Heroes
SAVED IN AMERICA
A California Non-Profit Organization of Former Police Officers and
Navy SEALs turned Licensed Private Investigators who assist Parents
and Law Enforcement in locating Missing & Exploited Children
NARRAT IVE BY F OU NDER : PASTOR JOSEPH A. TRAVER S, CPI , CCDI , CMECI
Saved in America
O
n September 21, 2009 I was reading an article
from the Orange County Register, “Retired Terror
Hunters Hope to End Child Sex Slavery [in foreign
countries]”. This brought to mind the news I
heard recently regarding a missing 17-year-old
girl who left her parent’s home in New York. Brittanee Drexel was
last seen in a hotel video in South Carolina on April 25th. Where
was she? In August 2016 the FBI reported that Brittanee was
taken from the hotel in Myrtle Beach by a gang member pimp to
a stash house in North Carolina for several days then repeatedly
raped by gang members, shot dead and fed to alligators.
60 GBSAN.COM | FEBRUARY 2020
As a former Police Detective and current Licensed Private
Investigator, I have seen countless cases of missing children.
The statistics are grim and disheartening. I knew many children
ended up being trafficked into human slavery and felt compelled
to meet the “Terror Hunters”, to see if there was a way to
perform these rescues here in the United States. I immediately
made arrangements to meet these former special operations
‘Terror Hunters’. Through a series of meetings, I met a former
Navy SEAL who helped form Saved In America (SIA). It was
decided after several meetings and operational discussions
that Saved In America would focus on preventing gangbanger/
pimp/predator/slave traders from securing girls to traffic here in