North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 267 Bank Robbery
More than half of Jimmy's one-week vacation has passed, and there is still no information about the OPR investigation. No one notified himself, and he couldn't call directly to ask. Jimmy didn't know anyone at OPR.

Fortunately, as soon as Jimmy came back, Peter called. He gave Jimmy a phone number. It was an intermediary company cooperated by the bureau, and his house was in trouble.

Jimmy made an appointment with someone from the intermediary company, and the two had a chat at the coffee shop next to Jimmy's apartment. The agent gave several options, all of which were apartments that they had already obtained information about. The location was better and the price was more than 60 yuan. 20, low, just over [-]. Of course, this kind of apartment is relatively small and the location is not very good.

Jimmy felt that the house was a bit small, and the intermediary finally threw out the killer. The bank did not take back the auction house. Because of the stock market crash triggered by the Internet bubble in 2000, quite a number of people gave up repayment, and the bank took back their house. Entering the auction process, although it is the middle of 2002, there are still a considerable number of houses that have not been sold. For people with connections, it is not a big problem to get some houses.

After Jimmy agreed to some conditions, the agency began to find a suitable house for him, not too far from Manhattan, the price was right, and the house should be bigger.

The rest was handed over to the agency, and Jimmy went back to rest, but the vacation did not allow him to rest. As soon as Jimmy got home, he received a call from Ruiz: "Jimmy, are you still in New York?"

Jimmy: "Yes, I'm home."

Ruiz: "Get ready, I'll pick you up."

Jimmy: "Wait, I'm on leave from Hughes, is it appropriate to join the case now?"

Ruiz: "I'll call Hughes, you wait for me downstairs." Then he hung up the phone.

Jimmy rushed back to the bedroom, put on a suit and two holsters, and went straight downstairs. After a while, Ruiz drove there, and Jimmy sat in the co-pilot.

Ruiz: "Fxxk, there was a bank robbery in Queens, 4 gunmen entered the bank, held the manager hostage, a clerk set off the silent siren, and now the NYPD has surrounded the bank."

Jimmy: "What does that have to do with us? Is this from the Queens office?"

Ruiz patted the steering wheel: "The tattoo on the arm of one of the robbers has been identified. Members of the MS13 gang. Now we have to rush there to see how deep they are involved."

MS13 is a Hispanic gang that originated in Los Angeles, USA. In the 80s, when the civil war broke out in El Salvador, a large number of refugees left their homes and went to the United States. This included some members of the Salvadoran guerrillas. They first formed a gang in the 13th neighborhood of Los Angeles, and later followed For some reason, their gang gathered a large number of refugees from Honduras and El Salvador.

In order to survive, these refugees must join gangs to ensure their safety. M13 broke out completely. They have many members, from South America to Canada, and a considerable proportion of them are in the United States. According to FBI files, more than 40 states in the United States have There are clear members of the M13 gang. According to incomplete statistics, there are at least 1 members in the United States alone.

Later, they developed members from the prison, and the large-scale joining of these senior criminals made M13 embark on the route of large-scale violent crimes. They have been involved in crimes such as smuggling, drugs, robbery, and murder. Guys with M13 gang tattoos can also be found in the Latino community in the area.

With the crackdown by the FBI and the police, gangs usually regulate their underworld business. Usually, this kind of gang will not get involved in a case like bank robbery, and it is easy to implicate the entire local gang. Strictly speaking, the major gangs in New York usually They will ask the following people to avoid such cases.

Jimmy had also read the information before. He recalled the information he had read before and asked Ruiz: "When did MS13 start robbing banks again?"

Ruiz: "Recently there has been no case of them robbing a bank at all, and I don't know. Let's go to the scene and see the situation."

Ruiz drove to the Springfield area of ​​Queens. The outside of the bank was already surrounded by layers, and agents from the FBI's Brooklyn-Queens Field Office were already in place.

The New York Division of the FBI has a regional headquarters here, the Manhattan office, plus the Brooklyn-Queens office, covering Brooklyn and Queens; the Hudson Valley office, covering Dutchess, Orange, and Sullivan; John F. Kennedy The office covers LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy International Airport; the Long Island office covers Nassau and Suffolk counties; and the Westchester office covers Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester.

Generally, if other areas are involved in the Manhattan office, the supervisor will come forward to coordinate other offices to deal with it on site. Of course, it is okay to send people directly from the Manhattan office to the site.

"What's the situation now?" Ruiz came to the scene and asked where the FBI agent was. Jimmy followed him.

"The four robbers have been surrounded. Two robbers can be seen in the lobby of the bank. There are 4 hostages in the hall, including the staff. They are all concentrated in the lobby. The two robbers are hiding in a corner. It cannot be seen from the outside.

The location of the other two robbers is not yet known, but it is speculated that they may be in the vault area of ​​the bank.The van over there was the one they drove when they came, and they didn't leave the driver in the car. "

"Have you got the bank building structure diagram?"

"Got it, currently with the ESU squad, they're working on a strategy."

"Has the identity of the robber been confirmed?"

"No, at present there is only one person who has part of the tattoo on his right forearm, which can be considered to be the tattoo of the M13 gang. The others are all masked and have no body parts exposed, so there is no way to confirm it."

Ruiz didn't continue talking, but went to the ESU team. The ESU team is New York's SWAT. They have arranged for negotiators, but the negotiators are now shouting at the door of the bank. Request.

This kind of hostage-taking case in the bank is difficult to solve in a short time. It has been more than 2 hours since the alarm was received and Jimmy and the others came. At this time, the police, FBI, and special police can't do much except wait and besiege. Because New York is a large city with a well-developed media industry, the leaders above are often unwilling to bear the responsibility for the hostage loss caused by the storm, which directly leads to the infinite extension of the case processing time, and the siege for several hours or even a day is possible. occur.

(End of this chapter)