller ID Spoofing is a service that allows you to dial any phone number and have any number you choose show up in the recipient's caller ID. Users are also able to change their voice to sound like that of a man or a woman, record the conversation, and have it emailed to them within seconds of hanging up the call. SPOOFEM.COM even allows you to send text messages and emails that appear to have come from someone else.

In addition to providing consumers with a caller ID spoofing service, SPOOFEM.COM also supplies
spy products such as voice changers, detection kits, GPS tracking systems, and computer security software.

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