Assignment Task:
Title: The Criminal Investigation
Article situation:
At the Sports Bar, located on the Malecón de Arroyo, an argument breaks out between two customers. this discussion turns into a fight. The bar owner calls the police and reports the fight between the two men. That night, Agent Santiago and Agent Torres were on duty and were sent to the bar to attend to the situation. When the agents arrive at the aforementioned bar, everything was quiet. Both agents proceed to speak with the owner of the bar and he narrates what happened. That the men were Luis and Pedro, regular customers of the bar. That they started arguing over some money that Luis owed Pedro and that in the discussion Luis punches Pedro in the face and Pedro responds by hitting him on the head with a beer bottle. Some clients intervene with Luis and Pedro, while he, as the owner, decides to call the police. While the owner is on the phone with the police, Luis leaves the bar and seconds later Pedro leaves as well. The owner of the bar confesses his concern to the agents since he heard when Pedro threatened Luis with death and this was not the first time. Both agents begin to interview the other customers, make their notes and leave the bar. Upon leaving, Agent Santiago notices blood stains on the sidewalk and part of a glass beer bottle. He asks the owner where the customers park and the owner tells him that there is a parking lot on the corner. The agent starts lighting the ground as he walks. He comes around the corner and finds a broken gold chain. he walks into the parking lot and finds a bloody napkin lying on the ground. He informs his partner of him and they leave. Agent Torres had already interviewed several other clients.
The next day, Luis's wife goes to the barracks to report the disappearance of her husband. The lady tells the police that her husband had gone out the night before (approximately 8:00 p.m.
m.), to have a few drinks with some friends, but I do not return to the house. That she was worried because more than twelve hours had passed (it was 10:30 a.m.), and she did not know Luis's whereabouts, that he did not answer the phone and that he did not report to work either. Agent Santiago was in the barracks and heard Luis's wife. He remembered the incident in the bar and approached the lady to ask her a few questions. The lady confirms to the agent that her husband had been having problems with a friend for some time, apparently for money. She identifies the friend as Pedro and mentions that several days ago they had argued in front of her and Luis's house.
Given all the information received, agent Santiago tells his superior that he is going to return to the Sports Bar because it was there where Luis was last seen. When he arrives at the bar. She starts talking to the owner and tells him that Luis's wife went to file a complaint because her husband was missing. The owner of the bar indicates that they have security cameras, that he could see them.
He gives her information about Pedro, tells her where he lived and where he worked. Agent Torres was sent to Luis' workplace to gather information. Looking at the security cameras, Luis is clearly seen leaving the bar, he looked upset and you could see that his head was bleeding. Seconds later Pedro is seen leaving the bar. The agent notifies his superior about the findings and she tells him that he would send a patrol with two more agents to continue investigating. They start looking for more information, interviewing owners of other businesses and requesting the security videos of the different businesses. In a video provided by the owner of the Delicias Restaurant, which is close to the bar and next to the parking lot, Pedro is seen taking a metal tube out of his car. Luis was getting into his car when he was hit in the back with the pipe, Luis fell to the ground. It is seen in the video that Pedro begins to move Luis. By not reacting. Pedro is seen lifting Luis and putting him in the back of his car and driving off. A few minutes later, a man is seen opening Luis' car, he gets in the car and leaves.
That same day (6:00 p.m.), the police receive a call from some fishermen, where they notify that they had seen the body of a man punctured between some stones. The police arrive at the scene. Indeed, there was a body punctured between some stones, it was face down and its shoes were missing. They take out the body. But he didn't have any identification. His face could barely be made out. he was full of goals and he was arrogant to have a bullet impact in the boy
Luis's wife identifies the body. While the police begin to search for Pedro since he was listed as the main suspect and they begin with the due process to be able to identify the
man who is seen taking away Luis's car.
The next day they arrest Pedro. He was at his brother's house. After an intense interrogation, Pedro confesses to killing Luis, but says that he was in self-defense. They ask him about Luis' vehicle and about the person who appears in the video taking it away. Pedro says that he knows nothing about the vehicle and much less about that other man. At that moment Agent Torres arrives and says that the vehicle was found and that the man in the video has already been identified. He was Peter's brother. Pedro is amazed that they had identified the person in the video and that they had found Luis's car, for which he admits that it was his brother, that he was in charge of Luis's car "disappeared". The metal tube was found in Pedro's car. The firearm was not found since Pedro confessed to throwing it into the sea.
Instructions:
Using the given article to answer the questions. Imagine that you are in charge of investigating the crime scene. Use the general steps of criminal investigation: Observation, Description, Explanation, and Probability to conduct the investigation and answer the guiding questions below.
1. Uses report writing techniques to describe the crime scene. List what is found at the crime scene: characteristics, visibility, orientation points, physical elements found at the scene, the order in which they were found, and everything you understand concerning the crime under investigation. Identify the type of scene.
2. Describe and classify the types of evidence found at crime scenes.
3. Mention how the body was, if it showed signs of violence or aggression.
4. Mention the technical-scientific procedures that can be applied to collect, pack and preserve the evidence found at the crime scene. Identifies evidence relevant to the investigation.
5. According to the facts, mention who you would interview or interrogate.
6. Write one (1) interview and one (1) interrogation of those witnesses or suspects as appropriate.
7. Establish the theory of the case, based on the facts, the evidence that supports them and the legal grounds that support it.
8. According to the factual situation, Pedro confessed to having thrown the firearm into the sea. If the firearm is found, he explains if it can be used as evidence and why.
9. Mention two (2) possible members of the multidisciplinary team in the investigation and describe their roles.
10. Mention an auxiliary science applicable to this investigation and what would be its contribution to clarifying the case.