Tampa Bay cases have their own shape: an infidelity investigation that moves between a Westshore office and a Clearwater Beach hotel, a cargo-theft ring at a distribution center off I-4, a custody dispute between Brandon and St. Petersburg, a business partner on Davis Islands whose lifestyle does not match the books. FSO Guard is a licensed private investigator in Tampa, a Florida Class A investigative agency (A 1000095) whose investigators work in English, Spanish and Russian and deliver reports written for a courtroom.
Investigation services in Tampa
Surveillance and infidelity
Discreet surveillance with time-stamped video and a written activity log for divorce, cohabitation and alimony matters, and employer cases involving suspected fraud or moonlighting.
Child custody investigations
Custody investigations that document the other parent’s conduct, exchanges, household members and living conditions in a form a Hillsborough or Pinellas family court can use.
Background checks
Background checks on business partners, tenants, caregivers, key hires and new relationships, including criminal and civil records, litigation, assets, aliases and online footprint, obtained legally.
Skip tracing and process service
Locating debtors, witnesses and defendants and serving them correctly so your case keeps moving, including subjects who left Tampa for another county or state.
Corporate, cargo and employee theft
Corporate investigations for Tampa’s logistics, healthcare and construction businesses: inventory and cargo theft, embezzlement, vendor kickbacks, non-compete violations, workers’ comp fraud.
Litigation support and asset searches
Witness location and interviews, records retrieval, scene documentation and asset searches for judgment recovery and divorce settlements.
Who hires us in Tampa Bay
- Attorneys: family law, personal injury, criminal defense and commercial litigators who need a licensed investigator and a report that survives cross-examination.
- Spouses and families: divorce, custody, alimony and elder-care concerns where facts matter more than suspicion.
- Logistics, industrial and healthcare businesses: theft, fraud, misconduct and pre-employment or vendor due diligence.
- Insurers and self-insured employers: surveillance and documentation on questionable claims.
- Property owners and landlords: tenants and guests who left damage, debt or fraud behind.
How a case works
- Confidential consultation: what happened, what you need to prove, what is legally possible and what it will roughly cost.
- Estimate and retainer: scope, hours, rate and reporting in one page; the retainer applies to hours worked.
- Fieldwork: surveillance, research and interviews by licensed investigators who know the Bay area’s traffic, neighborhoods and bridges (timing a subject across the Howard Frankland is a skill).
- Report and testimony: time-stamped evidence and a written report structured for your attorney; investigators available to testify.
Why Tampa clients choose FSO Guard
- Licensed and insured: Class A agency, Class C investigators, work conducted within Chapter 493 and Florida’s privacy statutes.
- No illegal shortcuts: no trackers on vehicles you do not own (Florida Statute 934.425), no recording private conversations without consent (934.03), no pretext access to phone or bank records. These shortcuts destroy cases.
- Three languages: interviews and document review in English, Spanish and Russian.
- Investigations and security together: when a case exposes a threat or an ongoing theft, our Tampa security officers and protection agents step in without a second vendor.
Service area
Private investigator services in Tampa, Westshore, Downtown and Channelside, Hyde Park, South Tampa, Davis Islands, Carrollwood, Temple Terrace, New Tampa, Wesley Chapel, Brandon, Riverview, Plant City, Lakeland, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Dunedin, Pinellas Park and the Gulf beaches: Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco and Polk counties. Statewide matters run through our Florida private investigator team.
Call 888.881.8099 or use the chat for a confidential consultation. See also private investigator services in Miami, Orlando and what a private investigator costs in Florida.
