Private Investigator Serving Adel, Cook County, & throughout South Georgia

Tinsley Investigations provides licensed private investigative services in Adel, Cook County, and throughout South Georgia. We assist attorneys, businesses, insurers, and private clients with investigations that require discretion, careful documentation, and a practical understanding of how cases develop outside major metropolitan areas.

Our mission

Our mission is to provide thorough, ethical, and professional investigative services that help clients make informed decisions with confidence. We approach every case with discretion, careful planning, and attention to detail, with a focus on uncovering reliable information, documenting facts clearly, and delivering work that can stand up to scrutiny. Whether assisting an attorney, business, insurer, or private client, we are committed to treating every investigation with the seriousness it deserves.

Our team

Tinsley Investigations brings together decades of experience in criminal investigations, federal and state law enforcement, surveillance, interviews, evidence development, and courtroom work. Our complementary backgrounds allow us to approach cases from different angles, combining practical field experience with careful analysis and thorough documentation. Whether assisting an attorney, business, insurer, or private client, our focus is on uncovering reliable information and providing investigative work that is useful, professional, and defensible.

April Tinsley

Managing Partner

Stephen Tinsley

Director of Investigations

Stephen Tinsley brings decades of law enforcement and investigative experience to Tinsley Investigations, including service as a GBI Special Agent, DEA Special Agent and supervisor, and Sheriff. His background includes major criminal investigations, federal investigative work, interviews, surveillance, case strategy, and courtroom experience. He provides seasoned investigative judgment and a practical understanding of how evidence, people, and circumstances fit together in complex cases.

April Tinsley is a licensed private investigator/security guard, former law enforcement investigator, and licensed pharmacist with more than two decades of professional experience involving investigations, evidence, interviews, documentation, and courtroom testimony. Her background includes criminal investigations, drug diversion cases, crimes against children, surveillance, and complex fact development. She brings a detail-oriented approach to cases and focuses on producing clear, useful information that clients and attorneys can act on.

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Serving Adel, Cook County, & all of South Georgia

Also covering Sparks, Lenox, and Cecil.

Tinsley Investigations

When the stakes are high, every move matters.

Professional investigative services for attorneys, businesses, and private individuals throughout Georgia, including criminal defense investigations, surveillance, child custody investigations, and litigation support.

Email

info@tinsley-investigations.com

(912) 599-2119

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Phone

GA License# PDSC001777

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