Do Phone Records Record Location of Mobile Phone?
As others have stated, cell tower information is certainly logged by the cell phone companies. However, I think that law enforcement might have to specifically request it (though by now, standard forms are probably used). If you just subpoenaed something as vague as “cell phone records,” you might get something that looks like a phone bill, which probably wouldn’t have cell tower information.
Having called cell phone records in a trial (albeit in Canada), I can say – it depends. Mostly it depends on how quickly the police know that the phone call in Joe’s records are important. That will get them your phone number. Then they will get YOUR phone records, if they think your call is an important one. If that has all happened in a short enough time period that your carrier still has the call logs (as opposed to the billing logs – which will simply show you called Joe, and the length of the call – which are available for a MUCH longer time), THEN the police can use the cell tower data to get a rough idea of where you were when you called Joe. However, if they are only looking at Joe’s records, where you called from will not show up.
