Chapter 91: Robbers NYPD?
After Augustus heard Lacey's words, he quickly reacted when he watched the video, slapped his hands and scolded a sentence starting with F.
"What do you mean?"
Seeing that Mona still didn't react, Luo An called up all 6 videos, slowed down the short video of the robber before entering the bank, and showed it in front of her one by one:
If the bank robbers in the previous four cases were called normal when they walked outside the bank.
Then the two robbers in the fifth and sixth cases walked with their knees outward when they walked forward compared to the first group of robbers.
It wasn't until they opened the door and broke into the bank hall that the walking posture of the robbers in the five or six cases became similar to that of the four previous bank robbers.
To put it simply, the fifth and sixth robbers deliberately disguised their walking posture to make their image in the surveillance video of the bank hall more similar to the robbers in front of them!
After watching the surveillance video, Mona immediately covered her mouth and looked at Luo An with a shocked face.
She never expected that Luo An would actually find a clue to prove the imitator of the case, and it was in a video of less than 2 seconds.
After Lacey on the side finished scolding the robbers, she also looked at Luo An with surprised eyes.
Unlike Mona, Lacey was shocked by Roan's attentiveness and observation.
Augustus patted his big belly and grinned.
He knew that Roan would never let him down.
"What are we going to do next?"
After a long silence, Mona subconsciously tilted her head to look at Luo An, she had become accustomed to looking for Luo An when she was in trouble:
"Even if we know that there are imitators, we're afraid we won't be able to find each other, right?"
The surveillance video is too short, except for the third case, the video of the rest of the cases is only about ten seconds.
Now, even if it is known that the fifth and sixth cases are really imitations, the surveillance video will not be able to find more clues.
Unless witnesses at the scene of the crime begin to be investigated.
But those witnesses were frightened after all, and the testimony only had a general situation, and even if someone said some details, it was impossible to judge whether it was true or not.
Lacey next to her frowned:
"If the other party is imitating the crime, does it mean that this group of people knows the specific circumstances of the previous cases very clearly?"
"You're right."
Luo An pointed to the computer video that was still playing and said:
"The imitator must know the robber's height, weight, dress, and modus operandi.
The interval between the fifth and fourth cases was not very short, less than a week, and the time was very rushed.
In such a short period of time, they were able to imitate the first group of robbers so similarly, and there must have been a lot of practice. β
Hearing Luo An's words, several people present nodded in unison, and Lacey was silent for a moment before whispering:
"I can clearly know the specific circumstances of the first four cases, except for the agents of the 14th investigation team, there is only the NYPD."
After the bank was robbed, the alarm bell was pressed, and although the FBI would also receive the news, it was the NYPD that arrived at the bank first.
After all, they have patrol officers who patrol the streets, and maintaining order at the scene of the crime is also part of their job.
βWhatοΌβ
Hearing Lacey's words, Augustus's grinning mouth suddenly closed, and then looked at her with a serious expression:
"Are you sure?"
Accusing the New York police is a serious matter.
The New York police force is outnumbered, with more than 30,000 people. The budget is also very huge, and it ranks first in the entire federation in terms of budget and expenditure for the police department.
In addition, the police are unusually united in the face of an agency of the FBI's type, so the FBI will not easily move them unless they have direct evidence that is 100% certain.
"The NYPD is really just one aspect."
Luo An, who was next to him, shook his head, he thought that the chances of the NYPD being the robber of the latter two robberies were very small:
"In addition to the New York police, witnesses who were locked up in the bank at the time of the first four cases, bank employees, bank security guards, bank managers, etc., all have the possibility of committing crimes."
Hearing Roan's words, Augustus's slightly frowning brow soothed a little, and Lacey nodded after a moment of silence.
Mona tilted her head to look at Luo An, who picked up the confessions of the fifth and sixth cases, and said after briefly flipping through them: continued:
"So our next task is to scrutinize these people.
Let's see if they have seen any abnormal changes in the economic level in the recent period.
As for the first four cases, we will wait until we have clarified the circumstances of these two cases before we will investigate. β
βOKγβ
After listening to Luo An's analysis, Augustus smiled on his big black face, stood up on the chair with a big belly, waved his hand at the technicians sitting behind, and shouted:
"We're going to do the IRS work next!
Scrutinize everyone at the scene of the first four cases! Their recent economic situation, be sure to check it out! β
At the same time, Augustus did not give up the clue of the NYPD, and after a moment of silence, he turned his attention to William:
"You go check the case log to see which New York police officers have reviewed the documents of the previous four robberies, and if you find an abnormal number of times, report it to me immediately."
βOKγβ
William nodded heavily with a serious expression on his face, and turned to leave Investigation Team Five.
As Augustus's arrangement fell, the entire Investigation Team Five began to get busy, and Roan began to ......
Take a sip of coffee and continue to check the monitoring.
More than two hours later, several technicians from the No. 5 investigation team compiled a list of suspicious persons.
The list is full of basic information such as height and weight, and it is similar to the robbers in the previous four robberies.
And when the fifth and sixth robberies occurred, they did not have an alibi.
The list includes witnesses to the scene of the previous four cases, including relatives of bank employees, as well as bank security guards.
"Huh?"
Seeing that in the list, there was actually the security guard who was robbed of the bank for the first time, Luo An frowned slightly:
The list shows that Freddy, a bank security guard, served as a soldier when he was young, and his salary in the bank was average, and his standard of living has always been average.
Recently, although he didn't buy a new car or a new house, after work, he began to go to a striptease bar with a high level of consumption.
On the day of the fifth and sixth robberies, he took leave from the bank and did not go to work.
It was something Freddie had never done before.
Lacey on the side frowned slightly when she saw the records in the list, but she still tilted her head to look at Luo An:
"Are you going to check on this security guard?"
"Of course."
Luo An nodded, put the list away, got up and led Lacey to the equipment room:
"Let's see if Mr. Freddie went to a strip bar at night to work as a security guard because he was short of money, or simply went to a strip bar to enjoy the New York customs."
ββ
The first bank to be robbed.
The pitch-black SUV slowly stopped, and the heavily armed Roan and Lacey got out of the car, pushed open the door and entered the bank, and an elderly black security guard with a stomach immediately greeted them.
"Hello, two agents."
The elderly black security guard shook hands with Luo An, stretched out his hand to lead the two to the reception area of the hall, and then asked with a smile:
"Do you need my help with anything?"
After stretching out his hand and shaking the other party, Luo An didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly:
"Where is Freddie now? Didn't he come to work? β
"He's gone to buy coffee and should be back right away."
Hearing Roan's question, the elderly black security guard smiled and pointed to the coffee shop diagonally across from the bank.
It just so happened that at this time, a middle-aged white man wearing a bank security uniform walked into the bank with two cups of coffee, and the elderly black man saw this, and immediately stretched out his hand and shouted:
"Freddy! Someone is looking for you! β
When Roan and Lacey heard this, they immediately set their eyes on Freddie.
When Freddie saw Roan and Lacey who were fully armed, the smile on his face suddenly froze, and then without hesitation, he directly threw the coffee in his hand aside, turned around and ran.
βFu-kοΌβ
Seeing Freddy's back as he turned around and ran without hesitation, Roan and Lacey scolded secretly and hurriedly got up and chased after him.
There was a wide road between the outside of the bank and the coffee shop opposite, and when Roan and Lacey rushed out of the bank, Freddie had already run across the road at a fast pace, despite the danger of being hit by a car.
"You're left, I'm right!"
Seeing Freddy's back running fast, Lacey didn't hesitate, turned her head and said a word to Roan and quickly ran to catch up.
βOKοΌβ
Luo An didn't talk nonsense and decisively rushed out in the other direction.
(End of chapter)