351 Interstate Cooperation
Jimmy has been observing Agent Bullock's side, and it will probably take a lot of time for Hughes to contact their boss, after all, there is only one agent name on the spot, and it is not so easy to find the corresponding superior.
After waiting for about ten minutes, Johnny Bullock answered the phone, not knowing what was said on the phone, but he looked excited. After hanging up the phone, he gathered the others together and said a few words, and their faces looked displeased.
Agent Bullock walked over to Jimmy and was about to speak, when Jimmy's phone rang, interrupting him directly.
Jimmy walked away and answered the phone, "Hughes, how's it going?" ”
Hughes: "Cooperate with the two sides and investigate together, Jimmy, cooperate with them and come to a conclusion as soon as possible." Remember, you're in charge of this bombing terrorist attack, and if it has nothing to do with our case, let them handle it themselves. ”
Jimmy: "I see. Goodbye, Hughes. ”
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Jimmy returned to Agent Bullock, "Agent Bullock, I think you got the call from above, nice to work with." ”
Jimmy shook hands with Bullock, who said, "Well, we're working together on this case. What about your explosives specialists? ”
Jimmy: "It's not there yet, if you're here, you can start and wait until they get there." By the way, pay attention to the priority of checking the composition of explosives. ”
Bullock: "Can you tell us about your case?" ”
Jimmy: "A group of people are going to make a giant bomb out of urea, nitrate, and ammonium nitrate, and we have destroyed their main den, but the amount of supplies does not match, and one or two hundred kilograms are missing, so I hurried here to confirm after the explosion." ”
Bullock: "OK, I'll have the blaster do a good job of testing the ingredients." ”
After saying that, Brock turned and waved to their people, and several people entered the collapsed building together, "The explosion point should be the location of the garage, the people from the fire department said." Jimmy reminded him that he was completely unfamiliar with the bomb, so he didn't mix it up, just stood on the side of the road and watched them look for the remnants of the explosion.
A few minutes later, the explosives detection experts from the FBI bomb disposal team also arrived, and after Jimmy greeted them, the three experts also entered the garage area and began to examine the wreckage little by little, collecting some things from time to time and putting them in the evidence bag.
There's nothing Jimmy here, and it's time for him to do what he's supposed to do. If it weren't for the ATF's interference, he would have questioned several surrounding households a long time ago, and the explosion was no small incident. Fortunately, the neighbors were more cooperative, and when they saw Jimmy's FBI badge, they didn't hide anything, and told Jimmy about the big and small things that happened in the neighbor's house.
After asking the two families, he finally got some slightly more complete clues. According to the landlord, this house was not rented out at all and was not occupied, it was just unused, but in recent months it has been occupied. The occupant called himself Joe Coleman, a middle-aged Caucasian male, about 40 years old, with a thin face, no beard, short brown curly hair, and usually wore a suit when he came and went, looking very business-like.
Usually he goes out early and returns late normally, and occasionally brings women back, looking no different from ordinary people. There was a Nissan car, silvery-white, which was often taken care of, but none of them remembered his license plate.
Joe Coleman's behavior seemed normal, but at the scene of today's explosion, there were no cars in the garage and no casualties at the scene, so it was obvious that he had arranged everything and detonated the bomb after leaving.
Jimmy didn't continue to ask other people, but called Gordon directly: "Gordon, is Noah next to you?" ”
Gordon: "Yes. I opened the outlet, you say. ”
Jimmy: "Mr. Watson, I have new information here. Please look up the cameras on East 108th Street in Brooklyn for a silver-white Nissan car owned by a white, middle-aged, brown-haired car between this morning and the explosion. ”
Noah: "Any other clues?" ”
Jimmy: "This guy lived here for a few months, and the neighbors called him Joe Coleman. Usually he occasionally brings women back, usually by himself. I'm going to continue to ask a few families around me about the situation, and it's not over yet. ”
Noah: "Okay, let's start investigating. ”
Suddenly, a person next to him said, "Could this name be fake?" Joe Coleman has the same name as one of the Detroit Tigers pitchers. ”
Noah turned his head to look at him, "Tell me more." ”
"Joe Coleman is a well-known pitcher who helped the Tigers win the divisional championship. Although he is not nationally famous, we Detroit baseball fans still know him. If the person's name is fake, he is likely to be from Detroit, or at least live there for a while, and it is easy to come up with a fake name, but it makes some sense to use the name of such an athlete. ”
Noah: "Jimmy, remember to ask his neighbors if Joe Coleman is a baseball fan. That's it, we'll be notified when there's news. ”
Jimmy: "Wait, wait, I'm doing a field investigation with the ATF guys right now, and they'll probably get involved later, that's Hughes's arrangement." ”
Gordon: "OK, I see, Jimmy. ”
Gordon hung up the phone after speaking, what the operator of the command center said just now makes sense, this is indeed a direction, and now the focus is to investigate the whereabouts of this person through monitoring first.
Noah didn't say anything to Gordon, but said to the people in the command center, "I heard it, let's start investigating." ”
Jimmy hung up the phone, returned to the neighborhood, and asked Joe Coleman again what hobbies he had, but unfortunately, despite living there for a few months, Joe Coleman had very little contact with other people, and everyone did not know his profession and hobbies.
It's the same with several other houses, and some people don't even notice that someone lives in that house, and although this kind of community in the United States is familiar to everyone in many cases, there are still many people who won't tell others about personal situations, which is normal.
But it's not for nothing, there is a monitor at the door of the garage of the first one at the intersection, and the main picture of this monitoring is the garage door, but a small part of it can be photographed on the road. Jimmy and the homeowner fast-forwarded through today's surveillance footage and found Joe Coleman's silver sedan inside, he drove out once in the morning at 8 o'clock and then came back and left again 10 minutes before the explosion.
Jimmy called Gordon again: "Tell Noah, check the surveillance at the intersection of East 108th Street and George Road, the time is around 11:42." I saw the video from a neighbor of a silver sedan leaving 10 minutes before the explosion. ”
Gordon: "Understood. ”
Jimmy's on-site investigation has ended without a lot of gains, and now it's up to Noah and them. As long as they can handle the surveillance, there will always be a chance to track it down.
It's a pity that this Joe Coleman basically doesn't communicate with other people, and everyone doesn't have the habit of taking pictures casually, so Jimmy can't get a high-definition photo for identification.
Jimmy returns to the front of the exploding house and finds Johnny Bullock: "Agent Bullock, what happened?" ”
Brock shook his head: "Not so fast, the evidence found at the scene needs to be brought back for testing to know the specific composition." It will be before leaving work in the afternoon at the earliest, and tomorrow if it is normal. ”
Jimmy frowned, "Is it so slow?" This may have allowed the suspect to run away early. You guys continue to investigate, and I'll go back to the bureau to investigate other clues first. ”
Bullock: "Any clues?" ”
Jimmy: "Well, there was a guy living here before, and the neighbors knew it by Joe Coleman, and I needed to go back and investigate." ”
Bullock nodded, and returned to the scene of the explosion again.
Jimmy spoke to the inspectors and left the scene, he was not familiar with the explosion, it would be better to go back here and see if there were any clues on Gordon and Noah's side, it would be best to track the past.
Jimmy had just gotten in the car and had barely driven out of the street when he received a call from Gordon, "Jimmy, can you leave right now?" To Uning City, north of Jersey City, although we have not yet determined the detailed route, the direction of the silver sedan should be the Lincoln Tunnel, and it is likely that he will reach New Jersey directly through the Lincoln Tunnel. ”
Jimmy: "Okay, inform me of the route as soon as possible. ”
Jimmy turned and asked, "Gordon, ask Noah, was the last time you tracked down the person who called Joseph in that direction?" Maybe he's going to meet with that person. ”
Gordon paused for a while, and it was Noah who spoke again: "The people in the FBI office in Newark didn't find the camel, and even if there were any clues over there, the fingerprints of the public phone calling were very confusing, and there was no surveillance at the surrounding intersections, and the camel was obviously a professional, and the place he chose to call was very unfavorable to us."
The location of the camel's last call was Springfield, southwest of Newark, and Joe Coleman, who was bombed this time, went in the direction of northeast of Newark. We'll notify the Newark office, and when we have a clear clue, you'll cooperate with them in their investigation. ”
Jimmy: "There's probably a tracking value, you guys continue to investigate, I'm on my way to the Lincoln Tunnel right now." ”
Noah: "By the way, this car also appeared in the warehouse area of the cruise ship port this morning, but it has not been able to take a good picture of the driver's appearance. ”
The Lincoln Tunnel connects Union City to Midtown Manhattan and is a major transportation artery on both sides. According to the time when the bombing began, he has been away for more than an hour, no matter where he is going, he should have arrived at the place now, so the most important thing for Noah is to investigate the whereabouts of the car, so although they can only chase behind it, it is more or less a clear goal.
It was now almost certain that this man was the real engineer, and that he was supposed to go to the warehouse in the morning, but Jimmy and the others were one step ahead. When he arrived at the warehouse area, Jimmy and the others were already searching the warehouse, so he didn't show up, went straight back to his quarters, set the time for the explosion, and drove away.
Now he could go in two directions, one was the escape route, and the other was to meet up with the others and discuss the future plan. Either way, it's about tracking down the silver car.
Jimmy's call today was definitely a hotline, another call, just no number. "Hi, I'm Jimmy."
"Agent Yang, I'm forensic Knick, we found the fingerprints of two other people from the equipment in the warehouse, one of them found out his identity after comparison, Javier Vance, a former employee of the chemical giant DuPont, who was arrested for stealing and reselling factory materials, sentenced to 5 years in prison, and was released from prison 2 years ago. Since then, he has been unemployed, and there is no relevant record in the system. ”
"Thanks, Nick, who's the other one?"
"There is no matching information in the fingerprint bank."
"Okay, I'll give you a call, you contact Agent Gordon, fax the information to him, and he will arrange the follow-up." Jimmy found Gordon's phone number and called him, then hung up and called Gordon.
Jimmy: "Gordon, we found the fingerprints of two other people on the equipment in the warehouse, one with no records, and the other is a former DuPont employee who used to resell factory supplies, and I suspect he is the supplier of the supplies. Even if you are not a supplier, at least you are a middleman, and Nick from the Forensic Identification Section will contact you and fax the information to you, and you can arrange an investigation, and if necessary, you will directly arrest and interrogate you. ”
Gordon was speechless, why are the clues suddenly so dense? The previous clues were all single-line operations, and suddenly they became multi-line and developed together. He didn't delay, just hung up the phone and waited for Nick to contact him. Jimmy had already set off to track down the Engineer, and it seemed that the vendor should have their men involved. When the information comes, just use the Counter-Terrorism Bureau here to investigate, and let Scott and them take action, but they can't come to New York and let them take the lion's share.
Jimmy stopped thinking about it and continued his journey to New Jersey. Now that there is a suspicious supplier and the tail of the engineer, the mastermind behind the scenes, Camel, is still in the dark.
This unfortunate case has been tormenting him for a long time, and if he can't solve it, he can't bear it anymore. How could the case be done in the past for such a long time, and the process was too cumbersome, Chris, a bastard old man, disappeared at a critical moment, and most of the pressure on the whole case was on him. Although the current leader of the case is Gordon from headquarters, it would be a shame if their office did not produce some results.
When Jimmy drove to Uning City, he had already received a message from Gordon that the agents in the Newark office had already detected the silver car and were following up, and Jimmy just had to wait for them to notify the final location and rush over. Because he didn't know when to meet his colleagues in Newark, Jimmy couldn't go to the restaurant, so he had to drive around twice and find a food truck for lunch.
At around 3 p.m., Jimmy finally received a call from a Newark office agent and rushed to Rutherford.
(End of chapter)