Below are a few of the many examples of how The Dillon Agency
has helped
our clients with their investigative needs.
The names
of our clients have been omitted to protect their privacy.
Case #1
Child Custody Investigation
Our client and his wife were married for four years when she decided
to abandon him and their two preschool-aged daughters. Three years
later she remarried and felt the minor children should live with
her and her new husband.
She believed that since she was remarried
she was now entitled to have
full custody of the children and that
our client (who had been the primary custodial parent) should become
a “weekend dad.”
Our client retained a certified family
law attorney. At the recommendation of his attorney, our client hired
the Dillon Agency—the best choice for a case that required
such a great amount of evidence to be collected and had so many witnesses
to be interviewed.
During the course of our investigation, The Dillon Agency’s
staff of professional investigators discovered that while living
a “free lifestyle” our client’s ex-wife had traveled
around the country committing financial crimes, used illegal drugs,
and had several sexual partners. After being interviewed by our family
law/child custody investigators, a boyfriend of our client’s
ex-wife decided to come forward and disclose very damaging information
about her recent past.
The information we obtained from him would
later be called “reckless behavior on the part of the mother” by
the court. The Dillon Agency investigators also discovered that although
our client’s ex-wife and her new mother-in-law lived together
they did not get along and often had violent fights that required
police intervention.
After learning this, The Dillon Agency obtained
police reports and arrest records which were submitted as evidence
to the court and the court appointed psychological evaluator.
The end result
As a direct result of the investigation conducted by The Dillon
Agency,
our client was awarded primary physical and legal custody
of his girls as well as child support. Our client’s ex-wife
is now only allowed monitored visitation until she completes parenting
classes, anger management classes, drug counseling and obtains a
residence separate from her new mother-in-law.
Case #2
Unfair Business Practices Investigation
Our client, a manufacturing company that conducts direct sales at
trade shows, conventions, and fairs, had enjoyed great success over
their rival competitor since they started operating. However, during
the last few shows our client had suffered
an atypical loss of sales.
They even had customers returning their products for a full refund
before the orders had been filled. The owner of the company knew
there was foul play involved so he hired The Dillon Agency to investigate
his competitor.
Through an undercover investigation, our unfair business practice
investigators learned that the sales associates of our client’s
competitors were spreading untruthful stories about our client’s
product.
The competing company said our client’s product had
caused injury to its users. They even went as far as to say that
our client took their customers’ money without delivering the
product. At a home and garden show in Anaheim, CA, our investigators
obtained a hidden video of a member of the competitor’s sales
team making these untruthful statements about our client. At the
Los Angeles County Fair another undercover investigation obtained
video-taped evidence of yet another of the competitor’s sales
associates making those same untruthful statements,
only this time
their sales associate offered our undercover investigator a phony
compliant letter supposedly written to our client by an angry customer.
Our investigators obtained a copy of the letter and made contact
with the customer who denied ever writing the letter.
The end result
As a result of the investigation conducted by The Dillon Agency
our client filed a law suit against their competitor in federal court
and in state court.
The evidence obtained by our investigators was
the key to our client prevailing in an injunction against their competitor.
In addition, our client was awarded a multi-million dollar judgment
against their competitor.
Case # 3
Divorce and Child Custody Investigation
Our client was served divorce papers by his wife who claimed he
was abusive and used illegal drugs. She was asking the court to order
our client to move out of their house, have restraining orders issued
against him, pay a large amount of child support, and be on monitored
visitation if he wanted to see their two school-aged children.
Since
all of his wife’s claims were false, our client was hurt and
surprised when he read the court pleadings. He decided to turn to
The Dillon Agency for help.
Per our recommendation he retained an
attorney who we were able to work closely with.
We began our investigation by conducting an extensive background
check on our client’s wife. Our experienced background investigators
learned she was embezzling thousands of dollars from her employer
through false payroll deposits.
Surveillance was also conducted on
her. Within six hours, our sub-rosa (undercover surveillance) investigators
obtained video evidence of our client’s wife drinking alcohol,
using illegal drugs, providing alcohol and drugs to a minor, and
engaging
in sexual acts with an unknown male and the minor.
The end result
As a result of the investigation conducted by The Dillon Agency
our client was able to turn the tables on his wife’s claims.
The court denied her requests. No restraining orders were issued
against our client; he was not removed from the family home; he was
not placed on monitored visitation. Instead, the court placed her
on monitored visitation and ordered her to go through a psychological
evaluation (730 evaluation) “until such time she could no longer
be deemed a danger to herself and the minor children.” The
court called her drug and sexual acts with the minor “criminal” and
ordered the video taped evidence to be turned over to the Orange
County District Attorney’s office and to the Cypress police
for criminal prosecution.
Case #4
Cheating Spouse Investigation
Our client suspected that her husband was engaging in extra-marital
activities. She noticed he was spending long hours on the computer
and was having secretive conversations with his friends on his cellular
phone. Our client hired The Dillon Agency to conduct a cheating spouse
investigation on her husband.
Through computer forensic investigation, e-mail tracing, and cellular
phone comparison, we concluded our client’s husband’s
activities strongly indicated an affair. We recommended to our client
that we conduct a mobile surveillance on her husband to confirm our
findings. Our client scheduled an out of town trip to visit relatives
and we commenced surveillance activities on her husband. Within hours
of the surveillance our client’s husband met up with an unidentified
female at a hotel in a Laguna Beach, CA. Several hours of covert
(hidden) video was obtained of the couple as they had dinner, walked
along the beach, drove to a movie theater, engaged in limited sexual
acts, and later returned to their hotel room. Through further investigative
efforts, our investigators confirmed a positive identification of
the unknown female and learned that she too was married.
The end result
As a result of the investigation conducted by The Dillon Agency,
our client confirmed her suspicions—that her husband was having
an affair. She was put on alert and soon learned her husband was
attempting to liquefy their assets for his personal gain and move
in with his girlfriend. Our client was able to hire a family law
attorney and protect her interests and assets before it was too late.
