738 Hearings
Jimmy didn't think that he could make so much trouble by doing the closing process, he is not the kind of person who likes to be in the limelight, the so-called typical cases of the headquarters must be announced, and the content announced will be more than other cases usually, which can be understood as a departmental propaganda task, cracking the major case of the year, and giving the FBI some publicity in the media.
Now they could only hope for other cases to distract them, and Jimmy had no way to influence the arrangements on the HQ side.
Jimmy's kidnapping case actually rescued not many people, and they have traveled to many places and arrested several gangs, which is completely typical in terms of harvest, and this kind of case is not like a spy case and will involve politics or the like, so it is understandable to become propaganda material, but if you want to publicize, you must announce the main person or person in charge of the case, which is not a good thing for Jimmy.
It wasn't too difficult for Jimmy to memorize all the reports, and he did it in the first place, so it wasn't a big problem to adjust it with the description in the report, so he had lunch with Peter and Hope at noon, and soon returned to the office to wait for the afternoon hearing.
Peter walked in from outside the office: "A piece of news that I don't know if it's good news or bad news, the afternoon hearing will be postponed for two hours, but there will be a senior executive who will be involved in the hearing, Deputy Commissioner Michael Roberts. ”
Jimmy and Hope are a little confused, what's the situation? Why is there a sudden change in meeting levels?
At lunchtime, Peter said that this hearing is only an inquiry and discussion of the case by various departments of the headquarters, and the relevant departments such as the human trafficking investigation team, legal counsel, crime analysts, and victim support departments will all be involved in the follow-up of the case, so it is necessary to hit the communication, how can a deputy director suddenly appear?
Jimmy: "Why?" ”
Peter: "I don't know, I was just notified of the postponement, Deputy Director Roberts went to the Department of Justice, and it will be a little later to come back." ”
Jimmy: "About this Deputy Commissioner Roberts......"
Peter: "I'm not very familiar with him, but he's not a career bureaucrat, he's also a veteran field agent with more than 25 years of law enforcement experience, and has extensive expertise in counterterrorism, cybercrime, and human trafficking. ”
Jimmy: "So this case just happened to hit the field that the deputy director used to be good at?" ”
Peter nodded, the three of them were speechless, this is troublesome, this is a professional, even if he has been promoted to deputy director and is no longer in charge of field service, he is still experienced, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to make a little trick in the report, so they can only see the tricks.
One person poured a cup of unsweetened coffee to lift his spirits, continued to prepare the meeting materials, and received a notification, and the three of them came to a large conference room together.
The participants are already in place, but because this meeting is not for publicity, there is no name plate in front of everyone.
Peter sat opposite, Jimmy and Hope sat on one side, and then a meeting moderator introduced everyone present, among which the highest position was Deputy Director Michael Roberts, and the other departments were the relevant departments mentioned earlier, and the level of the meeting was indeed much higher.
Roberts spoke first after the host introduced Jimmy and Hope: "Bork (Peter), I have a question, why are there only two senior agents in this investigation team?" ”
Peter: "Deputy Commissioner Roberts, this human kidnapping and trafficking case was triggered by another case of a missing agent. Two agents from the Washington office disappeared while investigating the case, and when the Washington office investigated for two days without being heard from, headquarters intervened, and Agent Jimmy Young was temporarily seconded from the New York office to support.
Agent Jimmy Young, who was in charge of the homicide team in the New York office, was once my subordinate, and his homicide solving rate was about 90% at one point, and he was a very professional homicide investigation expert. ”
After that, Peter handed over a copy of Jimmy's file to Deputy Commissioner Roberts and continued: "The mastermind of the disappearance has been caught, the bodies of the two agents have also been found, and in the course of investigating the case, it was discovered that the mastermind's cousin had imprisoned a young girl at home, and only then continued to investigate the case of the girl's abduction and imprisonment. ”
The conference room was much quieter, Roberts looked through Jimmy's file, the expression on his face remained the same, but his eyelids jumped a few times, he should have seen the kill records of some cases in Jimmy's file, he put the file on the table, and nodded: "Then let's start." ”
First of all, Hope, as one of the main investigators, stated the investigation process of the case, and the relevant report had been sent to the others present, and everyone listened to and read the report, and quickly ended the statement.
Hope's report is a modified report, most of which are normal, but there are some hidden contents in some links, such as he lost his gun......
Human trafficking is a federal felony, for Jimmy they continued to investigate the girl who was kidnapped and trafficked by them after the team arrested the kidnapper with the assistance of the Salt Lake City office in Utah, everyone here has no doubt, after all, it is a related case, and it is very rare to be able to save one, but for the details still to be asked, the person who cares most about these details is Anthony Wells, the head of the human trafficking investigation team at the headquarters.
Strictly speaking, this case should be transferred to the human trafficking investigation team, but because of the reason just mentioned, this is a related case, and it is also said that the previous investigators will continue to investigate, so the person in charge, Anthony, did not investigate this issue to the end, but after all, it is his own special project, and he still has to ask about the details of the entire investigation and the reasoning process.
He was most concerned about Jimmy's location of Alan Hammer's identity, the initial clues they got were just a general block range and a Hammer who didn't know if it was a name or a surname or a nickname, just relying on such a little information to get out Hammer's true identity and the place where they kidnapped the girl and imprisoned him, the cabin in the woods, no matter how you look at it, it feels a little strange, and this part of the report lacks details.
Hope looked at Jimmy, and Jimmy had no choice but to come forward himself: "It's just an accident, we contacted the local police station, and when the police station was investigating the case and questioning, a patrol officer gave a clue, according to our description, he speculated that we were probably looking for Alan Hammer, nicknamed Crow."
With his help, we were able to find a gang member who had a connection with Hammer and got a photo and a phone number from him.
We confirmed with Mark, who was caught here in Washington, that the person in the photo was the one who sold him the girl, and then we were able to identify the mastermind of the case. ”
Anthony: "That's what I need to know, how did the patrol officer help you?" ”
Jimmy: "He was very familiar with the local people, and we didn't know exactly how he found them, but we did manage to get the photos and phone numbers. ”
Anthony: "I noticed that Hope once reimbursed an informant fee......"
Jimmy interrupted him directly, "That's right, it's not easy for us to get this information, and if I want to choose between speeding up the investigation with the help of some people and an informant fee, everyone will definitely choose the former." ”
The so-called informant fee is to buy information with money, and the informant fee is not much, only a few hundred dollars, which can be disposed of in private, there is no need to raise it at this kind of meeting, Jimmy can't let him continue to change the topic to this aspect, it is easy to cause some other problems.
Anthony was interrupted by Jimmy, stunned for a moment, frowned slightly, and nodded, "So, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, why did you start a joint operation with the DEA?" And that joint operation led to a shootout and multiple casualties. ”
Jimmy: "I have acquaintances in the DEA, and they helped find their informant in their spare time to give a clear clue, there is an underground club in Albuquerque with some young prostitutes, and behind this club is the Juarez City gang that the DEA has been tracking, and the head is Carlos Escobar, who is also a drug dealer.
Carlos Escobar's tentacles penetrated deep into Albuquerque, but there was no such clue in the DEA's profile, so after they checked the information, we launched a joint investigation, infiltrated the club, and tried to obtain evidence, but there was an accident.
DEA agent Steven Gomez and I entered the club in makeup, and in the subsequent investigation we were found by their security personnel and there was a shootout, both of us had hidden cameras on us to capture all the process, what videos can you view during the shootout, this operation has been investigated by the Albuquerque office and the DEA office, and the relevant report has been submitted to the headquarters. ”
Jimmy's most important evidence is the body-worn surveillance video, his acting ability is still very strong, the Albuquerque office did not find any evidence of casualties caused by their illegal shootout, and finally could only end the investigation by accident, after all, in order to protect themselves, Jimmy and Gomez could not be restrained in the face of more than a dozen armed security personnel, and counterattack was necessary.
Anthony nodded: "I don't have a problem." ”
He had already seen the previous investigation report of Jimmy and Hope in the reserve, although there was some surprise in that part, but it was a normal operation to use local prostitutes to find the gangs behind the scenes, and the report did not say that Hope lost his gun, of course he didn't know that there was such an accident here.
Next is Chief Legal Counsel David Parker's estimate of the crimes and penalties that may be involved in this huge number of criminals, and the reason why they intervened was purely because Jimmy and Hope had investigated and arrested too many suspects in the past two months, in addition to Alan Hammer, who was normally going to be arrested, there were also multiple gangsters.
With the exception of the Reservation Gangsters, who are punished by the Reservation itself, the rest of the people are prosecuted by the Federal Prosecutor's Office and punished by the Federal Court.
In addition, many of their local crimes were found in the interrogation of the Salt Lake City office and the Albuquerque office, which will also enter the local prosecutor's prosecution stage after the federal court sentence, and the local court will sentence them again in accordance with state law.
The victim support services are mainly involved in the kidnapped girls, and they have done a lot of support work for Jimmy and the rescued girls, including psychotherapy, medical service support, etc., professionals do professional things, and Jimmy they certainly can't do that perfectly.
They also reported what their department had done during this time, which was the end of the case presentation stage.
Deputy Commissioner Roberts didn't say a word at this stage, just listened to their respective statements and inquiries, and whispered to the people around him from time to time, a little far away, and the voice was so low that Jimmy couldn't hear what they were talking about.
Deputy Commissioner Roberts: "OK, Luna, do you have any questions?" ”
Senior crime analyst Luna Clarke, a middle-aged woman who looked to be at least 50 years old, nodded to Roberts: "The case analysis and data collation work has already begun, and we will work with the analysis team on Kuntik's side to make an analysis report on this case, but it will take some time." ”
Deputy Director Roberts nodded, the FBI has been using massive criminal behavior data analysis and predicting crime patterns for decades, and they don't need to care about this, just look at the results: "The report will be completed as soon as possible, we may use it later, and we will also notify the Kuanti Academy of Sciences to jointly compile a case study to see if it can be used as a teaching case." ”
Roberts looked again at the last department that didn't speak, the public affairs office at headquarters: "What do you guys think?" Does this case meet your requirements? ”
The person from the public affairs office nodded: "At present, there should be no problem, the investigation of this case is very long, and the reports and exhibits are complete, but there is a lack of on-site video footage and video information of relevant personnel during the investigation, if we want to compile a case study and publish publicity, we may need to add a lot of content, which is not easy, after all, there are many people and places involved."
Another point to consider is that the number of casualties in this case is a bit large......"
Roberts was silent for a few seconds and nodded: "Then, as an alternative, you guys should get ready first." ”
Jimmy knew there was trouble when he listened to this conversation, and they really planned to make this case a typical case.
It is not a big problem to be a textbook case for the Kuanti Academy of Sciences, after all, it is not the first time, but it seems that the people in the Public Affairs Office want to make a video of the case, I don't know if it is for a press conference or a documentary, or simply a special report broadcast on a television station, either of which will not be so simple. (End of chapter)