The British police were able to identify and arrest the leader of the drug distribution after the seizure of cell phone, on which were pictures of suspect’s hands. In a first for UK police officers were able to raise fingerprints visible on the image of the hand, to determine conformance with the suspect.
It all started with the social network. Took the dealer a picture of your hands holding a number of tablets with the inscription “for sale — Skype and IKEA-branded ecstasy pills… are you interested?”
And not increase in sales, not the picture helped convicted 11 more people.
Police have not publicly to find this post. In August 2017, local residents began to report a large number of visitors and from the place of residence. Officers watched the house and after they witnessed what they believed the landing of drugs, raided it. Police found cocaine and a large amount of “Gorilla glue,” grades-some of the strongest marijuana strains in the world, along with the stash of thousands of British pounds, as well as a list of people who have a dealers £6,000 ($8,600 USD).
Most importantly though, the staff found a cell phone and found a killer photo sent to one of the dealers using the messaging app whatsapp with the police, the man believed to be put into operation.
Although communication via whatsapp is protected with encryption, the police may be able to restore the image through the back door. At least 28, but probably more, the British police are equipped with extraction technology from Israeli company, as of January 2017 press release from privacy international, a British charity human rights. Software company cellebrite has a license to police to help them recover data from Android phones, they are locked.
Information about the purchase that have been seized by the police led them to a couple home, where they found a “cannabis factory”, and even the place of residence and renting for a couple. They were arrested and the police found 28-year-old son, Elliot Morris, was the leader of the distribution scheme. Police tracked him to a rural house and arrested him, his girlfriend and another man. The pills were extracted from the scenes that coincide with the photo.
His hands also were picked up in the photo.
“The staff of the division of specialist imaging team [United Scientific support group, or JSIU] was able to increase the image of a hand holding a number of tablets that were taken with mobile phone before the fingerprint experts were able to identify that the hand was Elliot Morris,” South Wales police said in a statement.
“Specialist staff in JSIU full use of their expert image-enhancing skills, which allowed them to ensure that the experts identify the device fingerprint can work,” said Dave Thomas, court operations Manager at JSIU. “Despite the presence of only very small area of a fingerprint that was visible in the photo, the teams were able to successfully identify a person.”
Staff JSIU to increase the size and improve the clarity of the prints to make a match, although his fingers were not included in the national database. “It was one of those moments when we looked at her and one of the officers said it was part of a fingerprint there,” said inspector Dean Taylor. “He was associated with his fingerprints, which also linked him to and showed that he was sending a proposal.”
“Now opened the floodgates, and when part of the force on the photo, officers send them,” said Thomas of “innovative” method that the South Wales police say they first. Beliefs are believed to be the first in the UK to rely on fingerprints taken from photographs, according to the Telegraph.
Britain maintains a national database of fingerprints 7.1 million people, IDENT1, according to the report of the National Agency for the improvement of law enforcement in 2014. IDENT1 was developed and produced by Contractor for the U.S. Department of defense, “Northrop Grumman”.
In total, the police found $51,622 in cocaine and ecstasy, $30,112 in cash and that the South Wales police are calling in the first place, $28,600 square “concealed in the bitcoin accounts.”
Accusations of conspiracy have been satisfied in respect of nine of the 11 accused, leaving them with more than 20 years of prison time between them. Two others were acquitted on charges of conspiracy but was convicted of other drug crimes. Most were sentenced to imprisonment from eight to 30 months, while Morris faces eight and a half years behind bars.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
