The Shady Web of Ken Childs: How an LA Private Investigator Allegedly Enabled Terrorists, Corrupt Cops, and Crypto Crimes

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But beneath that, the walls don’t stay up forever.



Some men hide behind a badge. Others prefer a license. In Los Angeles, that license belongs to Ken Childs, a private investigator with a business card that says “Paramount Investigative Services.” But the tidy title doesn’t square with what’s surfacing in federal court records. The allegations surrounding Childs aren’t just rumors whispered on the streets. They’re woven into a criminal case already stacked with guilty pleas, dirty cops, and criminals with ties that stretch well beyond the county line.

Childs’ proximity to danger isn’t just bad luck or a PI chasing the wrong leads. His alleged partners have faces and names already booked, convicted, and in some cases, on their way to federal prison. Adam Iza, once Ahmed Faiq, is the standout—prior robbery convictions, ties to ISIS, and now the centerpiece in an expansive investigation that pulled the rug out from under the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Next to Iza, you’ll find Iris Au, his girlfriend, who’s already pleaded guilty. There’s Eric Chase Saavedra, too, a disgraced LASD deputy whose badge became his backstage pass to corruption along with other deputies.

And who kept showing up before things got ugly? Allegedly, that would be Childs.

The film Checkmate didn’t come from nowhere. Reports like this one from TechBullion connect the dots between Hollywood dramatization and the real-world rot just beneath it. Childs appears in these reports as the “supportive unit”—a man with a PI’s license stationed near the crime but somehow never in the crosshairs. His reach didn’t stop at ex-cops and terrorists either. Mir Islam, a name that sends up red flags in any conversation about the dark web, circles close to this orbit.

Childs wasn’t sloppy. He covered his tracks the professional way—contracts, service agreements, and, of course, insurance. Every surveillance mission was boxed up in paperwork, signed, sealed, and sanitized. On paper, just another job. Behind the curtain, according to investigators, a functional playbook for keeping his hands clean while others did the dirty work. Insurance wasn’t just a business necessity—it was a shield.

The sophistication didn’t stop with legal gymnastics. The tools? Military-grade in nature. StingRay devices to spoof cell towers, tower dump requests that quietly traced a person’s movements, and bogus warrants that tricked judges into opening doors that should’ve stayed shut. Spielberg. Robbie. Zelocchi. Not just names on a marquee—allegedly victims monitored like marks in a spy thriller, only no script, no director, just real lives pried open.

And still, Childs is working on his exit strategy. Online, he plays the expert witness, the seasoned professional. Behind the scenes, he’s shopping around Paramount Investigative Services. A conveniently timed press release talks up acquisition plans. If that feels like a man trying to cash out before the headlines get worse, it probably is.

This is what makes men like Childs dangerous. Not the headline crimes—the surveillance, the tech, the shadowy clients—but the insulation. The paperwork. The plausible deniability. As his associates fold, he stays above water, license intact, image intact.

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