3.Michael Dillmore — Direct/Cross
116 linesJUDGE WHEELER: ATI right.
MR. DECOSTE: Defense calls Investigator Michael Dilmore.
JUDGE WHEELER: All right. Michael Dilmore, please.
Good morning.
SHERRY BENNETT: Good morning.
JUDGE WHEELER: Before you have a seat, we're going to swear you in. Please raise your right hand, respond to the clerk.
whereupon, INVESTIGATOR MICHAEL DILMORE, was called as a witness, having been first duly sworn, was examined and testified as follows:
JUDGE WHEELER: Thank you. Please have a seat.
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. DECOSTE:
MR. DECOSTE: Good morning, sir. How are you?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Good. How are you?
MR. DECOSTE: Doing well. If you could please introduce yourself to the jury?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Certainly. My name is Mike -- ODilmore. I'm an investigator with the Tallahassee Police Department. That's D-I-L-M-O-R-E.
MR. DECOSTE: And what do you currently do for the Tallahassee Police Department?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I'm an investigator with the Technical Operations Unit.
MR. DECOSTE: Do you work with Sergeant Corbitt?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I do. He's my supervisor.
MR. DECOSTE: All right. So you did some work in this case, correct?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: If you could explain to the jury the different tasks you did on this case.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Certainly. My job in digital forensics is to go through computers and cell phones to find evidence. So when an investigator comes something -- across an electronic storage device in their case that they believe evidence is on, they'11 either get consent or a search warrant, bring it to me or my partner, and we'll go through it and try to find that evidence. So in this case I did some cell phones, a computer and some iCloud returns, things like that.
MR. DECOSTE: Did you happen to do any work on a phone that belonged to Sigfredo Garcia?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: Was it your understanding that that phone was received after he was arrested?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I believe so, yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: And what kind of work did you do on that phone?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: One moment to get my documents up.
MR. DECOSTE: Yeah. If you need to refresh your recollection, just let us know what you're taking a look at so it goes on the record here.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Certainly.
MR. DECOSTE: And you'll take a look at it and then let us know.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I'm just opening up my activity log to see what I did on this particular phone. So I believe I did Cellebrite extractions on this particular phone.
MR. DECOSTE: Is that related to something called a ZRT Report?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: No, sir. A ZRT is different. A ZRT is where a camera is used to take pictures of a device if we can't extract the data itself out of it. I believe another investigator actually did a ZRT on a different phone.
MR. DECOSTE: Did you do a download and a corresponding ZRT report for Sigfredo Garcia's phone?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: No, sir. I did the Cellebrite report.
MR. DECOSTE: All right. Now there is a long report that has your name on it, correct?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: what is that called? If I'm calling that by the wrong term.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Right. Yeah, it was listed as a ZRT but it's actually a Cellebrite report.
MR. DECOSTE: This is why there is a technical unit, right? To explain to us what this stuff is.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Just let me get that one open. And that particular report that you're talking about was done with a Cellebrite UFED device, it's a universal forensic extraction device. Basically, I connect the phone to it and then extract the data to my computer.
MR. DECOSTE: And you did that for Sigfredo Garcia's phone?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: Did you review the information that was downloaded on it?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: No, sir. Not at the time.
MR. DECOSTE: Have you since reviewed it?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Some of it, yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: And in your review of that, did you find that -- let me back up here. with that download are you getting -- you're getting data off of the phone. Does it include things like text messages?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir, it does.
MR. DECOSTE: Since the time that you did this work, leading up to today, have you reviewed those messages?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Some of them, yes, sir, I have.
MR. DECOSTE: And in your review of some of those messages did you find that Sigfredo Garcia was in communication with Luis Rivera during May of 2016?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I cannot say that for certain. I do not know Luis Rivera's phone number.
MR. DECOSTE: Did you find in there that there was communications that within the communication reference Luis Rivera?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: All right. And if you don't remember, we can take a look at the document. But do you remember the time frame of those communications? when they began and when they went until.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I believe it was May of 2016.
MR. DECOSTE: If I were to ask you the specific day, would you know? Or is it something that you would need to take a look at the items?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I would need to take a look.
MR. DECOSTE: Your Honor, may I approach?
JUDGE WHEELER: You may.
BY MR. DECOSTE:
MR. DECOSTE: Just take a look at that.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Right. I have it open right here as well.
MR. DECOSTE: So Investigator Dilmore, when did the communications between -- and, again, this is Sigfredo Garcia's phone?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Correct.
MR. DECOSTE: And your understanding from the content of the messages, that it's Luis Rivera -- or do you know if it's Luis Rivera or somebody that goes by the name of Tato?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I can say that in the -- stored in the device -- in the contacts it was listed, I believe, as T, just the letter T. But in one of the messages it said, This is Tato, T-A-T-O.
MR. DECOSTE: Now, this is coming from another cell phone or another phone number?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Another phone number, yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: If you could tell the jury when those communications begin?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Sure. It looks like -- the first one looks like May 11th of 2016.
MR. DECOSTE: would you agree with me that it continues for the next week or so?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I believe it goes through the 16th of May, if I'm not mistaken. 1I'11 double check real quick. The last one I have here is May 16th of 2016.
MR. DECOSTE: All right. You would agree with me that this is not coming from an e-mail account?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: It does not appear to be. It says that it's froma phone number.
MR. DECOSTE: Do you know if the Technical Operations Unit ever did any work to find out if the phone number that these messages -- that Mr. Garcia's hand-set was communicating with, whether any work was done on that to find out whose cell phone it is?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I don't know.
MR. DECOSTE: But you, yourself, didn't do any work on that?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: No, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: All right. Now, you also did -- and I think it was a Cellebrite -- but you're going to let the jury know if I'm wrong on that -- with respect to Charles Adelson's iCloud, correct?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: Now, just for education purposes, my understanding is that a warrant or a subpoena is sent to Apple, Apple gives you data, and you need to put it into a system to then interpret that data, correct?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: That's correct. Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: And the Cellebrite program interprets that data so it will organize contacts, calendar events, recordings, messages, stuff like that?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: You were involved in the review of Mr. Adelson's iCloud information, correct?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I did the processing of it and created the report for it, yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: In your review, and in your prior testimony with respect to that icloud data, did you come across a phone number (954) 581-1747?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir, I believe I did.
MR. DECOSTE: And that was in Charles Adelson's iCloud data?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir, I believe so.
MR. DECOSTE: was it saved under the name Ecofriendly Shop?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: Did you happen to find that same phone number in the download of Sigfredo Garcia's phone?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: And what was it saved under?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Give me one moment and I'll tell you. Could you give me the number one more time, please?
MR. DECOSTE: 954.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Yes, sir.
MR. DECOSTE: 581-1747.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Sully-mech, I believe.
MR. DECOSTE: Do you know who Sully-mech or Ecofriendly Shop is?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: No, sir, I do not.
MR. DECOSTE: Do you know if any investigation was done into that phone number, the (954) 581-1747 number?
MICHAEL DILLMORE: I don't know.
MR. DECOSTE: One brief moment, Your Honor?
JUDGE WHEELER: Yes.
MR. DECOSTE: Nothing further, Your Honor.
JUDGE WHEELER: Cross-examination?
MS. DUGAN: No, sir.
JUDGE WHEELER: Okay. We can release the witness?
MR. DECOSTE: Yes, please.
JUDGE WHEELER: Okay. You're free to go.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: Thank you, sir.
JUDGE WHEELER: Thank you. Have a good day.
MICHAEL DILLMORE: You too.