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Mike Bazzell is the Computer Crime Detective for the Alton Police Department, and currently handles all cases involving any type of Computer Crime and Computer Forensic Analysis, including several State and Federal cases throughout the Metro-East St. Louis area.
Upon completion of his degree in criminal justice, he was selected as the Director of the Metro-East Regional Computer Crime Enforcement Group under the authority of the Illinois Attorney General. He currently instructs Computer Crime and Computer Forensics for both the Southern Illinois Law Enforcement Commission and Lewis & Clark College. He is also an active member of the elite Technical Operations Group of the Major Case Squad of Greater St. Louis. In 2005, Mike was assigned full time to the FBI’s Cyber Crime Task Force, where he continues to assist with Federal cases being prosecuted by the United State’s Attorney’s Office. As an active member of these organizations, he has been involved in numerous high-tech crime investigations including online child solicitation, manufacture of child pornography, child abduction, kidnapping, cold-case homicide, and internet bank intrusions.
In his free time, he is a published photographer, author, and studio musician.