Friday, June 27, 2008

Trash Haulers Keep Eyes Peeled for Bad Guys

The men and women keeping your neighborhood safe may also be the same people who are hauling out your trash.

Waste Management recently launched a program in Northern Colorado, joining Denver and other states, to train their employees to be on the look out for suspicious activity while driving through the neighborhoods.


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Child Support Spies to Watch Parents

Private investigators will be used by the Child Support Agency (CSA) to spy on parents who are not meeting their child support payments.

The Federal Government says the new measures would help the CSA collect outstanding debts of $1 billion from the current financial year.

Human Services Minister Joe Ludwig said a small proportion of parents was not doing the right thing.

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Private Investigators Examine House Explosion

A team of private investigators converged Monday at the site of a home destroyed in an apparent natural gas explosion.

Last Thursday’s blast at 410 Wellingford Street, near West Sugar Creek Road and North Tryon, killed 4-month-old Synora Coleman and injured her parents.


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Official Tracks Diesel

A vice president of a mobile fueling company — suspecting drivers were stealing fuel from company trucks — used GPS tracking and a private investigator to determine that more than $30,000 of diesel had been stolen.

Two employees of SMF Energy Corp. — James R. Russell, 31, of Zachary, and William Cain III, 42, of Baton Rouge — were arrested Wednesday by Louisiana State Police after the vice president approached the agency last month with evidence from the company’s internal investigation, State Police spokesman Trooper Johnnie Brown said.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Eye on the Prize

Common sense and tenacity are two crucial attributes of private investigators, says Roger Miller, who has been working in the field for more than two decades.

Mr. Miller, who landed his first private investigation job in the early 1980s, is now vice-president of Northeastern Investigations Inc., a full service security and private investigation firm in Dartmouth.

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First O.J., Then Gotti, Now Vito; Staten Island Rep. Hires Private Eyes to Probe DWI Arrest

In an effort to try and get him out of serving jail time for his DWI arrest last month, Congressman Vito Fossella has hired the same ex-NYPD investigators that were employed by O.J. Simpson and John Gotti during felony cases, according to a published report.

The Daily News is reporting in Thursday's editions that Fossella (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) has hired private investigators James Harkins and John McNally, who are reportedly interviewing employees are the Logan Tavern, the Washington, D.C., watering hole Fossella was last seen at before being busted for DWI.


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Investigator Donates Time to Missing Kids

She went jogging like she did most mornings.

But on May 27, Crystal Sexton, a rising junior at Loganville High, kept running. Her mother got in her car and drove around, looking for the 16-year-old.

“I said, ‘Something is wrong,’ ” Donna Sexton told me. ” ‘This is not right. Something is just not right.’ “

She called Loganville Police and the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. She passed out fliers with Crystal’s photo.


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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Fayetteville Reels in Bogus Movies, CDs

A DeKalb County man, who was found with over 300 counterfeit movies and 800 counterfeit music CD’s in his car, now faces felony charges in Fayetteville

According to Capt. Steve Crawshaw of the Fayetteville Police Department, Kenneth McCrory, 50, was arrested Wednesday and charged with unauthorized distribution and sale of recorded material.

According to Crawshaw, the arrest came after Fayetteville Police were contacted by a private investigator working for the Motion Picture Association of America.

The investigator told police he had purchased movies from a man selling them out of his SUV, Crawshaw said.


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Phone Calls Put Two Soldiers to Rest

May 17, 1983, a young soldier from Portland, James R. Williams, was killed in Korea.

Jim's platoon leader, Tom O'Sullivan, heard the explosions and saw the flames shooting from the tank. Tom crawled into the tank, across molten metal. He cradled Jim in his arms and lifted him out of the tank. Jim died soon after.

For 25 years, Tom wanted to speak to Jim's family in Portland about Jim's death.

In 1983 the Army said no, Tom could not contact the fami ly. After he left the military, Tom searched for years for Jim's relatives.

One, a retired police detective who now works as a private investigator, was able to find Jim Williams' father within "10 to 15 minutes," she says.


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Cheating on Your Spouse? Beware Someone is Watching

Two weeks ago the CEO of a blue-chip Nairobi-based company told his wife that he was flying to Mombasa on company business.

Instead of heading for the airport, the man drove to Kitengela where he rendezvoused with his girlfriend. They spent the rest of the day and the night drinking and canoodling.

His suspicious wife contacted a private eye firm to track down and expose the man. It did not take them long to compile a dossier on the philanderer.

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