John San Agustin is a Commander with the El Paso County
(Colorado Springs) Sheriff’s office, having started his career with
EPSO in 1998. Commander San Agustin oversees the Major Crimes
Unit, Sex Crime Unit, Property Crimes Unit, Financial Crimes Unit,
Computer Crimes Unit, Victim Advocates, Evidence Facility, Cold
Case Unit and the Metro Crime Lab. He created the Computer
Crimes Unit, has been involved in over 200 death investigations, and
is a court-qualified expert on computer forensics at both the State and
Federal levels. As part of his expertise, Commander San Agustin
involved in hundreds of search warrants and analyzed over a
thousand pieces of digital evidence.
Commander San Agustin has testified before the Colorado House
Judiciary Committee on House Bill 06-1092, changing the possession
of child pornography from a Class 1 Misdemeanor to a Felony 6. He
has assisted in developing the Local Interagency Methamphetamine
Identity Theft (LIMIT) Task Force for the 4th Judicial District Attorney.
His specialty and passion is interactive crime scene applications,
which he has been developing since 1992. These applications have
been used with the Columbine High School Shooting ReInvestigation, the JonBenet Ramsey homicide investigation, the Laci
Peterson homicide trial, and several other high profile murder cases.
This same application has been used in a number of civil cases,
including patent and trade secret infringement, medical malpractice,
personal injury, wrongful death, business acquisition, and accidental
death. Commander San Agustin has appeared on many local
television stations and interviewed as an expert for newspapers and
magazines, along with national television media such as FOX News,
CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, CNN, MSNBC, and Discovery.