Denver Private Investigator’s Blog

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dean Beers, owner of Associates in Forensic Investigations, will speak on ethics surrounding investigations into deaths and serious bodily injury at the first board and general meeting of the Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado for 2024.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 3, 2024, at 2851 S. Parker Road (Tower 1), Aurora. The meeting will begin at 4.30 pm....

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 ...

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 ...