Lesson Learned:

The bread and butter of the typical private investigator consists of two main types of cases: spousal infidelity and/or workers' compensation fraud. We're far from typical, but we still get some of these cases from time to time.

One infidelity case just wrapped up Wednesday night. What makes this case somewhat unique is what I learned from it. For several weeks we'd been letting the client call the shots, according to her suspicions of when he was cheating and with whom. We were burning up her money getting nothing. Wednesday afternoon we finally told her to just let us handle it our way, and she agreed.

I tailed the guy to a restaurant and got the incriminating video inside and outside, then tailed the woman to her residence to identify her. Turned out it was the same woman he'd been cheating with last year. I can't really say the client was happy, but she was more than satisfied with our work.

- Redneck

Promo Stuff

We've been shooting a promo video for the upcoming reality show. Above are the weapons laid out prior to a scene we did in a parking garage. The scenario was three guys in a car entering the garage, and we arrested all three.

This promo video is staged, of course, because the camera crew doesn't want to roll with us for real until some insurance issues are settled. It's fun, but a little irritating to keep repeating all the action until everything goes just right.

Then Wednesday we rolled out to Burro Canyon, a local shooting range (if "local" includes BFE), and shot some training scenes and some brief interviews.

Saturday is more filming, this time entry stuff. A former client and current friend of the company has agreed to let us break down her door for the scene.

- Redneck

A quick quip to educate youse..........

It should be understood, acknowledged and appreciated that not only 3EIFRU but all (professional) Fugitive Recovery agents are a godsend. Most people have no idea how the bail process works or the power a bail bondsman or recovery agent has. This includes the PD. My crew and I put our lives on the line daily to go out into the roughest areas of this country to recover individuals who are wanted for serious crimes. Understand that just because an individual was bonded out for driving suspended doesn't mean that they haven't or don't commit more serious offenses against society. It's been my experience that the ones bonded on less serious charges are the ones that that try to run and shoot at you. We go out and proactively find these individuals at no expense to the tax payer. More effective than the PD? Most def.

Went into court today and did an open court surrender on a defendant, 3rd strike, assault with a deadly weapon, gangbangin' out of Compton, CA. Another one off the streets, y'all.

Av Frank, we're coming for that ass

New Day, new post kiddies. It appears that one of the scummy scum scumbags wanted out of Orange CO is holed up in the foothills of AZ. This sorry sap unfortunately has a nephew who is scared of us and is taking us to his monkey ass. See you soon Frank, 3EIFRU is a comin. I hear you're out there with a 308. rifle and a bow...................Hmmmmm - hope you're prepared to use 'em. Dead or alive you're coming with us.

Weds Jan 19th

So we've been tracking the vehicle of a girl who has 3 kids with the guy currently on our return to custody list. He's wanted in LA County on an attempted murder charge. We recently made contact with the baby's momma who claims she hasn't seen old boy since 10-01-10. According to the old boy's fam, he disappeared on this same day and the baby's momma supposedly moved back to Georgia with the kids to her parents house. .........Bullshit. We've recently tracked the baby's momma back to old boys parents house where she is currently staying. Like I surmised, somebody is lying.

Found out today from LAPD Detectives that old boy is wanted by the Mexican Mafia. For what, who knows. Det also told me they found heroin in his house in the past. Now, old boy lives with mommy, 3 sisters, stepdad, lil' brother and his baby's momma with 3 kids of their own. We've had 48 hours of surveillance on them and none of them have legit jobs. I know that old boy is around. He's not smart enough to hide like someone who doesn't want to be found should hide. During our surveillance we have located some new addresses that the mommy and baby's momma have been going to. Tonight, we pay grandma a visit. Hope she's got her depends on......................................................

Introduction

Welcome to the ongoing account of the activities of the team members of Third Echelon Investigations and its sub-units.Third Echelon Investigations is a full-service investigations, security consulting, personal protection, and fugitive recovery firm.

My name is Dave, but you can call me Redneck. You can find my other blog, Modern Mike Hammer, over in the sidebar, but I'll likely cross-post all that over here anyway. We can't always comment on everything we do, and we certainly can't give all the details, but we usually can tell enough to keep it interesting.

From me and some of the other team members you'll see a running commentary on some of the things we do, and from the firm's owner, Jeff Monteith, you'll see content relating to the conduct of investigations and related items of interest.

Comments are always welcome.