Tale of the Wayward GPS Unit

A revolutionary new Global Positioning System unit had been developed by a Tulsa electronics company, but an unscrupulous company engineer had intercepted the designs and was secretly working on his own unit for a competitor in Singapore. When company officials were alerted something was amiss by a supplier who had stumbled across the scheme, Gary Glanz got the call.

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A revolutionary new Global Positioning System unit had been developed by a Tulsa electronics company, but an unscrupulous company engineer had intercepted the designs and was secretly working on his own unit for a competitor in Singapore. When company officials were alerted something was amiss by a supplier who had stumbled across the scheme, Gary Glanz got the call.

Setting up a surveillance on company computers, Glanz quickly identified a suspect who was transmitting information on the unit to his home computer. A subsequent raid of the employee’s apartment yielded a wealth of incriminating documents and stolen computer software, and provided investigators with a link to the engineer’s partner in Reno, Nev., who was serving as the liason with the company in Singapore that was buying the pirated unit.

On Christmas Eve, Glanz flew to Reno and trailed the suspect to his home, where he served the engineer’s partner with a civil lawsuit seeking damages for the actions of himself and the others involved in the scheme. He also recovered the prototype the engineer had built, then referred the case to law enforcement authorities for prosecution. Glanz’s quick response had halted the production of a product that likely would have cost his clients millions of dollars in sales had it reached the market.

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The Wall Street Journal calls him “The Super Sleuth” —and with good reason. For more than 50 years, Tulsa private investigator Gary Glanz has been solving major crimes, locating missing people, recovering tens of millions of dollars in cash and other valuable materials and securing priceless art collections—all with a flair, and a sense of professionalism and discretion that have earned him an international reputation. Originally making a name for himself as one of the youngest detectives in the history of the Tulsa Police Department, where he received numerous awards and citations, Glanz left the police department in 1967 to establish his own private investigative firm. Gary G...