Dec 3, 2009
Source: WQAD.com
By Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) – The FBI is celebrating a new honor for its high-tech Chicago Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory.
The laboratory, which handles 500 cases a year in northern Illinois, on Thursday received full accreditation from the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors-Laboratory Accreditation.
The recognition puts it in the top level of such laboratories nationwide.
At the ceremony, the FBI indulged in a little boasting about the lab's accomplishments.
One suspect tried to burn down his own home to wreck his hard drive before the FBI got hold of it. Another fired a shotgun into his computer. But the computer forensics laboratory got the evidence in both cases.
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