Chapter 22 Wells Fargo
Although he still drove around in a patrol car at the beginning of today, it was still a good day for James, and he couldn't remember last night, maybe that magical dream in the morning. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Joe, here you go!" Closing the car door, James handed George a cup of coffee.
"Thank you! Let's go! George stared at James for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but when he got to his lips, he swallowed it back and reminded him that he was about to start the car.
“ok! Are we still the same today as we were yesterday? Walking the same route? James fastened his seatbelt and asked curiously.
Instead of patrolling anywhere, James and George went to a bank on the border of Wilzer Avenue and Chelsea Avenue to view a few footage of surveillance footage before bathing in the Pacific Coast Highway and the sea breeze.
It seems that there is a baseball team game that James loves today, and if he doesn't have to work, if he can sit with Bobo (the dog's name), it is a bit of a luxury, but sitting on his favorite sofa with a large glass of cold beer at his fingertips will make him feel lazy and content like a fat balloon.
But the result of the fact is that James has to talk to a bank manager for a while, and there is no big case, just because the bank manager has just been robbed the day before yesterday.
George had been here before and had a preliminary check-up, but the manager didn't seem to have recovered from the shock and needed to be comforted, he was about 5O years old, a marathon enthusiast with light hair, a little stiff shoulders, and a blue jacket from Madras lined with beautiful light purple underwear and gray overpants. On the wall diagonally above his desk, there hung a metal badge that I don't know where.
In fact, the bank manager was a strict man, and it could be seen that there should be nothing wrong with the bank he managed, it was a newly opened branch bank, with shiny oak floors, large painted backgrounds, inlaid with brass bars and inlaid flowers, female tellers dressed in lovely fashion and jewelry, and boys with neatly cut hair and uniformly broad-shouldered suits, which were unthinkable for their meager salaries.
Walking down the various savings plans and loan charts, there is a table next to the back door, on which there is a pot of coffee and a plate of chocolate cakes, the robber did not rob the bank manager's belongings here, the 813 US dollars in cash was "borrowed" on the way to work.
Why borrow? This is the original intention of the robbers, but in essence, of course, it is not borrowing, who would use a knife to make a gesture at a stranger, saying that he is not very rich in money, and wants to borrow some money to spend.
The manager took James's arm with his bony, trembling fingers, and this was the seventh robbery he had encountered in his life, and each time he experienced it, his migraine would flare up violently, and whenever he saw a robbery, or a firearm, he told George and James, he would turn red-faced.
George is still doing his best to give the bank some kind of psychological support, although James also occasionally accosted him, but his partner seems to be telling him with his eyes: listen more, watch more, talk less, this is not your case.
So James could only argue in his own heart, who should be the first hitter, is that what he wants? The answer he definitely didn't know, because he wasn't there and there was no live footage in the office.
George reminded the bank manager that this was the capital of robbers living in the United States, and that he had to deal with less than ten robberies a day in the precinct. In particular, there are two main road crossings near Wells Fargo, and bad luck came to the door, but fortunately, no one was injured, which has to be said that the manager is lucky.
George and James didn't want to waste their time, but they didn't dispel the bank manager's concerns. The brand-new Swiss wall clock makes a reliably "clicking" sound under the impact of freedom.
Since it is a high-incidence area of crime, the sub-bureau cannot solve it, so it is natural to contact a higher law enforcement department, such as the FBI.
However, since the FBI people have not yet come, James and they can't give up the investigation and questioning, after all, this is also their job, so they have to look for road surveillance, so that the suspect appears in the eyes of the world.
I tried to pull up all the footage, but half the time the guys forgot to turn on the camera. However, today I was lucky enough to find a useful surveillance video.
James took out the tape, stuffed a new roll into the camera, and was about to take it away, when a plainclothes FBI detective appeared and stopped James from taking the tape alone.
"Your boss will tell you that we have taken over this case!" After the plainclothes FBI detective showed his ID, he snatched the tape from James's hand and said.
"Hey! Man, we came first, you can't do that. Although James knows that the FBI has this right, although it may not be a big case, but after all, this is his first case, and he wants to complete it.
"We don't need to explain it to you, if necessary, we will send a letter to your boss, OK!" The FBI agent is very domineering, and if it weren't for the fact that he is also a member of the law enforcement department, maybe he would not have bothered to say this.
“OK! Let's go! ”
James still wanted to fight for it, but George, who didn't speak at first, suddenly grabbed him, maybe he didn't think of any conflict, maybe he had other plans, and pulled James outside.
"This is our case, just give it to them whatever you want!" George and James came to the door of the bank, and James asked each other very incomprehensibly.
"This is an order, I am the person in charge of this case, there is no need to explain so much to you!" George replied crisply.
Indeed, James has been on the job for less than 2 days, first, he does not know the progress of the case, secondly, he does not have any experience in handling cases, and he is not necessarily familiar with the process, he is indeed not qualified to ask for this case, but it is inevitable that there will be unhappiness in his heart when he changes hands and lets others be responsible.
But there's no way, who is James is still a newcomer, and he is still studying and observing.
So George and James walked out of the bank and got into their cars parked in the shade, where the AM band of the radio was broadcasting a baseball game in the stadium.
“OK! BOSS, you're the boss, you have the final say, don't I desperately want a case to test myself? James can't say that he is dissatisfied with George's tone, but since people ask for it, he must accept it as a newcomer.
George didn't continue the topic just now, as if he saw something he shouldn't see, stopped starting the car, and looked at a place motionlessly.
"What's wrong?" James asked curiously.
“……”
Unable to get an answer, James followed George's gaze and saw a man step out of a car, put on sunglasses, his baseball cap was pressed low, almost covering his eyes, and he was acting strangely, he was buttoning a short-sleeved shirt, but inside he was already wearing one, and there was something under the shirt, bulging out a large piece.
The man saw James staring at him intently, as if he hadn't expected it, six eyes, two on the other side, and James tried to speculate that he might have been sent here because of the robbery.
James remained expressionless, without a smile, and met the man's gaze for a moment until he avoided it first. The man shook his head and went back to his car.
The whole information James got was that it was a Caucasian man, six feet and an inch tall, and he didn't know if the man had returned to his car because he had seen a police car or something else, but it was certain that there would not be a Walkman under the man's shirt, it might be a weapon, so he had to write down the license plate number.
"Let's go!" George, who was silent, spoke suddenly.
"What? I think that person is suspicious, why don't we go and check it out? James also came back from his thoughts just now, and asked puzzled in the face of George's words.
"No!"
George replied with no fuss, but simply, and then squeaked, started the car, and left the place.
Fortunately, when leaving, James did not notice anything unusual in the man's position, and soon saw that his car drove away from its original position and went in the opposite direction.
"I still think that person just now is not simple!" The more James thought about it after the car was out of range of the bank, the more wrong it became, so he asked George, who was driving, again.
This can't be blamed on James, in the eyes of people, if it's a colleague, why run away? If it's a colleague, why don't you even say hello, if it's not a colleague, the man's behavior is even more suspicious, and there is something like a firearm in his waist.
"Really? I think and normal, maybe it's someone from the FBI? Do you know people? George rarely didn't interrupt James, and spoke to his partner in a teasing tone.
"So you know each other?" James was glad that his partner didn't dislike him, and this tone thought it was a good start, so the tone of the reciprocal tone was also raised by half a beat.
"I don't know, you said I invited you to drink, would you refuse?"
"Drinking? Aren't we at work? How can you drink alcohol? But if you insist on going, then I'd say, I'm glad to accept it. ”
Unknowingly, George managed to divert James's attention, and I don't know if the other party noticed their expressions, but for James, he was very happy.
"You think we'd better go there? Will it be seen, after all, we are still wearing uniforms? After being distracted, James began to think about the place to drink, but he was a little embarrassed by what he was wearing, so he asked.
"Where I took you, can you be scared by this? I've been doing it for decades, can this little thing be me? George answered James as he drove.
In this way, the case did not continue, but James did not feel anything about it, after all, the partner no longer hated him, especially after the exchange at the wine table, George said that he would try to accept James as a partner.
I don't know if it's intentional, in the next few days, when George is driving, he will always wander around Wells Fargo, and it is still aimless, no matter how James asks, he will get that robbers here are frequent, and it always hurts to patrol more.
Did James really forget the man from that day? And the license plate that I wrote down is useless? This obviously has to be continued......