About The Owner

Jim Melia began his 28 year law enforcement career as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Army Military Police. He served in combat with the 101st Airborne Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Jim joined the FBI in 1995 and retired in November of 2016, after serving 21 years in both Chattanooga, Tennessee and Richmond, Virginia. At the time of his retirement, Jim was the most experienced Child Abduction investigator in the history of the FBI, and is a founding member of the FBI’s elite Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Team (CARDT.) Following retirement, Jim worked as the Director of the Special Investigations Unit for one of the nation’s largest Catholic healthcare systems.