More than half of Jimmy's week of vacation has passed, and there is still no information about the OPR investigation, no one has informed him, and it is not okay to call directly, and Jimmy has no one on the OPR side.

Fortunately, as soon as Jimmy came back, Peter's call came, and he gave Jimmy a phone number, it was an agency that the bureau cooperated with, and his house was in a show.

Jimmy made an appointment with someone from the intermediary company to meet, and the two chatted at the coffee shop next to Jimmy's apartment, and the intermediary gave a few options, all of which were apartments that they had already gotten the information in, with a good location and a high price of more than 600,000, and a low one, as long as more than 200,000, 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 agent finally threw out the killer feature, and the bank confiscated the auction house, because of the stock market crash caused by the Internet bubble in 2000, a considerable number of people gave up repayment, and the bank recycled their houses, and these houses will enter the auction process, although it is now the middle of 2002, there are still a considerable number of houses that have not been sold, and for those who have a way, it is not a big problem to get some listings.

After Jimmy agreed to some conditions, the agent began to look for a suitable house for him, not too far from Manhattan, at the right price, and a larger house.

The rest of the matter is handed over to the agent, Jimmy goes back to rest, but the vacation can not rest, Jimmy just arrived home, he received a call from Ruiz: "Jimmy, are you still in New York?" ”

Jimmy: "Yes, I'm at home. ”

Ruiz: "Ready, I'll pick you up." ”

Jimmy: "Wait, I've been forced to take a leave of absence by Hughes, is it appropriate to be involved in the case now?" ”

Ruiz: "I'll call Hughes, you're waiting for me downstairs." With that, he hung up the phone.

Jimmy rushed straight back to the bedroom, changed into a suit and two gun holsters, and went straight downstairs, and it didn't take long for Ruiz to drive to the scene, and Jimmy was in the passenger seat.

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

Jimmy: "What does that have to do with us?" That's what the Queens office is responsible for, right? ”

Ruiz slapped the steering wheel: "The tattoo on the arm of one of the robbers has been identified, MS13 gang members, now we have to rush over and see how deep they are involved." ”

MS13 is a Hispanic gang that originated in Los Angeles, USA, in the 80s, the outbreak of civil war in El Salvador, a large number of refugees left their homes and went to the United States, including some El Salvadoran guerrilla members, they initially formed a gang in the 13th block of Los Angeles, and later for some reason, their gang merged a large number of refugees from Honduras and El Salvador.

In order to survive, these refugees must join gangs to ensure safety, and the M13 broke out completely, and they have many members, from South America to Canada, a considerable proportion of them are in the United States, according to the FBI archives, more than 40 states in the United States have clear M13 gang members, according to incomplete statistics, there are at least 10,000 members in the United States alone.

Later, they developed members from prisons, and the mass participation of these veteran criminals led M13 to the route of large-scale violent crimes, such as smuggling, drugs, robbery, and homicide, and Hispanic communities in various districts of New York can also be found with M13 gang tattoos.

With the crackdown of the FBI and the police, gangs usually regulate their underworld business, usually this kind of gang will not get involved in cases such as bank robberies, it is easy to implicate the entire local gang, strictly speaking, the major gangs in New York usually ask the people below to avoid this kind of case.

Jimmy had also read the materials before, and he thought back to the materials he had read before and asked Ruiz, "When did MS13 start robbing banks again?" ”

Ruiz: "There haven't been any cases of them robbing banks in recent times, and I don't know, so let's go to the scene and see what happens." ”

Ruiz drove to the Springfield area of Queens, where 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 FBI's New York branch has a local headquarters, a Manhattan office, and a Brooklyn-Queens office, which is responsible for Brooklyn and Queens; Hudson Valley Office, responsible for Dutchess, Orange, and Sullivan; John F. Kennedy's office, which is responsible for LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport; the Long Island office, which is responsible for Nassau and Suffolk counties; Westchester office, responsible for Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester.

Generally, if the Manhattan office involves other areas, the supervisor will coordinate with other offices to deal with it on site, and of course, it is no problem to send people directly from the Manhattan office to the site.

"How's it going?" Ruiz arrives at the scene and finds the location of the FBI agent and asks about it, with Jimmy following him.

"The 4 robbers have been surrounded, 2 robbers can be seen in the bank hall, there are 18 hostages in the hall, including the clerk, they are all concentrated in the hall, and the two robbers are hiding in the corner, we can't see from the outside.

The other 2 robbers are currently unknown to their location, and it is speculated that they may be in the vault area inside the bank. The van over there was the same one they had driven when they came, and they didn't leave a driver in it. ”

"Have you got the building plan of the bank?"

"Got it, currently on the side of the ESU team, they are working on a strategy."

"Is the identity of the robber confirmed?"

"No, there is currently only one person who has a partial tattoo on his right forearm, which can be considered a tattoo of the M13 gang, and the others are all masked and do not show their body parts, so there is no way to confirm it."

Ruiz didn't continue to speak, but walked to the ESU team, which is the SWAT in New York, and they have arranged for a negotiator, but the negotiator is now shouting and talking to the inside at the door of the bank, and the robbers don't open the door at all, and they don't ask for it.

This kind of robbery in the bank hostage case, it is difficult to deal with it in a short time, from the time the police received the alarm to Jimmy they came, it has been more than 2 hours, at this time the police, FBI, special police can not do much except waiting and besieged, because New York is a large city, the media industry is developed here, and many times the leaders above are unwilling to bear the responsibility for the loss of hostages caused by the attack, which directly leads to the indefinite extension of the time for the processing of the case, and the situation of the siege for several hours or even a day may occur.

(End of chapter)