GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Greenville County Sheriff’s Investigator Jim Perry has come a long way since he started his law enforcement career more than a half-century ago.
So has Greenville.
“Back when I first started it, it was like the Wild West in downtown Greenville,” Perry said. “We had to get things done.”
Perry has spent more than 40 years with the agency. He started in the 1970s, but he left to start his own private investigator business in the 1980s and 1990s.
“The name of the company was Perry and Perry Investigations . Kind of like Simon & Simon (CBS TV show in the 1980s) It’s not like it is today. You didn’t have tracking devices. If you had to follow somebody, you had to do it Magnum PI -style without the Ferrari.”
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O’AHU – JANUARY 1: Magnum, P.I. (alt.: MAGNUM PI / MAGNUM, PI). A CBS television detective drama series. Pictured is Tom Selleck (as Magnum). (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) -
HONOLULU – NOVEMBER 5: Pictured is Tom Selleck (as Magnum) in the MAGNUM PI episode, “Little Girl Who.” Air date, November 5, 1986. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) -
LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 1: SIMON & SIMON cast members Jameson Parker as Andrew Jackson as A.J. Simon and Gerald McRaney as Rick Simon. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images) -
LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 1: SIMON & SIMON cast members Jameson Parker as Andrew Jackson as A.J. Simon and Gerald McRaney as Rick Simon. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)
