GPS Data in Geotime® Reveals Suspect's Involvement in Drug

CASE STUDY GPS data in GeoTime® reveals suspect’s involvement in drug trafficking

Mobile phone data viewed in GeoTime shows suspects’ travel patterns, helping establish timelines for solving crime

In Utah’s Alexis Rasmussen homicide records—an overwhelming 6,963 case, North Ogden Police Department lines of information including enlisted the help of GeoTime at calls, texts and transmissions. Ogden City Police Department’s Real GeoTime analyzed the data which Time Crime Center which helped gave investigators a picture of the shed light on the movements of suspects’ actions, before and after their suspects, providing a key link the girl’s disappearance. in solving the case. GeoTime gave investigators and Rasmussen, 16, died of a lethal crime analysts a colorful, 3D visual injection of drugs allegedly by Dea map showing the interactions and Eric Millerberg. Their alibi didn’t between the victim and suspects. add up, and the investigation stalled. The information proved key in As part of their probe, investigators charging the suspects with the crime. requested the suspects’ cell phone The couple now awaits trial.

Spotting crime trends and making better use of limited resources

Using GeoTime with crime data Crime analysts can input arrest stored in CAD, police can see warrant information and the city’s patterns in crime and the hot spots, crime data in GeoTime to produce instantly understanding where crime a map showing the addresses of is occurring. wanted people compared with the high crime areas. With this It also helps commanders determine information, an agency can see where where best to allocate resources. to concentrate enforcement efforts. CASE STUDY

Producing videos recreating crime scenes

“It’s as close to reliving the event as you can get.” – Ogden PD Crime Analyst Dave Weloth

In the high-profile case of slain Crime analysts pulled data from Ogden Police Officer Jared Francom, the Automatic Vehicle Locators GeoTime helps recreate the scene (AVL) and dashboard cameras on for the prosecution’s case and the the responding officers’ patrol cars jury, giving a sense of being there. and uploaded it to GeoTime. The mapping sequence was layered The suspect, Matthew David Stewart, with the Computer Aided Dispatch 37, ambushed the officers while the (CAD) calls, the radio traffic Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike force between dispatch and the officers was serving a drug-related search at the scene, producing a real-time warrant at the suspect’s home. Five recreation of the incident. Using other officers were wounded. The the information, Ogden City Police suspect is charged with capital murder created a stunning, 25-minute video and could face the death penalty. that will be played for the jury.

GPS data viewed in GeoTime shows suspects’ travel patterns, helping establish timelines for solving crime

In a recent case, OPD obtained The GPS data, uploaded to GeoTime, a search warrant to place a GPS proved key to the investigation. tracker on a drug suspect’s vehicle to The suspect’s vehicle stopped at watch his actions. The suspect was residences where gang members and supposed to be at a certain location, parolees lived, showing he was heavily based on his story to police, but the involved in significant drug trafficking. data showed he had been driving around the city.

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