Mr. D’Angelo began his career in as a Military Police Officer in the United States Marine Corps. Upon receiving an Honorable Discharge from military service, he became a civilian Police Officer with the Rockville City Police Department in Rockville, Maryland. He graduated with honors from the Prince Georges County Police Academy and continued his education by pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Ohio. He left the police force in good standing in 1992 to pursue his dream of owning his own business, and thus, founded Target Investigations.

Since then, Mr. D’Angelo has received additional training on numerous investigative specialties from a variety of institutions and schools. Among them, basic investigation techniques from the Federal Bureau of Investigations; Interview & Interrogation techniques from John E. Reid & Associates; Open-Source Intelligence techniques from The Heatherington Group; and Technical Surveillance Countermeasures training from both Jarvis Incorporated and Research Electronics International.

Highlights from Mr. D’Angelo’s career include a 2004 appearance on WUSA Channel 9 News on a special news segment about adultery investigations. In 2010, he was interviewed for an article in the Maryland State Bar Association’s newsletter on the topic of family law investigations and has been a guest speaker and instructor for several local bar and private detective associations. In June of 2013, he published a paper called The Private Investigator: A Users Guide for The Legal Practitioner, to assist attorneys when choosing and utilizing private investigators.

Also in 2013, Mr. D’Angelo was elected President of the Private Investigator’s Association of Virginia (PIAVA), a position he held for two years. During his tenure as President, he and his fellow board members instituted an annual training program for beginning private investigators and grew the size of the association’s membership by nearly 100%. He also testified before both Virginia and Maryland’s legislatures and met with members of the United States Congress on matters related the private investigation industry.  

More recently, in 2020 Mr. D’Angelo was qualified to testify as an Expert Witness in the field of Private Investigations and Personal Security by the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Maryland.

Over the past four decades, Mr. D’Angelo has become a prominent and highly respected member of the local legal community.   But perhaps what he is best known for is his calm, compassionate, and straight forward approach to working with people who are experiencing a personal crisis.

Our Staff

All of our investigators are registered by the government to work as private detectives.  As a rule, we do not sub-contract work to any outside investigators unless specifically discussed with our clients.  We do, however, use off-duty law enforcement officers for some security assignments, and independently-contracted digital forensic examiners for digital security cases.

Our Licenses

• Agency Private Detective License – Maryland – #23PLUPD22637
• Agency Private Security Services Business License –Virginia – #11-6677
• Agency Private Detective Business License – District of Columbia – #PDB0202057

Our Associations

• The National Council of Investigations and Security Services (NCISS)
• The Maryland Investigators & Security Association (MISA)
• The Private Investigators Association of Virginia (PIAVA)
• OSMOSIS – An Association of OSINT Professionals (https://osmosiscon.com/association)

Our Accreditation by the Better Business Bureau

We are accredited by the Better Business Bureau and hold an A+ business rating.  This rating is based on the number of years we have been in business and the absence of any customer complaints filed with the Bureau.   Please click on the BBB dynamic seal below to access our online profile: