Behind your locked phone is a lot of information, and if tech is ever tied to a crime, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office can follow a warrant to find that information as evidence.
“Computers, laptops, pretty much anything, VR headsets, basically everything in our lives has digital stuff attached to it,” said Boulder County Sheriff Sergeant Clay Leak.
Leak works at BCSO’s Digital Forensics Lab. Part of their work is in an effort to crack dozens of phones in their evidence locker that are all charging, all the time.
“We’ve had a few batteries come in bulging, and that’s one of the first concerns is, gosh, what if, you know, what if something happens to this?” Leak explained, “We don’t want to burn the building down or destroy any of our evidence.”…