For criminals it is “not unique” that criminal criminal laboratory is attacking, says DCI Chief

A Rawlins -Ups worker has been guilty of determining the theft of conspiracy and offenses in the interference of the police and the cocaine ownership for raids that were intended for Wyoming State Crime Lab last spring last spring.

The 33 -year -old Deseree Ann Martinez guilty at the beginning of this month after she and her defender, Senior Assistant Public Defender David Korman, had concluded a plea contract with Sarah Chavez Harkins Carbon County.

According to an offer letter, the agreement promises two years that the Wee before Martinez 'hearing on May 2, and the Martinez and Korman both signed them in acceptance.

If Martinez does not follow its probation conditions, it can be sentenced to two and four years in prison, the letter adds. Your condemnation will be determined for a later date.

The prosecutor plans to drop two additional charges for the possession of marijuana and possession of the police and the interference of the police, according to her letter.

Martinez 'listed telephone number went directly to her voiceemail on Thursday, and she did not give back the call by publication time.

“This problem is not unique”

The topic of the package companies that occurred this week at a meeting of the Joint Justice Committee in Torrington in Torrington.

Ronnie Jones, co-chair of the committee, Ronnie Jones, who runs the Wyoming Department for Criminal Police, who runs the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation Director for Criminal Police, the criminal police for a crime with such “big” potential effects on cases.

“This problem is not unique,” replied Jones. “We have made it occurring several times over the years.”

When it happens, DCI uses less and cure more. And they have employees that provides evidence of top -class cases such as civil servants, he said.

But a DCI-Agent Courier service for ordinary evidence such as a 3-gram metametamine purchase can be time-consuming and expensive, he said.

“We only send evidence if we have to, but we still send it,” said Jones. “I don't know how to prevent it from sending evidence if this is necessary. It's just not practical.”

In a follow-up email to Cowboy State Daily, Jones said that he only wanted to add his gratitude for the Laramie Police Department, which Martinez 'case examined as an external agency.

LPD examined both the local authorities, the Rawins Police Department and the Sheriff's Office of the Carbon County in the detention chain for the attacked packages, and both were exposed to a certain test before they were excluded as suspects.

Rawlins PD, the Carbon County Sheriff's Office and DCI, had all asked for the participation of the LPD, Jones added.

And away

Laramie Police Department SGT. Craig Lenhardt was assigned for an examination.

A box that was sent on April 9, 2024 was Marijuana when she left Rawlin's police department, but she arrived empty at Wyoming State Crime Lab, according to Lenhardt's affidavit.

A week later, the Sheriff's office of the Carbon County sent a box with evidence in the crime laboratory, and it was largely empty, the document says. A dui blood set and a offense of cocaine had disappeared, but a material that was assumed that it is marijuana was still present, according to the affidavit.

In another package there was no offense on meth, but still contained Delta 9 plant material, wrote Lenhardt and added that two fentanyl pills were missing in a third package.

Lenhardt turned out on May 8, 2024 to the chief of police of Rawlins, Mike Ward, and Ward gave Lenhardt the names of everyone who processes evidence for the department, according to the affidavit.

Lenhardt interviewed both people: a police force and an administrative assistant. Both clearly explained their process. The lieutenant showed that Lenhardt sent the crime laboratory an e -mail to maintain empty boxes.

The administrative assistant described the boxes in a local wooden business that is also an ups collection.

Next, Lenhardt, Alex Bakken, Sheriff of Carbon County asked about his evidence procedure, and Bakken confirmed the name of his evidence technician, the document says. The proof technician described how the MPs have closed heat-evidence evidence, then put them in a box, create an address label and brings them to the same wooden business.

The affidavit says that the evidence technician of the Wyoming State Crime Lab tells the technician of the sheriff about the lack of evidence and was asked whether the content lists was an office error. The technology of the sheriff said it was not the case and he confirmed what he had sent.

The state's technology found that the mostly empty box had an “excessive” amount of packing band about it, and he informed his superiors that there were no missing items, the document says.

In his affidavit, Lenhardt found that both agencies, although they lacked evidence, had different custody chains for their evidence, and turned his investigation to the first point where the packages were in the same place – the wooden shop.

In the box

On May 15, 2024, Lenhardt brought a box full of fake evidence and an axon body camera into the Rawlins police department and repeated the same process on May 21, 2024. He asked them to send both boxes through UPS, just like they tried all other evidence they did, wrote, wrote.

He looked at the camera adide from his cell phone and couldn't see anyone who manipulated himself on the box, he wrote.

Lenhardt also leaned around in simple clothes in the wooden business to see if the boxes were still there, and they were, he added.

On May 29, 2024, he asked the carbon County's office to send another fake proof and looked at it from the inside. Again, he saw no one who manipulated the box from his camera video, according to the document.

But when the Wyoming State Crime Lab received one of the boxes, the proof technician said that nothing was missing, the technology added.

Fingerprints

Lenhardt collected the box. The Sheriff's office had sent in April before its investigation began and submitted his adhesive straps for the forensic analysis, he wrote.

The laboratory report took place on August 7, 2024 and revealed Martinez 'fingerprints on the top adhesive tape. And also on the second layer of tape under the upper layer, according to the affidavit.

Lenhardt asked RPD Lt. Daria Hooper, whether the name Martinez was familiar, and Hooper said that the agents had interviewed Martinez in connection with a stolen examination with an ups package, wrote Lenhardt.

The official confirmed that Martinez was still working on UPS at that time.

Lenhardt went on an interview Martinez on August 13, 2024. At this time he learned that Rawlins Lt. Jared Frakes had examined a report about a phone and smart watch that was stolen from a UPS package. This box was still proven, well -known frakes.

Lenhardt collected this box and noticed the phone and watched how she tasted $ 1,299, he wrote.

The laboratory report from this box came back on October 3. On the sticky side of the volume, analysis found that fingerprints match Martinez, according to the affidavit.

Absolutely not

The document states that Lenhardt Martinez interviewed on November 12 and the woman went in detail about how damaged boxes were given to another upps employee named Tiffany and how almost all boxes were handled, so that their fingerprints are not surprisingly on them.

“I informed her that other officers are currently carrying out a search order in her house, and asked whether stolen objects would be found,” wrote Lenhardt. “She said nothing would be found.”

Soon after this interview, the police arrested by Rawlins Martinez.

Back in the house

The agents who searched Martinez 'house on this day have also submitted detailed reports. They reported that they found white residues in three pencils that were assumed that they were cocaine and 351.6 grams in a multicolored bong that seemed to be marijuana.

Sarah Pachl, policewoman of the Laramie Police Department, documented the statement:

• The multicolored bong in the bathroom on the ground floor.

• A box with four radios behind the television in the main bedroom.

• A box with glasses and glasses in the mud room.

• A box with an oculus.

• A box with 10 camouflage sunglasses on the basement couch.

• A box with a brown straw hat in the basement cabinet.

• A white UPS box in the basement cabinet.

• A box of children's toys in the washroom.

• A box with prescription lenses in the basement cabinet.

• A verizon receipt in the basement.

• A box with telephones, watches and telephone accessories behind the television in the main bedroom.

• A box of clothes in the mud room.

• An Amazona receipt in the mud room.

In his more colorful report, the LPD officer Miles Cushman wrote: “The residence itself was littered with shipping boxes”, and many had nor had nor the nor the name of someone who lived there.

He reported that he had found:

• A Apple Mac book Air.

• Beats Studio Pro -earphones.

• several phones.

• Apple ear buds.

• The pens that looked like they had contained cocaine.

List

The LPD officer Ethan Greenwalt was also there and created a list of all goods in boxes with addresses that did not match at home. This list contained 73 packages, wrote Greenwalt.

He turned to several people and confirmed that they were missing packages.

A person, a eye doctor in Ohio, told him that she had ordered a package and he told her that it would not arrive in time because Laramie PDS was custody, says the affidate explanation.

Another woman confirmed that she had missed a Walmart water scale fastener. Greenwalt found a water fin in Martinez 'bedroom, he wrote.

An electronics company confirmed that there was no ring camera, another man was missing a cell phone and someone else never received the celebrity he ordered, wrote Greenwalt.

In the K-12 school there was a 599 dollar camera bundle that was supposed to be for the yearbook club, the official added.

Clair McFarland can be achieved clair@cowboystatedaily.com.