Attorney David Hickton was installed as the top law enforcement official for western Pennsylvania, his reorganization of the criminal division included a new national security cyber group in addition to the traditional offices that prosecute white collar crime, violent crime and civil rights offenses. Robert Erdely, a retired state police trooper now serving as a detective in the Indiana County Court House, has an international reputation as a computer crime investigations expert, and often brings cases that end up in federal courts, Hickton said. “What takes a case federal is if our extra jurisdictional reach is helpful, or the tools we have on the federal side might be helpful, but frequently we have sentences that are more severe,” Hickton said. “So in violent crime, we have the armed career criminal sentences and some of the mandatory minimums for someone who, for a similar act (prosecuted under state laws), might get a low sentence or get probation” in a state or county court.