The LAPD is awesome, but no matter how awesome it is, it’s not as awesome as the DEA. No matter how rich someone is, the former is just a local law enforcement agency, but what about the DEA? It is true that others have not been established for a long time, but others are solid federal law enforcement agencies! It has much greater law enforcement powers than the LAPD.
Although the LAPD does not have to give the DEA face, the DEA also does not have to urinate the LAPD. Dan's phone call has no effect. There was no summons notice from the Los Angeles police at the DEA, let alone a police officer from the major crimes unit. They called Dustin's office backhand and told him that the DEA was very angry and that your West District Crime Squad was messing around!
Dustin was a little confused at first. He knew about this case. After others said hello, Dustin didn't think much and directly informed Dan to let him close the case.
The police have always been a relatively united group, and it is not uncommon for officers to protect each other among the American police. Just search the news and you will see a lot of examples of this kind, so I won’t go into details. So Dustin gave the DEA this face. But now, he was beaten back by his serious crime team...
"What's going on?" Dustin was a little angry.
"There is a problem with the case." Kai knew what Dustin was going to ask before he was called to the office. "This is definitely not manslaughter, but murder!"
Dustin was stunned. He didn't expect Kai to be so serious. He was just a drug dealer. If he died, he would die. Who would care? "Do you have evidence?"
"Evidence?" Kai sneered and threw the information in his hand on Dustin's desk. "With this information, even a rookie can see the problem from it. Those bastards didn't even do a basic cover-up! It's complete nonsense!"
Dustin was speechless. He really didn't pay much attention to the case, but he never expected that the DEA could do something so rough. But until now, Dustin still doesn't want to stalemate the relationship with the DEA. As one of the three major police departments in the United States, the Los Angeles Police Department and the DEA have a lot of cooperation. If they have a good relationship with each other, many things will be much easier.
"Then you plan to..."
"Subpoena! Interrogation! Re-investigate!" Kai was very determined.
Dustin felt a toothache. Meeting such a serious subordinate was also a headache for him. But then again, can he stop it?
Can't stop it!
Don't say that he has no good way to take Kai. Others need background, merit, and qualifications to avoid him. This kind of thing is not easy to do in the first place, so how to suppress it? And even if he can suppress Kai and prevent him from investigating, there is nothing Kai can do?
If nothing else, if Kai brought this matter to the media, Dustin would be in trouble. The media in the City of Entertainment is much more powerful than the media in Chicago. If someone catches such a news breakout, and if they don’t do it, the whole city will be in a rage. It’s a disgrace to the reputation of the city of Los Angeles. After all, Hollywood is all about the eyeball economy, and it’s all about exposure. Those reporters dare to say anything.
Dustin picked up the file, which showed photos of several victims...
Dustin may be more of a politician than a policeman, but that doesn't mean he's really greedy.
Seeing the death state of the two children, Dustin nodded with difficulty.
"I understand. Do what you want."
"Thanks, boss!"
Dustin smiled, saying that he was really acting out of justice and agreed to go on with Kecha, which felt a bit regretful. But it would be a shame to say that he has no sense of justice. Human beings are never simple creatures. Complexity is the norm.
…
DEA Los Angeles Branch, McGee walked into the office of DEA Detective Norman Stanfield: "Stan, the Department of Internal Affairs has notified us that they want to review us."
McGee is Norman's deputy. He has always been the member of the team responsible for calming Norman's volatile moods.
Norman Stanfield, sitting behind his desk, wearing a beige suit, wearing headphones in both ears, waving his hands to the music in the headphones, turning a deaf ear to his companion's words. McGee didn't push, he knew Norman heard it. When listening to music, Norman likes to devote himself wholeheartedly to it. At this time, it is best not to interrupt him.
After almost a few minutes, the music in the headphones stopped. Norman then raised his head and looked at McGee.
"What's going on? Isn't it already done?"
"I don't know. The Major Crime Team in the West District just issued a summons to several of us. However, Director Haxon pushed back, but the incident still alerted others, so Haxon asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Come here and go through the motions, he asked us to be honest recently and wait for the limelight to pass."
In fact, McGee did not agree with killing the drug dealer's family. They could have used more secretive methods to get back their swallowed goods. And even if it was killing, there were many ways. Every year, unknown people were sunk to the bottom off the coast of Los Angeles. , completely unaware of the ghost, there is no need to be so intense.
Indeed, their immediate boss, Director Huxon, can be their protective umbrella. But that’s not how umbrellas are used.
"I think you should take some time off first."
"No!" Norman didn't listen to McGee at all. "We haven't gotten our goods back yet! That batch of goods is worth 20 million!"
"But we searched through that guy's house and couldn't find anything!" McGee felt that Norman was becoming more and more dangerous and might lose control at any time. This guy takes drugs every day and is almost destroying his brain. He felt that what this guy needed to do most now was to detoxify from drugs!
Otherwise, everyone will be killed by him sooner or later!
"No! Isn't there a girl left in his family? Find her! She must know something!" Norman slowly took out an iron box from his chest that was one-third the size of his hand, and put it to his ear. Shake it and listen to the subtle knocking sound. Opening the small iron box, he picked up one of the seven or eight capsules inside, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it. After a moment, he slowly raised his head, twisted his neck a few times, his face suddenly turned red, and his whole body was in a state of excitement.
"That's just a kid." Mikey still felt it was a bit ridiculous.
"If you don't want your share, you can quit, but I won't give up!" Norman didn't care at all.
McGee's expression changed. It was ten kilograms of 99% pure high-end stuff, which was expensive but not available on the market. This profit was enough for him to work for more than half a year. Of course, McGee couldn't give up so easily.
"Go find the girl!"
…
"Find the girl!" Kai said to Chloe, pointing to a girl in the photo.
After Kai left Dustin's office, he immediately led people to the crime scene to conduct a comprehensive survey of the scene. If he wants to forcefully summon several DEA agents, he must produce strong evidence.
Kai obtained the information of the DEA agents involved in the case.
It was a DEA anti-narcotics team, and the leader of the team, Norman Stanfield, was not an unknown person in the Los Angeles Police Department. The reason was that Norman Stanfield, a senior DEA agent, had received complaints. There are just too many. The excessive use of force is not uncommon for DEA agents. A DEA without such complaints must be a fake DEA. But Norman had several disputes with the LAPD because his team "accidentally killed" family members of traffickers during operations.
That is to say, there is more than one similar case like this one. Generally speaking, Norman Stanfield himself is not a big deal, but the DEA behind him is really difficult to mess with. The police department and the DEA had several disputes before, but in the end it was settled.
This is one of the reasons why Dustin doesn't want to get involved. After all, there's no point in getting involved. Besides, all the drug dealer's family members are dead, and all the people are dead, so naturally no family members will bother him. Dustin Without the pressure to solve the case, it is natural to sell the DEA a favor.
Unfortunately, Kai jumped out.
Of course, Dustin won't try his best to stop it. After all, this matter has nothing to do with him? Favors can't be sold if they can't be sold, and he doesn't rely on the DEA to get promoted. Whether or not this matter was investigated from the beginning, it had little impact on Dustin. Since Kai is willing to confront the DEA, he won't stop him. This is why Dustin is so easy to talk to. When the matter has nothing to do with oneself, people are still willing to be reasonable.
There was actually nothing to investigate at the scene. As mentioned before, the DEA agents had no intention of covering it up. Evidence was everywhere.
Based on the traces at the scene, we can roughly deduce the course of the case.
A group of DEA agents broke into the house, first killed the eldest daughter of the family, then kicked open the bathroom door, shot the mother of the family, and then had a shootout with the male owner of the family near the shrine. While a DEA agent was killed, he was also shot. Later, he was knocked down in the corridor while escaping. The drug dealer dragged his wounds and crawled to the entrance, where he was shot dead and shot six times!
According to ballistic testing, these six shots all came from one gun!
Guns are deadly! In other words, the bastard with the gun didn't have to shoot so many times! He made it clear that he wanted to kill people!
In addition, there were signs of tampering everywhere in the room, and even the mattress in the room had been cut open with a knife. Apparently these guys were looking for something.
But luckily among the misfortunes, the family still has a girl surviving.
Now this girl is very important, not only is she very likely to be in danger, but more importantly, this girl is very likely to know the motives of the DEA agent!
Yes, the evidence in front of them is not enough to convict this group of people. The most the DEA can do is argue with the Los Angeles Police Department, and then let it go as before.
"Oh, those people are all beasts. Not only did they not let the poor family go, they even planned to kill me." A neighbor of the drug dealer, a ninety-year-old woman, said to Kai tremblingly.
Kai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but it wasn't that he thought the old lady was lying. It is true that this old lady is too calm. The reason why she is trembling is entirely because she is too old... She seems to be accustomed to everything in front of her.
"Old lady, are you not afraid at all? After all, they have threatened to shoot." Chloe was also surprised by the old lady's calmness.
Unexpectedly, the old lady asked Chloe this question and acted even more surprised?
"Hey! Girl, where do you think this is? This is a mean street! Shootings and murders happen every day here! If I was afraid, I would be scared to death. My windows are broken by bullets three times a month. And this is comparable to The scene when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was much smaller.”
"You also experienced the bombing of Pearl Harbor?"
"Of course! I was an army nurse at the time."
Seeing that Chloe was about to take the old lady to a crooked building, Kai quickly took out a few photos and asked her to identify them.
"Did these people do it?"
"Oh. Wait a minute, I need my eyes." After saying that, the old lady went back to the house to get her own eyes. "Well...this...isn't...this seems to have him, this...I don't recognize him."
What happened after that seemed nonsensical. Kai put photos of several DEA agents who were present at the time and several other photos of unrelated people under the eyes of the old lady. It turned out that the old lady seemed to be playing tricks on him and had nothing to do with anyone. After everyone was identified, only a few of them were not recognized...
After the social worker from the community who specializes in helping the elderly came, I realized that the old lady was a little confused and her eyesight was even worse...
In any case, the old woman's testimony was useless. It didn't take a very famous lawyer, even Kai himself could make the jury not believe the old man's testimony.
"Does anyone know where that kid went?"
Kai asked Chloe, who had just led the police to inquire about nearby residents.
Chloe shook her head in embarrassment: "The people here are not good neighbors...you know, they care about themselves and don't care about other people's business. Because no one here wants to know what their neighbors are doing in their rooms at night."
"Okay..." This building is an old-fashioned apartment, and there are not many residents in it. There are only three residents on this floor. There were a few downstairs, but most of them didn't want to cause trouble. According to them, they didn't even hear gunshots.
"By the way, you just said that there are three households here?"
Kai looked at the house at the end of the corridor. No one opened the door. So I asked.
"Yes, there is only one person in that household, an Italian man, about forty years old. He has not been back since the day before yesterday." In the back streets, don't be surprised if someone suddenly never appears again. This is too normal. Maybe he left, maybe he ran away, maybe he took too many drugs and died in a dark corner, or... in short, it was normal, no one would care. No one paid attention.
"Ask the landlord if we can go in?" Kai looked at the house and found that through the peephole of the house, he had a very good view of the room where the crime occurred. So Kai wanted to check it out.
It was just a whim.
The landlord was very happy and opened the room for Kai and the others without any scruples about the so-called right to privacy. After all, the previous residents had already checked out.
The room was surprisingly tidy, and everything was arranged meticulously. The room is tidy and has no peculiar smell. Either a transvestite or a gay!
Just as Kai was about to check the room, his cell phone rang.
Kai took out his phone.
It's Pepper.
"Hello?"
"Kay! I need your help! Something happened to Tony?"
"Okay, calm down, don't panic. Speak slowly."
"Tony was kidnapped."
"In Los Angeles?" Kai said in surprise. After all, the security around Tony has always been very tight, especially after the last terrorist attack in Chicago.
"No, in Afghanistan."
