Forensics Day 2 (03-28-2023)

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with Detective Garside & Sergeant Lauren Grantham

Sergeant Grantham is visiting our class today and she brought her friend Estie. Estie an Electronic Service Detection Service Dog can find anything with an SD Card or any electronic device.

"The way we smell pizza, these dogs smell each particle that makes up the pizza we smell."

TPPO is Triphenylphosphine oxide that the K9s can smell through devices.

Cellphones and Devices are a HUGE thing when it comes to a crime scene. People share everything over the phone. For example where we are going, what we are wearing, how we feel, and gossiping about others.

Sergeant Grantham shares with us a story about a fifteen-year-old girl who got a phone for her birthday and downloaded Messenger and was messaging someone named Adam who looked like a cute man with a clean shave and a nice body. He was thirty years old talking to a fifteen-year-old when her parents found out. They sent his information to an FBI agent and figured out who he really was. He was a thirty-year-old man who did not look like the picture on his profile and was 300 pounds with long shaggy hair. He was not in fact who said to be and could have easily taken advantage of this innocent fifteen-year-old girl.

In conclusion, Sergeant Grantham has stressed the fact about how what you do on cellphones and any technology device can be traced back to the very bottom. They come in very handy when dealing with a criminal case. So, always make sure what you do with technology reflects how you are as a person.