After returning to the office area of Investigation Team No. 5, Luo An decisively...
get off work.
Anyway, Veranith just told him that the prescribed week starts tomorrow.
And during today's day, Luo An participated in the gang eradication activities with Ryder in the morning, went to the Organized Crime Investigation Department to participate in Robert's interrogation at noon, and went to investigate the truth about the laundry owner in the afternoon.
After a busy day, there was no overtime pay for working overtime, so Luo An decisively chose to get off work.
But this time Luo An's plan to have dinner at Mona's apartment came to nothing.
After thinking for a moment, Roan accepted Lacey's invitation and went to the hospital with her to visit Ryder.
After confirming that the other party was fine and would be discharged from the hospital tomorrow and go to work the day after tomorrow, Lacey wanted to invite Luo An to go with him to inspect the customs and customs of New York, but Luo An refused.
Because the decoration company responsible for decorating the apartment sent Luo An another design drawing, hoping that Luo An would go and check it out.
"ha--"
The next day, sitting at his work station, Luo An stretched and yawned widely.
"Good morning! Agents!"
Augustus, who was pregnant with his belly, pushed open the door of the No. 5 Investigation Team office area, walked in with Mona, and then shouted:
"A new day has begun! We have a new case in hand! Everyone, cheer up!"
Slapping Lacey on the table at her workstation to wake her up, Augustus looked at William and said loudly:
"William, tell us about this serial bank robbery!"
"Okay, sir."
William, who had a lot of things on his desk, stood up on the spot, picked up the top folder and read aloud to everyone:
"From the beginning of last month to last week of this month, several banks in Queens, the Bronx and Brooklyn in New York City suffered a total of 6 robberies..."
After briefly introducing the situation of the case to everyone, William began to distribute a lot of things on the table to everyone in the No. 5 Investigation Team:
"These are surveillance videos of the bank where the crime occurred, statements from bank employees and relevant witnesses, and surveillance videos of the area near the bank."
Looking at these items, Roman raised his eyebrows. It seemed that they were all taken by William from the No. 14 Investigation Team.
"Good."
Augustus nodded, looking very satisfied. He picked up the witness statement and looked at it briefly, then tilted his head and looked at Luo An:
"Luo An, what do you think?"
Seeing the agents of Investigation Team No. 5 turning their attention to him, Luo An sighed, picked up the whiteboard pen, and walked to the front of the office area.
"First of all, the first problem is that we don't know where the robbers escaped after robbing the bank."
Everyone in Investigation Team No. 5 nodded. According to the data, there was a serious lack of surveillance in the areas outside several banks. The robbers disappeared completely after escaping from the bank.
After only one of the robberies, a surveillance camera on a street corner east of the bank recorded the robbers fleeing.
"The second difficult question is also the most important one."
Luo An took the whiteboard pen and continued writing while saying:
“The first time the robbers entered the bank, they covered the bank’s cameras with black spray paint.
Except for the third bank robbery because the bank had a hidden camera that recorded the entire robbery process, for the remaining five robberies, we can only reconstruct the robbers’ story at that time through the confessions of various witnesses in the bank. The whole robbery process. "
"That's right."
When all the agents heard Luo An's words, they all nodded. Augustus seemed to understand something and asked in a solemn voice:
"Any problem?"
"That's right."
Luo An pointed to the text on the whiteboard and said:
“The robber’s robbery time was actually only two and a half minutes.
During this period, the robbers asked everyone inside the bank to lie on the ground and not raise their heads.
Therefore, most of the statements given by these eyewitnesses afterwards only talked about the robbers' clothing and the robbery process, without actually having any contact with the robbers. "
"No, Roan."
Hearing this, Lacey raised the folder in her hand and said:
"In the six robberies, except for the first and sixth, the robbers in the remaining four took a female hostage in front of him and used them to threaten the bank security guard to put down his gun, so these four women were actually Those who have come into contact with robbers.”
"You're right, Lacey."
Luo An nodded, but then shook his head and said:
"But you did the opposite. In fact, it was the robbers who took the initiative to contact the four hostages, not the four hostages who took the initiative to contact the robbers."
After hearing Luo An's words, everyone present frowned, not understanding what they meant.
Seeing this, Luo An explained in a deep voice:
"When the robbers forcibly took the four female witnesses as hostages, the four female witnesses were very frightened, and their mental attention was not on the robbers at all, but on the bank security guard opposite.
In addition, they had their backs to the robber and did not see his face clearly. The robber only pointed the gun at their heads and did not touch them personally, so they only knew that the robber was a man and very strong. Through the eyes of the mask, you can know that the other person is white and other information.
But this information is not very useful to us in identifying the robbers.
Once we catch the robber, this information can be used in court. "
"All right."
After listening to Luo An's words, Lacey tilted her head and thought for a moment but found no problem. After nodding hesitantly, Mona looked up and asked:
"So, Luo An, what do you mean by saying so much?"
"The meaning is very simple."
Luo An stepped forward, put aside all the witness testimonies and all the surveillance videos, and then said in a deep voice:
"The investigation process of the No. 14 Investigation Team is mainly based on large-scale investigations, such as checking the tattoos of the robbers, checking the surveillance near the bank, and asking relevant witness statements.
Except for the hidden camera video of the third robbery, the bank's surveillance videos did not analyze the other five surveillance videos in detail because they were of average quality and short duration.
This time we need to go the other way and focus more on these five surveillance videos, witness testimonies, etc., which can be put a little later. "
"What?"
After hearing Luo An's words, Mona frowned immediately, pointed at the computer screen and said:
"You also know that the quality of the surveillance video of these banks is average, and the whole process from the robber entering the bank to covering the camera with black paint takes less than ten seconds. With just such a few video clips, how can we possibly catch the bank robber with them?" bandit?"
August, Lacey, William and others also frowned and looked at Luo An. They also didn't understand why Luo An did this.
"Two reasons."
Luo An didn't talk nonsense and explained with a serious face:
“First, large-scale investigation of this kind of thing requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
Blossom's No. 14 investigation team didn't have many people. The reason why they were able to launch a large-scale investigation in a short period of time was mainly because Blossom mobilized his many years of contacts regardless of the cost in order to solve this case.
There are only ten people in our No. 5 investigation team. While we cannot launch a large-scale investigation, no one has such connections. "
Augustus frowned. His connections were all in the Department of Criminal Justice and he really couldn't help with this case.
After hearing what Luo An said, Mona and Lacey looked at each other, tilted their heads and asked:
"What about the second one?"
(End of chapter)
