Matthew Cox

County there.

So we were working a case, I believe, was for Calvin Klein.

And there were Calvin Klein jeans being sold in all the stores in the downtown area and some of the other mom and pops in the suburbs.

And we started tracing back, you know, one location at a time, you know, following first making buys from the different locations and realizing that, okay, wait, we might've, we bought something from here, bought something from here, bought something from here.

They're all from the same supplier.

So let's figure out where they're being made.

So then we would trace things back.

A lot of times we would pull the garbage.

from these folks.

And even though the cops can't pull your garbage in most cases, a citizen can.

And private investigators are citizens.

We're just licensed to accept money for investigations.

We're not given any special privileges.

So a citizen, as long as your trash is considered abandoned, which is not on your property, or a commercial business, as long as the dumpster is available to the other businesses.

unless it's exclusive to you and it was closed, that would probably be considered trespassing.

But as long as it's available to others to throw trash in, then anyone can go in there and take garbage.

So we would take garbage and look for labels, shipping labels.

We would, believe it or not, we would put together shredding.

And back in the 90s, thank God there wasn't cross-cut shredding.

So, you know, we would have, we would have these big bags of just shredding, you know, or like, you know, kitchen size bags of shredding.