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"What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
NEWS
Texas Association of Licensed Investigators News Release, July 2007
Louis Akin elected Region Four Director
Louis L. Akin, LPI, was elected Regional Director for Region Four by the membership of TALI. The region includes Austin, San Antonio, and Corpus Christie and all counties between. Akin proposes to establish city chapters in each major city for the purpose of bringing local investigators together for lunches, seminars, and local business meetings. "I want to implement rolling seminars that will move across the region providing information that is not usually covered in the state conventions. They might include talks on using business software, filing sales tax receipts, ethics courses, updates on laws and regulations, things of that nature."
Texas Investigator Magazine, March 2007
Austin Investigator Louis Akin honored with award for Excellence in Investigations
Louis Akin, owner/manager of Akin Investigations, Austin, Texas, is awarded the Meritorious Service Award for Investigative Excellence, 2007, by the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators for his incredible investigative intuition by discovering a wiretap installed on the telephone line beneath the home of an Austin woman. The discovery led to the arrest and conviction of a 55-year old Austin contractor who stalked, harassed, and psychologically tortured ex-girlfriends over the past 20-years. On evidence Akin developed, the contractor was convicted of wiretapping and burglary and sentenced to five years in prison. Last year Akin received the TALI President's Award for his work in for his work as associate editor of the Texas Investigator magazine.
El Paso Herald Post, Friday, October 26, 1984
Investigator disputes police version of shooting
Private Investigator Louis Akin demonstrates shooter’s actual position from physical evidence he examined, description given by Medical Examiner, and kids in the car.
Juan corral, Sr. and his wife, Lillia, whose son Raul was shot, October 6 by a security guard in the Vista Hills Shopping Center, are asking $6 million in damages.
Following the shooting, Frank Perkins told police that Raul and several other youths were burglarizing cars in the shopping center at about 10 p.m. Perkins said he fired only when the younger Corral tried to run him down with the car. Police Lt John Lanahan of the Crimes Against Persons Division said October 9 that the shooting appeared to be in self-defense. First District Attorney Bill Moody, who is reviewing the case, said he is still investigating.
Private investigator Louis Akin, hired by the Corral family attorney, concluded that the shot that killed Corral came from behind and that an argument of self-defense could not be substantiated.
Akin said the medical examiner’s report showed that the bullet that killed Corral entered his back near the spine and pierced a lung and the heart.
"I can’t conceive of this as self-defense under the law," Akin said. "It’s clear that he (the guard) shot him in the back while he was going the other way. It was not a close range shot. What was he defending against?" Akin says the bullet missed the youngest child, eight years old (bottom left corner with face hidden) by about eight inches.
Akin said he has examined the car Corral was driving at the time of the shooting and his clothes and has collected evidence that he plans to turn over to the district attorney’s office. He says the evidence shows that the bullet was fired from behind, through the left rear passenger window, pierced the back of the seat, and struck Corral between the ninth and tenth ribs.
AFRICAN ATROCITIES
Private investigator Louis Akin helps Ethiopians striving to rescue families from terror-ridden country
Private Investigator Louis Akin talks with Chesney and Johannes
Six thousand people were shot to death in a five-day shooting spree by the government. An El Paso woman flew halfway across the world to visit her family and never saw them—even though she paid $3,000 in bribes to the police for transportation privileges. These incidents occurred in Ethiopia.
While starvation deaths, famine and drought in this East African country have made headlines, the other atrocities, which have been going on for the past 10 years, are largely unreported, say two women from Eritrea, an Ethiopian province hugged by the Red Sea.
The killings, disappearances and indiscriminate imprisonments of Ethiopians are silenced because of the strict control exercised by the government and the fear and legitimate paranoia felt by citizens the women said.
"I’ll never go back there. There’s nothing like home, no matter where you come from, but it doesn’t exist anymore," said Tsion Yohannes, a 29 year old UT El Paso graduate. She ran away from home at 19 and fled to Sudan to join the Eritrea Liberation Front (ELF). She left on a Wednesday, two days before the government ordered soldiers to kill everyone in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. The soldiers shot 6,000 people, Yohannes said. "When I went home, all I saw were army trucks picking up bodies."
Eritrea was a country until 1977 when it fell into the hands of Ethiopia. Since 1962, the Ethiopian government wanted to take over the country because without it, it would be landlocked and unable to use the sea for transportation, she said.
Another former resident of the country, Asegedech "Saba" Chesney, said she did not now the regime existed until she tried to visit her family in Asmara in 1980. She married American soldier who had been stationed in Ethiopia. She and her husband moved to Ft Bliss, El Paso, in 1973. The first time I went, I didn’t see my family," Chesney said. "I was just going to surprise them. I didn’t know anything had changed. Probably because all the letters and phone calls are censored, Yohannes added.
Chesney said she paid $3,000 in bribes, but never saw her family. Her vacation was over and she couldn’t get an extension because the police arbitrarily made her leave or be thrown in jail.
Private investigator Louis Akin met the women a month ago and guided them to immigration attorney Richard Contreras who is providing free help to both women.
"But we received some disastrous news today," Akin said. "The Ethiopian government has stopped all visitors’ visas. They won’t let anybody out because too many people are leaving the country."
El Paso Times, Wednesday, May 3, 1989
PI battles to save family's home from police bulldozers
By Ramon Bracamontes
Private Investigator Louis Akin addressing news media on behalf the Ortiz family says he is trying to ward off the police department’s attempts to demolish the Ortiz home because two of the family’s sons are gang members.
The beleaguered Ortiz family frustrated the city’s plan to demolish their home Tuesday by refusing to leave. Instead, two huge bulldozers, city dump trucks, several police cars, a covey of city officials and a mob of reporters left.
At noon Tuesday, city inspector Bill Bennett, flanked by two plainclothes officers approached the front porch of Manuel Ortiz’s home at 205 Isaiah and told the family "We are here to demolish your house." Fifteen Ortiz family members stood on the half-finished porch, some sobbing, others glaring at the city officials. Private investigator Louis Akin stood with the family.
Guadalupe Ortiz, daughter of Manuel, wept and said quietly, "Where’s the eviction notice? We’re not leaving if you don’t have one."
Bennett, who had no eviction notice, turned and walked off the property. The yellow bulldozers, city dump trucks, and police cars in the adjacent lot rumbled away.
The Ortiz family has been building their sprawling stone home for the past 11 years. Bennett and City Attorney David Caylor said the resistance was expected, but nothing could be done Tuesday. "This is not an eviction. We can’t arrest them. They aren’t violating any law." Caylor said a hearing could be conducted and a judge’s ruling obtained within 10 days. In the meantime, the Ortiz family members expressed relief that their home was still standing. But after the bulldozers left, the family was left wondering what was next.
"God is with us," said Cirila Ortiz, the mother of the family. "Thanks for giving us more time." Cirila said they have no where to go if the home is destroyed.
Private investigator Louis Akin showed up at the Ortiz’s home just ahead of the city bulldozers. The house was already surrounded by police. Akin entered the home and began talking with the family members.
"This is an injustice," Akin said. "Some of the press, police, city officials, and a few hotheaded neighbors have formed a lynch mob to get this family out of here. This family has stated that they are willing to work and cooperate with the neighborhood. This home has been under construction for 11 years as they can afford to build it. Every stone has been put in place by their hands. If it is torn down, they won’t be able to rebuild it."
El Paso Herald Post, June 14, 1989
Cops stopped and Ortiz family prepares for rebuilding
By Teresa Kramer
Cirila Ortiz and husband Manuel hug Private Investigator Louis Akin after city council halts the demolishment of their home which the police have called “a bunker.”
Manuel Ortiz said today that his family would move out as soon as contractors are given a city building permit to reconstruct his Lover Valley home. On Tuesday, the new City Council overturned the former council’s April 11 condemnation of the house at 205 Isaiah Drive.
Private investigator Louis Akin, who had been helping the Ortizes, praised council for having “re-introduced the concept of humanity into government of the people.”
“I am very pleased, thank god,” the 55 year old Ortiz said after the council meeting.
He, several members of his family and people who were helping them clapped when council voted. In the lobby outside they exchanged congratulations, thank-yous, hugs and smiles.
“I think the new council and everyone in the group who has helped me,” Ortiz said. “They trusted me.”
The home has stood half-built for 11 years and violates city codes for safety, health, and construction. The Ortizes had been given until June 27 to move out so that the city could demolish the home.
El Paso Times, Thursday, April 26, 1984
Investigator Louis Akin details fatal abortion
By Jeff Collins
Investigator Louis Akin explains abortion procedure in hospital while anti-abortion picketers protest outside.
Mickey Apodaca arrived early at Dr. Raymond Showery’s clinic the day she died, Private Investigator Louis Akin, who is working with Showery’s attorney, Michael R. Gibson, told reporters Wednesday.
During a media tour of Southside Medical Center, 701 S. Campbell, Akin provided some details of the abortion that apparently led to Apodaca’s death April 11. A coroner’s report said she bled to death from a severed uterine artery. Authorities later jailed Showery on manslaughter charges and revoked his bail on an earlier conviction that is on appeal.
Akin said Wednesday’s media tour was conducted to convince the public that the physician didn’t run "a back room operation. It’s a modern hospital." He also gave details of Apodaca’s treatment there. He said the 28 year-old divorced mother of four came to Showery’s clinic March 17 to inquire about an abortion. An appointment was set for April 11, and she arrived at about 8:30 a.m., Akin said. She was 19 weeks pregnant at the time. Sometime after 2 p.m., Apodaca was taken to Showery’s operating room at the end of a short hallway, and an abortion was performed, lasting about 45 minutes to an hour, he said. Then with no signs of bleeding, she was taken to another room. Subsequently, however, a nurse discovered that Apodaca was hemorrhaging and took her back into the operation room.
Showery ordered that Apodaca be given a blood transfusion and that an ambulance be called, Akin said. He couldn’t say , however, how much time elapsed between the discovery of the hemorrhage and when the ambulance was called just after 5 p.m.
Dr. Juan Contin, county medical examiner, estimated that Apodaca had been bleeding at least an hour before an ambulance was summoned. As reporters and photographers passed through the hospital abortion opponents picketed outside and a few patients filed in to speak with nurses.
El Paso Times, 1986
Texas Attorney General hires private investigator to investigate nationwide fraud ring
El Paso Police Association News 1985
Local private investigator elected president of detective association
El Paso Private Investigator Louis L. Akin, LPI, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Master Detectives International. Akin, owner of Akin & Associates, was elected President. Akin is also Chairman of the Public Relations Committee of the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators.
Master Detectives International is a non-profit professional association whose members must be licensed and certified as master’s level detectives. Its purpose is to provide training and guidance to investigators who are working towards the master’s level and continuing training for masters. The convention was also attended by El Paso investigators George Aboud, J.J. Armes, and Bob Miner.
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