Your Court Appointed Forensic Lab

Hank Waring of F.D.S. Labs has been appointed by the Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Riverside and Orange County Superior Court systems to provide expertise for both prosecutors and defense attorneys in criminal trials. We also work with other government agencies and private investigators.

F.D.S. Labs has 6 digital forensic suites with state of the art equipment including the Cellebrite UFED, Paraben's Device Seizure, Avid dTective and F.D.S. Forensic systems. We have been in business for over 40 years.

Cell Phone Data Recovery

  • Cell phone recovery of text messages - phone logs - audio - video - pictures - address books - and other data.
  • In some cases we can retrieve deleted data from device.

Cell Tower Record Analysis

  • Mapping of tower locations from carrier provided call detail reports.
  • Interactive display of call details and tower locations in Google Earth

GPS Device Forensics

  • Extraction of track logs, waypoints, routes and stored locations to determine the location of a device at a given time.
  • Customized reports with mapping capabilities.
  • Analysis of ankle bracelet data.

Forensic Video

Because the jury is watching!

  • Video evidence can be your most valuable evidence in court.
  • Our video systems use uncompressed or lossless digitization of your original source to maintain the highest quality throughout the analysis and enhancement process.
  • Clarify recorded video.
  • Demultiplex security video.
  • Enhance video from digital video recorders (DVR).
  • Slow motion analysis.
  • Capture and print enhanced digital still photographs from your video evidence.
  • Track and highlight subjects.
  • Cell phone video and image recovery.
  • We handle most consumer and professional analog and digital video formats.
  • Discrete, professional, and absolutely confidential.
  • DVD and other recording preparation for courtroom exhibits, conference negotiations, or circulation.

The forensic video experts: when you need to see the truth.

Audio Restoration

Forensic and Restoration If you're an attorney, investigator, or other legal professional...

...you know that Justice is Blind
(but she isn't deaf)!

  • Our forensic audio expertise can help make your case.
  • We have been using state-of-the-art digital audio systems to clarify audio evidence for over 40 years.
  • Our clients have included attorneys, insurance and private investigators, law enforcement agencies, Courts of Law, and government agencies in the United States, Europe, and the Far East.
  • Removal of hum, hiss, clicks, ticks, pops, tape noise, ambient noise.
  • Clarification of recorded voices and conversations.
  • Sound restoration of old tapes and other recordings.
  • Discrete, professional, and absolutely confidential.
  • Compact disc and other recording preparation (all digital and analog formats) for courtroom exhibits, conference negotiations, or circulation.

The forensic audio experts: when you need to hear the truth.

Format Conversions

FDS Labs maintains an extensive array of Audio and Video equipment to professionally transfer your old or unplayable media to current formats.

  • Sony PCM 1610/1630
  • DAT (with timecode)
  • ADAT
  • DA-88/98/78 44-192k
  • 2 channel 1/4 or 1/2 inch tape at 1 7/8 - 30 ips
  • Micro Cassette
  • Sony Digital Betacam (Digibeta) - NTSC & PAL
  • Betacam SP (Beta SP) - NTSC
  • 3/4" Umatic - NTSC
  • VHS/SVHS
  • DVD
  • Multiplexed VHS
  • Proprietary Security DVR

 

Forensic Clients

L.A. County

  1. Public Defender
  2. Alternate Public Defender
  3. Bar Association - ICDA Indignant Criminal Defense Panel of Experts
  4. District Attorney's Office
  5. Sheriff's Department
  6. County Counsel

Federal

  1. Public Defender - Panel of Experts

Others

  1. Private Investigators
  2. Police Departments thru out the US
  3. Security Companies
  4. City Attorneys
  5. US Postal Service
  6. DEA
  7. FBI

Other Associations

  1. Southern California Fraud Investigators Association
  2. Criminal Defense Investigators Association
  3. Retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff.

San Bernardino County

  1. Public Defender
  2. Homicide Defense Unit
  3. District Attorney's Office

Orange County

  1. Public Defender
  2. Alternate Public Defender Panel of Experts
  3. District Attorney's Office

Riverside County

  1. Public Defender Panel of Experts
  2. Capital Defense Unit
  3. District Attorney's Office

Santa Barbara

  1. Public Defender Panel of Experts

County Vender List

  1. L.A. County Sheriff's Department
  2. Pace Approved for L.A. County
  3. L.A. County
  4. San Bernardino

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of Our High Profile Cases

The Cerritos Aircrash - 1986 - Private Attorney

The Reverend Faricon Case - 1986 - Private Attorney

The Rodney King Case - 1992 - FBI / L.A. District Attorney

The 2005 Vibe Awards Stabbing - Private Attorney

 

Phone: (661) 267-1155

Email: info@fdslabs.com

Shipping Address:

2550 West Avenue N

Palmdale, Ca, 93551


Click here to go back