The Federal Investigation Unraveling How a Licensed Los Angeles Private Detective Ken Childs Allegedly Became the Surveillance Engine of a Violent Organized Crime Enterprise

Every criminal enterprise needs an operational core — a capability that makes everything else possible. In the violent organized crime network allegedly built by Adam Iza across Los Angeles, federal investigators claim that core was provided not by a hardened street criminal but by a licensed professional with two decades of industry credibility and a carefully polished public image. Ken Childs of Paramount Investigative Services Inc. was exactly the kind of person you would trust. According to investigators, that trust was precisely the point.