Denver Private Investigator’s Blog

Notaries must tell their customers about charges ahead of time

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has announced new rules for notaries to “ensure transparency in notary public operations.”

A press release issued by Griswold’s office says the rules require a notary public to inform their customers of any service that is an additional charge to the notarial act, prior to performing that notarial act.

“The rules further require that a notary public provide an itemized ...

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Expert on locating missing persons to speak at April PPIAC meeting

Lindsey Paison will speak on how to find missing persons at the April meeting of the Professional Private Investigator Association of Colorado. 

Paison is the owner and lead investigator of Dark Knight Private Investigations, which specializes in the reunification of missing and endangered persons with family and loved ones, as well as process service, aid to law firms for witness interviews, and mobile notary.

“I ...

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Possible change to CORA could stop a “vexatious” requestor from accessing government records for 30 days

Changes to the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) currently being considered by state lawmakers could stop an individual from accessing government records for 30 days if they are determined to be “vexatious”.

Under House Bill 24-1296, a records custodian can ask a district court to determine that an individual or entity is vexatious. The bill says a vexatious requester is someone who submits a ...

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Colorado PI facing drug charges is innocent, says attorney

Laura Tellers is innocent. That’s the first line in a motion to dismiss filed by the attorney representing a Colorado private investigator charged with smuggling drugs into a jail.

“Laura Tellers had nothing to do with any conspiracy to brings drugs into Weld County Jail. The district attorney has been told this repeatedly and instead chooses to believe an incredible inconsistent story. The WCDA (Weld County district ...

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Colorado Springs private investigator proves client innocent of sending offensive text messages

Photo by Parker Seibold, Colorado Springs Gazette

A Colorado Spring hairdresser was forced to hire a private investigator after police wrongly accused her of sending threatening and offensive messages to her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, in violation of a projection order.

Lisa Chase, 42, was arrested four times by Colorado Springs police, beginning in November 2022. Shocked, she spent a year complained to prosecutors, adamant she ...

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Police say jailhouse phone calls are further evidence against Colorado PI, accused of supplying drugs to Weld County inmates

Jailhouse phone calls, during which Weld County Jail inmates conspired to smuggle in drugs, shed new light on the case against a Colorado private investigator accused in the plot.

According to a police indictment, the drugs were delivered to the Fort Collins home of investigator Laura Tellers, 52, who is accused of hiding them in documents and taking them into the jail on several occasions between August ...

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PI brought drugs to inmate hidden in documents, says unsealed indictment

Laura Tellers, the Colorado private investigator arrested last November on drugs charges, smuggled fentanyl and meth into Weld County Jail, concealed in documents before giving them to an inmate who then strapped them to his penis, according to a jailhouse informant. 

In a newly unsealed 15-page indictment, the Greeley Police Department reveal their case against Tellers largely derives from an interview with inmate Frederick Rios, who shared ...

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Colorado PI pleads not guilty to drug charges

Laura Tellers, the Colorado private investigator, charged last November with two counts of intent to distribute drugs and knowingly introducing contraband to Weld County Jail, has plead not guilty to the charges.

At an appearance on Tuesday before Judge Vincente Vigil in Greeley County Court, Tellers learned of court dates that will proceed her July 22 trial. 

The 52-year-old will face motion hearings ...

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Denver PIs earn more than most, says Labor bureau

Private investigators in the Denver metropolitan area earn significantly more than their counterparts across the country.

The mean salary for PIs in the United States is $59,400 a year, according to the latest data released by U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

However, the mean salary for PIs in the Denver metro area is $70,580, says the bureau.

Across Colorado, the mean salary ...

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Trump action committee hired PI to conduct “research” in cases involving women who allege sexual encounters with the former president

As Donald Trump fights a deluge of court actions, both criminal and civil, it has emerged a political action committee founded by Trump hired a well-known New York private investigator to help defend the former president.

Retired New York City Police Department captain, Sean Crowley, was retained by the Save America PAC to assist in two cases involving women who claim they had sexual ...

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