Digital Forensics Crime Lab Dedicated at DeSales
State-of-the-art facility honors the memory of fallen Upper Saucon police officer David M. Petzold.
A once nondescript basement area in DeSales University’s Dowling Hall has been transformed into a state-of-the-art digital laboratory that will not only give Lehigh County law enforcement better crime-solving ability, but also honor one of its fallen officers. In front of a packed house, Lehigh County officials and members of law enforcement agencies gathered Thursday to dedicate the David M. Petzold Digital Forensics Laboratory of Lehigh County at the university’s Center Valley campus. The digital laboratory honors the memory of Upper Saucon Township police officer David M. Petzold, who was struck and killed by a van on Route 309 in 2006, as he tried to remove a deer carcass from the roadway. Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin, …
