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III (Updated 8 November 2011)">Phone Records III (Updated 8 November 2011)

[Updated Feb­ru­ary 9, 2009 with infor­ma­tion pro­vided by Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyer Cindy Hen­ley.]

[Fur­ther update March 9, 2009: Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyer Car­men Roe says, “I called Sprint at the num­ber below; they looked up every num­ber I had and gave the car­rier name.”]

[Addi­tional update July 11, 2010: Bob Mat­ter, at Chicago injury lawyer Jim Freeman’s office, adds Trac­Fone con­tact infor­ma­tion; Vita Reid, with Philadel­phia lawyer Vin­cent N. Mel­chiorre, updates the AT&T mail­ing address.]

[Another update 8 Novem­ber 2011: San­dra Huff of the San Diego County Office of the Alter­nate Pub­lic Defender, again with the AT&T mail­ing address and fax number.]

I wrote two weeks ago and four weeks ago about sub­poe­naing cell­phone records. Here’s a sum­mary of the con­tact infor­ma­tion I have for the major cell­phone ser­vice providers. Sub­poe­nas for T-Mobile records (includ­ing what used to be Aer­ial and Voic­eS­tream) go to:

Cus­to­dian of Records
T-Mobile Sub­poena Com­pli­ance
4 Syl­van Way
Par­sip­pany NJ 07054
(f) 973.292.8697
973.292.8911

Sub­poe­nas for Ver­i­zon records go to:

Cus­to­dian of Records
Ver­i­zon Cellco Part­ner­ship, d/b/a Ver­i­zon Wire­less
Sub­poena Com­pli­ance
180 Wash­ing­ton Val­ley Road
Bed­min­ster, NJ 07921
Fax (888) 667‑0028
Voice (800) 451‑5242

Sub­poe­nas for AT&T records (includ­ing what used to be Cin­gu­lar) go to (thanks to Wilm­ing­ton, Delaware APD Matt Warren):

Cus­to­dian of Records
AT&T Legal Com­pli­ance
208 South Akard Street
5th Floor = M
Dal­las TX  75202
1−800−291−4952
FAX: 877−971−6093

Sub­poe­nas for Sprint records (includ­ing Boost [thanks, @LawScribe] and what used to be Nex­tel) go to:

Cus­to­dian of Records
Sprint Cor­po­rate Secu­rity
6480 Sprint Park­way
Over­land Park, KS 66251
Fax (816) 600‑3111
Voice (800) 877‑7330

Sub­poe­nas for Cricket records go to (updated 23 Sep­tem­ber 2009 thanks to those nice, dili­gent peo­ple at Cricket):

Cus­to­dian of Records
Atten­tion: Sub­poena Com­pli­ance
Cricket Communications/Leap Wire­less
5887 Cop­ley Drive
San Diego, Cal­i­for­nia 92121
Fax: (858) 882‑9237
Or scan and email to: compliance@cricketcommunications.com Voice (858) 882‑9301

Sub­poe­nas for Cel­lu­lar South go to [Updated 4 Novem­ber 2009, thanks to Hous­ton criminal-defense lawyer Michael Gill­man]:

Mr. Robert A. Geoghe­gan, Esq. Direc­tor of Sub­poena Com­pli­ance & Coor­di­na­tor of Cor­po­rate Secu­rity Telapex, Inc. 1018 High­land Colony Park­way, Suite 500 Ridge­land, MS 39157 Phone: 691−355−1522 Fax: 601−487−7517

Trac­Fone sub­poe­nas go to:

Trac­Fone
Atten­tion: Sub­poena Com­pli­ance
9700 NW 112th Ave.
Miami, FL  33178
Tel. 800−820−8632
Fax 305−715−6932

Sub­poe­nas for Sim­ple Mobile go to [Updated 7 Octo­ber 2011, thanks to Hous­ton ticket attor­ney Robert Eut­sler]:

Email: LER@mysimplemobile.com
Fax: 978−246−8183
Mail:   Sim­ple Mobile LER
          PO BOX 147
          East Irvine CA 92650

These data are cur­rent, as far as I know. I will post updates as I learn of them.

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20 Responses to “Phone Records III (Updated 8 November 2011)”

  1. Sarah says:
    21 March 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Help­ful infor­ma­tion –thanks–

    Reply
  2. Need to Subpoena Cell Phone Records? « West Virginia Criminal Law Blog says:
    1 July 2008 at 2:32 pm

    […] Here is the link. […]

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  3. Cell Phone Records Can Help Prove Fault in Car Accident Cases « West Virginia Car Accident Law Blog says:
    1 July 2008 at 2:35 pm

    […] Here is the link. […]

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    • Carol Mullens-A says:
      6 April 2009 at 4:34 pm

      Look­ing for an AT&T Cell Phone Expert for an auto­mo­bile acci­dent. Also need the expert to be expe­ri­enced with billing records for the expla­na­tion of text, data trans­fers and call times.

      Reply
  4. Roma Mistry says:
    16 March 2009 at 2:14 pm

    Do you know of any way to obtain tran­scripts of text mes­sages between two cell phone users? I con­tacted ATT&T and they indi­cated con­tact of text mes­sages can only be obtained via the hand­set itself. In the recent com­muter train acci­dent case in Los Ange­les, fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tors were able to obtain tran­scripts of the engineer’s text mes­sages at the time of the crash so there must be a way.

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    • Mark Bennett says:
      16 March 2009 at 2:19 pm

      My under­stand­ing is that some of the cel­cos are able to retrieve text mes­sages for a short time (like 30 days) and that they will pro­duce them in response to a court order (but not a sub­poena). Did the fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tors in Los Ange­les have access to teh engineer’s handset?

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  5. Roma Mistry says:
    16 March 2009 at 2:30 pm

    I’m not sure. I think they may have obtained a court order.

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  6. Veronica Fernandez says:
    25 March 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Hi Mark, thanks for post­ing the info for each of the cus­to­di­ans of record. My ques­tion is: will they accept ser­vice by mail/fax of a sub­poena duces tecum? We are in San Diego, CA, and have a crim­i­nal case pend­ing for which I need to obtain records regard­ing tower/location of cell phone when calls were made. I just don’t know if they require per­sonal ser­vice, or if ser­vice by mail is valid. Thanks.

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  7. Shannon Duffey says:
    17 April 2009 at 9:00 am

    Thanks for the infor­ma­tion. It was helpful.

    Reply
  8. joe says:
    22 April 2009 at 5:33 pm

    how about cin­gu­lar in Cal­i­for­nia (209) 256-xxxx

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  9. Veronica Fernandez says:
    20 May 2009 at 12:01 pm

    Once you get the records with the tower loca­tions, how do you read these? The records I got give me a chart with eight columns: Call type, call­ing num­ber, called num­ber, call dura­tion, answer dt, dis­con­nect dt, first cell, and first LAC. Under “first cell” there seems to be a five-digit num­ber code (which is not a zip code) and under “first LAC” there is a num­ber code that is either two digit, three digit or five digit. Is there a map or key I should be using with this or should I have received some­thing from T-Mobile to trans­late the loca­tions? Any help would be extremely use­ful. Thanks.

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  10. Veronica Fernandez says:
    20 May 2009 at 12:03 pm

    By the way, if you are sub­pe­on­aing from Cal­i­for­nia, T-Mobile will accept ser­vice by fax, even for cell tower infor­ma­tion — no court order required. Sue John­son han­dles Cal­i­for­nia sub­poe­nas. Her phone num­ber is 973−292−8906 (direct line).

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  11. Heather Harris says:
    19 October 2011 at 1:56 pm

    FYI. This web­site has been reli­able in telling me what cell phone car­rier ser­vices a spe­cific num­ber: http://www.fonefinder.net/

    Take care.

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  12. Brian Martin says:
    12 December 2011 at 7:25 am

    AT&T has an online Sub­poena Ser­vice at https://contact.bellsouth.com/subpoena/

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  13. Brian Martin says:
    12 December 2011 at 7:26 am

    I also received this infor­ma­tion from Mobilic­ity, a small Cana­dian carrier.

    1. What legal name and address should we put on the court order / pro­duc­tion order / warrant?

    You can make the pro­duc­tion order to:

    Data & Audio-Visual Enter­prises Wire­less Inc. (o/a Mobilicity)

    Address (Ontario): 101 Exchange Avenue, Vaughan, Ontario L4K 5R6
    Address (B.C.): 1275 West 6th Avenue, Suite 201, Van­cou­ver, B.C. V6H 1A6

    Impor­tant Note: Please DO NOT affect per­sonal ser­vice of court orders to the above addresses with­out prior arrange­ment with us. Only cer­tain Mobilic­ity employ­ees with secu­rity clear­ance can accept ser­vices of court orders and not all such employ­ees will be at the above offices at all times. Please refer to FAQ below for meth­ods of services.

    2. I have a court order / pro­duc­tion order / war­rant. How can I serve Mobilicity?

    Please email your court order / pro­duc­tion order / war­rant to lawfulaccess@mobilicity.ca.

    If you need to pass­word pro­tect the order, please also send us a sep­a­rate fax with the pass­word to (416) 650‑9706.

    Please include your request in the body of your email.

    If you require another method to affect ser­vice (e.g. ser­vice by fax or per­sonal ser­vice), please email us at lawfulaccess@mobilicity.ca. Alter­nate ser­vice meth­ods may be arranged on a case by case basis. Fail­ure to com­ply may result to your ser­vice being refused or disputed.

    3. I can only fax the court order / pro­duc­tion order / war­rant. Is this possible?

    You can fax the court order / pro­duc­tion order / war­rant to (416) 650‑9706. How­ever, please be advised that our fax machine is less fre­quently mon­i­tored than the lawfulaccess@mobilicity.ca email and our fax machine is shared by the entire com­pany. There­fore, you may expe­ri­ence fur­ther delays in our responses to your faxes. In addi­tion, your fax may be viewed by indi­vid­u­als with­out a secu­rity clear­ance or may be mis­placed or lost. We there­fore strongly urge you to avoid using faxes.

    If you nev­er­the­less wish to fax the court order / pro­duc­tion order / war­rant, we would strongly urge you to email us at lawfulaccess@mobilicity.ca to notify us after you had sent out the fax.

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  14. Brian Martin says:
    27 April 2012 at 11:06 am

    Here is a really good web­site for info about cell phone and social media sub­poe­nas. http://www.ncids.com/forensic/digital/digital.shtml

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