Anthony began his apprentice work as a private investigator in 1990 under the supervision of Jim Simms, a distinguished author and Criminal Defense Investigator featured on the television program Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer and Dateline NBC. Anthony has also worked with investigators featured on the popular television program Forensic Files. He has been involved in conducting professional investigations for many years, specifically in the areas of Criminal Defense Investigations, Surveillance, and Skip Tracing. Other areas of investigations include but are not limited to, Insurance Fraud, Liability Claims Investigations, Post Conviction Relief, Pre-Litigation, Accident Investigations, Child Custody Investigations and work with the Center on Wrongful Convictions for Northwestern School of Law in Chicago, Illinois. He has also worked on cases with the Innocence Project. He has conducted work in these areas located in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. He is a USAF Veteran and classified by the Government as a Disabled Veteran serving his country with distinction and honor.
Anthony has a degree in Criminal Justice from Midlands Tech in Columbia, South Carolina and graduated with honors as a member of Phi Theta Kappa and Alpha Eta Kappa.
Various Investigative Coursework, Certifications and Seminars: Homicide Investigations, Death Investigations, Advanced Interviewing Techniques and Body Language Assessment, Crime Scene Investigations and Analysis, Federal Criminal Defense Panel (WV Seminar), Crime Scene Photography, Crime Scene Processing and Chain of Custody, Police Science, Constitutional Law, Statutory Law, Police Administration, Arrest Procedures, Firearms Training, Firearms Instructor, Skip Tracing, Bug Sweeping equipment and techniques, Advanced Surveillance and counter‑surveillance, and USAF NCO Preparatory School, just to name a few.
Jim is a celebrated author of many books concerning the Private Investigation industry and won many awards for his work both in the field and through publishing. He has also been a featured speaker at many venues for attorney's, law enforcement, and Private Investigator's alike. J.B. Simms participated in investigations which have appeared on Primetime Live (ABC) with Diane Sawyer, and Dateline NBC.
After having conducted five undercover investigations over a two year period beginning in August 1981, J.B. Simms was hired as a private investigator with the Columbia Detective Agency to begin specializing in missing persons. In the spring of 1984, Simms traveled to San Francisco to investigate the disappearance of a young man who his grandmother had not heard from for six months. Simms found that the man’s identification had been being used to obtain money, but the missing man had not made contact with any family members. It was learned that the young man had died of “unknown causes,” one of only 9 cases that year in San Francisco. It was then determined that this was the beginning of the revelation of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco.
Later that year, he created J.B. Simms Investigations and continued to do missing persons work, reuniting many adoptees with their biological parents, and conducting criminal defense investigations. He obtained first hand knowledge of the fraud and corruption within the criminal justice system and civil litigation.
During his first murder investigation, an attorney (former prosecutor) made false statements against Simms in order to protect a murder suspect. Simms exposed the plot against himself, but this would not be the last time he would have conflicts with corrupt officials.
For over 40 years as a licensed private investigator, Simms worked with a number of attorneys and provided consultation on numerous criminal and civil cases. Many defendants were proven to be innocent.
Simms was also involved with federal law enforcement agencies in the detection of suspects having committed federal crimes.
Bill joined our investigation group with over 40 + years of experience in Field Investigations as a police officer and a Chief Investigator for the 5th Judicial Circuit Solicitor's office in South Carolina. Bill has extensive experience in Crime Scene investigations and analysis as well as preparing the Solicitor's office for trials in Major Crimes. Further, Bill has been involved with locating witnesses, interview techniques and analysis of discovery. More recently, Bill has aided in Cold Case files in South Carolina. He is a graduate of the SC Criminal Justice Academy as well as having a degree in Criminal Justice.
Brandon started his training in Criminal Justice while in Vocational School at Collins Career Center in 2008 studying Forensic Science/Public Safety. He went on to Graduate from the WV Corrections Academy and worked for the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville WV as a Correctional Officer.
Furthering his training, Brandon went to the Ohio Correctional Officer Training Academy in Orient, Ohio. After that he went to work at Southern Ohio Correctional Facility “Lucasville Prison” which is the states maximum security prison, as a Correctional Officer.
Brandon left SOCF to work for the Cabell County Sheriffs office as an Alternative Sentencing Officer.
He has had training in the areas of Interviews, interrogations and confessions, investigating crimes and traffic accidents, Firearms, defensive tactics, Evidence collection, chain of custody, hostage negotiations, etc.
He has has served 10 years in the Criminal Justice field.
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