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Sergeant Kurt Smith

Sergeant Smith has been with El Paso Sheriff’s Office since 2006. He is currently sergeant of major crimes unit. He investigates homicides, officer involved shootings, kidnappings, and major felonies.

• In January of 2020 he was the special victims unit sergeant in the same investigation division but he supervised 6 detectives who were investigating crimes against children and things like that.
• Everyone in the division was assigned a task or two on Gannon’s case.
• Smith was assigned to do a Cellebrite extraction
• Regarding his training: in 2014, he transferred to the investigation division as a detective and was trained to operate the Cellebrite software. He has done roughly 75 downloads of cellphones since then.
• Cellebrite gives different options of extractions; it creates an image, or a copy of the phone that goes on the computer.
• Once info is extracted from a phone it is generated into a PDF report that is burned to a disc and placed in evidence, a copy was given to evidence.
• Exhibit 227 is a Cellebrite download of an iPhone 6. The evidence label says “kids phone”.