Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Academy

Instructors

Carlton M. Fuller currently manages the Riverside Police Department Forensic Unit. He is an active member and Executive Board Member of the California State Division for the International Association of Identification (CSDIAI). He has received his education from the FBI, the State Department of Justice, UCLA (Teacher’s Credentials in Forensic Science), and California State University at Fullerton (Criminal Justice). He is a Court Certified Expert in photography, evidence collection, crime scene documentation, and collection. He is also a Qualified Latent Print Examiner. He has taught CSI techniques at forensic programs throughout Southern California including Rio Hondo College, La Puente Valley ROP and numerous in-service trainings since 2000.

P. Michael Kellett, M.S., currently serves as the Staff Inspector for the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board. Previously, Kellett served as the Laboratory Director for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. He has extensive management experience in controlled substance analyses, toxicology, serology, firearms/toolmarks, general criminalistics, crime scene investigations, latent fingerprint processing, photo lab, property/evidence and automated fingerprint identification systems with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Kellett has taught many courses and made presentations to the California Association of Criminalists and the California Association of Medical Technologists.

Craig Ogino, B.S., Lab Director, Scientific Investigations Division, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Ogino has worked in this field for more than 28 years, processing over 200 homicides and officer-involved shootings. He has taught bloodstain pattern interpretation to hundreds of students starting in 1983. He has taught at UCR, UC Davis, California State University at Los Angeles, California Criminalistics Institute, Presidio, Frank Bland training center, Ben Clark training center and numerous seminars for law enforcement and district attorney agencies.

Ann D. Punter, B.A., Supervisor, Evidence and Property, Ontario Police Department. Punter has over 27 years of experience and has worked for four law enforcement agencies in fingerprint and crime scene investigation. She is responsible for the training of new employees in fingerprint processing and crime scene investigation. In 1982, she successfully completed the testing process to be a Certified Latent Print Examiner by the International Association for Identification. She has been recognized as an expert witness in the state and federal courts.

George Reis, President of Imaging Forensic, providing consulting, training and litigation support in forensic image analysis. He was with the Newport Beach Police Department for 15 years as a forensic photographer, latent print examiner and crime scene investigator. He has provided training and consulting services to law enforcement agencies throughout the United States, including the Secret Service, U.S. Army Crime Lab as well as state, county and local police departments.

Frank P. Sheridan, M.D., Chief Medical Examiner, county of San Bernardino. Dr. Sheridan has been the Chief Medical Examiner for San Bernardino since 1991. He is an assistant professor for Loma Linda School of Medicine and Western University of Health Sciences. His research interests include SIDS, head trauma in children and the role of the medical examiner in organ and tissue donation for transplantation.

Steve Staggs, Captain (retired), UCR Police Department. Staggs was a police manager who has extensive experience in crime scene photography and identification. He has testified in superior court concerning crime scene and autopsy photography and has handled high-profile cases, including a serial homicide case. For over 15 years he has been a forensic photography instructor and has trained more than 2,500 crime scene technicians and investigators for police departments, sheriff's departments, district attorney's offices and federal agencies. He is the author of the "Crime Scene and Evidence Photographer's Guide," a field handbook used by investigators in law enforcement and fire agencies.