Jimmy didn't wait for the case that Chris arranged, and he didn't go to Chris to press him. He just happened to be a little worried now, forget it, go back and think about it.
Jimmy went to find Ruiz again in the afternoon and came back with T14's files. What is known so far is that they have two fixed warehouses, but whether they are poisonous or normal goods has not yet been determined. I can only be sure of one thing. Their shipment volume has not decreased because they scanned an empty warehouse last time, and they still maintain normal shipment volume.
As for T14's stronghold, this has definitely been figured out. The other is a suspected Scar's residence in the middle-class gathering area of Whitestone Town, Queens. However, because they did not follow closely, they could only determine the scope and No specific building was located.
As for the personnel, there are not many senior members in T14, about ten or so. These people are usually scattered everywhere. There are only three people who follow Scar with their younger brothers. The place where they gather still has the characteristics of a gang, an underground bar.
Speaking of which, gangsters really like to have bars. Some are regular bars. They open up space in the back, and some are simply underground bars, only for people around them to have fun. The customers are basically people on the street or around. people.
Jimmy hung a map on the whiteboard, pinned various locations on it with thumbtacks, and scratched his head a little while looking at the file.
T14 has never been very famous. They really know how to survive for a long time. The more famous the gang is, the more people will target it. Therefore, although they have a large shipment volume, they have always been only doing transfer commissions and not Interfere with the business of other gangs, so no one will come to trouble them, but will try to cover for them. If the undercover agent hadn't accidentally received the information, he would never have expected that such a small gang with only a few dozen people would turn out to be a major drug artery entering New York.
Their organization is still very tight. To be able to be such a transit agent and hide it so deeply, there must be strong disciplinary constraints to prevent these subordinates from leaking information in front of others. From the map, their base of operations is in the Bronx, but the two known warehouses are one in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan, and Scar's residence is actually in Queens. These people have great ideas.
Scattered in various districts, the biggest problem is that it is difficult to catch them all. Once a problem occurs at one point, other places may disappear quickly after getting the news. Moreover, the warehouse is too far away from their base of activities, so it would be difficult to have direct evidence to arrest them unless both the people and the stolen goods are captured.
After get off work, Jimmy drove home, took out two vacuum-packed steaks from the refrigerator and threw them into the sink to defrost. There was no other way. For a profession like his, if he wanted to buy fresh steaks, he would need to try his luck, because Every day I don’t know if I can get off work normally. Throwing the vacuum-packed steak into the refrigerator will lose its taste, but at least it will ensure that you can eat it as long as you take the time to defrost it.
Taking advantage of the thawing time, Jimmy opened his safe and looked at a gold coin lying alone inside. Jimmy smashed it in his mouth. If he were richer, maybe Ruiz's matter would be simple and let others do it. The most it can do is leave an unsolved case, which is nothing more than one more file that no one will look at again, so it saves people's worries.
This road won't work, so we still have to think about formal ways.
The next morning, Jimmy returned to the office. Instead of going to his seat, he went directly to Ruiz's office and sat down.
When Ruiz arrived, Jimmy took Ruiz downstairs and the two of them smoked in a remote place. Jimmy asked: "Are there any gangs you are familiar with? Who can cooperate with us."
Ruiz shook his head, "Don't think about it, Jimmy, the bottom line is still the same, don't cross it."
Jimmy still wanted to say, but Ruiz waved his hand directly, "Okay, stop talking, Jimmy, you have to remember that you are an FBI agent, not a gangster. We can handle it within the rules, even if it's fishing for law enforcement, but , you must not cross that line. Let’s leave this matter alone for now, don’t worry, I have calmed down.”
Jimmy looked at Ruiz. His face had no expression. He didn't look like he had calmed down and was about to put the matter aside.
Jimmy: "Okay, then let me think about how to operate it legally and reasonably."
In fact, the biggest problem is that Jimmy is not part of the organized crime investigation team now. If he is in the Ruiz team, it will be like the last time at the MS13 stronghold. Although it was tragic, it was completely legal and reasonable. They can follow the same method as T14 , as long as they take action, the rest is to sweep the floor.
Unfortunately, the current situation is such that this cannot be done unless Hughes transfers himself back to Ruiz's staff.
"Ruiz, please check with Hughes first to see if you can let me return to your group. If you can, there will be no problem." Jimmy threw away the cigarette butt and stepped on it. Looking at Ruiz, Ruiz nodded. Before, he was just thinking about Jimmy, and his mind had not turned around. Now it was time to do something.
Ruiz didn't waste any time and went back to the office to check his schedule and morning tasks to make sure there was nothing missing before he came to Hughes' office.
"Hughes, are you busy?" Ruiz knocked on the door and walked into Hughes' office.
Hughes: "Ruiz, what's the matter?"
Ruiz: "I want to apply to you to transfer Jimmy here. You know the situation I am facing here. There are too many gangs here. It will be more convenient if he is here."
Hughes: "Ruiz, I think you should know what happened last time. Many people had opinions, right?"
Ruiz nodded, and Hughes continued: "I can't put him on your side. It's too easy to get out of control. Once an uncontrollable incident occurs, it's easy for them to take advantage of him."
Ruiz was not reconciled: "But with him here, he can definitely suppress a lot of people and make them sober and quiet."
Hughes shook his head: "I know what you mean, but Jimmy is different from you and me. You should have read his psychological intervention report, right? In many cases, it's not a matter of whether he wants to stop, but whether he will overdo it." The issue of use of force. I put him in the homicide unit to avoid this situation. The homicide unit with the fewest cases here should be the homicide unit, not even the bank robbery unit."
Ruiz: "We can't limit ourselves like this. To deal with the Mafia gangsters, our ordinary detectives simply can't form such a suppressive ability. You know that since the last incident, I have handled many cases much more easily." , especially when they knew I was there.”
Hughes nodded, "Of course I know, but if something like this happens again, it will be easy to be targeted. What if, I mean what if, Jimmy is directly transferred? Or even further, he is directly transferred Fired? Or sued for abuse of force?
Do you think I don’t know which team is most suitable for Jimmy? I must protect him. This is a good seedling. I cannot let him be crushed before he grows up. "
Ruiz gritted his teeth and sighed: "Damn OPR, they must be up to something."
Hughes immediately interrupted Ruiz: "Don't make random guesses. They also conduct investigations according to regulations. I will find ways to expose Jimmy to as many other aspects as possible, hoping to learn more about different types of cases and people." Let’s make him mature as soon as possible. Alas, he is still too young.”
Ruiz nodded, said goodbye to Hughes, and left his office. In the end, I still didn't succeed in achieving my goal, but I did understand why Jimmy was transferred back and forth, which can be regarded as some gain, but I definitely can't tell Jimmy about this content. Ruiz returned to the office while thinking about his own affairs. It seemed that T14 could only handle it by himself. If that didn't work, he would call in another monitoring team.
Jimmy returned to his seat, and Chris handed him a case, "Jimmy, the case you want is here. This is a case being handled by the NYPD. You can participate."
Jimmy had a question mark on his face: "What's the situation? Why do you want to cooperate with the NYPD on a case?"
Chris: "There have been no serial murders here recently. If you don't want to cooperate with them, why don't you go to another group to learn?"
Jimmy looked at Chris. There seemed to be a smile on his face. What did this look mean? Is there a conspiracy? Or do you simply want to spend some time somewhere else?
Jimmy: "Let me take a look at the case first."
In the Chelsea district of Midtown Manhattan, which is Hell's Kitchen, a single mother named Heather lives alone with her 7-year-old daughter. She works in a housekeeping company. One day a week ago, after leaving home to send her daughter to school in the morning, she did not pick her daughter up in the afternoon. After the teacher at her daughter's school could not contact her, she immediately called the police, hoping that the police would go to Heather's home to check on the situation.
However, when the patrol arrived at the semi-basement apartment where Heather lived, no one was home. After knocking on the door but getting no answer, the patrol officer reported the situation and finally chose to kick open the door and enter the house to check. However, the situation at home showed that Heather had not returned home.
At this point, the case of Heather's disappearance was officially filed, and the police investigated Heather's family situation. Unfortunately, she had no registered relatives, only a 7-year-old daughter, and the daughter's father was unknown. Based on Heather's information, the police arrived at the housekeeping company to investigate whether Heather went to work that day and whether she had other work arrangements.
After Heather sent her daughter to school in the morning, she arrived at the housekeeping company. She had a driver's license. She drove a company minivan and took two colleagues to the customer's house to clean up. Because there was a party the night before, more cleaning staff were needed. many.
After the cleaning was completed, Heather drove back to the business and then left the business, never to return.
The NYPD called the road camera next to the housekeeping company, but could not find the place where she disappeared. The NYPD has conducted several investigations on the relevant road section, but there is no special harvest. Heather just disappeared suddenly and never appeared again.
Jimmy looked up at Chris: "This is an ordinary disappearance case. Why is it in our homicide department?"
Chris: "We don't have a case here now. You can go to the scene of this case to investigate, just as an exercise. See if you can find any clues."
Jimmy looked down at the case file and felt a bit of toothache. I don't know why, but he always felt that Chris was a little abnormal. Even if we didn't have a murder case, we could still find a similar case. This kind of disappearance case has been investigated several times by the NYPD. Case, where to find clues.
Putting the case on the table, Jimmy gave up. He didn't quite believe that he could find clues that other police officers had not found from the scene that had been scanned several times. Chris didn't stipulate that this case must be pursued anyway, so let's look at other things first.
"Ding ding ding" Chris' phone rang. After he answered the phone, he called Jimmy and they went to Hughes' office together.
Hughes looked at them and asked Chris: "Chris, are there any urgent cases being handled recently?"
Chris shook his head: "There is no urgent case. Do you have any cases to deal with here?"
Hughes: "Well, the DC headquarters has received a request for assistance from the Secret Service. The Vice President will host a banquet in Chicago in the next few days. Someone is trying to plan an attack against the Vice President. They have contacted the Chicago office. If your side If the case is not urgent, Jimmy, would you be interested in cooperating with the Secret Service again?"
Jimmy blinked. Did he reveal himself somewhere? Or did the FBI's DC headquarters receive some news? Why is it me?
Jimmy asked: "Haven't they already contacted the Chicago office? Why do they still need our support?"
Hughes shook his head: "I fought for it for you. It would be good for you to get in touch with other businesses. How about it? Do you want to go there?"
Jimmy immediately stood at attention: "I follow the leadership's arrangements."
Hughes: "Well, you go back and tidy up, report to the Chicago office tomorrow, and work with them to cooperate with the Secret Service arrangements."
Jimmy: "Okay, are there any other arrangements?"
Hughes: "No, go ahead. Chris, wait a minute."
Jimmy turned and left Hughes' office. Hughes waved. He and Chris came to the window and asked in a low voice: "What do you think of Jimmy?"
Chris: "What? You don't want him to change departments again, do you?"
Hughes: "I know you don't have any cases there right now. It's okay to leave someone like this out for a few days, but it won't work if it takes a long time. It can easily kill someone."
Chris: "You really care. Do you think so highly of him?"
Hughes: "Yeah, didn't you find that he looks like the same person?"
Chris: "You mean Peter?"
Hughes nodded: "Well, except for being more violent than Peter. Just like Peter back then, he was young and passionate, principled and flexible at the same time. He could get along with anyone and had outstanding case-handling abilities. If I hadn't insisted, Lambert of Dallas I don’t even want to give it back to me, that bastard, I only discovered his characteristics in just one month.”
Chris: "But it's impossible for him to go to a high position. Hughes, don't you think you thought too early?"
Hughes: "Who can say for sure about the future? Then it won't be something we have to worry about."
(End of chapter)
