Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer ( Jay J.Vocation : Entertainment : Actor/ Actress.Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Accident/Injury (Amputee with prosthetic hands).Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1976 (Autobiography, Jay J.Armes action figure with detachable prosthetics, various gadgets, and a Mobile Investigation Unit.Īrmes played the villain in the Hawaii Five-O episode 'Hookman' (11 September 1973).

In 1976, Armes published his autobiography, Jay J. Among his diverse cases, he has rescued more than a hundred children from underground adoptions. He sometimes takes on pro bono cases, such as missing Baby Gabriel’s. In 1989, Armes was elected as a city councilman in El Paso and served two terms. He is also a former Law Enforcement Instructor for the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department. He served eight years as Chief Deputy Constable for the El Paso County Constables Department, Precinct 2, and four years as Chief Deputy Constable, Precinct 3. Armes has been a certified Peace Officer. Designed as a mobile patrol and security service, this branch of the organization served the community for a number of years until the patrol division was discontinued. In 1978, he launched The Investigators Security Horse. In 1958, after briefly working as an actor in California and returning to El Paso, Armes started his private investigative agency, The Investigators. Armes was taken to Hotel Dieu Hospital in El Paso, where his hands were amputated. Armes rubbed two torpedo sticks together, detonating them and causing the mangling of both hands. Armes, a living legend in the industry, works out of his base in El Paso. He is known for his prosthetic hands.Īt the age of eleven, he and a friend, seven years his senior, broke into a Texas & Pacific Railroad section house and stole railway torpedoes. (to view image author and license, click here) BiographyĪmerican amputee, private investigator, and actor.

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