Criminal
Defense & Unsolved
Crimes
American
Threat Assessment conducts confidential investigations into the
following criminal allegations and concerns:
If you
or someone you know has been victimized by crime,
and the police cannot or will not
make an arrest in the case, please give us a call. We can help.
We will investigate your case and act as your advocate with local
law enforcement agencies and the prosecuting attorney's office.
In addition, we will
also investigate cases where individuals have been falsely accused
of a criminal or civil violations of the law. Refuse to be a victim
of of the justice system. Let us help you fight for your rights to
due process of law and a fair trial.
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American
Threat Assessment conducts confidential investigations into the
following civil allegations and concerns:
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Adultery & Infidelity
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Pre-Marital
Investigations
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Child Custody Disputes
(see
Parenting
Investigations below)
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Personal Injury & Workers Compensation
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Sexual Harassment
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Pre-Employment
Investigations
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Suspicious Estate or Inheritance Claims
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Suspicious Investment Opportunities or New Business Partnerships
We encourage anyone who is
seriously considering marriage, unfamiliar investment opportunities,
new business partnerships, or hiring new employees to seriously
consider a thorough background investigation of the individual(s)
involved in the same. There is no substitute for a well informed
decision.
We have access to a myriad of
information resources that may prevent years of personal
regret, heartache, and the loss of substantial financial assets. If
you or someone you know is considering any of these actions,
please contact us before it's too late. We will safeguard the
personal and business interests of our clients.
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Parenting Investigations & Child Custody
Disputes
Professor Gilbertson served the Pierce
County Superior Court as a Guardian ad Litem / Parenting
Investigator for two years. He successfully completed a number of
difficult and challenging investigations. Typically, these
investigations involved parents with lifestyles focused on crime,
substance abuse and paramour relationships (live-in boyfriends or
girlfriends). Paramour relationships frequently pose a staggering
potential for sexual and physical abuse to the children involved.
Unfortunately we live in a society where many children are “at risk”
because of lifestyles adopted by irresponsible parents. You may
know a child “in harms way” because of their residential placement
in a dangerous household or home. Children are often the innocent
victims of parents that practice or tolerate substance abuse and
criminal enterprise as an occupation or way of life. Children also
become victims of parents that tolerate or enable the emotional,
physical, and sexual abuse of them by paramours. If you know a
child in this situation, please give us a call. We can help. Our
investigation and intervention strategies can result in a more
appropriate residential placement for the child at risk.
And finally, if you are currently fighting for the custody of a
child you love and you’re not satisfied with the Guardian ad-Litem /
Parenting Investigator’s performance in your case, we may be able to
help. While these cases are difficult and complex, we are willing
to consult with you and your attorney on strategies and
investigative techniques not commonly employed by most Guardian ad-Litem/Parenting
Investigators. Our reports may even be used in court to challenge
the credibility or accuracy of an incomplete or unfavorable report
filed by the Guardian ad-Litem/Parenting Investigator assigned to
your case.
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Supervised Visitation
AMERICAN Threat Assessment insures
the safety and security of our clients and their children with a "no
nonsense" approach to supervised visitation sessions. Unlike other
supervised visitation service providers, your child will be
accompanied at all times by a former law enforcement or corrections
officer.
Most custodial parents don’t realize or understand the fact that the
vast majority of “visitation supervisors” currently working in our
state are unskilled and untrained individuals. While they may be
well intentioned, they are physically and emotionally incapable of
preventing the average, determined man from picking up his child and
simply walking out the office door. Furthermore, they are directed
by their employers to refrain from any intervention strategy
designed to prevent a non-custodial parent from kidnapping their
child. Their response is to simply call the police after the
non-custodial parent and child have already left the scene.
If you find this hard to believe, ask your current visitation
supervisor what their policies and procedures are regarding this
matter. You may be shocked and surprised when you hear their
response. You should also ask to see their written policies and
procedures. In almost every case, traditional visitation
supervisors will do nothing to prevent the abduction of your child.
They will probably claim that intervening directly with the
non-custodial parent places your child at greater risk of harm. We
disagree.
At American Threat Assessment we understand that judges order
supervised visitation for legitimate reasons. We appreciate the
fact that the majority of men and women involved with supervised
visitation sessions have extensive criminal histories. These are
violent and dangerous men and women, often times on probation or
parole, that pose a very real and serious threat to their children,
their former spouse and the visitation supervisor. Therefore, we
take preemptive measures to ensure the safety of everyone.
Prior to the visitation session,
our supervisors explain "the rules of the road" to the non-custodial
parent by certified mail. These "rules of the road" are listed
below:
1. At no time will your child be
outside the supervisor's audio acuity or visual sight.
2. No other adults or juveniles are permitted to participate in the
visitation session without prior consent and approval of the
Superior Court or custodial parent.
3. No inappropriate behaviors by
the non-custodial parent will be tolerated. Any violation may
result in the immediate termination of the visitation session.
Examples of inappropriate behavior include, but are not limited too:
a. Corporal punishment
or inappropriate touching
b. Vulgar, profane or obscene
language
c. Suspected intoxication by
alcohol or drugs
d. Inappropriate comments regarding
the custodial parent
Our supervisors will terminate a
visitation session anytime the non-custodial parent behaves in a
manner that places your child's physical or emotional health,
welfare or safety at risk.
A sad example of unacceptable supervisory behavior took place not
long ago in Tacoma. A Department of Social and Health Services
employee was engaged in a supervised visitation session at Wright
Park. During this session, the DSHS employee negligently allowed
the non-custodial parent to lead the child away from his field of
view. According to a local newspaper, the non-custodial parent then
physically assaulted his child. The newspaper detailed the fact that
the DSHS employee became distracted by a magazine article he was
reading while sitting in his car several hundred feet from where the
child was assaulted. If this is the standard of supervised
visitation provided by the Department of Social and Health Services,
you can probably imagine the quality of service provided by most
private sector visitation supervisors in our state.
And finally, another unfortunate fact of life in the state of
Washington is that many Superior Court judges simply will not take
decisive action to safeguard children from parents with histories of
criminal behavior, sexual deviance, domestic violence or substance
abuse by ordering supervised visitation. For unsupervised
visitation sessions with high-risk, non-custodial parents, we can
provide covert surveillance and protective services that will
provide some measure of safety and security for your child until
they’re returned to you.
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Child Support
Enforcement
Does your child’s
biological parent owe you thousands of dollars in delinquent child
support? If so, you are not alone. This is one of the most common
and flagrant violations of civil and criminal law today. One of the
most common reasons for non-enforcement of court-ordered child
support is that the custodial parent simply cannot locate their
child’s biological parent. At American Threat Assessment we will not
only locate this individual, but also help guide you through the
child support enforcement process. In accordance with state law, we
will assist you with the following child support collection steps:
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Identifying the
biological parent’s actual street address and phone number.
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Identifying the
biological parent’s employers, wage and earnings sources.
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Identifying the
biological parent’s pensions not protected under federal law.
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Identifying any
non-earned funds payable to the biological parent.
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Identifying any
settlements paid to the biological parent as the result of
lawsuits.
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Identifying any
funds on deposit in the biological parent’s financial
institutions.
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Identifying the
physical location of real estate belonging to the biological
parent.
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Identifying and
locating personal property, vehicles or vessels owned by the
biological parent.
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Identifying the
location of safety deposit boxes held by the biological parent.
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Identifying if, in
fact, the biological parent is “working under the table for cash”
and the source of this employment.
As previously stated, the most critical element in the success or
failure of any of these collection actions is in determining the
exact location, personal history and financial assets of the child’s
biological parent. In no time at all, the financial security of your
child or children may be significantly enhanced as a result of our
investigations.
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