North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 812 Underground Factory
Knowing the target makes the rest much easier. Although Mexican drug lords are very mysterious in the eyes of the public, for a powerful agency like the DEA, maybe the location of their boss and drug warehouse is unclear, but there is definitely no lack of information on the group. It's just that no one has ever connected these people from the Salamanca family with the big drug lords.

It only took the DEA two days to dig out Salamanca's background. This is the advantage of having an informant, especially when no evidence is needed now.

The Mexican Cartel is a powerful drug trafficking network made up of multiple families and key figures, the most prominent of which is the organization led by Eladio Viento.

Eladio is the leader of the entire cartel, holding the ultimate power and decision-making authority, and he enjoys undisputed respect and authority within the cartel.

Not only is he a leader with an extremely shrewd business sense, he is also a ruthless boss with a zero-tolerance policy for betrayal and failure.

One of the families under his command is the Salamanca Family, but the name of the Salamanca Family is not very good. They are brave and aggressive, and they behave like typical gang thugs. In view of the deterrence of the cartel and Eladio, although many people are unhappy with them, they have not had serious conflicts with them.

The most famous person in the family is a man named Lalo, but that man was massacred in the family estate due to a gang fight a few years ago. Since then, we have rarely heard of any members of the Salamanca family outside.

Eladio also has a subordinate named Bolsa, who is an organizer, equivalent to a military strategist in the Mafia. There are not many rumors about his personal strength, but he is deeply trusted by Eladio. Just a few months ago, the Mexican government launched a large-scale crackdown on drug dealers, one of which was a raid on Bolsa's home. He was also shot dead by special police on the spot. It is not clear who will take over Bolsa's position. There must be turmoil within the cartel.

When these materials were shown to Jimmy, his first reaction was not about the Salamanca family, but about the man named Bolsa. He had handled several drug-related cases before, and the source of those drugs was a man named Bolsa. It seemed that this cartel was also selling them.

But he is dead, so there is no way to investigate. There are more than one or two drug lords in Mexico anyway, and someone will always ship the goods to the United States. There is no need to think about this person anymore.

Now that the target is clear, the rest will be easy to follow up, but now there are still two parallel investigations. Jimmy focuses on investigating the cartel, while also taking into account Gus's line. According to Hank and others' speculation, this Gus is very likely an important figure in the Blue Meth Network and an important participant in Hank's attack case.

The reason why they have been keeping an eye on Gus is because they found out that Hector Salamanca, an old man paralyzed by a stroke, had his previous treatment and subsequent living in a nursing home covered by an unknown foundation, and an important funder of this foundation happened to be the Fried Chicken Brothers.

In addition to the Salamanca clue, there is also the serial number on the Chicken Brothers napkin that Hank found when he investigated Gail, which was related to Germany's Pastoral Electric. The Chicken Brothers happened to be a member of the catering industry invested by Pastoral Electric. These related information really made it difficult for Hank and others to give up the Gus clue directly.

If all these clues are connected together, it can be basically determined that Gus should also be a member of the Mexican cartel, or even Eladio's subordinate. The only question is why blue methamphetamine is not widely popular in Mexico. You know, this kind of high-purity goods should be very popular with drug lords. Eladio would never allow his subordinates to do this.

The investigation into Gus is still ongoing, but these things cannot be handled by Jimmy alone, and the collective strengths must be brought into play.
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Gus finally relaxed a little. The DEA people had gone to the Serenity House Nursing Home to question Hector, but according to his own intelligence, the DEA had no results so far. The cartel was also very powerful in Mexico, so it would not be easy to deal with Eladio. However, Eladio was a big target, enough to attract the DEA's attention.

Hector had always been contacted by Gus and Tyrus, and no one else intervened. Now that Tyrus is gone, as long as Gus and the others no longer go to the nursing home, no one will have evidence of their connection. This way, at least temporarily, the DEA's investigation involving him can be interrupted.

His laboratory has been shut down for almost a week. Although the current inventory can last for a few more days, it cannot continue to be shut down. Otherwise, the losses will be huge. The key is that once the trust is broken, other partners will inevitably have other thoughts. For Gus, this is unacceptable.

He contacted Mike and asked him to arrange someone to investigate whether anyone was following Walter and Jesse. If there were no accidents, they should continue working.

Walter has not been idle these days. His wife Skye successfully took over the car wash where he used to work, and used it to launder the funds earned from his drug-making business. However, he had just taken over the business and had not yet gotten on track, and he had to work again.

Jimmy did not follow Jesse, but he did not rule out the possibility that Jesse was involved in the case. Instead, he currently had higher priority clues to deal with, so he only asked the monitoring team to install a hidden surveillance camera outside Jesse's home. They only need to monitor it remotely for the time being. As for the focus, it is on the Serenity House Nursing Home.

Hector rarely has visitors, and he is paralyzed due to a stroke, so he cannot communicate with outsiders by making phone calls or sending emails. Now all communication depends on the bell on the wheelchair. The staff holds the letter puzzle board and tries to spell the letters one by one. When he chooses the right letter, he will ring the bell, and it will be confirmed with a "ding" sound. It is impossible to convey complex text content using this way of communication.

After Jimmy and his team had clarified the circumstances, they planned a surveillance and tracking plan. Someone must act as a middleman to contact Hector so that he could find the two brothers to attack Hank. Moreover, it was impossible for him to arrange the tracking and other intelligence-related content himself, so as long as he found the middleman, he could continue to find the people who supported them.

"Agent Yang, the subject left his home and was picked up by a car without license plates."

Jimmy received a call from the DEA surveillance team in the parking lot of Serenity House Nursing Home. This was remotely monitored by the surveillance team at headquarters. The surveillance camera was relatively hidden, at least Jesse and the surveillance point opposite did not notice it.

"Contact the police and check the road surveillance to see where they went. I'm leaving now. Keep them updated on their location."

Jimmy immediately started the car and called the surveillance team to continue waiting here. He left to track down Jesse's whereabouts.

Jesse has his own car, but he drove away and never came back. The location of the car is unknown. Now Jesse was picked up by a car without a license plate. It is obvious that there is a problem. Moreover, a car without a license plate can easily put a license plate on it in a place without surveillance. It does not take much time to easily get rid of surveillance or tracking, which further shows that there is something wrong with them.

As for why they didn't change the license plate after picking up Jesse, it was obviously because they didn't want to expose their whereabouts on the way to pick up Jesse.

New Mexico allows single license plates, and only the rear license plate is hung, so even if you just pretend to get luggage from the trunk, there is basically enough time to hang the license plate.

Jimmy had memorized most of the roads in Albuquerque. Based on the road information provided by the monitoring team, he quickly caught up with the section of road that the car that picked up Jesse passed. However, the previous problem remained: insufficient road monitoring coverage.

Jimmy looked around at the intersection where the car disappeared, took out a map from the glove box, and looked at some of the locations marked on it. These marks were Gus's stores and businesses under his name, a dozen fried chicken shops, an industrial laundry, two chicken farms and a food processing plant.

Several factories are located in the suburbs far away from the city, and the fried chicken shops are all in the city. There happens to be a fried chicken shop a few blocks away from Jimmy's location. If you move further to the suburbs, you will find the laundry factory.

Jimmy thought about it and went to the fried chicken shop to buy fried chicken and Coke. He also took a look at the fried chicken shop and the surrounding area. At least he was sure that the car was not here.

Gus's business is investigated by the DEA. After all, there are so many stores that the DEA has enough manpower to conduct dispersed investigations. Jimmy had previously personally investigated only the location of Gus's first fried chicken shop, which was where Gus often stayed at work. Now, judging by the location, maybe he needs to go to the laundry factory to take a look.

The location was determined, and Jimmy quickly drove to the suburbs. A large laundry factory appeared in Jimmy's sight. "Laundry Paradise" laundry factory, this is Gus's latest industry. According to records, it was bought about four years ago. It is currently operating normally. Looking at the door open and cars coming in and out, it is obvious that there are many customers here.

Jimmy observed from a distance for the time it took to smoke a cigarette, threw the cigarette butt out of the car window, and started to approach the laundry factory. However, he soon discovered the problem. There was a large basement under the laundry factory, which seemed to have quite a lot of equipment, and two people were moving around inside.

Does a laundry factory need underground equipment? Jimmy had never been in contact with an industrial-grade laundry factory, and he didn't know their business process, but such a large underground space obviously couldn't be dug quietly. Maybe it was a basement that had been dug when the factory was built.

But this was not a problem. Jimmy did not stop the car. He walked straight past the laundry factory, turned at the intersection ahead and rushed back to the DEA office.

All factory establishments need to be registered with the municipal government, including factory building design and factory design plan. These contents may be difficult for ordinary people to handle, but the FBI is definitely not one of them. Jimmy first asked the DEA to apply for it in their name, but the process was a bit long, so he simply contacted them himself.

It turned out that Jimmy's guess was correct. The officially registered laundry factory had no reported underground space except for a standard wastewater treatment procedure next to it. So the space he discovered was interesting.

But there is still a problem. That is a regular laundry factory. With Jimmy's skills, it will be no problem for him to go in and investigate. But in this case, no matter what he finds, it will be invalid evidence. It's a tricky situation.

Jimmy sat in the conference room, in front of him was the map he had brought back from the car. The standard locations on it were becoming more and more glaring. There was something wrong with that laundry factory. The underground space was so large, with pipes and equipment everywhere. It was obviously a small factory-level den. If it was a place where drugs were made, then how were they trafficked?
There are many vehicles entering and leaving the laundry factory every day. Some are delivering clothes, while others are transporting washed clothes out. In addition, there are detergents and other tools and equipment needed by the factory. It is not easy to find the vehicle transporting drugs among so many vehicles.

Moreover, there were only two people seen underground before, while there were dozens of people in the factory. They only needed to blend in with the group of workers and leave without anyone suspecting anything. This made their investigation even more difficult. This was New Mexico, and there were too many illegal immigrants working here. In addition, with the coming and going of customers of the laundry factory in the urban area, it was basically impossible to rely on surveillance for facial recognition.

Gus really gave Jimmy a difficult problem. Now this laundry factory is as difficult to deal with as a curled up hedgehog.

Jimmy looked at other locations on the map. Now assuming that Gus was the local drug lord, would these stores in the city be where he sold and traded blue methamphetamine?

The fried chicken shop is crowded with people, and there are all kinds of people. No one can find any problems when conducting transactions in such an environment, and it is impossible for anyone to keep an eye on every person who goes in to eat.

So how did they get the blue methamphetamine into the fried chicken shop? It could only be a food storage and transportation truck. Fried Chicken Brothers happens to be a full-chain self-owned brand, with Gus’s chicken farm and slaughterhouse near Albuquerque. So the entire chain can be controlled by them, and no outsiders will find out. How easy is it to plan and arrange? ! !
The more Jimmy thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed, and the more reasonable it seemed. Now he only needed to get the evidence to connect all these things together, so where would the evidence come from?
It is definitely impossible to investigate thoroughly while sitting in the office, but using the DEA's surveillance team may not be effective. Otherwise, they would not have replied that everything was normal in places like the laundry and the chicken farm. It seems that I have to handle it myself.

Jimmy called Hank and Gomez and asked them to come to the bureau for a meeting the next day. Then he went downstairs and drove away. He first went to a few fried chicken restaurants to check the situation, and then started a manual investigation in the suburbs.

(End of this chapter)