Fugitive Recovery: We Locate, Apprehend, and Return.
When a defendant skips bail, time is the enemy. Every hour that passes puts more distance between you and a lawful resolution — and between a bondsman and a forfeited bond. Armstrong Investigations, PLLC provides professional fugitive recovery services across Texas: locating and apprehending bail jumpers.
Our work includes both fugitive location and lawful apprehension. We use skip tracing, surveillance, digital intelligence, and field investigation to confirm a subject’s location. When a case has a verified lawful basis and the required written authorization, we may conduct a controlled apprehension and coordinate the subject’s return to custody. Each operation is documented from intake through resolution
We serve both licensed bail bondsmen with active warrants and private individuals who need a fugitive located and lawfully returned through proper authority. Every operation is conducted within the full framework of Texas law — with documentation to prove it.
Locate And Apprehend Fugitives Services
Fugitive Locate & Apprehension
This is the full scope of what we do — locate and bring back. Armstrong Investigations conducts professional fugitive recovery from first lead to final apprehension, operating under lawful authority at every step. We use skip tracing, surveillance, digital intelligence, and fieldwork to develop a confirmed, current location — then execute a controlled, documented apprehension. Every step from the opening of a case to the return of the fugitive is logged and preserved, creating a complete record that supports any legal proceedings that follow.
Professional Skip Tracing
A bail jumper rarely disappears without a trace. They contact known associates, return to familiar locations, and leave digital and physical footprints that an experienced investigator knows how to read and follow. Our skip tracing methodology combines high-level commercial database access, utility and address records, social network analysis, and cross-referenced intelligence sources to build an accurate, current location profile — giving our recovery operations a verified target before any field deployment begins.
Surveillance & Subject Confirmation
Sending a recovery team to an address without first confirming the subject is there is how operations fail. Before any apprehension is executed, we verify the subject's presence and establish their movement patterns through professional covert surveillance. Our investigators use mobile and stationary observation, long-range optics, and discreet vehicle positioning to confirm the subject, document their schedule, and identify the right window for a controlled recovery — minimizing risk and maximizing the probability of a clean result.
Bail Bond Forfeiture Support
We work directly with licensed Texas bail bondsmen on active forfeitures, operating under the written authorization provided by the bondsman as required under Texas law. When a bond goes into forfeiture and standard locate efforts have stalled, we step in with the investigative depth and recovery capability to resolve the case within the forfeiture timeline. Every engagement is fully documented, source-verified, and delivered with the complete record the bondsman needs to support bond reinstatement.
Digital Footprint & OSINT Intelligence
Modern fugitives generate modern trails. Social media activity, device location data, tagged photographs, online financial behavior, and peer-to-peer communications all leave intelligence that experienced investigators know how to surface and verify. Our open-source intelligence capabilities allow us to reconstruct a subject's recent movements, map active contacts, and identify probable current locations — compressing a search that would take weeks in the field to a matter of days when the digital evidence is properly developed and followed.
Private Client Recovery
Are you trying to locate someone to serve papers? We can handle that as well. We combine our Private Investigation services with out recovery team. In a short time we can locate, skip-trace, surveillance and gather intelligence. We pride ourselves in the expediacy and quality of services to find and locate people, in the service of law. Call us for a FREE prequalifying interview. Tell us your story and let us help you find who you are looking for.
Lawful Authority. Professional Standards. No Shortcuts.
Fugitive recovery is one of the most operationally and legally demanding services a private investigation firm can offer. Done correctly, it resolves a bond forfeiture, returns a fugitive to custody, and creates a clean, documented record that protects everyone involved. Done incorrectly, it creates liability, jeopardizes the case, and puts the people who hired us in a worse position than before we were called.
A Specialized Team. We have a unique team that are experts in tracking fugitives. If you have someone who has skipped court, we can help you track them down and recover them.
We are not law enforcement. Armstrong Investigations holds a Texas Private Investigator license and helps bondsmen conduct fugitive recovery. Our specialized team can track and apprehend fugitives.
Every operation is documented from start to finish. A recovery that cannot be documented is a recovery that can be challenged. We maintain a complete operational record on every case — skip trace methodology, surveillance logs, location confirmation, and apprehension documentation — so that the bondsman, the court, or any reviewing authority has everything needed to establish that the recovery was lawful, professional, and properly conducted.
We use lawful means. Always. We do not trespass, impersonate law enforcement, use unlawful surveillance, or employ any method that falls outside the legal framework governing licensed private investigators and fugitive recovery in Texas. The short-term efficiency of a shortcut is never worth the legal exposure it creates for the client, the bondsman, or the firm.
Fugitive Locate And Recovery With Coverage Across Texas
All operations are conducted within the State of Texasunder our Texas private investigator license (DPS Lic. No. 166353101) and applicable Texas law. Out-of-state cases are not currently accepted.