'Crime Scene Scenario Essay\r'

'At approximately 1300 on January 31, 2012, there was a portend and officers were dispatched to 125 Redbird Lane to investigate a seat invasion. Upon arriving on the scene I was met by SGT Johansson to describe the scene as he saw it and the theatreowners’ statements. He explained the homeowner, Cindy Pinsk told him she looked taboo her living populate window and saw a canescent tap inhabit pull up. She heard the penetrationbell ring. Since she was non expecting anyone, she did not answer the door. She heard glass breaking and ran bug aside the back door to a neighbor’s house, where she c eached 9-1-1.\r\nShe saw broken glass on the carpet in the entry hallway and saw where the door had been pried open with roughly sort of tool. Pinsk told Johansson her apple computer, a pair of diamond earrings, a sapphire ring, and deuce-ace credit cards are missing. He talked to a neighbor, Steve Moyer, who told him he saw a steel gray Dodge Charger in front of Pinskâ⠂¬â„¢s house. A handicap tag was hanging from the rear-view mirror. The driver was a coloured man with a immature knit cap. The passenger was a large washcloth man about 20 †25 age old.\r\nHe has a chinstrap beard and was wearing injustice clothes. After listening to the first on call officers’ report, I looked around the front yard to memorize if any evidence was dropped during or after the home invasion. At first inspection of the front yard, you could limit what appeared to be footprints in the mud due to the precipitate the previous night. Pictures with measuring abrasioners were taken to show the blot of the questioned clinical depression, and castings ( employ Class I dental stone) were taken of the habilitate impression to later compare to the suspects.\r\nNext I went into the house to look around and upon first launching the domain you could turn back where it appears that a tool of some kind had been used to pry open the door. Pictures with mea suring markers were taken to show the position of the tool mark and for equality. Liquid silicone was utilized to make an impression of the tools used on the door. During taking the impressions, I could see the smallest bit of blue fibre hanging from a piece of wood on the door frame.\r\nI removed the fiber tapping the sticky side of a post-it to the fiber. I then folded the post-it, testing groundeled it and placed in an manila envelop for evidence. Walking a subaltern further into the domain, you could see what caused the sound of glass breaking, a vase that appeared to be knocked over during the home invasion. The living room was in disarray with couch cushions taken out of the couch, papers on the floor and drawers pulled out of desk. On the desk was a smudge of a possible partial print that I retrieved sing black powder and sticky tape. As the victim say in her report to the officers, I went up to the bedchamber to discover the missing jewelry from the jewelry box. onc e again latent fingerprints were order on the desk where the Apple computer and jewelry were taken, so again prints were taken off the desk with black powder and placed on sticky tape for evidence. After thorough investigation of the house, I exited the domain to head back to the lab.\r\nThe first test that was done upon reporting back to the lab was an AFIS search for whose fingerprints were at the scene. When ran through AFIS, there was a match to a white male win twin(a) the description from the neighbors’ statement, John Kratz. John Kratz was brought in wearing a blue hooded sweat shirt, matching the color of the fiber found at the scene, and quaggy jeans. Fibers were taken from his sweat shirt for later equivalence to the fiber from the Pinsk’s’ house.\r\nWhen questioned on his whereabouts that afternoon. He exclaimed that he was at McDonald’s on his lunch break. ascribable to his inability to produce a witness to swan his story, he was held f or further questioning. Next, tool marking were cautiously examined and based on the initial examination of the pictures (the surface and shape of the impressions) molds and striation marks compared with a comparison microscope determined that the tool that was used in the home invasion was that of a screwdriver.\r\nFibers were then removed from the post-it using rubber tweezers and placed on a comparison microscope for a microscopic comparison for color and diam to the fiber from the scene and that of John Kratz. Examination found the fiber to be cotton, a natural fiber and matching the fiber to John Kratz. When questioned again on his whereabouts that afternoon, with the help of the evidence that was already found, he at last broke and explained what happened and who was involved.\r\nRick â€Å"Rukus” Thompson was allegedly with John Kratz was brought in for questioning. During the questioning Rick denied ever being at the Pinsk’s house saying he was at home sick. Along with John, Rick also had no one to corroborate his story. Shoe impressions were taken from both(prenominal) suspects and compared to those found at the scene. The shoe impression was that of Rick. With all evidence putting both at the Pinsk’s house, John Kratz and Rick â€Å"Rukus” Thompson both were charged.\r\n'