It was only yesterday that I learned of the unexpected death of friend and client James Perley, East Bay criminal defense and civil attorney who died in his sleep at home. He was only 46 and leaves behind four young children and his wife. I, like most in his orbit, had a heck of a […]
It happened again. A client calls to say that a man who bought his business has ripped him off for $100,000. The sad part is that for about $250, I confirmed that the client never should have gone near him with a 10-foot stick let alone put scads of cash at risk. The buyer approached […]
Where was Michael Buffer, fight announcer, to introduce me like this, “At 5’9, 184 pounds from Oakland, California, undefeated at locates and process serving, let’s hear it for Mike Spencer!” Easter Sunday brought me to Union City trying to find a subject who had evaded me for two months. Anyone who knows me has pegged […]
What went right, what went wrong? I apply this to cases good and bad. Let’s take a gander at success and failure. I had two recent successful outcomes in surveillance. One case was a client wanting to know what her husband was doing when he withdrew a couple hundred bucks from the bank at ATMs […]
I had one of those “only in Oakland” experiences last month. Car headlights lit up my lower hills street at midnight. I peeked out the window to see and hear an old red Toyota blocking the street, engine running. Problem was that there was no one inside the car. My inner-paranoid ran through the scenarios: […]
Like pro baseball teams do, I am going to open a “fantasy camp” to make a few bucks. Bored housewives and executives can pay me $5K per-week to come to “private investigator training.” I will show them how to rise at 5:00 a.m. to get out to to San Ramon to serve the shady lady […]
Let’s face it: Most of my cases are snoresville. Party A ran over Party B; Bouncer A might have punched Patron B, or Driver A collided with Driver B. At times I feel like an insurance adjuster. The longer I do this work the more it takes for a case to linger in my brain. […]
For a good laugh but also solid content check out the ABC I Team’s probe of a couple of psychic shops in Oakland. The laugh comes when reporter Dan Noyes confronts shop owner Peter George with an undercover recording of George and a woman in the shop trying to hit up a decoy customer for […]
Spencer Investigations tipped the press to this sad story, covered in the East Bay Express:http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/the_case_of_the_murdered_dog/Content?oid=912738 I know the attorney in the story, have done work for Portia Glassman, Esq. and find her to be unusually principled. Ms. Glassman tells the truth as does her client. The key fact in the article, perhaps buried too much, […]
Stealth has never been so abundant, at least in the blogosphere. Every swinging private dick has a blog these days, which is a good thing as the public starts to see and read the work we do. The following is a compilation of some PI blogs: http://www.criminaljusticeusa.com/blog/2009/private-eye-reading-the-top-50-detective-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 America’s Spy, aka Spencer Investigations, garnered this blurb: […]
