Forensic Services Newsletter Forensic Services has been very involved in the 2011 Idaho Legislative Session. ISPFS Chemists provided Winter 2010 extensive technical expertise and testimony in support of “Spice” and “Bath Salt” legislation. ISPFS Chemists David Sincerbeaux and Corinna Owsley searched proposed legislation from many different jurisdictions in order to help draft the proposed Idaho legislation. Idaho will be one of the first states to control these compounds by class, rather than by individual drug name. Scheduling the drugs by class (or base structure) keeps the legislation slightly ahead of the organic chemists developing these designer drugs. There are potentially thousands of designer drugs that could be made from a simple base structure. When the Board of Pharmacy acted in 2010 to make several “synthetic cannabinoid” compounds illegal, the laboratory immediately saw a switch in the type of synthetic cannabinoids being marketed in Idaho. The legislation wording supported by the Board of Pharmacy, the Office of Drug Policy, and ISP controls all the known base structures of synthetic cathinones and synthetic cannabinoids. This legislation will hopefully keep all these products off store shelves and away from those that did not know how dangerous these substances really are.

The Idaho House Judiciary Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee recently approved the changes ISP proposed for IDAPA 11.03.01. The Breath Alcohol changes became effective September 1, 2010 and will continue at the end of the legislative session as a permanent rule. The rule (including implemented changes) can be viewed from the ISPFS Alcohol web page. The breath alcohol discipline has also formally published the Operator training on the ISPFS Alcohol page and all the revisions of the breath alcohol manuals are available on the web page. Many of the program manuals have been updated in the last few months. ISPFS is also emailing Operators and BTS officers as changes are made to this program. While the manual revisions and information is available on our website, the email list provides the information in advance for law enforcement purposes. Breath Testing Specialists and Operators should be added to this list after taking the course. To update your information or be added to the list please click here.

What’s New The Meridian Meridian Remodel Stats ● ~1760 square feet of new DNA lab space! (~600 sq. ft. more than the old space) Laboratory has been extensively remodeled. The lab has ● ~180 linear feet of DNA exam space. (Over 100 linear feet more than the old space) added a DNA database processing space, remodeled the ● ~92 linear feet of DNA instrument space. (Over 40 linear feet more than the old space) DNA casework space, remodeled the latent print laboratory, ● 8 DNA examiner work bays. (4 more than the old space) ● 6 evidence lockers—2 exam rooms with surgical lighting—1 new extraction hood. and added more office space. The DNA database unit is ● ~1000 sq. ft. of allocated DNA database space! (Old lab had little database space) now quickly processing samples and the new space ● ~40 linear feet of database sample prep space. ● High density database sample file system in lab. (Samples stored indefinitely) allowed us to accommodate several new ● New CODIS administrative office. (Old office was a modified closet) scientists. While wait times increased slightly ● Office for two new database examiners. on DNA cases during the ● Dedicated sample accessioning space. ISP Forensics Website remodel, the lab is quickly getting back to our strategic goal processing times. Updated Toxicology Submission Form

ISPFS recently updated the General Laboratory Submission Form for evidence. Now ISPFS has updated the Toxicology Submission Form. Agencies are able to Did you know? fill the forms out electronically and they are more user friendly. The form is available on the ISPFS website. The addition of the investigator email address is Agencies with Lifeloc greatly speeding up the examination process and improving communication. instruments can print without having a Lifeloc printer. Idaho agencies that have FC20 DataTrak software can download results from the FC20 Upcoming Training to the software as a .txt file or .xls file. They can then print Course Location Dates Contact through the software to any office printer. This is a good Breath Testing Specialist Pocatello 3/ 10-3/ 11 Register alternative to showing the results in a dash camera or Breath Testing Specialist Coeur d’Alene 4/ 14-4/ 15 Register reading the results into an Evidence Packaging Hailey 4/ 27 Register audio file. A site license for an agency is available from Lifeloc Breath Testing Specialist M eridian PO ST 5/ 5-5/ 6 Register for around $165.00.

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Scene Protection Evidence Packaging As with any potential crime scene, a fire scene must be secured until all physical evidence has been recovered. Keep in mind that Debris samples and clothing must although the fire may appear accidental in nature, information may be packaged in a friction can surface that indicates otherwise. Securing the fire scene means and/or heat sealable pouch material. Any heat-sealable pouch material around the clock monitoring by fire or law enforcement personnel. must be specifically for fire Physical evidence recovered from a scene that has been released evidence use. Choose a may not be admissible in court. size that is proportional to the sample size. Evidence container should be filled no more than ¾ full.

When using a friction lid can, make sure that lid is fully pressed on.

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Do not put liquids suspected of being or containing an ignitable liquid directly into a friction lid can or heat-sealable pouch. A Comparison Samples liquid must be placed in a , not plastic, . If placed inside of a plastic , the liquid may partially or completely dissolve When a fire burns common household materials such as plastic, the plastic. carpet, fabrics, etc., the polymers that make up these materials are broken down into their component parts. These parts try very If the liquid is known to be an ignitable hard to look like a petroleum product. The collection of a liquid, no more than 2mL should be comparison sample of materials that are representative of the submitted to the laboratory. To prevent materials which may contain an ignitable liquid makes the evaporation, when sufficient liquid is process that fire analysts use to interpret the instrumental data available, completely fill the glass vial. much easier. Even with the current state of the art GC -MS technology that is used to analyze extracts recovered from fire If shipping the sample to the Pocatello laboratory, no more than 2 evidence, the comparison sample is extremely important. The tablespoons (14.8mL) can be shipped by UPS ground. Flammable lack of an appropriate comparison sample may result in a liquid with a flashpoint of 20°F (-7°C) or below is prohibited in negative finding, especially when the ignitable liquid residue that domestic mail. remains is at a very low concentration. Once the liquid is in a glass vial, the vial must be submitted in a For example, a house that has been involved in a fire has wall-to- friction lid can or heat sealable pouch material to prevent the wall carpet throughout. The best carpet comparison sample contents of the vial from contaminating adjacent samples. The would be a piece of carpet in an area where an ignitable liquid is container should be filled with either cat or vermiculite to not believed to have been used. In an ideal world, the carpet absorb the liquid if any leakage occurs. comparison sample would be burnt to the same degree as the samples collected from the area where an ignitable liquid is The collection container must have full thought to have been poured. labeling including chain-of-custody. A convenient trick is to fill out the general information on a small evidence , make copies and then fill out the evidence description and location found before Collaboration placing it on the evidence container. Adjust the copy size to fit the size of can Idaho State Police Forensic Services, the or pouch used. Utah Bureau of Forensic Services, and the Oregon State Police Forensic Services Division have joined efforts. Please save yourself some work and do not place ISPFS sends each Fire Analysis to Utah or Oregon for the friction lid can or heat-sealed pouch into an technical review. Because Idaho only has one Fire evidence envelope or evidence . Doing so is time consuming for the analyst, especially Evidence Examiner, we must make arrangements for when several are placed into one bag. external technical review. The technical review process ensures that each case has been examined correctly and all Items that are not properly packaged may be conclusions are correct. When ISPFS has a second fully repackaged and/or not analyzed due to contamination trained Fire Analyst (several months away) the technical issues. When the packaging has clearly compromised

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