On the Job 

BCI has deployed five 3D laser scanners around the state to help investigators better document complex crime scenes. Each scanner sits on a tripod and rotates 360 degrees, taking millions of precise laser measurements and hundreds of digital photos. The result is a video that can carry viewers — including investigators, prosecutors, and jurors — through a crime scene.

Attorney General Mike DeWine’s office is expanding its work with law enforcement, prosecutors, and victim advocates under a new Elder Justice Initiative that will increase the investigation and prosecution of elder abuse cases and improve victims’ access to services.

Ohio’s criminal justice community and the field of forensic science both stand to gain with the opening of the Attorney General’s new Bureau of Criminal Investigation facility in Northwest Ohio later this year.

The new Ohio Attorney General’s Center for the Future of Forensic Science, which we are creating in conjunction with the nearly complete Bureau of Criminal Investigation facility at Bowling Green State University, will have a direct and timely impact on Ohio law enforcement agencies, prosecutors’ offices, and citizens.

OHLEG’s facial recognition system helped Akron police detectives Jim Pasheilich and Aron Hanlon identify a suspect within hours of a January murder and robbery. The next day, they had the man in custody and secured information on two other suspects.