Monday, December 7, 2009

5 Divorce and Custody Rules by a Virginia Private Investigator

The 5 Rules of Advice

From

East Coast Confidential, LLC


  1. I encourage you to keep a journal. Start one today and back date it with any information that you can remember. In this journal you would put everything inside; from important dates and times to conversations and incidents that occurred. If this is a divorce and or custody case then it could possibly be a year or so before you actually go to court. Trying to remember important dates or incidents will be hard to do especially during court when you may have to testify about these dates. Usually if you refer to your journal when you are asked to testify, your testimony will be much more credible.
  2. Do not sign anything with your spouse until your attorney has reviewed it. It doesn’t matter what it is, what it’s typed on, whether handwritten or notarized, do not sign it. If you make an agreement with your spouse that agreement can easily be made the court order in court. Do not legally bind yourself to an agreement without discussing where you stand with your attorney. If you do not have an attorney at this moment I advise you to retain one tomorrow. We have referrals if you would like help in choosing one.
  3. If your child/children are not living with you then I recommend paying child support to your ex partner as soon as possible. If your ex files for child support it could be several months before your case is heard by a judge. When a judge orders child support it is usually back dated to the original date filed. That would mean a huge lump sum for you to pay! Paying support now is not only the right thing to do but it will demonstrate to the courts that you understand your obligation to support and care for your child and will most likely consider your support efforts when determining custody and visitation. Also, try to pay with a check or obtain a receipt if you are paying cash so you can provide proof if there is a dispute.
  4. If you have sexual intercourse with someone other than your spouse at any time while still legally married, then you are committing adultery! Same rules apply before separation as well as after separation. If the court finds out that you did indeed commit adultery then the courts can ban you from spousal support.
  5. Consult with your attorney before dating. You shouldn’t date around your children and especially have someone of the opposite sex sleep the night over. If this is something you must do then I advise you to have your partner spend the night when your children are with your ex. Virginia case law provides that having a date spend the night in the presence of your child is exposing your child to an immoral environment that is not healthy. Doing this can be held against you in your custody case.

For more information visit the website for East Coast Confidential, LLC; a professional, private investigation firm in Virginia! We specialize in family law investigations!

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Holidays are Here

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nvestigators at East Coast Confidential want to wish you and your family Happy Holidays and a safe New Year! Please keep our company in mind for professional private investigation services. Our company is growing fast and we will continue to expand in new areas and expertise in the private security field. Remember your loved ones, the ones in need and our soldiers. Always research a charity before you give your contribution.

DNA Forensic Surface Testing

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We now offer DNA Forensic Surface Testing. With testing like this we can prove infidelity just by using clothing and undergarments from the person in question as well as DNA testing on certain items in question.

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We also provide Electronic Debugging services to businesses and the private community. Our highly skilled Sweep Team conducts a detailed physical search as well as a search using our new and most advance technical debugging equipment. These are especially great in divorce, child custody and broken relationship matters.

Top 10 Signs of a Cheating Spouse

cheatInfidelity increases during the holidays. Now is the time that we see an increase in spyware, GPS tracking devices and the hiring of a private investigator.

” What are the top 10 signs of infidelity?” For curious minds, I’ve listed them below.

· Regular work habits change

· concern about wardrobe or personal appearance

· unaccounted for time away from home

· suspicious phone calls – hang ups, wrong numbers

· cell phone privacy

· stops wearing wedding ring or “forgets”

· Gut feeling; suspicions

· decrease in sex life

· lipstick on his collar or a new scent

· higher interest in YOUR whereabouts

These are the top 10 signs of infidelity. But knowing them won’t help you catch a cheating mate. Seeing these signs is no guarantee that your partner is cheating. Not seeing them is no guarantee that you have a faithful mate.

These are just a few of the services we offer here at East Coast Confidential. Please visit our website for a more detailed look on our services or just call us. We will be happy to assist you. If we do not offer the service you need we will direct you to a company who does. We have accumulated a wonderful group of contacts and resources in the industry.

We may not always be in the office but we always answer the phone and remain on call 24/7. We guarantee a professional and cost effective service and strive to be “one of a kind” in the area. Thank you and again…..

Happy Holidays


Friday, November 27, 2009

Joshua L. Curtis Speaks Out

My Story

By

Joshua Lee Curtis

In November 2002, I broke the law. I was 18 and I slept with a 13 year old girl I had been seeing. I met her through friends who were older than I was. She herself claimed to be 16 and I had no reason not to believe her. I had no idea that what I was doing would turn out to be the biggest mistake of my life. I was charged and convicted of carnal knowledge of a child between 13 and 15 years of age and served three years in prison. Carnal knowledge means I had consensual sex with a minor below the age of consent.

This act has turned out to be the prologue of my downfall and the beginning of a life sentence for a juvenile and immature mistake that happens continuously everyday between many, many young people. Since then, I have been stripped of my dignity, self-respect, pride, and my freedom. Since my release in 2005, I have walked with the shame and unprecedented embarrassment of the ever looming title of sex offender.

After prison, I fell in love and settled down with my future wife. January 29, 2006, we moved in together, two months after I came home. We rented a house in Colonial Heights which is the city of my original conviction. We were there for only two months. That is when detectives accused me of indecent exposure. I was pulled over, threatened with charges and my vehicle towed for no reason seeing as how I was not arrested. I had to walk home. Apparently, the title sex offender makes me an automatic creep that masturbates in front of children. All because of a mistake I made at age 18.

Putting the cart before the horse, I will tell you that the courts eventually admitted that it was not me and nol processed all the charges. But there is more sto ry before we get there, so please, keeping reading. Naturally, the accusations freaked me out and I felt as though I was being setup. The detective gave me a date the supposed offense had taken place. I was told the suspect drove by a school bus stop early in the morning and exposed himself. When I checked the date at home, it was a Saturday.

I decided right then I was not going back to prison for something I did not do. That decision was also a bad one and I played right into their game. Together, my wife and I ran. The next 27 months were filled with ups and downs for us and we learned the extent of our predicament. It wasn’t easy but we stayed right here in Virginia. I kept jobs and also worked for myself when I could and we always lived in a decent area.

On January 2, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. 6 pounds and 3 ounces melted my heart and changed my entire world as I held my baby girl for the first time. My tears that day were of joy and indescribable happiness but also fear and anxiety for I had just taken responsibility for a precious life…and I was a probation fugitive. Our life returned to the normal trials and tribulations of overly excited new parents with the added stress of an outlaw life that neither of us wanted.

A year passed and Baby Girl turned one. Our life was fairly normal and we were comfortable, still very much in love, and still ecstatic over our little princess. Work came and went for me but the bills got paid. My wife decided to go to nursing school and started in March of 2008. Things were going to get better after that with the extra income. Three months of straight A’s later, my newly discovered genius of a wife took Baby Girl to Wisconsin to visit her other grandparents for the first time. I dropped them off at the airport on June 10th, 2008. This is where I screwed up again. Not a major screw up, but big enough to destroy everything we had built together including our own relationship.

I got drunk with some rowdy friends and we raided an old abandoned farmhouse. When the heat came down, I took the full force of the blame. Not good for someone on the run. When my wife returned on her birthday which was also Father’s Day, she came home to an empty house to await phone calls from jail. With a single dumb move, I destroyed everything and deserted my two most favorite people in the world. But this would be my chance to clear the air, fix my life, and return to society as a legal man and give my family the life they deserved.

I had to serve 4 months for destruction of property, failure to register as a sex offender, driving on a suspended license, and a misdemeanor pot charge because I had a half quarter on me when I got busted. In December, 2008, I received a year for a show cause violation of probation. Because they were fake, the indecent exposure charges were Nol-prossed. Unfortunately, my wife left me by Valentine’s Day for another man and I thought life could not get any worse than that. Man, was I wrong.

My release date was set for September 23rd, 2009. On July 22nd, I was moved from Riverside Regional Jail to Sussex 1 State Prison, a level 5 penitentiary and the worst in Virginia. I was told there that I had been identified for Civil Commitment under Virginia’s Sexually Violent Predators Act. I was told that after being evaluated by a clinical psychologist designated by the Attorney General that I may be pursued as an “SVP” (sexually violent predator) and have to return to court and face a second judgment from the courts as to whether or not I should be “Indefinitely Committed” to a mental hospital because of my “uncontrollable sexual behavior”.

I am currently being held at Piedmont Regional Jail. Today’s date is November 2, 2009. Going on a month and a half, I have been held past my release date because I am being pursued by the Attorney General as a Sexually Violent Predator for having consensual sex with a minor when I was 18. Although I pled guilty to carnal knowledge in 2003 as a nonviolent offense and was released in 2005, the law was changed in 2006 making carnal knowledge (consensual sex) a violent offense. Now anyone convicted of carnal knowledge [statute states…without the use of force…] can be pursued as violent predators and involuntarily committed for an indefinite period in a mental hospital.

It costs $131,000 a year to house “the worst of the worst” sex offenders at this hospital. In the midst of Virginia’s economic crisis, they are fighting to fill the hospital and justify its existence at the cost of lives that have not only completed their determined prison sentence and are waiting past release dates like myself but also people that shouldn’t be classified as violent predators much less the worst of the worst.

I have made my share of mistakes and paid for them dearly. I am now 25 years old and still paying for a juvenile mistake that could happen to anyone. The firsthand account you have just read is 100% accurate. I understand the need for such a process and its intent on society. But despite the mistakes I have made I have not committed any crime that constitutes that I should be held beyond my release date and punished further. I have not done anything even remotely violent much less in a predatorial fashion, in fact it was not even considered violent when I pled guilty and for a good reason. “Violent” and “predator” do not fit in with an isolated consensual event.

So, I ask you now, the public…the very society being protected” from me…do you fear me? Have you ever made a mistake? When I am redeemed and allowed to return to society and move on with my life? My daughter adores her father and is suffering as much as I am. It is my understanding that good parents are in demand and I would like my chance.

My name is Joshua Curtis. I am 25 years old and a sex offender facing indefinite commitment and you now know the facts. The sad fact is that no one cares and I have no voice to speak for me. Why must I be sacrificed to further a political career? It’s not fair but yet it is happening even though the Supreme Court has ruled that detaining inmates past their release dates is unconstitutional. Some people may deserve this but not all, so where will this stop? And how many lives will be destroyed in the meantime?

Joshua L. Curtis

Nov. 2, 2009

The Abandonment of American Human Rights

"The Abandonment of American Human Rights and the New Age Marxist Terrorism"

Marxism hides its face behind a mask of euphemisms, enslavement is liberation, ruthless totalitarianism is called democracy, and the iron fisted rule by a tiny group of the Commonwealth elite goes by the name of the “Peoples Republic of Virginia”, the newest communist power and socialist state within itself where the wayward rules of democracy and freedom only apply when benefited by the “Red State” itself and its socialist leaders.

Civil commitment, not unlike Marxist terror, is the cruelest of unusual punishment. In order to legitimize and gain assurance as to a guaranteed prosecution under the Civil Commitment Act, the state has assembled a “Special Inquisition”, a specialized team of prosecutors whose sole job is Civil Commitment cases.

The practice of sorcery is being incorporated in the design of offensive deposition by means of a “Crystal Ball” used to determine recidivism among sex offenders. This crystal ball is being read by the leading professional of new age occult practioners…more commonly known as Psychologists. Psychology is a largely pseudoscience compounded with much confusion and contradiction and theorized by literally hundreds of different schools of that that conflict with each other. Although it is a science of the mind, it is not an exact science by any means, but Virginia court systems are using it as just that. Virginia is using psychology as a definitive scientific tool to predict if a sex offender who has completed his sentence will reoffend if released. The supposedly unbiased psychologists who just happen to be hand-picked and contracted by the Attorney General himself to evaluate these sex offenders will make up to $5000.00 per evaluation and $750.00 for each court visit thereafter. That alone in this “Economic Crisis” seems to be a substantial incentive to please the Boss with an effective evaluation complimentary to the state alone. In fact, these “Superhuman Psychologists” are well worth the states, I mean the taxpayers, money, seeing as how they can diagnose an individual without even performing tests or a verbal evaluation on the subject. Other cases are diagnosed in one sitting of several hours, whereas in the real world it may take months for a “real doctor” to diagnose a willing patient with the simplest of illness.

In the early 1980’s, hypnosis, a then accepted and valid tool of medical science by the American Medical Association was barred as judicial testimony by the California Supreme Court for being “frequently unreliable”. It was also quoted as being a technique that creates ‘pseudo memories and fantasies’ and just as likely to dredge up false information as true accounts of past events.

Civil Commitment and Hypnosis are not the first accounts of the government and court systems using psychological mysticism at face value as means to condemn men, or women for that matter, for no other reason than to advance in political hierarchy. Accounts of condemnation and one-sided trials go back centuries and can closely relate Civil Commitment to the Witch Trials, the Nazi Holocaust, Marxism, and even Religious and now Political Genocide. The following story is a favorite in the Soviet Union but applies equally to the absolute power of Psychiatrists here in the West to rule by labeling:

Two rabbits met on a trail. “Where are you going in such a hurry?” one asked.

“Haven’t you heard?” replied the other rabbit. “All camels are being sent to

Siberia for seven years of hard labor.” “But, we’re not camels.” Said the first

rabbit, trying to shrug off a wave of fear. “Of course not.” came the quick reply.

“But when they.ve accused you of being a camel, who do you think will dare believe

you’re a rabbit?”

That story sums up the one-sided trial sex offenders are facing in Civil Commitment where destinies of men are being decided solely on the testimony of a psychologist. It is my understanding that to be labeled as a sexually violent predator you must (first) be convicted of a violent crime and (second) one must certainly have to show a pattern of predatorial behavior. My crime, carnal knowledge, was not a violent crime in 2003 when I, at the age of 20, pled guilty.

In actuality, until Virginia began changing their own laws and statutes there was only about 25% of the sex offenders being identified as there are now. Therefore, to justify the existence of the new $62,000,000 facility, the RRASOR test, also known as the “Rapid Risk Assessment for Sex Offender Recidivism” had to be changed to the Static-99 test which incorporates NON-sexual elements which hold no semblance to the index conviction, all in order to identify sex offenders as sexually violent predators. If that wasn’t enough, in 2006 several non-violent crimes (including mine…carnal knowledge) were repealed and made violent in order to fill the beds in the new hospital. This act jumped the identification rate up 350% and promised to fill the hospital in record time.

This is but a small note insofar as the preposterous means by which Virginia will stoop to acquire the individuals necessary to satiate their political hunger for sex offender genocide. Psychology allied with the modern state is at once arrogant and arbitrary, despotic and destructive, and this despotic force is destroying lives under the cloak of medical science.

When the Civil Commitment process starts it is a secret that is cleverly disguised as Civil. It is designed so that the state is able to assemble a crack shot task force of lawyers, paralegals, and psychiatrists before blindsiding the identified individual and pulling him from DOC and into an inadequate environment with no representation or access to legal services. Every single civil right granted to us as humans under the Constitution of the United States is being systematically yanked from us and flaunted by Virginia, while we receive NO help from the very organizations that are designed to protect our rights also. This is the United States NOT the United States and Virginia. To continue to allow such negligence and moral disregard to occur and let Virginia deny men their rights with no action taken against them is a slap in the face to the very Constitution that governs our country. That the Commonwealth alone can make up rules as they go and continually break them is ridiculous. The ACLU will fight to save a man like the D.C. Sniper who killed several people and instilled terror into thousands across several states, but when sex offenders complete their determined sentence and are held unconstitutionally past their release date as political hostages, the ACLU refuses to get involved.

Virginia, with its specialized team is being permitted to pounce unexpectedly onto a court with judges and lawyers who have minimal to NO experience in handling civil commitment cases and some of whom do not even practice civil law. In most instances they are unaware of what civil commitment even constitutes. It was designed for the “worst of the worst” but has become a crapshoot of “we’ll take what we can get”. Virginia has adopted an attitude of “lock them all up and throw away the key” and they are getting away with it.

There is no way to fully explain the extent of the atrocities that are occurring, no one wants to listen to the complaints of sex offenders and we have no way to reach the public to do so. Whereas the state manipulates the media and raises mass hysteria on a sex offender campaign, we need an organization to speak on OUR behalf, to inform the public of the other side and stop the one-sided war against sex offenders. Murder has many different categories, from Capital murder through first and second degree murder to manslaughter and more. The media, however, is painting a picture of a sex offender monster; that sex offender means rapist or child molester and kidnapper only and there is only one category in which we are all placed. The truth is there are many different variations of offenses, but the Virginia legislation is allowing the manipulation of laws to be bent to the liking of the prosecuting party and subsequently, enabling them to indefinitely commit men that do not meet the criteria.

Now you have read the truth that Virginia has fought for years to keep quiet. Unfortunately for Virginia, Joshua Curtis refuses to lie down. And I am determined to speak to anyone who is willing to listen. I am a man with a family who I love and am loved by. I have served my time for a crime that was not violent by nature but rather consensual with an underage female. I am now being held beyond my release date in the wrongful category of the “worst of the worst.” I fully understand the need for the process but it is not being done based on its original intent.

The ink on the Civil Commitment Act has not even dried and the witch hunt had begun. The fact of completing my sentence is overshadowed by the threat of never gaining my earned redemption and rightful place back in society, but rather a forced, indefinite internment in a psychiatric hospital. A onetime mistake and momentary lapse in judgment on a crime that was not violent…not murder, and a “victim” that I can apologize to, is apparently sufficient grounds for being called not only a criminal or sex offender…but an uncontrollable deviant, a violent predator. A psychiatric hospital is immeasurably worse than prison or even a concentration camp, and this cure for sexually violent predators is a monstrous political distortion, a crime against the very nature of our Constitution, against the right to think, speak, believe and be free…Civil Commitment is a political white wash for what it truly is…spiritual murder.

Joshua Lee Curtis

November 16, 2009

Piedmont Regional Jail

Farmville, VA

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Monday, November 23, 2009

The Economy is So Bad...

I found this article on Pursuit Magazine; originally posted by Scott Harrell


These are funny and are made to give you a laugh!!!


The economy is so bad… that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

The economy is so bad… I ordered a burger at McDonald’s and the kid behind the counter asked, “Can you afford fries with that?”

The economy is so bad… that CEO’s are now playing miniature golf.

The economy is so bad… if the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call them and ask if they meant you or them.

The economy is so bad… Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.

The economy is so bad… McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

The economy is so bad… parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names.

The economy is so bad… a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .

The economy is so bad… Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.

The economy is so bad… people in Africa are donating money to Americans.

The economy is so bad… Motel Six won’t leave the light on anymore.

The economy is so bad… the Mafia is laying off judges.

The economy is so bad… Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Sweeping for "BUGS"

I found my 1st hidden bug today! I have conducted numerous sweeps on residential properties and vehicles and not to mention my own home. It’s exciting to begin a search because I get so much adrenaline built up in hopes to actually locate some GOOD spy equipment. But as usual we end up telling the client they are good to go and we did not find anything. Not today…….I located one!

When we conduct a professional countermeasure sweep it takes time. It might take an hour or more to conduct a physical search on just a vehicle to make sure what we hit is an actual eavesdropping device or just another radio signal. Not only that, in most areas we sweep, the airways are flooded with radio signals and it's not uncommon to get as many as a dozen or more false alerts in just one small area. Most of our searching is done by an electronic measures scanning device and after a full scan is completed a manual search is then completed.

If and when an employee of ECC locates an electronic eavesdropping device the client will be notified immediately. Before anyone removes the eavesdropping device photographs should be obtained of the area and the device for legal purposes. For legal and safety purposes ECC is not allowed to remove these devices for you.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

The New Craze “Sexting”

The term “sexting” is the new craze with cellular phones; it refers to the practice of sending racy text messages and sexually ­explicit photos, mainly by a cell phone. The incidents of sexting have dramatically increased in the past few years; not only is this popular among teens but many adults are taking part in this also; including married adults. Though many in our generation are taking part, few understand the serious consequences of this irresponsible fad. Cell phones and e-mail have changed the way we communicate with others but are now beginning to lead to dangerous and ­destructive behavior. Teens who feel the act is harmless have lost their privacy on that photo once it is sent. A high percentage of affairs being committed are by spouses using the cell phone for sexting.