Olivia was really helpful. The FBI didn't conduct much investigation into these videos before. Various accidents occurred frequently. Manpower was deployed to surround Perkins and handle the scene today. They had no choice. Watching footage at the same time amid all the mess.
Now that DHS has less manpower, it can be imported into computers and arranged for more people to watch together, so the efficiency will naturally be higher.
Jimmy and Olivia arranged for people to move the video and import it into the system, and Olivia left the command center and went to Caitlin's director's office.
Caitlin gave a positive answer to Olivia's question and fully cooperated with DHS and Jimmy's investigation. As for the reason, she did not tell Olivia.
Only Caitlin in the Counter-Terrorism Bureau knows that Jimmy is a former CIA agent. Her assistant should know a little, but definitely not much.
As for Jimmy's relationship network within the CIA, after attending his engagement ceremony, she also knew very well. Although she didn't know what the upper limit was, there was at least one deputy director behind him, and he was also the deputy director behind her predecessor.
Although she is not in that line, as a senior executive, she also knows that there are definitely many conflicts within the CIA. She definitely cannot give anyone a reason to mess with her, so she will definitely not stop Jimmy's reasonable request, let alone This case is the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, the nominal superior of the Counterterrorism Bureau.
Another reason is that Jimmy's strength is a bit too amazing.
In the past, he had dodged a team ambush, and all five members of the team were killed. Jimmy was only hit by one shot. But this time, although there were only three people, the combination of grenades and rocket launchers could not do anything to him. He only suffered a scratch on his calf. The last case was even more disturbing.
As a senior supervisor, Caitlin was very aware of the capabilities of CIA field agents. Although she did not actually go to the agent training camp to train agents, to be able to become a senior supervisor, she must have been responsible for many, many cases.
Jimmy's combat ability has completely surpassed the top agents she knows. Even in her impression, no agent can withstand such an ambush, including Bourne, who has not been caught so far. Bourne is just difficult to catch. When he came to New York, he was shot directly and fell into the Hudson River to escape. If he had Jimmy's ability, he could probably kill the Counter-Terrorism Bureau directly from downstairs.
No matter what the reason is, Caitlin has no intention of offending Jimmy and the people behind him. As long as she is not involved, the people below can just cooperate. Anyway, it is not spending her own money.
Olivia had already obtained the authorization she needed and fully cooperated with Jimmy and DHS within the scope of her authority, so she directly arranged for backup personnel to join the video screening process.
Photos of the four people killed in the hospital and the female killer have been provided to them. These videos mainly show the car. It is difficult to find the appearance of the people in the car in the low-precision video.
While Jimmy was processing the video, Ruiz's call came: "Jimmy, there was an accident. Francisco Montero, the leader of the Viper Gang, was not at the club or at his home. His whereabouts are currently unknown. The person in charge in the restaurant Liliana has been caught and is now being escorted back to the station."
Jimmy: "Didn't you monitor the leader of the Viper Gang before?"
Ruiz: "The intelligence team previously monitored that Montero was at the club the day before and did not leave, but we searched inside and found no one."
Jimmy thought for a moment, and he needed to report a previous situation to Ruiz: "You need to find Detective Chuck of the NYPD. I gave him a villa address in Jersey City, New Jersey, and asked him to investigate. I found that address by following Liliana, and she went in and talked to the people inside for half an hour before leaving."
Ruiz: "Are you sure? Over there, we overstepped our authority."
Jimmy: "Let's try it. Let the monitoring team keep an eye on it first. If it doesn't work, contact the local government for authorization."
Ruiz: "I understand, I'm going to contact Chuck."
Jimmy hung up the phone and shook his head. Gang bosses don't have that simple stuff. This guy must have arranged an emergency evacuation plan in the club. I hope he can be caught.
Early the next morning, when Jimmy came to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Bill and Jack, who had arrived early, had already obtained the required video records, and were arranging in the command center to investigate the traffic videos at the corresponding time and find the corresponding car.
"The targets are two vehicles, one car and one SUV. We have obtained the license plate numbers they used at the time. Now we are watching the road surveillance. As long as we find their whereabouts, we should be able to find their safe house very quickly. "
Bill explained to Jimmy, and everyone stood waiting for the staff to investigate. The clues are already there, as is the time when the car entered the hospital. The rest is relatively simple. The video of the intersection during a specific time period is still easy to watch.
Finally, they successfully found the location where the car disappeared, a street in Brooklyn.
Bill directly arranged for Jack to take agents from the Counter-Terrorism Bureau to conduct on-site investigations. Jimmy didn't want to wait here, and also proposed to apply for field service. Bill nodded in agreement, and they set off with the Counter-Terrorism Bureau's walkie-talkie.
The target street has two rows of houses on the left and right, and there are only about a dozen houses, so it’s not a big problem. Agents from the Department of Homeland Security came forward to deal with major anti-terrorism matters. They knocked on doors one by one with photos of people and cars, and quickly identified two unoccupied houses. It was certain that one of the cars had appeared here. , and some of them had seen one of the men, but they were not sure which house it was from.
Through the New York City Government's database, they obtained the landlord information of two townhouses. The landlord of one of them had been identified. They were just traveling and there were no outsiders at home. After investigating the information of the other house, they found that the landlord was registered. The homeowner information does not exist in the citizen information database and is fake.
This was a big problem. Jack contacted Bill in the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, and after contacting his superiors to obtain permission, he directly broke into the house to investigate, and at the same time collected fingerprint information inside the house.
A pickup truck parked at the door was also the target of their investigation. Soon, the fingerprints extracted were confirmed to belong to the woman who attacked Jimmy yesterday, that is, Perkins.
The next step was to continue the investigation. The entire investigation process was very troublesome. The front and back investigations, room inspections, and fingerprint identification took too much time. By the time they identified the car that four of the people took when they came over, it was already the next day.
Ruiz's surveillance team has been dispatched to Jersey City, but there is no result yet. Chuck gave the address. Jimmy asked him to investigate before, so Chuck has a record of this address.
The captured members of the Viper Gang have confirmed that the female killer who appeared for the first time is indeed a waiter in their restaurant. Many people have seen her, and by the way, she solved the murder case that Nia was about to solve.
The female killer was the one who did it, and the people from the Viper Gang who were targeted by Nia and the others were the ones who were monitoring and acting as eyes outside at the time, and they also did the preliminary investigation. The person who hit Nia was also a member of the Viper Gang. Now they are all caught by the FBI. In addition to the people who were originally in prison, almost all of them have been caught.
The first step of the whole matter has been successfully closed. When Nia received a call from the FBI, she notified Chuck to follow up on the case. As for Nia and her family of three, they are still on vacation in Alaska, so there is no news yet. After receiving notification that Jimmy's side was safe, it was not time for them to return.
When Jimmy and Nia chatted on the phone in the evening, she complained about how miserable their family of three was in Alaska. Although the environment there was good, the weather was cold and there was nothing interesting except to see the scenery and various wild animals. The key was to ensure safety. , they cannot go to crowded places and can only stay in remote places.
There is nothing that can be done about it. Kevin knows all the cases Jimmy has gone through. Although he is not in New York, as the deputy director, he has many informants who are willing to inform him of the situation at any time. Besides, not only one or two people know that Jimmy has become his son-in-law, so cases involving him naturally need to be notified in time.
It can only be said that being the boss is not easy. Kevin did not put any pressure on Jimmy. He just asked Nia and her mother to stay in Alaska and wait for the final result in New York.
When DHS handles terrorist attack cases, they have very high authority and high priority. After receiving the notice of assistance, ATF immediately mobilizes senior agents to hold a meeting, and then directly casts a net to inquire about the information from their respective informants.
After two days of investigation, they "successfully" destroyed the warehouses of three arms dealers, which also increased their performance. Of course, there are gains. The M72 is decades-old equipment. During the Vietnam War, American arms dealers made many of them, so naturally a large number of rocket launchers were lost to the black market.
A captured arms dealer confessed that they had shipped a batch of goods two years ago, including several M72 rocket launchers. The true identity of the buyer was uncertain, but the delivery location was in Canada.
As the northern neighbor of the United States, although Canada is a big country, its relationship with the United States is very unusual. Some joke that Canada is the northern state of the United States, which is not incomprehensible. Many people even live in Canada and work in the United States.
The arms dealer was caught, and now there are clues to investigate the flow of weapons. ATF has also arranged for two agents to come to the Counterterrorism Bureau to cooperate with Bill and Jack from DHS to investigate this information.
A weapon box was found in the deceased Perkins' car. The investigation of the weapon box was also carried out before, but the main purpose was to investigate the fingerprints and biological traces on it. Now they will use the cooperation of ATF to investigate based on the gun and rocket launcher. Check the source of their weapons to determine where their targets are coming from.
The staff of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau continue to investigate the surveillance videos, retracing the previous movements of several gunmen and Perkins, trying to confirm whether they have had contact with other people.
After checking the relevant data, they successfully tracked down the whereabouts of the female killer who had attacked Jimmy on the street before, and thus found the location of the building under construction. The case where the security guard was shot and killed also entered the scope of their investigation.
Initially, the security guard found an envelope containing some money that had not yet been deposited. Because of the relevance of this case, agents from the Counter-Terrorism Bureau reapplied for a search warrant in the name of DHS to investigate the security guard's home. A lot of cash was found in a safe, and based on his social connections, he was successfully contacted by a person in the Viper Gang.
Agent Bill of DHS is more excited than anyone else right now. There were not many terrorist attack cases after 9/11. DHS is more about monitoring and dealing with potential threats. Now there is hope that a big case can be solved, and it involves many people. The credit for the murder and arms smuggling cases will be really great, and as the person directly responsible, he will also benefit a lot from this case.
Multiple clues are being advanced simultaneously, and multiple departments are jointly investigating. The entire conference room is now crowded with people, information, and phone calls. It is as good as the vegetable market in the morning.
Jimmy's main follow-up was the Viper Gang's line, but he knew that the Viper Gang was at best a helper and had no actual harm. The most important gang leader has not been caught, and there are no further clues.
After waiting for a few days, Jude finally called Jimmy again. Jimmy answered the phone, told Bill and the others, and left the Counter-Terrorism Bureau.
In a coffee shop near the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Jimmy sat in the corner and ordered a cup of coffee. Ten minutes later, Jude also came to the coffee shop and walked over after seeing Jimmy.
Jude: "Mr. Yang, I have good news for you." After saying that, he opened his briefcase and gave Jimmy a piece of folded paper, then buckled the briefcase and placed it at his feet.
Jimmy took the information, glanced at it, folded it and put it in his pocket, "Thank you for your hard work, you did a good job."
Jude said with a smile: "As long as you are satisfied."
Jimmy: "So, what are you going to do?"
The smile on Jude's face disappeared, followed by a frown, "We have no follow-up plans."
Jimmy: "Now the case is being handled jointly by multiple departments. Everyone who has anything to do with them and everyone they have contacted will be included in the scope of the investigation. If you don't want to be uprooted..."
Jimmy didn't finish speaking. He took a sip of coffee and just watched Jude thinking.
Jimmy didn't want to wait any longer. There was nothing he could do if someone was going to die: "Okay, it's time for me to go back and investigate the case. Goodbye, Mr. Jude."
He stood up to leave, but stopped when he came to Jude: "By the way, don't forget to give me someone who can report the source of the intelligence."
After saying that, Jimmy continued to move forward, left the cafe and returned to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau.
Jude raised his hand to call the waiter, ordered a cup of coffee, and just sat here and drank the coffee before leaving. Walking on the sidewalk, Jude took out his mobile phone and made a call, then got into his car and headed to the Intercontinental Hotel. It seemed that the aftermath of this incident would not end so easily. (End of chapter)
