North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 819 Arrest
While Jimmy was still worrying about the coordinates, things weren't going well for Gus either.

The incident at the chicken farm that Jimmy mentioned before he left was done by people arranged by Eladio. After Gus framed Bolsa, Eladio became dissatisfied with Gus who was gradually out of control, so he arranged for people to rob his truck, and then killed two people at the chicken farm to warn him. Gus was still planning to hold on, but the appearance of Jimmy became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Gus decided to settle the previous feud with Eladio, so he had to find a way to create an opportunity to get close to him, which is why Mike arranged to ask Jesse to go to Mexico.

Eladio was also quite envious of Gus's blue methamphetamine. Since he wanted to control Gus, he naturally had to get the blue methamphetamine in his hands as well. Gus asked Jesse to go with him just to let Jesse show up in front of Eladio's drug maker team. If successful, he could use this opportunity to get close to Eladio.

The reason why Walter was not called was because Walter was too uncontrollable. He was bold but did things without any scruples. If Walter had gone with them, they might have been killed before they even saw Eladio.

Although Jesse is young, he can already make drugs independently without Walter, and he will occasionally take a little. But Gus also had Mike do a loyalty test on him before. So even though Gus has always hated drug dealers and thought that drug dealers were untrustworthy, he now has some trust in Jesse.

Crossing the border was not difficult. Gus brought them to Eladio's laboratory, where a group of experimenters in white coats were already waiting. They had received a notice last night that the maker of blue methamphetamine would come to their laboratory today to demonstrate how to make blue methamphetamine. They were very welcoming of this. You know, the quality of methamphetamine produced in general laboratories is only 6-70% pure. Even for professionals like them, it's only 80%, and the quality of blue methamphetamine is more than 98%, which is already a work of art for them.

But after Gus introduced Jesse, these people were completely disappointed. They didn't think that Jesse in front of them was better than them. After all, he looked like a street thug and didn't look like a highly educated genius at all.

Of course Jesse was also very nervous. He knew his situation. As a mere high school graduate, he was far inferior to the laboratory researchers in front of him. However, he still forced himself to say a few words, and then personally made blue ice with a purity of over 96%, thus successfully completing the task.

The next step is the biggest trouble. Jesse was informed by Gus that he had passed the test and would stay in the laboratory. He was supposed to meet Eladio, but was then informed that he needed to continue making drugs to test Jesse's production ability and stability. Eladio left Gus here as well.

When he arrived at Eladio's territory, Gus couldn't even make a phone call and was completely under house arrest. Mike, as Gus's security chief, lived with Gus after his service gun was removed.

Gus remained expressionless throughout the entire process. Even when something unexpected happened, he cooperated and stayed in Eladio's house. He did not leave the house until he was notified and was extremely honest.

Fortunately, Gus had left a little backup plan before coming. If he really failed, at least he had left a very serious loophole for Eladio. The coordinates of his well-hidden manor had been left with his subordinates. If he hadn't contacted them for a while, he would give them to the DEA and the FBI. As the boss of the cartel, Eladio was also one of their targets.

Time was not on Gus's side. He never expected that he would be placed under house arrest. According to the previous plan, he could either succeed and return to Albuquerque, or fail and meet his friends in hell. He didn't expect that there was a third option. He was placed under house arrest before the operation was even carried out. His men must have taken action, but he didn't know whether the FBI agent would follow up.

Although Jimmy got the coordinates, he did not immediately use his connections to coordinate the real-time satellite photos. The key now is to confirm who sent them.

I went to the hotel front desk, showed her my FBI ID and asked her to help check when and who sent the letter. Then I went to the manager to check the surveillance footage.

An FBI agent was staying in his own hotel, but he received an unexpected letter. He was worried about whether there was an information leak or something. The manager was a little confused when he heard Jimmy's request, but he was very cooperative with just checking the surveillance footage.

A bald white man, wearing a short-sleeved shirt and jeans, with no beard, looked very strong, probably someone who exercises regularly. After entering the hotel and asking at the front desk, he took out the envelope and left.

He didn't do anything else and looked like he was just delivering a letter. Jimmy asked his manager to help him take a screenshot from the video and then use the surveillance video to confirm the identity of this person.

But he soon lost his good mood. Not long after returning to the room, he received a call from the monitoring team, "Agent Yang, there is a problem at the chicken farm. The people here just got into three cars and left. We are too far away to confirm, but we haven't seen anyone from the drone monitoring for more than ten minutes."

Jimmy frowned and thought for a moment: "Let the drone lower its position and check from the side. There should be more than a dozen people in that chicken farm."

"Okay, I'll try."

It’s strange. Gus hasn’t come back yet, so why did they suddenly leave together?
After looking at the time, Jimmy simply gave up resting and went out directly. He knew the locations of Mike and Jesse's homes and had visited them before, so now was a good time to go and confirm them.

Just as Jimmy thought, the lights were not on in either of their homes, and no one was inside. It was obvious that they might have had an accident with Gus after going to Mexico, and they didn't even have time to send a message back. They definitely didn't run away. They shouldn't have fled the United States so decisively without an absolute threat. Maybe it had something to do with the coordinates of Eladio he got, and they should have gone here.

Jimmy rushed to the chicken farm overnight and found the surveillance car more than one kilometer away from the chicken farm. The three colleagues in the monitoring team had worked hard for several days. Fortunately, they would have a vacation later, otherwise this intensity of work would not be sustainable.

Jimmy asked them to check the previous surveillance footage, gave them the screenshots of the video he had obtained, and then rushed to the chicken farm to investigate. Apparently the surveillance team's judgment was correct. There was no one here. They left very quickly. He thought about it and went directly to the warehouse he had seen before. There were still a bunch of barrels here. They had not completely transported them away. It was just not clear whether all the barrels were filled with goods.

The drone in the sky was still running. Jimmy did not enter the warehouse. He just took a quick look outside and immediately returned to the monitoring team. He arranged for them to go back and rest, and asked them to process the identification results and hand them back to him. Then he returned to the hotel to rest.

The results of image recognition appeared quickly. Early the next morning, Jimmy received the news that the bald man was the duty manager of the laundry factory. As an overt corporate manager, his identity was easy to check.

Jimmy didn't delay and rushed directly to the laundry factory and found the man in the workshop. However, he was surprised that the information he received was that if Gus didn't contact him or show up within two days, the coordinates would be given to Jimmy. He didn't know anything else as he was just a factory manager.

Jimmy turned his head and looked at the underground laboratory. It was empty. He nodded, turned and left the laundry.

It's very strange. If something really happened to Gus, why didn't anything go wrong at his most important laundry factory?
It should be easy for the cartel to get hold of Gus's businesses and channels. Yesterday, all the people from the chicken farm left. Jimmy guessed that something went wrong there, such as Mexico had arranged someone to take over their territory. However, everything seemed normal at the laundry factory, which made Jimmy's guess deviate.

Rushing to Walter's side, he didn't get any news. He hadn't been to the underground laboratory for two days. It was too difficult for him to complete all the drug-making procedures alone. There were people helping him before, but now, he was the only one in the laboratory.

Jimmy thought about it and rushed directly to Gomez's house, "Gomez, I need your help to contact your cousin."

Gomez stared at Jimmy with wide eyes, "What? Alejandro?"

Jimmy nodded and gave him the anonymous cell phone number he had just bought. Gomez nodded but didn't ask why.

Jimmy received a call from Alejandro in the evening, which was very efficient.

"Hi, you looking for me?"

Well, Alejandro didn’t even dare to say his name. If the voice hadn’t sounded familiar, Jimmy would have suspected that he had received a scam call.

"Yes, I need your help with something. I need a real-time satellite map of a certain coordinate in the Mexican border area."

"Now?"

"The sooner the better."

"OK, tell me the coordinates and email address."

Alejandro also did not ask the reason. Jimmy didn't really care whether he should tell him or not. The way he got the coordinates meant that it could not be used as evidence. Obviously, if some things were to be solved thoroughly, there had to be a backup plan. Getting the satellite map of the coordinates and the surrounding map was his backup plan.

Gus might not be caught, so in order to not waste nearly a month of his time, he should at least get some results.

It has been five days since Gus went to Mexico. Jimmy sat in the surveillance car and watched the video taken by the drone with a frown. Someone came into the chicken farm again, but it was not Gus's person.

"Have you seen these people before?"

"No, I'm sure these people are all new. None of the people in the chicken farm now are the same people as before."

"Contact the others and see if the people in the laundry and fried chicken shop have also been replaced. I suspect something has happened to Gus and the others. This is the person arranged by the drug cartel to take over from them."

"I see. We have been taking photos of them these days. We should be able to confirm it soon."

Jimmy nodded, made way for the monitoring team, and got out of the car to smoke.

Gus is not a simple person. He is meticulous, capable, and has strong control over his subordinates. For so many years, he has disguised his drug empire behind a successful businessman and has never been discovered or betrayed. From this point of view, he is really a talent. Why would the drug cartel replace all his forces? And they didn't kill him, but just replaced him, which would cause the channels they took over to be completely incapable of normal shipments.

"Agent Yang, we just confirmed the restaurant where Gus used to hang out. The manager has changed, but the other service staff remain the same."

That's it. The people who replaced all of Gus's people silently must have been arranged by the cartel. It can also be inferred that Gus is either still alive and the cartel got all the information from him through torture and interrogation, or there was a traitor in his team before, and now after he was killed, they immediately arranged for other people to come from Mexico to take over the entire team.

No matter which of the above two possibilities is true, Gus is finished. His busyness during this period is destined to end in failure in the official eyes.

Jimmy sighed, took out his phone and called Hank: "Hank, Gus may have died in Mexico. I think maybe we should close the net."

Hank: “Are you sure?”

Jimmy: "I watched them leave El Paso. It's been five days, and there's been no news. The monitoring team has confirmed that Gus' base has been replaced. They haven't seen these people before. It's very likely that the group in Mexico has arranged for someone to take over their channel."

Hank was silent for a moment, "It's up to you to decide."

Jimmy: "OK, we'll close the net once they start the drug trafficking operation. I need you to help contact the operation personnel."

Hank: "Give me some time."

Jimmy hung up the phone and returned to the surveillance car to synchronize his decision with the surveillance team. It was then up to them to determine the time of action. Jimmy had already synchronized Gus's team's transportation mode with them. As long as the chicken farm started loading and transporting goods from the warehouse in the third row, the capture operation would begin.

The DEA has a SWAT team, and this time the operation involves multiple locations and many people, so the scale of the operation is large.

On the seventh day after Gus disappeared, the chicken farm finally started shipping goods. The monitoring team notified Jimmy and his team when they confirmed that the truck was loading the goods from the third row of warehouse. After waiting for the truck to be on the road, the Albuquerque police blocked the roads in front and behind the chicken farm. The SWAT team raided the chicken farm directly from the monitoring position. After a few brief gunshots, all the people in the chicken farm were arrested.

The fried chicken shop and the laundry were also attacked at the same time. With the help of Walter, an insider in the laboratory, two teams of DEA agents directly raided the laundry and the underground laboratory. The manager and staff of the laundry were all arrested, and a batch of finished blue methamphetamine was obtained from the laboratory.

The same goes for the fried chicken shop, and even Gus's house was broken into by a SWAT team. Of course, it also included the house next door that was connected by a tunnel. These clues were directly provided by Jimmy. No one knows what the SWAT team would think when they saw the tunnel. Anyway, Jimmy only provided clues, not evidence.

(End of this chapter)