Gordon, PI; Hunting Financial Fugitives
December 1, 2008
My name is Joe Gordon. I am an Arizona licensed Private Investigator and a former federal agent with over 30 years of investigative experience. My firm, Veritas Associates LLC (DPS no. 1568766), is located in the PhoenixMetro area and is ready willing and more than able to solve your problem. Check out our website at www.veritasintell.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
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Financial Fugitives
When I retired from the feds and became a private investigator in the East Valley last year certainly never envisioned myself being involved with something as unsavory and mundane as the repossession of a car. I don’t even touch divorce cases. But, I guess if you’re gonna talk the talk . . .
I was called a few days before Thanksgiving by a guy whom I’ll call Pete. About 10 months prior Pete had leased a nice car to a guy he thought he knew fairly well. By August, after months of paying late, the lessee (I’ll call him George) just stopped making payments altogether.
Pete hired some repo guys. I’m sure they know how to repo (I guess) but they had no clue as to how to find George and thus the car. I don’t know if George was always a dead beat (but I suspect he was) but he was definitely on the run from the dog catcher. The last known address I was given for George was a rental house from which he had been evicted three months prior.
George was down to sleeping in the car he wasn’t paying for or bumming some couch rides one night at a time. Finding this guy was not for the repo guys. Finding George was for professional detectives, such as yours truly.
I’m not bragging because I know I am good at what I do. I honed the skills over several decades as a state and local peace officer and a federal agent. It was 72 hours after Pete gave me the keys to his car that I returned them to him, attached to his recovered car.
If it’s an easy repo from a poor guy who has worked hard and fallen on “hard times” and you can’t work something out for him, call the repo guy or let the poor guy bring you the car. But if a skipping dead beat has your property and finding him is part of the problem, call a professional. Anybody can drive a car away when they see it but not just anybody can find the car in the first place. Especially in the case of a true “financial fugitive”.
Until next time, Joe Gordon
Arizona Private Investigator license no. 1568766
