Chapter 23: New Situation
In the office area, Lacey is contacting the New York Police Department, Mona is sitting on the side drinking coffee and taking a break, and Luo An is checking the surveillance footage on the computer over and over again.
Ryder was still struggling to ask for clues in Lower Brooklyn.
"Did you find any clues?"
After drinking her coffee, Mona cheered up and walked back to her seat, glanced left and right a few times, and then asked:
"By the way, where's my laptop?"
It was smashed by Darren just now.
Raising his eyebrows, without answering Mona's question, Luo An pointed to the surveillance video on the computer and asked:
"Mona, I just found out that within ten minutes before and after the man in black disappeared in the surveillance video, only three cars passed by in this neighborhood, can you find out the identity information of the owners of the three cars?"
Hearing Luo An's words, Mona's attention was diverted, and she looked down at the blurred license plate number on the computer, and Mona's face was a little embarrassed:
"I'll try."
"Good work."
Luo An hurriedly got up and gave up his position to Mona, and Lacey also finished calling at this time and came over:
"I've contacted the patrol and they'll message me back in half an hour."
Seeing Mona's ten fingers dancing on the keyboard again, Lacey asked:
"Got a clue?"
"No, just a vague idea."
Luo An sat back in his chair, rubbed his temples and closed his eyes:
"The street where Sabina is apartment is lined with apartments on both sides, there is no path at all, and if the man in black wants to leave that street, it is impossible not to pass by the bakeries on both sides of that street."
"That's right."
Lacey nodded, agreeing with Ann, who continued:
"So the men in black either didn't leave the street, but hid in an apartment on either side of the street. Either that or changed their appearance in a way that we don't know at the moment and left that street. So, driving away is certainly a good way to go. β
"Found out, Roan."
There was a crackling sound of tapping on the keyboard, and Mona's voice was very happy:
"The cameras in those two bakeries are of good quality, and I can barely see the license plate numbers of the three cars, and I have found out the owner information of the three cars."
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Lacey hurriedly approached the computer, but Luo An didn't lean over, but asked:
"Are the owners male or female?"
"The owner of the car is two men and one woman."
Lacey looked at the message popping up on the computer and read:
"One of the men was a lawyer and lived down that street. The other man was a supermarket manager, and the remaining woman was a newspaper reporter. β
A lawyer, a manager, a journalist...... Roan asked:
"Can you see that the driver in the video is the owner himself?"
Looking at the blurry picture enlarged and blurred on the computer, the corners of Lacey's mouth twitched:
"It's impossible to see, and it looks like the cameras used by these two bakeries are very old and only recently connected to the Internet."
Seeing Luo An bow her head and groan, Lacey thought for a while and asked:
"Do you want me to contact the New York police again, and ask them to send a few patrol officers to the homes of these three people and briefly check them?"
"Nope."
Luo An shook his head, the New York Police Department is not opened by them, how can anyone do any work.
It's still a trivial matter if you don't work hard, and it will be even more troublesome in case you startle the snake.
Who knows if the man in black will choose to kill Sabina directly in a hurry.
"Wait a minute."
Just as Luo An was thinking about which of the three to prioritize, Mona's somewhat frightened cry came:
"Come and see, I just checked the newspaper where the female reporter works, and they announced last week that they had been fired because the female reporter had been missing for a week without any reason!"
βFu-kοΌβ
Lacey hurriedly turned her head to look at the missing person notice on the computer, and said in shock:
"Last week, an announcement was made that the reporter was missing for a week without any reason..... The female journalist has been missing for three weeks? So who was driving that car yesterday? β
Seeing the announcement on the computer, Luo An immediately got up and asked:
"Where's the female journalist's home?"
"It's in Queens!"
......
7 p.m., Queens, an apartment complex.
Luo An took Lacey and several patrol officers sent by Lacey's acquaintances in the New York Police Department to get on the elevator together.
Seeing that Lacey and a female patrol officer made an appointment to go shopping together after the matter was over, Luo An's face was blank.
If she guessed correctly, Luo An felt that Lacey's so-called acquaintance in the police station was 100% a woman.
People's hearts are not ancient, and the world is declining!
From the bottom of his heart, he severely criticized Lacey's merciful behavior, but after thinking about it, Luo An found that he seemed to be able to do the same, and he was not much worse than Lacey......
Dingββ
The elevator door slowly opened, and Luo An immediately threw aside the mess in his head, took out Glock 18 and held it in his hand, and then pulled out a shock bomb under the surprised eyes of Lacey and the patrol officers.
β......β
Luo Ann shrugged, indicating that he was insecure, and led the team out of the elevator.
But as soon as they stepped out of the elevator, a banging knock on the door and a man's shouting reached everyone's ears, and Luo An and Lacey glanced at each other and hurriedly slowed down their pace:
"Serena? Are you there, Serena? β
At the gate of the female reporter's rental house, a middle-aged white man in a brown leather jacket is knocking frantically:
"Serena, I heard that you were expelled...."
"Don't move!"
Seeing that the door that the man was knocking on was his target room, Luo An and Lacey raised their guns to control each other without saying a word:
"Hands up, don't make extra moves!"
"Hey! Feed! Don't get me wrong! I'm not a thief! β
Seeing the heavily armed Luo An and his party, Joseph Smith was taken aback, hurriedly and obediently raised his hands, and shouted at the same time:
"My name is Joseph, I'm a journalist, and my driver's seat is in the right pocket of my jacket! Don't shoot! β
Luo An stepped forward and took out the driver's seat from Joseph's pocket, briefly flipped through it and handed it to the patrol officer behind him to ask them to check the authenticity of the driver's seat, and then asked while briefly searching his body:
"Why are you here for reporter Serena?"
"She and I used to be partners."
No dangerous items were found on Joseph, Luo An waved his hand and motioned for Lacey and the others to put down their guns, and Joseph was also relieved when he saw this, explaining:
"I heard the other day that Serena had been fired from the newspaper, so I wanted to come over and ask her if she wanted to rejoin my team."
Ignoring Joseph's explanation, Roan handed him over to the patrol officers to prevent him from leaving for the time being, and sent Mona about Joseph to Mona, asking her to briefly check Joseph as a person.
Immediately after, Luo An and Lacey stood on the left and right sides of the door, and after counting down to three, they kicked the door open:
βFBIοΌ Open upοΌ β
The two quickly checked each room to make sure there was no one in each room.
"Safety!"
"Safety!"
The small apartment room was empty, Luo An and Lacey glanced at each other, Qi Qi put down the gun in his hand, Lacey sighed:
"Looks like we're a step too late."