California to use a special K-9 to help find internet predators

Special electronic detection of K-9 helps Central California The District State Attorney’s Office was falling apart the rise of the Cyber ​​-criminal.

The Tulare Tima Ward District State Attorney has shared details with Fox News Digital about the latest crime factor in crime in the office to play a crucial role in helping in combat An increasing number of cyber -criminals.

“I’ll be honest, if my chief investigator came to me with this concept as an idea, you know, what would you think about it? I honestly didn’t know if he was joking or not. There is a dog that can smell the electronics. You kidding me? But that was an eye -opening experience,” Ward recalled.

Ward said his office was one of 12 in the country awarded an electronic discovery dog ​​through the National Forensic Institute of the US Secret Service.

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“We are pretty honored to be involved in that,” Ward said. “We have done the leader in the areas of crimes against children and crimes with white collar. But do not go wrong with this, it is there to help all our partners to implement the law throughout the county.”

Tor, two -year -old black Labrador Retiever, has gained his name in the dark net area and will be used to help crimes using electronic devices, such as children’s pornography, fraud and other websites.

Tor’s Handler, criminal investigator of TCDA Anthony Benitez, said that the electronic storage discovery (ESD) K-9 began to be used around 2012, and stronger in 2015 when the ESD K-9 “bear” and his coach/leader Todd Jordan with Jordan Detection K9 were invited to assist Jared Fob.

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Benitez added that their search helped find the key evidence used to process Fougle in that case.

“Todd Jordan has also been an TOR’s coach through his company, and since the investigation in 2015, their use has increased that more and more law enforcement agencies are getting this K-9,” Benitez explained.

Ward explained that TOR is dressed to detect a chemical, trifenilphosphin oxide used in the production of almost any type of storage device, such as cell phones, USB drive, Micro SD cards, computers and cameras.

“The concept is not too far away from the dog’s drug dog that is dressed to smell narcotics. We often saw dogs at airports dressed for the smell of explosives. Well, this is a very niche, a very narrow surface dressed to detect that chemical, and can be in pretty small quantities,” Ward said.

Benitez explained that ESD K-9 were invited to search the location after the police had already completed manually searching, such as the house search.

“As you know, small microSD cards, USB drives or cell phones can be hidden in various places and sometimes neglected by police. ESD K-9 like TORs will then search this location and potentially find hidden devices,” Benitez said.

“Most people usually do not conceal their devices, and any hidden devices found forensically would be analyzed to determine any evidence. Tor would indicate a chemical TPPO found on the device rather than content.”

Ward added that they had always been focused on crimes against children, but said that in the last five to eight years they saw the appearance of crimes and fraud with white collar.

“When I say fraud, you immediately start thinking about the embezzlement, isn’t that too far that path until you start seeing crimes like a financial profit murder,” Ward said.

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Ward said the authorities saw “an increased number of fraud, embezzlement and complex cases of crime with white collar” and see both types of crime “merge in the area in the use of electronics and storage devices.”

“I will say argumentally, the crime for hiding evidence, whether they are pictures of children’s pornography, awful things, or whether they are deceit and hide financial records and follow money. What we are excited is that TOR is able to help implement the law in any original type of crime,” Ward said.

Ward served as District Prosecutor District of Tulars Since 2012, he has developed crimes against a children’s unit and a working group for trafficking in humans and brought the first dog for the comfort of a court in Tulare.

Ward said the need for police K-9s like TOR is crucial because the crime develops, sharing a past example.

“A few years ago, I had a privilege to be part of the prosecution of the Visalia Ransanker case, which proved to be a” Golden State killer, “he said.” And I said in the penalty of that defendant we saw at the time how science and technology grew, and it spread, what would do was reduce the space where criminals could work.

“And I think it’s a message here. For anyone who thinks they are smarter than the nose of this dog, you will not get away with it. If it is in the area, he can discover it.”

Ward said that he hoped the victims who know that Tor is out there will give them their families hope and a sense of protection.

“We are lucky and happy that the US secret service has chosen us to be a part of it. And we will be good managers. And we will do everything we can to use it well,” Ward said.

“Having a tool like TOR will exceptionally help implement the law in finding hidden items. Finding this only item could do or interrupt the case,” Benitez added.

Ward said despite “happening so much in California right now,” his office sends a clear message.

“So many voices and things that come out of Sacramento. Who is the voice that has been left out of this whole conversation? These are the voices of victims and family of victims. And our heart certainly goes out to any family who has a child affecting the crime,” Ward said.

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Using TOR, Ward is convinced that he will be able to protect more people.

“We can send a message to those families who currently have no vote from Sacramento that someone, in fact, cares about the victims. And we will do everything we can to consider those criminals responsible,” he said.