Private Investigators and Security Professionals of WV
Quarterly Meetings
November 17, 2007
9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Parkersburg, WV
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On Tuesday, NASCO, the National Association of Security Companies, an organization of manned security officer service providers, held a breakfast and awards ceremony as a networking event and awards ceremony. Recognized were two individuals; one was a young man named Tim Foster from Pittsburgh who worked as a security officer for U.S. Steel and had to be the “first responder” to a serious employee accident that left a plant worker in a life-threatening health condition. nine stories up in the air. The other was none other than Guido “Rick” Massimei from U.S. Security Associates. Rick was honored with the Colonel Minot Dodson Award to recognize of long-time commitment and service to the private security industry.

While the over-themes for NASCO’s breakfast are awards and a recognition of their involvement with ASIS International, the speaker — Mechele Ray from the State of Nevada Private Investigations Licensing Board — focused the members’ attention on the issues of regulation, licensing and reciprocity that mark Nevada’s own board.
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A new law allowing private citizens to investigate crimes has been suggested by the Senate.
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Hank Dusenbery doesn’t golf. Nor does he do much fishing, hunting or kayaking, and while he enjoys skeet shooting and rebuilding antique Jeeps, the 59-year-old couldn’t imagine doing that full time.

So the retired Lincoln police chief decided to become something else — a private investigator.
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The state Division of Motor Vehicles wants to do away with a new rule it says could tip off criminal suspects to pending police investigations.

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As any Child Protective Services caseworker can tell you, the first step in helping endangered children is to find them.

Many low-income families with CPS files move nomadically from relatives’ homes to apartments to rent houses. Locating them can require the skills of a private investigator.

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Dan Rather has been out of the anchor chair at The CBS Evening News for more than two years. There is wide agreement that the story which led to his departure, a report on George W. Bush’s Air National Guard service, was based on fraudulent, or at least unverifiable, documents. CBS commissioned an extensive investigation into the matter, Rather left the network, and the affair seemed over.
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Listen to Andrew Faller describe his life as a private eye and you’ll realize it’s not exactly Miami Vice. Yes, private eyes round up bail jumpers, repossess cars and provide security to VIPs, but a lot of the time they are watching or reading.
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The last time Lucy Carman saw her daughter, the 21-year-old was sitting on the concrete steps in front of her Church Street home, talking to a bicyclist.

Next thing she knew, the daughter named after her was gone.

Two weeks later, on Sept. 15, 1987, family members found young Lucy Carman’s body face down in a channel of the nearby Hockanum River. Police treated the case as a homicide, canvassing dozens of neighbors and doing more than 70 interviews. They gathered weather data, subpoenaed medical records and took aerial photographs, chronicling all the information in a case file more than 300 pages long.

But they never made an arrest.

As the family marks the 20th anniversary of Lucy’s death, they and investigators past and present are hoping someone comes forward with information. Police are taking another look at the case, as is a retired cop turned private investigator.
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