http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2009/01/22/SPNV15EG24.DTL&o=2 ( I would rather get physical in rugby than at work!) I have had two physical confrontations on the job in nearly 15 years of doing this work, the last one being about seven or eight years ago. I do not carry a gun or any other weapon in the line of duty for […]
And you thought January was a big deal just because we are getting a new president. In looking for some information about the Pleasanton, California police department, I learned that it was National Stalking Awareness Month. Spencer Investigations of the San Francisco Bay Area uses surveillance but it is never meant to harass any subject. […]
For most of us Facebook is a way to keep in touch and have fun. What’s not to like about Facebook’s “SuperPoke” or “Texas Hold’em,” where it’s all in all the time? I like to keep up with the nieces and nephews, boyhood chums and friends as much as the next bloke. I have yet […]
Of all the jobs that I do as an investigator suveillance is far and away the toughest. I hate to lose, which I do from time to time, and lately I have been thinking about the factors in surveillance that lead to triumph or despair. Reality is that everyone seems to be on a budget. […]
You know it, sing along with me….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLfoy2XsFw
Private dick work is usually fun but Christmas gloriously highlights the split between the work itself and the ideals of the holiday. I have always liked the opening scene in L.A. Confidential where the Russell Crowe character yanks down the Christmas lights from on top of the house then handcuffs the wife beater to the […]
(This is the second part of the previous post about how the Sarasota Herald-Tribune spiked its own investigation into the role an anchorman played in an international pot ring.) I took a job at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune as a police reporter in 1992. I had toiled at some other daily newspapers but obviously lacked a […]
(This is the first of two parts. I still have all my original notes for the reporting that I did while at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune.) I have held this story and accompanying grudge for 15 years. It’s about fundamental unfairness. Why did one pot smuggler rot and die in a federal prison and the […]
Years of journalism and private eye work lead me to this debut blog. I will share insights of all sorts, silly, profane, raunchy, informative and, hopefully, honesty in exposing you to me and some of my work. This blog will be for old friends and strangers alike. I will take you from my days of […]
