Cheaters Part 8 – Follow That Car!

Posted on 21. Apr, 2010 by Spy Geeks in Articles

Reprinted with permission from the author, a Florida licensed Private Investigator

Follow that car!!!

This is a case about a fast food restaurant owner, owning 15 restaurants in the Central Florida area.

My client came to my office and informed me she wanted her husband watched.  The only problem was he was leaving to fly to Chicago the next day.  She placed a large sum of money on my desk and told me to be on the same flight the next morning.  I did not want to turn her case down so I had to get my operatives to cover my work so as to relieve myself to make this trip.

The direct flight I would be taking departed at 8 a.m. even though I set my alarm to wake me at 6 a.m., it failed to go off and I woke at 7:10.  Needless to say I had to hustle to get to the airport on time.  I ran to the thicket desk to pick up my ticket.  The ticket agent informed me that the plane was starting to move away from the loading platform.  I showed him my badge and informed him I had to be on that flight.  To my amazement, he called the gate and they brought the plane back and I was able to board.

I sat two rows behind my subject and when we arrived at O’Hare airport in Chicago he was one of the first off the plane.  When I stood up and tried to walk my left leg was completely numb, due perhaps to my running to get to the airport.  So, as I tried to walk dragging my left leg and carrying my overnight bag it was quite a sight.  I followed my suspect to the curb outside the airport terminal where he proceeded to get into a limousine.  Looking for a cab, I found at least 20 people waiting in line with a police officer directing traffic.  I approached the police officer, again using my badge.  I informed him that I was from Florida and was following a suspect who just got into a limousine and I needed a cab right away.  He flagged the next came for me.  As soon as I got into the cab I told the driver to follow the limousine.  He stated “I’ve been driving a cab for ten years and this the first time I have been ever told to follow that car”.

When the cab driver asked why I was limping I hold him it was an old gunshot would.  He said, “This makes my day. I’m following a car that I was ordered to do by a cop that has been shot.”  I followed my client to Midway Airport in Chicago.

I followed the subject into the terminal where he met up with a female and they both proceeded to his limo.  My cabbie and I followed the subjects to a motel outside Chicago.  I arranged to get a room just across the courtyard from the subject’s room where I was in position to take video and still pictures of the coming and goings.

Tags: cheating spouse, infidelity, surveillance