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Find Criminal Records – Do You Know If Your Friends Are Criminals?

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

How to check your friends and your workmen for criminal records

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Do you trust the people around you? How do you know that your friends or people that you have dealings with are who they appear to be? It seems to be very common to hear about serial killers, kidnappers and thieves who led perfectly ordinary lives. Even their closest friends had no idea that they had a life on the other side of the law. How can you protect yourself from people like that?

Elle and Jack are a typical couple with busy lives living in the suburbs. They don’t have the time to do all the little odd jobs about the place that they want to do so they looked for someone reliable that they could pay do do it for them. When they saw the work that Mick was doing on a neighbors property they were very interested. They were impressed by the quality of work and their neighbor told them that Mick was a reliable worker. Elle and Jack asked Mick to do a small repair job on their property as a sort of test before giving him more work.

Mick did the job later that week. He was efficient and the work was of a good standard. Both Elle and Jack liked Mick a lot because he was a very likeable and sociable person as well as being good at his job. They saw no reason why they shouldn’t give Mick a more substantial list of projects to undertake. They were so taken by Mick that Elle and Jack sidn’t think twice about giving Mick a set of keys to the property so that he good proceed with the work while they were out at work.

It took Mick a little longer to complete the list of work that he originally expected but Jack and Elle were happy to pay Mick for his extra time because they were so happy with the job that he had done. Mick asked for cash payment which is a common request for some reason.

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Mick left the area and then the problems began

Elle and Jack were very pleased with the job that Mick had done for them. He had accomplished a whole load of things that they had been planning to do for years. They thought the world of Mick. That is until they started to notice some things that were not quite right.

There were some things that they didn’t use very often like power tools and jewelry but when they did look for them they were not to be found. Elle and Jack just thought that they had misplaced them and that they would turn up sometime.

Then they noticed some transactions that they didn’t recognize on their credit cards. They were all small and Elle and Jack never usually pay much attention to their statements so it went unnoticed for a while. When they added it all up it came to tens of thousands of dollars and Mick was the prime suspect.

This doesn’t have to happen to you

This story never happened but this kind of thing does happen for real all the time. It never occurred to Elle and Jack that Mick could be a serial thief with a criminal record but they could have checked had they wanted to. They could have done a background check on Mick to find criminal records and if they had they might well have changed their minds about hiring him in the first place. They could have saved themselves a lot of money and stress.

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Free Inmate Locator – The federal Inmate Locator Web Site

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

How to find out if someone is in jail or in federal prison?

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A few years ago it might have been a near impossible task to find someone who was in federal prison unless you had a good idea of where they were before you began. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised when I had need to find someone recently. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be and you can get a lot of the information for free. If you can’t find them using free methods or you want to dig a bit deeper into the persons background or criminal record then this is easy to do too if you don’t mind paying the small fee involved. I found that it was more than worth it for the wealth of information that I found out.

Step 1: Try the BOP Federal Inmate Lookup and USA.gov State Corrections Departments search

If the person you are looking for is in a federal prison then you should be able to look them up on the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) web site. at www.bop.gov. The site provides a searchable inmates listing which isn’t too difficult to use. It claims to list all federal inmates since 1982.

To use the free inmate locator type in the details of the person that you’re looking for and click the button to see an inmates listing together with the names of the prisons where each person is being held. If they’re still being held in prison the list will also give you a link to the facilities web site. When you do this the site might give you a long list of inmates unless the person you’re searching for has a particularly unusual name. If you get a long list then you need to somehow filter the list to find which one, if any, of the inmates is the person that you are looking for. This can be harder than it sounds.

If you don’t find the person that you are looking for on the federal BOP site it might be that they are being held in a State Correction facility and not a federal one. If this is the case then you can search for them up on the answers.usa.gov web site. The problem is that you either have to know exactly where they might be held or you have to do a search on about 37 different web sites. This is possible but it might take you some time. Also not all the correctional facilities publish their records online.

Step 2: Fine tune your search by getting some background information

When you’ve done your searches on the free sites above and you’ve filtered your results by sex, race and age you might still be left with several names on the inmates listing and you’re not sure which one of them, if any of them at all, is the person that you’re looking for. If this happens then you need to get more background information on them.

If you are lucky then you won’t need to look any further than the BOP and state web sites. They are free to use and you may well find exactly what you are looking for. If you don’t find the person that you are looking for or you want to get a background check on them to find out more about their criminal record or other information then you can use a public records web site to find what you need. This web site uses public records from all over the country and gives you easy access to them. Not only will it make it easier for you to find someone in prison, it will also give you access to as much information on them that you could want.

Free Inmate Locator: Using The federal Inmate Locator Web Site

Author: Steve Gee

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Criminal Public Records Free And Almost Free Background Checks

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Get to know someone by doing a background check on them

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What do you do if you get a funny feeling about someone that you want to have a relationship with or that you want to hire for work or get close to in some other way? Do you like this person and want to get to know them better but you think that something isn’t quite right? Doing a background check on this person and checking their criminal records is a very good way to find out about someone even when you think everything is ok. It could save you from making a big mistake.

Free criminal records check – is it a myth?

If you go to Google or one of the other search engines and enter something like “criminal public records free” you will find that you get a lot of results to choose from but will any of the links give you the information that you are looking for? If it does, will it give you the information without asking you for money?

I decided to test this out. I wanted to find out if you could do a free background check on someone. It could be the new love in your life or just someone that you want to get close to. You could be completely charmed by this person and want to turn it into something more serious.

I could see from my Google search that there were a lot of web sites claiming to let you search for criminal records for free so I tried some of them.

Criminal public records free – Not quite

I tried quite a few of the links that claimed free public records before I realized that you will most likely need to pay a small fee to get the information you want despite what the headlines say. Some of the links took me to government web sites that were difficult to use and at best only allowed state wide searches and provided limited information.

Some sites claim to be free but ask you for money before showing you any meaningful results. I suppose that they get away with it because the information is freely available but the charge for making it available is not free.

The best criminal records web site I could find

The best site that I could find allows you to search for someone before making any payment but it only indicated that there was some information in the database on that person. It will give you background checks and criminal records after you pay the fee.

I was searching for information on someone that I knew and I thought that anything that I could find might be useful. If you are about to get into a serious relationship with someone or hiring them to do work for you then a background check report would be useful to you too.

The web site that I used has a no-nonsense guarantee so you can always get a refund if you aren’t satisfied with the results. I gave it a try and I was amazed by what you can find out about someone on this site. I’m not going to tell you what I found out about my friend but I was very surprised by some of the things in the report. You may not be able to find criminal public records free but this is the next best thing.

Author: Steve Gee

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Arrest Warrants – How to Find Out How Many Criminals Are Active in Your Neighborhood

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Do you know where the criminals are in your area

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Recently I happened to be talking to someone about how important it was to know if you have an arrest warrant. What this person told me took me by surprise and it turned my thinking on it’s head.

I said that if you wanted to avoid the stress and financial loss, not to mention the embarrassment that would happen to you if the police came and arrested you on a warrant unexpectedly one day then you have to make regular checks to see if you have an arrest warrant anywhere in the country. If you know that you have a warrant then you can get a lawyer and go and hand yourself in voluntarily which not only is the right thing to do but it will also lead to the best outcome for you.

If you get an arrest warrant then simply move to another state to avoid it

I must have touched a nerve in the stranger that I was talking to because what he said to me next left me speechless. He laughed and told me that both he and his wife both had active arrest warrants in a different state and they simply moved to avoid them. Apparently they had warrants in other states dating back years and they haven’t been caught yet.

It’s too expensive to enforce arrest warrants across states

I was trying to keep the conversation light hearted at this point because I started to get a very uneasy feeling but I wanted to find out more. Apparently the police don’t enforce warrants for arrest across states because it’s too expensive for them. I guess that they think that if a criminal has moved away from their area then they are someone else’s problem.

The person that told me this then informed me that moving state was a very common method of evading the law and that he knew of many more criminals living in the area that had moved to escape capture in states where they had committed crimes.

Anyone in your area could have an arrest warrant

The implications of what I was being told started to dawn on me and I realized that this was a big problem. Why? Because it means that literally anyone in your neighborhood or any one of your work buddies or anyone that you invite into your home, could be criminals in another state. That’s a frightening thought isn’t it?

Protect yourself by knowing who the criminals are

So what can you do about it?  Sign up at a public records web site where you can check out the arrest warrants, criminal records and other background information on anyone you want. It’s not expensive compared with the peace of mind that you’ll get from knowing where the criminals are. Start by checking out the people that you have most contact with and especially anyone that you are considering hiring to do any work for you. Then you can check out all the people that live in your area.

If you are brave then you can tip off the police about the whereabouts of these criminals trying to evade warrants. The least you should do is stay away from them and don’t invite them into your home.

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Find Criminal Records – Are Your Friends Criminals?

Monday, October 26th, 2009

How to protect yourself from people with criminal records

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How well do you know the people around you? Time and time again you hear of seemingly ordinary people committing the most horrible crimes. Kidnapping, murder, rape… The list goes on and on and in an alarming number of these cases the people around the criminal, including closest friends, were completely unaware of what was going on. How do you protect yourself against criminals like this?

Kate and John had been looking for someone to do some odd jobs on their property for some time so when they saw someone working on their neighbors house, Kate took the time to go and talk to him. His name was Jim and he came across as being very approachable. Kate liked him a lot so she asked him to come over and meet John that evening. John was equally impressed with Jim and they asked him to do some small jobs on their property.

Jim arranged to do the work later that week. He turned up on time, did the work efficiently and left. Kate and John were so impressed that they asked Jim to do several more jobs for them over the following weeks. Everything went according to plan and Jim became almost part of the family for a time. They came to trust Jim so much that they were quite happy to let him enter the property while they were out at work and even loaned him a set of keys.

Check his criminal record before letting him into your house.

The work took a little longer than expected as it so often does but at the end of 3 months John made a final inspection of the work and paid Jim in full. They paid cash because Jim asked for it. I’m not sure why workers in the building trade like to be paid in cash but that’s another story.

They only noticed the problem after Jim had vanished

Jim left the area and on to another job. Kate and John thought that everything was ok until one day Kate found something unusual while checking her credit card statements. Normally she doesn’t pay much attention to the statements and just clears some of the debt but this time something caught her eye.

There was a purchase that Kate didn’t recognize. It wasn’t for a large amount but she knew that she had been at a wedding all day on the date of purchase so she knew that she couldn’t have made it. She then looked closer at her statements for the previous 3 months and found that there were in fact quite a lot of transactions that she couldn’t account for. Some of them were hers of course – she simply didn’t remember using her card but there were others that definitely were not down to her. They were all small but amounted to several thousand dollars when you added them all up.

John was horrified by this and set about checking his own statements only to find the same pattern of unexplained transactions. Then they started to think about some things that they thought they had lost around the house – Kate’s cell phone and some jewelry that she didn’t wear very often. John had lost his PDA and a few power tools that hardly ever left his workshop. Had all these items been stolen?

You can avoid this happening to you

This is a fictitious story designed to illustrate a very real problem that does happen only too often. Kate and John could have avoided the problems that they now have trying to recover their money and property by doing a simple criminal records search. Jim had a criminal record and Kate and John were not his first victims. Nothing serious and he had served his time but he was an habitual thief. Something that they might have spotted from his record.

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I Need a Background Check On My Boyfriend

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

How to get a background check on your boyfriend

Background check your boyfriend right away

Do you suspect that there may be more to your boyfriend than meets the eye? Have you seen signs that he isn’t telling you the whole truth? Are you reluctant to take your relationship to the next level until you know more about him? Whatever your reasons it’s always a good idea to do a background check on your partner. Hopefully it will set your mind at rest and you can get on with being happy together. Here’s how to get a background check on your boyfriend.

First steps in checking out your boyfriend

Before you rush to a private investigator or an online public records database you should do a little probing of your boyfriend by asking him some questions. Ask him about anything you can think of like where does he live, how long has he lived there, where did he live before, where does he work, how long has he worked there etc.

Be subtle in your questioning and be interested in what he has to say. It will make it easier for him to talk if he doesn’t feel as if he’s been interrogated.

Talk to his friends and family too and make mental notes of what they tell you. Look for any inconsistencies in the stories that they all tell you. If your boyfriend is being open and truthful with you then there won’t be any inconsistencies.

Hiring a Private Investigator to check out your partner

The traditional way to get a background check done on someone is to hire a private detective (PI) to dig up the information for you. This is an effective method and if you use a good PI they can be very thorough with their investigations.

The problem with hiring a PI is that it can get expensive because you have to pay for their time. You will also have to pay a PI the same amount again should you need a background check done on someone else. If you do this many times be prepared to spend a lot of money.

Use an online database just like the law enforcement agencies do

Wouldn’t it be better if you could pay a small fee just once and gain access to a service that combines all of the available public databases and places the information at your fingertips? Believe it or not these services do exist and they are becoming very popular. They allow you to do as many online background checks as you want on as many people as you want whenever you want.

Until recently the ability to search for information on someone on this scale was reserved only for the law enforcement agencies. Today you can be using the same databases that they use. If you need a background check on your boyfriend then an online public records database could be a great place to start.

Obtain the information you want on practically anyone including your boyfriend. Get information on as many people as you want and with 100% confidentiality. Do a background check on your boyfriend now.

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How To Check For Active Arrest Warrants

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Don’t ask a police officer if you have a warrant for arrest

If you think that you might have active arrest warrants out on you then the last thing you should do is ask a police officer because he might just arrest you on the spot. It’s much better if you find your warrants discretely and confidentially by yourself so that you can do something about it before it gets out of hand.

If you want to know why you should take arrest warrants seriously then take a look at the article Active Arrest Warrants – Why are People so Interested in Warrants?

You might have outstanding warrants for a number of reasons and you might not have any idea that they exist. You might have picked up a speeding offence and haven’t received notification or you might have forgotten to pay a fine, which resulted in a warrant.

You could be the victim of criminal identity theft

You could be the victim of criminal identity theft where someone has stolen your identity and committed a crime in your name. If this has happened to you then you could have many active warrants for your arrest in different places. This is the worst situation to be in and it’s difficult to prevent it happening.

The sooner you find out that there are arrest warrants out on you the better it will be for you. If you know about them then you can take steps to sort out whatever mess they have placed you in.

Check the courthouse

You can check for active arrest warrants by enquiring at the courthouse. They will be able to tell you if they have are any active warrants in your name. The problem with this is that you can’t be certain where the warrants may be. Which courthouse do you enquire at? This is particularly true if you’ve had your identity stolen and crimes committed in your name in other states or other countries.

Check for arrest warrants on anyone you want the easy way

If you want to make absolutely sure that you’ve done everything that you reasonably can to make sure that you’ve checked for warrants then you should use an online service like this one Court Records. This service pulls together information from multiple private and public records databases and allows you to search them all quickly, conveniently and confidentially.

Find out if you’ve got any active arrest warrants right away because you can’t afford to leave it a minute longer.

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Background Check – How To Do A Background Check On Your Childs Tutor

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

How to protect your children by getting a background check done on them

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You want to give your kids the very best start in life and education plays a very important role. Hiring a home tutor to give your children an edge in an increasingly competitive world is becoming more and more commonplace. But how do you know if your home tutor is an honest and suitable person to be tutoring your child?

Always take up references

One thing that you must always do before you hire your home tutor is to ask for and check out their references. This should apply to anyone you invite into your home and is especially important if they are to have contact with your children.

Get the names of at least 2 people that the tutor has worked for in the past. Be sure to give them both a call and ask them how it all went with them and the tutor. Make sure that you ask the question “would you hire them again” because the answer to this can be very enlightening.

Most people will avoid saying anything bad about someone if they can but if they didn’t like the tutor then they probably won’t say anything good about them either. If they tell you that they wouldn’t use them again then I suggest that you look for another tutor.

How to do a background check on someone

Before you hire your tutor it’s a very good idea to do a background check by using an online public records database. You can find out if they have a criminal record or have warrants out for their arrest. They might even be a known sex offender and I bet that you want to know about that don’t you?

It’s now easier than it’s ever been to do background checks on people. By using public online records databases. You can find out practically everything about anyone and you can do it from the comfort of your own home.

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