Denver Private Investigator’s Blog

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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CORA should be available to people who sue the government, court filing says

People who sue state and local governments should still be able to obtain public records from those entities using the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), says a new court filing from the ACLU of Colorado and the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition (CFOIC).

The proposed friend-of-the-court brief, submitted by the organizations, urges the Colorado Supreme Court to uphold a 2022 appellate court ...

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P.I hired to seek justice for ‘murdered’ Longmont pet cat

More than $10,000 has been raised to help a distraught Longmont couple who hired a private investigator to seek justice for their beloved cat, brutally “murdered” last year.

Holly Mathew and her boyfriend Travis have been searching for answers ever since their cat Basil was abducted, shot dead and then dumped in a river.

“The police are taking the case seriously and, with the help ...

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PI locates missing mother in Denver jail

After nearly three months, a missing mother who was being pursued by a national network of private investigators, turned up in a Denver jail.

Mother of four Azia Diane Saldana, 33, from Torrington, Wyoming, had not been seen by her family since she left their home on August 26.

Despite being missing, police “received a number of pieces of information” connecting Azia to the Denver ...

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Legal stoush over PI’s phone after drug arrest

The examination of a phone belonging to a Colorado private investigator, who is facing four drug felonies, has become a legal flashpoint, following the PI’s recent arrest in Greeley.

Laura Tellers, 52, was arrested on November 17 on two counts each of intent to distribute drugs and knowingly introducing contraband.

Tellers was involved in a number of cases in Weld County, including that of Marquise ...

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Government text messages sent on private phones are still public records, says Colorado judge, after Red Rocks hailstorm exchange

Text messages sent by public officials on their personal devices discussing public business are not exempt from record requests.

That was the ruling from a Colorado court, the latest in a string of court findings confirming that text messages sent by government employees on personal cellphones are not outside the statutory definition of “public records” just because they didn’t show up on a government server.

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A Denver lawyer’s difficult experience of suddenly becoming the kind of client he’d been representing for years

The mother of one of Denver’s most esteemed personal injury lawyers died after being runover by a truck. For Kyle Bachus, it was a tragic turn. After spending decades representing injury victims, he became one himself. To help guide others going through similar experiences, he wrote a book, Unthinkable. In this post, we asked Kyle for some insights he gained from the personal tragedy he had to ...

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Private detective sentenced in hacker-for-hire scheme

A U.S. court this month sentenced an Israeli private detective to six years in prison for organizing global hacking campaigns against thousands of people including climate change activists and critics of German company Wirecard.

Aviram Azari, a former policeman detained in the United States since 2019, pleaded guilty last year to three counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit hacking and aggravated identity theft.

 

 

 

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