Detective Brian Roger

He works for the Colorado Springs Police Department as a digital forensics detective. He extracts and examines data from digital devices like phones, computer, surveillance systems, and vehicles.

Background

• He has a Bachelors in software engineering, a Masters in information systems security and has attended over 700 hours in training directly related to digital forensics.
• The process depends on the device and the type of security set up on the device. You generally have to communicate with the device with no security or if he knows the password or find a way to break into it if there is security.
• Last year did over 700 cell phone extractions, over 100 computers, over 20 surveillance systems and a few vehicles.
• He is an EnCase certified examiner, certified hacking forensic investigator, certified in analyzing vehicle data and a certified forensic analyst; has been qualified more than 50 times as an expert in this district, and has been in other state and federal courts as an expert.
• This witness is qualified in digital forensics for this court.
• Exhibit 716 is a manila envelope containing an extraction of a device download on January 30th, 2020.
• El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sirois asked him to extract information from one cell phone related to Gannon Stauch’s disappearance.
• This phone was an Apple iPhone 8 Plus.
• He did not review the data he extracted.
• It was a locked iPhone, he circumvented security and extracted information, copied the data to a hard drive and then gave it to Detective Sirois.
• The email associated with the phone was Harley_Hunt@yahoo.com.