Shortly after our department signed on with CrimeTracer, I was assigned to investigate a check fraud scheme. The suspect had used a local check cashing business to cash fraudulent checks and receive thousands of dollars. I used CrimeTracer to initially obtain background information on the suspect and learn more about them and prior cases that had been documented with other police agencies in outside jurisdictions, which I would have otherwise never discovered.
Upon conducting further searches using CrimeTracer, I was able to locate a previous report from a police agency in southern California, (over 400 miles away) in which the same suspect had completed the same check cashing scam.
With this information, I was able to conclude that the suspect had been moving throughout California. I sent out a statewide crime bulletin regarding the suspect and their modus operandi. Several other police agencies from other counties contacted me, advising that they had recently taken similar fraudulent check cashing reports.
With the continued use of CrimeTracer, I was able to locate several additional reports as police agencies throughout the state continued to take new cases of this check cashing scheme, each time with the same suspect, as they moved throughout the state.
The suspect was later arrested. I was informed that due to the discovery of the additional police reports from all of these outside jurisdictions, it enabled this to be a very strong case against the suspect.
This case stands as a testament to the highly effective capability of CrimeTracer, with its ability to connect police departments throughout the state.