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Phone evidence helped lead to rape charges against ex-U of I cop; incidents go back to 2012

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Nicole Deneka

Evidence found on the cellphone of a former University of Illinois police officer charged in December with official misconduct led to additional charges of sexual assault, sexual abuse and intimidation involving four separate victims. […]

Your Vehicle Black Box: A ‘Witness’ Against You In Court

Posted on March 2, 2020 (March 2, 2020) by Nicole Deneka

Vehicle black box data is starting to be used more commonly in court against drivers, but drivers are demanding that police use warrants to access the arguably private data […]

AI flags criminal evidence hidden in the cloud

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Nicole Deneka

Researchers have developed a way to search cloud storage sites like DropBox and Google Drive for digital evidence of illegal activities. […]

Cellphone expert traces revenge murder suspects’ every step

Posted on November 18, 2019 (November 18, 2019) by Nicole Deneka

On Wednesday, Vila Perdomo and Isaac looked on as an independent cellphone geolocation expert shared location information from the day of Salazar’s disappearance and murder from 2011. […]

Cellphone data helps solves cases at UCF ‘every time,’ police say

Posted on October 29, 2019 (October 29, 2019) by Nicole Deneka

Almost every student at the University of Central Florida has a cellphone and every single phone offers up evidence to solve a case.

UCF Police Detective Melissa Guadagnino said the evidence on cellphones — even if it isn’t immediately visible — plays a role in “every case.” […]

Cell Phone Photos Lead to Arrest in Murder Case

Posted on July 23, 2019 by Nicole Deneka

Cell phones and social media were at the heart of the investigation that led to an arrest in the killing of a University of Utah student who vanished nearly two weeks ago. […]

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using location data from Google to track down lists of potential suspects, often wrapping up innocent parties in investigations.

Posted on June 11, 2019 (June 11, 2019) by Nicole Deneka

When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold. […]