From Insight to Action: Stories That Matter

Using the general search and quotes around the Cash App username I located a recent crime report that was a match to the Cash App username and had the true identity of the subject of interest.

CrimeTracer Gen3 has become essential to how we build workups. It pulls together the information officers and detectives need in one place.

Received a complaint of a sexual assault that occurred eleven years ago. Having only an old phone number and vague details about the suspect, I was able to use CrimeTracer to identify the suspect and link him to other victims.

While conducting pre-employment background investigations, we utilize numerous tools to verify the honesty of the applicants. One candidate was less-than-honest about his criminal involvement in another state. While the offenses didn’t show in a criminal history or through other search tools used to vet applicants, CrimeTracer located police reports indicating that the applicant had been accused of significant, heinous crimes against children. This opened up a new avenue for investigation that had been missed by at least two previous LE agencies for employment. It showed a pattern of behavior inconsistent with employment in LE. Fortunately, it allowed us to disqualify the candidate before he moved into a position of trust as a peace officer, and it has also provided information that, much later, prevented him from employment in public school districts as well. Without access to other agency reports through the simple search, this predator might have new and unfettered access to commit additional crimes with a badge.

Needed to locate an individual, and all I had was a first and last name from an OSHA report. I did a generic search of the name and used the map to target a specific region. Via that filter, I was able to get a hit for a report associated with the individual’s boss. He ended up being a witness to an incident involving his boss, and the local PD took down his phone number, and I was able to contact him then. I would have never been able to find him otherwise!

Our town had a shoplifting occur with approximately $185 in product stolen from the store. After looking at the surveillance video, I was able to obtain a license plate from a vehicle that the suspect fled in. Through CrimeTracer, I was able to locate a phone number for the registered owner of the vehicle, who explained the person who was using it went by the nickname “Meechi,” and she did not know his real name. Using CrimeTracer’s alias search and narrowing it down to the Springfield, MA area, I was able to locate the male’s information through booking photographs. I successfully got a warrant for arrest for the individual due to the investigative tools provided through CrimeTracer.

I am a newly appointed Detective. One of my first cases was a stolen dirt bike. For about a week I had no leads, as the vehicle used in the theft was unable to be identified. Once I found the license plate to the vehicle, I entered the registered owner into CrimeTracer and found an association that inevitably ended up being my suspect. CrimeTracer provided recent report departmental reports from surrounding agencies that linked my suspect to not only similar crimes, but also identified him through numerous reports as the operator of the vehicle that was at the scene of the dirt bike theft. These findings allowed for a warrant to be issued and subsequently led to the apprehension of my suspect.

As an investigator, I received and began working a case involving the embezzlement of narcotics by a nurse. The nurse was suspected of stealing dozens of prescription opiates by falsifying log books and electronic medical records for her own personal gain. I used CrimeTracer to see if this nurse had been involved in any other cases in the region. With the help of CrimeTracer, I learned that this particular nurse had been documented with four other agencies in the nearby area, being investigated for stealing money, prescription opiates, and being accused of medical malpractice. Throughout this investigation, I learned that instead of fully investigating these cases, the nursing facilities simply fired her and put a “Do Not Return” or “DNR,” on her name for that facility. She then simply would be hired at another facility to repeat her crimes. She was ultimately charged on well over a dozen felony charges and several misdemeanor drug possession charges, being found guilty of many of them. Without CrimeTracer, I would have never known of how unbelievably widespread this nurse’s reach was, and how many nursing facilities she was caught at for doing the same thing without facing any criminal repercussions. Using the information contained within CrimeTracer, it helped in making an effective argument about her lengthy and consistent prior bad acts in which she had a similar modus operandi, and that helped towards getting a guilty conviction.

I previously had great success using CrimeTracer in identifying a check cashing scheme suspect that moved throughout the State of California. However, I wanted to submit another recent success that our department had via CrimeTracer.

During a three-month long investigation of a residential burglary, I developed a potential phone number associated with the suspect. A search of this number through CrimeTracer revealed a single law enforcement contact from the previous year, reported by an outside agency.

This lead was instrumental. The contact provided key identifying details, ultimately allowing me to confirm the suspect’s identity through a positive match. Without access to CrimeTracer, I would not have discovered this prior contact, as our agency does not have access to the originating agency’s police reports. With the suspect positively identified and the evidence compiled, I was able to successfully obtain an arrest warrant.

This database provided a critical role in breaking the case that would not have otherwise been accessible. This is just another example of CrimeTracer’s capability to connect police departments throughout the state.