FBI Releases Video with Tips for Surveillance

The TV news anchor soberly announced the day’s top story: another city transit bus had been bombed, and a domestic terror group was claiming responsibility. The report went on to say that witnesses saw a man get off the bus just before it blew up, and that the FBI was investigating.

The scene described above—realistic as it may sound—is part of a fictional new video.But Caught on Camera is not a product of Hollywood. While it does have high production values, special effects, and narration by Annie Wersching, co-star of the TV show 24, the video was created by our Operational Technology Division to show business owners how their security cameras can aid law enforcement investigations and maybe even help solve a terrorist attack.

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FBI experience helps prepare for life as private investigator

Before retiring to Charleston in 1990, Jeff Dossett spent 18 years with the FBI in Newark, N.J., working against organized crime.

He dealt with drugs and cartels and had to use his imagination to be one step ahead of crime. He worked across agencies on a variety of offenses and his experiences were as differing as the criminals he pursued. He says it was the perfect preparation for his job now as a private investigator.

Dossett, 66, now a Summerville resident, is senior partner at Charleston Investigative Associates in North Charleston. His experience throughout his 30-year career at the FBI, his three years in the Army and his Long Island University master's degree in criminal justice mean he's pretty much seen it all.

Now, he handles everything from interviewing people, running surveillance, courthouse searches or just plain old digging up information. Formed in 2001, Charleston Investigative Associates is an umbrella company that handles all types of cases and employs all former federal agents and former local law enforcement.

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Private Eye Takes the Stand in Ex-FBI Agent’s Murder Inquiry

The private investigator whose work triggered the indictment of a retired FBI agent took the stand yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court as defense attorneys again tried to impugn the information that formed the basis of the former G-man’s murder charges.