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SLED computer crimes unit cites crypto tracing, data volume challenges
Summary
Lieutenant Courtney Adams told legislators the 12‑person unit is now fully staffed, processes large device volumes (about 117 TB/year), and since 2023 has traced over $1 million in cryptocurrency, including assisting a 2024 Bitcoin seizure.
Lieutenant Courtney Adams, supervisor of SLED's Computer Crimes Unit, told the subcommittee the unit now has 12 full‑time staff — nine class‑1 officers and three criminalists — and is operating at full staffing after recent General Assembly funding. Adams said the unit's core mission is preservation, processing and analysis of digital evidence and that average data processed rose to about 117 terabytes per year for 2020–2025.
Adams said the unit's services include phone and computer forensics, vehicle infotainment extraction, drone and video enhancement and cryptocurrency tracing. "Since 2023, we have traced over 1,000,000 dollars in cryptocurrency," she said, and cited a 2024 case where SLED assisted the U.S. Secret Service in seizing $80,000 in Bitcoin. Committee members pressed on vendor‑specific training for crypto tools; Adams said the training is provided by the software vendor and that only a small number of agents are fully trained on that tool, with plans to cross‑train others and leverage in‑house instruction to build capacity.
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