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Mailing Address (not a branch address): 1835 NE 185 St., Ste 547, Miami, FL 33179
Worldwide. Whether you need to check out a possible investor in Venezuela, conduct surveillance in California, or have a background check on someone in Montana, Crossroads can assist. We take advantage of our membership in several elite associations of highly skilled professionals to make sure every job is completed to strict Crossroads Investigations standards.
Crossroads Investigations is owned and operated by Marc Hurwitz, a former federal intelligence officer with experience in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The White House National Security Council, and the U.S. Department of State. We have been named as the best Private Investigation Agency for the last seven years by the readers of the Daily Business Review.
Absolutely. Crossroads Investigations adheres to the strict stipulations set forth by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Florida Statues Chapter 493. We maintain an “A” Agency License, an “MA” Agency Manager’s License, and a “C” Private Investigator License.
Furthermore, Crossroads Investigations is fully insured. This should be a critical factor when considering who to hire for your investigative needs.
Yes, our staff includes fully insured and bonded Notary Publics.
No, but we are happy to refer you to an affordable and reliable process serving company that we work very closely with, who has never let our clients down.
A private investigator gathers legally obtained information to help clients make informed decisions. Services include surveillance, background checks, asset searches, and locating individuals. Professional investigators use databases, fieldwork, and intelligence techniques to uncover accurate, actionable information for legal, personal, or business matters.
Private investigator costs vary based on the service. Surveillance is typically billed hourly, while services like background checks, asset searches, and skip tracing are often flat-rate. Costs depend on complexity, time required, and available information. Transparent pricing ensures clients know what to expect before work begins.
Yes, private investigators are legal in Florida if they are properly licensed. They must follow strict state and federal laws. Legal investigators do not hack phones, access private accounts, or use illegal surveillance methods. All work must comply with privacy laws and admissible evidence standards.
Yes, private investigators can identify hidden assets using legal methods. This includes analyzing public records, financial patterns, business filings, and property ownership. Asset searches are commonly used in divorce, lawsuits, and collections to uncover bank accounts, real estate, and other valuable holdings.
The timeline depends on the type of investigation. Simple cases like locating someone may take a few hours or days, while complex investigations such as asset searches or due diligence can take several weeks. Timing depends on available information, scope, and case complexity.
Yes, surveillance is legal when conducted in public places and for lawful purposes. Private investigators cannot trespass, record in private settings, or violate privacy laws. Effective surveillance requires a clear plan, including specific times, locations, or behaviors to monitor.
In some cases, no. Certain services—like skip tracing or locate investigations—may be offered on a “no new information, no fee” basis. This means you only pay if the investigator uncovers new, valuable information beyond what you already have.
You can start with basic details like a full name, phone number, email, or last known address. The more information you provide, the more effective the investigation will be. Even limited details can often be enough for an experienced investigator to begin.
Yes, hiring a private investigator is confidential. Reputable firms protect client identity and case details at all times. Information is handled securely and only shared with authorized parties, ensuring privacy throughout the investigation process.
You should hire a private investigator when information is difficult to obtain, requires legal compliance, or must be handled discreetly. Investigators have access to specialized tools and expertise that make them far more effective than attempting to gather sensitive information on your own.
Yes, a private investigator can often locate someone in Florida using legal databases, public records, and investigative research. This is commonly called a locate investigation or skip trace. Success depends on the quality of the starting information, but even limited details can sometimes be enough to begin.
Hiring a private investigator for suspected infidelity can be worth it when you need facts instead of suspicion. A private investigator can conduct lawful surveillance and gather objective evidence that may help you make personal, financial, or legal decisions. It is often more effective than trying to investigate on your own.
Yes, a private investigator can conduct a professional background check in Miami. Depending on the purpose, a background investigation may include criminal history, civil records, business affiliations, address history, and other relevant public information. A professionally conducted background check is often more thorough than an online instant search.
Yes, private investigators often help identify hidden assets during divorce cases. This may include real estate, business interests, bank relationships, judgments, liens, and other financial clues. Asset investigations can help attorneys and clients better understand whether a spouse may be concealing money or property.
A private investigator may be able to locate someone in as little as a day, but some cases take longer. The timeline depends on the person’s digital footprint, how recent the available information is, and whether the subject is actively trying to avoid being found. More starting details usually lead to faster results.
Yes, a private investigator can help with a child custody case in Florida by documenting behavior, gathering evidence, and conducting surveillance when appropriate. Investigators may be hired to verify parenting concerns, unsafe conduct, or violations of custody arrangements, always using lawful investigative methods.
An employment or tenant screening report is compliant with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which stipulates what can and cannot be used when making a decision. It also requires the subject’s written consent. It generally consists of a limited-scope criminal background check, address history, and Patriot Act searches (such as national wants and warrants, sex offender), with optional add-ons such as credit and driving history.
A Crossroads deep national background report does not require a subject’s consent, and has much, much more information than an FCRA-compliant report. The Crossroads report has expanded criminal, properties, vehicles, liens, bankruptcies, judgments, foreclosures, evictions, corporate affiliations and a lot more. It does not include credit as this requires the subject’s consent.
No problem. We can run our deep national background reports based on very little information. A name, an age range, a cell phone number or and current or previous city where the subject has lived, may be all that is needed.
Yes, Crossroads offers an online solution for clients our clients. It’s a simple form found at Xinvestigations.com/screening, and we will take it from there!
Yes. A person’s bank account information is obtained using a variety of techniques, all of which are legal under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act and does not involve any pretext to the financial institution or the customer. A typical search usually involves combining several of these methods. These may include researching for payment methods in public records such as UCC filings, real estate records, vehicle ownership, boat ownership, land-lord records, sales tax permits, court records including divorce records, bankruptcy records, payments made to public entities such as county tax collectors or company filings, payments made to creditors such as utility companies or loan companies and information provided by clients.
Our agents works closely with the collection centers and payment processors of numerous companies to share data and payment methods of individuals. This helps us locate banking institutions of the subjects and helps the collection centers with possible upcoming issues with the subject. These methods will normally uncover bank accounts used by the subject to make payments and are all legal methods in obtaining copies of checks or banking information.
Our agents uses proprietary software with algorithms that use data from third party providers of electronic transactions to locate the originating transfer bank and funds available. These providers use key data in the transactions to track and verify funds availability. Account numbers are not used, just a key number for that transaction, however that key number describes the originating bank, account holder and the receiving bank and account holder. Additional details may be obtained from the financial institution if the case meets the standards under the GLB act section 6802 (e)(3)(D) (persons holding a legal interest relating to the consumer).
Asset searches cannot be used for FCRA-regulated purposes to determine the eligibility for credit, insurance, employment or any other purpose regulated under the FCRA. Asset information can only be used by persons holding a legal or beneficial interest relating to the consumer, or to protect against or prevent actual fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims, or other liability.
Not at all – that is not legal. We only use our data to obtain provisional information and follow up with SWIFT confirmations from the bank. These networks have been around a long time passing this financial data to everyone and selling the data for commercial use.
Crossroads only runs bank searches for requests related to legal or business purposes, such as pre-litigation, post-judgment, divorce cases, probate, investments, mergers or acquisitions.
No. Our asset searches are flat rate searches due to the amount of effort involved.
Yes, our research team is comprised exclusively for former CIA officers who are relentless in their information-searching capabilities. We regularly put together reports that examine every facet of a company or person, to include litigiousness, news reports, social media, blogs, financials, reputation, civil and criminal records, and a lot more. Generally, our executive summary is a few dozen pages, supported by hundreds of pages of appendices.
Yes – Crossroads Investigations is a boutique firm – our analytical team is comprised exclusively of former CIA officers who have similar experience and training as the analysts working for any large “beltway bandit”. We have access to amazing sources of information and a part of a worldwide network of agents who can help us find hard-to-find information. We offer personalized service and an exceptional work product for a fraction of what a large consulting firm would charge.
Locates/Skip-Tracing
No. We ask that you send us all the information you already have, and if we can’t add new information to that body of knowledge, we will waive our locate report fee.
No, this is not legal. However, we do have available several other unique (and legal) tools to help us locate hard-to-find subjects.
Yes, we can place the subject under surveillance. However, we advise to check with your attorney first to make sure that this is an actually good use of your money. Further, surveillance works best when there is an actual suspected time and place of expected malfeasance. Otherwise, you are paying an hourly rate when nothing is happening.
Fulfilling last-minute requests is dependent on our current case-load. There is a rush fee for any case requested under two business days.
No, that is not legal.
No, but we are happy to refer you to a company that has excellent expertise in this area.