Leatherneck Investigations - GPS Investigations

GPS investigations are most often used when you want to find out where your spouse, child, employee, or vehicle goes when you are not present. Leatherneck Investigations can quickly and secretly install a device in an automobile that will transmit continuous signals of the vehicle's location to our computers. Through that, we can tell you where the vehicle is, what route it took to get there, where it stopped along the way, and how fast it was going along each segment.

GPS stands for Global Positioning System and is used to refer to a network of satellites that orbit above the Earth and permit a GPS device to determine exactly where it is at any moment in time. Once it determines its location, it can then call a computer and report its position and the route it has taken to reach that position.

The primary benefit in investigations is that we no longer have to maintain expensive hourly surveillance when our subject is at work, at home, or otherwise engaged in some activity that is not important to the overall investigation. But when they leave for a clandestine meeting, a secret rendezvous, or some other activity of interest, we can track them to the location and be there to get the evidence on video and in photographs. Imagine the money that can be saved by not using surveillance operators for hours on end and by being able to pinpoint the appropriate time to collect the evidence, even if it takes several weeks.

Leatherneck Investigations utilizes GPS Trackers on valuable items such as construction equipment, copper wiring and tubing, piping, and other items that thieves acquire for re-use or to sale illegally.  Leatherneck Investigations has a very high rate of success utilizing these techniques to track the theft of building materials which “disappear” from one location and “appear” at a competitor’s job site.

Example of a Daily Activity Log

GPS Trackers and Texas Law

Title four of the Texas Penal Code specifies the criminal offenses that surround the use of tracking devices. Section 16.06 details what constitutes the unlawful installation of a tracking device.

Violation

According to the Texas Penal Code, it is unlawful to install any kind of mechanical or electronic tracking device on a vehicle that is owned by another party. This further applies to a vehicle that is leased by another party.

Penalty

The Texas Penal code states that a violation of this regulation is considered a Class A misdemeanor.

Legal Tracking Devices

According to the Texas Penal Code, a person will not be guilty of violating the statute if he obtained consent prior to installing the device, assisted someone else whom he believed to be an officer who was authorized to install the device, or is a licensed private investigator.

Leatherneck Investigations can track a vehicle or valuable item for days, weeks, months or years at a minimal cost to you. Leatherneck Investigations can provide the client with verbal updates, tracking read-outs or full tracker reports depending on the assignment. The use of GPS trackers are used only with the accordance of Texas State laws.