North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 474 Lambert's investigation
The matter here in Albuquerque has been settled, and Jimmy can finally return to Dallas. All the things that are not convenient to carry are stored in the warehouse. He has not yet figured out how to deal with them. Giving him a trip to Albuquerque also seemed like overkill.

Jimmy dragged his suitcase and took a taxi to the airport. He performed a set of proficient procedures for showing his ID, filling out a form and carrying a gun to board the plane. He returned to Dallas smoothly and checked in at the hotel next to the FBI Dallas office.

The next day, Jimmy changed his clothes and went to the FBI office early in the morning, but still went directly to the office of Director Lambert.

Jimmy came to Lambert's desk with the file: "Good morning, Lambert. Sorry, I didn't find a suspect in this case." After speaking, he put the file on Lambert's desk.

Lambert looked at Jimmy and nodded: "You have been out for a long time this time, more than a month."

Jimmy also smiled: "The clues in this case are too vague. I found some possible clues, but unfortunately, I couldn't find them after searching in Houston and Albuquerque for a long time, so I had to come back."

Lambert: "Well, okay, let's put this case aside for now, you go to Agent Ray Hope first, and partner with him temporarily."

Jimmy nodded: "Okay, then I'll go down first."

Lambert watched Jimmy leave the office, picked up the file, put it in the drawer without opening it at all.Jimmy has come back, which means that his private affairs have been dealt with, and the information obtained before can be investigated and confirmed.

Lambert picked up the phone on the table and began to arrange an investigation. In fact, for more than a month, Lambert and the others have not relaxed the monitoring of Jimmy's mobile phone number, but they don't check it every day, they will check it every few days.

Dallas in Texas, Houston, Laredo, Austin, El Paso, Los Alamos in New Mexico, Albuquerque, there are a lot of places where Jimmy runs, and some places in the middle will be changed the next day. It looks like he's been driving or following someone.

Lambert also paid attention to these places to see if there was anything special happening. He didn't find someone to verify some information in time, mainly because he was worried that someone investigating would interfere with what Jimmy was doing. Now that he said let him go Try not to disturb him in the middle of doing things.

Now that the matter was over, it was time to investigate. He was also very curious about what Jimmy had done during this time.

Jimmy came downstairs, but Lei was not in his office. Jimmy called and sat in his office and waited.

It took about an hour for Ray to come to the office. He greeted Jimmy and walked to his seat: "Hey, Jimmy, is your case solved?"

Jimmy shook his head: "It's too difficult, there are too few clues, and it took a lot of time. Lambert asked me to partner with you temporarily. Do you have any tasks recently?"

Ray nodded, sat down, opened the drawer and took out a large folder, "Recently, I was dealing with a bank robbery, but I remember you were in the homicide squad in Manhattan, right?"

Jimmy nodded: "It's the homicide squad, but I've been in contact with other cases as well."

Lei: "That's fine, but today you rest first, I have some other things to deal with. This is the case information, you can take it back and have a look."

Jimmy nodded, "Okay, I'm still in the hotel next door, call me if you need something. By the way, apply for a car for me."

Lei stood up, "No problem, come with me."

The process was very smooth, and Jimmy felt that the people in Dallas were easy to talk to. Ray just took Jimmy through the process briefly. The administrative staff just checked Jimmy's identity and gave him the key, so that he could drive the matching car immediately. , an old chap Crown Victoria.

After driving away from the FBI office, Jimmy bought some drinks first, and then returned to the hotel.Just looking at the thickness of the folder, it was clear that the case Lei was dealing with was not that simple. Jimmy opened a can of beer and opened the file.

The case happened in a bank in Princeton, northeast of Dallas. A few days ago, the bank was operating normally. At 10:13, a white male wearing a mask and a baseball cap walked into the bank. He took it off and put it on the counter, then took out a note and handed it to the teller.

The teller took the note normally, and saw the handwriting on it: "Don't yell, I have a gun, I don't want to hurt anyone, please put the money in my bag."

The teller was startled, and looked up at the man. He put his hand in his jacket and pulled it out, showing the teller his pistol.

The teller did not resist, and took out all the cash in the counter and put it on the counter, and at the same time triggered the silent alarm in the drawer.

The man put the money into the backpack with one hand, picked up the gun and pointed the teller back two steps, then turned to the security guard, threatened the security guard to open the gate, and rode away on the motorcycle at the gate.

A few minutes after the robber left the bank, the patrolling policeman had arrived at the gate of the bank. After learning about the situation, he drove in the direction of the motorcycle while reporting, but unfortunately, he did not find the robber's location.

The local police dispatched more than half of the police force to investigate around, and reported to the state police and the FBI at the same time, and confirmed the route of the robber's motorcycle through monitoring, but lost his trace after leaving the city. At the same time, the motorcycle license plate showed the motorcycle and the license plate It doesn't match, it's a well-prepared fake license plate.

Bank robberies are not easy. Jimmy has not experienced many bank robberies, but since the 21st century, there have been at least 250-400 bank robberies every year in the United States. The detection rate is not high, only less than 60%, which means that every year There are at least a hundred bank robberies where the robbers could not be caught.

This case has a clear bank surveillance video. Although he was wearing a hat and a mask, his face, skin, and hair color can still be identified. Although he has touched the counter, but because there are many fingerprints on the counter and they are intertwined with each other, it cannot be normal. Extracting independent fingerprints, there is no way to determine his identity through this scheme.

Moreover, such a well-prepared robbery is obviously a well-planned robbery. It is very likely that fingerprints will be avoided by means of glue, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on fingerprints.

The good news is that he put the bait banknotes stored in the bank counter into his backpack, and all the serial numbers of those banknotes have been extracted. As long as these banknotes enter circulation, they can trace the source and reverse investigate the source of the banknotes, so as to obtain clues pointing to robbery. bandit.

The bad news is that if the robbers decide to seal up the banknotes and don’t use them for a short time, it will be very difficult to trace the source after a long time, because the circulation efficiency of US banknotes is very high, and cross-regional use is also very frequent. The manpower consumed is exponential growth.

The bank is not well prepared. There is no dye bag in the counter that was robbed. If there is a dye bag, the dye bag will explode after leaving the bank at a set distance, and the banknotes and the exposed clothes of the robbers will be destroyed. Dye it in various colors, so that he can be completely exposed.

Not all banks prepare dye packs. Statistics show that only 30% of robbed banks used dye packs, and many of them were found and discarded by robbers.

Putting the case aside for now, Jimmy drank beer and looked outside. He decided to go shopping first, and bought two clothes. suit.

Jimmy had several black suits hanging in his apartment in New York, but he only brought two with him when he came out this time. Daily casual clothes are enough, but he still needs to prepare one or two more work suits for rotation.

Shopping is not Jimmy's strong point, because he buys things with a clear goal, but he just bought another cowboy hat after seeing it. Speaking of which, when he came to the Dallas office before, Jimmy basically wore casual clothes and a cowboy hat all the time.

To be on the safe side, Jimmy still bought a black suit. Although it was not custom-made, it was still quite suitable.The suit Jimmy chose was an American-style power suit, mainly for the convenience of him wearing a holster. The body line of the American-style suit is not so close-fitting, and it can just cover the holster and pistol under the clothes.

The next day, Jimmy came to the office again to wait for Ray's arrival. His hotel was really close to the office, and it would definitely be like this when he went out according to New York's working hours.

Ray arrived after a while, "Jimmy, have you read the file?"

Jimmy nodded: "I've read it, but the robbers in the files don't seem to have any clues. Do you have any suspects?"

Lei nodded: "We have investigated the surrounding surveillance, and also investigated the people near the bank, and we have also released video photos of the suspect through the TV station to collect clues. There is not much we can do now, and we have to follow along today. The direction of the suspect’s escape continues to be investigated.”

Jimmy: "Is it just the two of us?"

Lei: "Of course not. There are still a few detectives, and the police can also be called in to help. Well, that's the task for today. Let's go."

Ray and Jimmy left the office, and Ray made a few phone calls on the way to the parking lot, followed by a tedious and largely unproductive on-site investigation.

While Jimmy was assisting Ray in the on-site investigation, Lambert's investigation was also going on at the same time, and he was surprised by a lot of news he received.

Now to investigate Jimmy's whereabouts and what he did during this time, the plan is also very simple.The whereabouts are mainly based on the location records of Jimmy's FBI phone, which can be directly investigated in the FBI data, and Lambert's authority is absolutely sufficient.The investigation is not troublesome. First, is there any homicide against gang members in the local area? Second, is there any mass disappearances.

Because it was Jimmy who called him at night in Houston, he knew at that time that Atez Houston's influence had been uprooted.Now re-investigating, among the missing people reported by the police station, there are more than a dozen gangsters and gangsters who have disappeared for a long time, and the time when they disappeared is basically the time when they called Jimmy and said that Murray Davis was caught. unanimous.

The same is true in Albuquerque. There are more missing people in the local area. Among them, there are more than [-] people who reported missing, all of which happened during Jimmy's time in Albuquerque, and there are also no clues.

Although there are shootings and disappearances in several other cities, most of them are single incidents, and there are no mass disappearances like Albuquerque and Houston.

What shocked him the most was that, according to the information of the DEA informant, Barrio, the boss of Aztec, committed suicide in his manor. At the same time, more than 20 security personnel in the manor all died. According to the situation at the scene, it should be a small elite team sneak attack his estate.

According to the information obtained from the informant, there were no more than three people who raided the manor, and all of them used silenced weapons. The weapon left at the scene was an MP7 with a silencer. This is not a common weapon used by drug dealers at all. Usually only special forces soldiers or special agents who perform special tasks will use it.

Barrio's wife confirmed that one of the people who raided the manor spoke, and it was definitely in English, which made them believe that the raid team had come from the United States. As for the reason why Barrio was attacked, no one could say clearly.In fact, the DEA is under a lot of pressure now, because many people speculate that this operation is a beheading operation carried out by the DEA.

The informant's information is already very detailed. Although the result of their speculation sounds outrageous, Lambert has basically determined that Jimmy did this in all likelihood. The question is, how did he do it?
This is a cross-border raid on Barrio's manor, and it is very difficult to rush back to the country in time to avoid being found out, and it is impossible to take the normal route.

Does Jimmy have the ability to raid the estate like this? Putting it aside, how did he cross the border and return?
Lambert remembered some of the speculations Hughes had mentioned to him. If he could do this at the border, he would definitely have ties to the CIA.

Those missing cases also made Lambert very concerned. Jimmy was only dispatched by himself. From all aspects, he should not have the ability to deal with more than ten or twenty gang members at the same time.

Disappearing people is a very technical job, far more difficult than killing a person.Even if Jimmy is already a senior agent, it is not difficult for one or two people. If there are too many people, there is no way to hide it unless there is professional assistance.

Lambert had to wonder what kind of background Jimmy had. He could accomplish so many things in such a short period of time, and the cooperation of the CIA might not be able to handle so many things.

The CIA's operations in the country are more covert operations, or pretending to be other agencies. This ability to make dozens of people disappear in a short period of time is definitely not their strong point.

Lambert didn't wait for other news. He called Hughes directly. It was inconvenient to talk about many things on the phone, so he could only invite him to fly to Dallas for a meeting.

Hughes also knew the meaning of Lambert's call, arranged other people's tasks, and directly booked a ticket to fly to Dallas the next day. In a club, the two old men met.

Hughes chatted with Lambert for a while, lit a cigar, and Lambert gave Hughes a document.

Hughes leaned on the sofa, looking at the time, place, and major events recorded on the paper, and these records were basically consistent with Jimmy's action trajectory.

Hughes frowned and finished reading the record, then turned to look at Lambert: "So, he did all these?"

Lambert nodded: "There is no evidence, and there are no clues pointing to him, but the time, place, and people who are basically Azt, these should be enough."

Hughes tore up the paper directly, picked up the lighter and lit it a little, threw it into the ashtray, and then destroyed all the scraps of paper bit by bit: "Who else knows these things?"

Lambert: "I don't know everything, but someone has been in contact with Jimmy, and it is not ruled out that some interested people have collected some information."

Hughes: "Is your people involved? Will it be exposed?"

Lambert waved his hand: "Our people didn't participate in the matter here, but just took over a gang leader from Jimmy. The participation of the CIA group is indispensable here, and nothing else is said. The matter of Nuevo Laredo is something that ordinary people can't understand. Can't do it."

Hughes stopped talking, leaning on the sofa and smoking a cigar.

(Robbing a bank with a note may seem like a joke, but there are real success stories. Posted early today, so you can see it sooner.)
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