Indianapolis, Indiana Officer, Francisco Olmos, 31, was charged November 30, 2017, with obstruction of justice and computer trespass. Olmos is employed as an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer, now suspended and being considered for termination. Olmos allegedly deleted messages on the cellphone of an 18-year-old woman who had committed suicide on November 2, 2015. The arrest occurred two years after the death, was made possible only because cellphone forensic technology became available that allowed investigators to unlock her cellphone. Forensic analysis was then able to recover digital evidence, including deleted messages. Those messages contradicted information from Olmos and revealed an additional relationship with another officer, Daniel Bullman.
The cellphone forensic analysis worked on the timeline directly before and after the woman's death. During this time period, Olmos and Bullman both called and used social media repeatedly in an attempt to contact her. According to court documents, these instances occurred before Olmos erased their electronic footprints. The forensic data recovery revealed that the woman's phone was unlocked at 4:40 p.m., shortly after her body was discovered by the woman's father. Olmos was also present. At that time, text messages were deleted and a phone call had been made to Bullman. By 4:47 the phone was locked again and the data inside rendered inaccessible until the new forensic technology revealed the cell phone contents.