North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 838 The First Fire
Privately notifying Jimmy of his position was not the final decision. Of course, he had to wait for the actual transfer notice to count, so Jimmy and Ruiz didn't talk about too much and continued to work and slack off as usual.

Adjusting department heads is never an easy matter. David has been in charge of the anti-gang unit for two or three years. It must be quite unexpected for him to be transferred suddenly. In order for the anti-gang unit to have a normal transition and not cause any unrest, David needs some time to arrange his confidants and his future path, as well as the parts where other people may be involved. In short, it will not be as simple as parachuting a leader into a company. After all, David did not make any mistakes or have any accidents, and Dave and others could not just give up on a supervisory agent-level person.

It's just that Jimmy can't do anything at the moment. He needs to wait until he has an identity before he can get involved in the affairs of the anti-gang group. So the result of being notified privately is just reassuring, and he can't do anything. Of course, it's understandable that he really tries to arrange someone to go, but that would be a bit too disrespectful.

After get off work, Jimmy came to the bar and waited. Soon, Mark and Julia, two of his former subordinates, also came to the bar to drink.

"Mark, Julia." Jimmy raised his glass, and the two of them clinked their beers together. "How's the homicide squad doing?"

Mark said, "It's OK. There have been a little more cases in recent months, but they are not too difficult."

Jimmy: "How's Ray?"

Mark glanced at Julia, who shrugged: "Not bad, in all aspects."

Jimmy looked at Julia in surprise, then turned to Mark, "Huh?"

Mark nodded, and Jimmy chuckled, "It looks like you're all doing well. Congratulations."

After chatting for a while, Jimmy looked at Mark and said, "Mark, are you interested in working with me again?"

Mark looked at Jimmy in surprise. They knew very well that Jimmy had been transferred to the support team and there were no cases to handle. "What?"

Jimmy: “I might change departments after a while.”

Mark clinked the bottle with Jimmy's glass on the table: "I'll wait for your news."

Julia suddenly raised her voice and said, "What about me? I'm waiting too."

Jimmy shrugged. "Julia, Ray is a good man. You have to seize the opportunity. I can't do anything that will affect you."

Julia: "No way, then I will break up with him right away."

Jimmy waved his hand: "Don't think too much, I might be taking over the anti-black group, which is not suitable for you."

Mark laughed and patted Julia on the shoulder: "Just stay put, Julia. I got there first this time."

In a sense, Jimmy is not a good leader. When he left the homicide squad, he did not make any arrangements for them except asking his successor Ray to help look after the two of them. But he is also a competent leader. At least when he was in the homicide squad, no matter what happened to Mark and Julia, he would support them. So it is understandable that the two of them are willing to follow Jimmy again.

But from Jimmy's point of view, Mark is more suitable for the anti-gang group he is about to join. Julia is a technical talent and the role she can play in the anti-gang group is not very big. His previous plan was to ask Mark, and now he knows that Julia and Lei are together, so it is naturally impossible for him to let Julia go to the anti-gang group with him.

Julia shrugged. Since it had come to this, she had no choice but to accept it. The only thing left was to drink.

After confirming that Mark could go with him to the anti-gang team, Jimmy later made an appointment with Lei for lunch and mentioned this issue. Now there might be a vacancy in the homicide team, which would allow him to choose someone to fill the position. This was also good news for Lei. After all, it was very important to train someone of his own.

Lei had no intention of hiding the relationship between Julia and Lei. Although he was not sure whether the two could really be together in the future, for these people, it was too normal for them to fall in love and be together. It was just that they had not made it a big deal yet, and only some close people knew about it.

Office romance is indeed taboo in some cases, but if it really happens, they will naturally arrange it later and Jimmy doesn't have to worry about it.
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Jimmy's appointment finally came. In David's office in the anti-gang group, Jimmy and David shook hands and said goodbye. David had packed up his things and now the office was basically empty.

After David left, Jimmy leaned back in his swivel chair and breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, everything was settled.

After a while, Jimmy got up and walked outside the office, "Javier! Come in."

Javier Hernandez, who once went to Mexico with Jimmy to handle a case, was hospitalized for several days due to injuries from an explosion. He is also the person Jimmy is most familiar with in the anti-gang team.

Javier knocked on the open glass door and walked into Jimmy's office. "Boss."

Jimmy waved his hand: "Just call me Jimmy. What is the most urgent case here recently?"

Javier: "There are no urgent cases. Currently, we are mainly monitoring the major families. We carried out a concentrated crackdown on the small gangs at the beginning of the year."

Jimmy nodded: "Prepare some information for me, I need to understand it."

Javier nodded and turned to leave, but Jimmy suddenly stopped him and said, "Wait a minute, help me count the number of colleagues in the bureau. I'll treat everyone to afternoon tea."

Javier smiled and said, "Then I'll say thank you to everyone. I'll be leaving first."

The Anti-gangster Group is a special group. In addition to regular agents, there are also a considerable number of surveillance teams distributed throughout New York. Some of those surveillance teams are led by field agents, and many are pure intelligence personnel and technical personnel. This is because the situation faced by the Anti-gangster Group is too complicated and there are too many gangsters.

Jimmy had worked under Ruiz for a while, although it was not for long, and he had read a lot of information about gang organizations. However, the information he read at that time was different from the information he read now when he was in charge of the team, and it took more time.
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Ruiz's office, "Jimmy, how's it going?"

Jimmy sat across from Ruiz and shook his head slightly: "It's too chaotic, there are so many big families and small gangs, I don't know how you managed it before."

Ruiz smiled and said: "It is unrealistic to want to completely eliminate them. When one gang falls, many gangs will rise up. They will fight each other, and ordinary people will be easily implicated. So you will be under a lot of pressure. It is not easy to deal with the anti-gang group."

Jimmy sighed, "I understand, there is white and there is black, that's how the world works, but they also need rules."

Ruiz: “Yes, but there are too many people with bad brains.”

Jimmy: "Let's not talk about this. I came to you to ask for a favor. Can you transfer Mark from the homicide squad to me?"

Ruiz: “Where’s Ray?”

Jimmy: "I asked him, and he had no opinion."

Ruiz nodded: "Okay, I'll arrange it."

Jimmy stood up and said, "OK, I'll go back now. There's too much information. It makes me dizzy."

Ruiz waited for Jimmy to leave the office before picking up the phone and calling Ray. It was not easy to transfer people, and they had to communicate first. But this should be the first time Jimmy took the initiative to transfer people to him, right? This was also the beginning of cultivating confidants, which was good news. With confidants, there was one more chain to tie people to the FBI chariot.

Jimmy's previous impression on them was that he was a lone wolf and a maverick, so when Jimmy showed the possibility of leaving the FBI, neither Dave nor Ruiz doubted that he would do such a thing. After all, a person without any ties or restraints would naturally not care too much about his job.

Now that Jimmy has his confidants, even if he wants to leave, he needs to consider whether anything will happen to his people. This will create an invisible layer of bond, and the difficulty will increase a lot.

Lei did not stop Mark from leaving. Of course, he had to ask Ruiz for another newcomer to fill the void. Every year, many people graduate from the Quantico Academy and are assigned to the New York office. It is not too difficult to train a newcomer, but not every newcomer can be trained well. This takes time.

Mark hasn't been with Jimmy for a long time, but he has experienced a lot and Jimmy has saved him several times, so it is difficult to train Mark to be Lei's man. There is no need to stop him from finding Jimmy, and Lei is unwilling to be the bad guy.

After Mark came to report, Jimmy threw him to Javier to familiarize himself with the information, and began to arrange his first tasks after taking office.

The MS13 gang is extremely annoying, they are completely scattered and don't have a stable structure like the Mafia families. There are many small organizations in New York claiming to be members of the MS13, and these guys from Central America are too barbaric. Many gang fights are caused by them, but most of the scenes are cleaned up and there is no way to arrest people without evidence.

The information Jimmy obtained included many cases suspected to be committed by them, and even many official figures received death threats from them. The FBI had wanted to raid their lair more than once, but the location they monitored each time was basically a base of a small boss, and it was very difficult to follow the clues to find the leader.

It is really difficult to completely wipe out a completely flat and decentralized gang like MS, but we have to crack down on it. Their behavior is too brutal, including armed robbery, murder, and rape. As a gang that is being targeted, there is of course a lot of information about them.

The positions of the two monitoring teams were adjusted, and an underground casino in Brooklyn was listed as a key monitoring target. Jimmy brought Mark and Javier to the vicinity of the scene and contacted the monitoring team to confirm the people inside and those entering and leaving.

Finally, their target appeared, the head of this base, Seren Alvarez. Seren led two of his men out of the underground casino, looked around on the street, got into a car and drove away. Jimmy arranged for another monitoring team to follow them to see where they were going.

It is not easy to get evidence through surveillance. After keeping an eye on Seren for three consecutive days, they finally discovered one night that he left the base with several people in three cars.

Jimmy was resting at home when he received the call. Upon learning that they seemed to be planning some action, he immediately notified Mark and went out to the monitoring team's location.

The general monitoring team mainly conducts normal monitoring, and most of the targets are the bases of the target persons. Generally, they will not track them thoroughly. When Jimmy clearly intends to target MS13, he starts the 24-hour tracking and monitoring mode. Otherwise, the monitoring team will not be able to hold on.

Generally speaking, gangs will not act together. Only large-scale operations or key operations will have this scale. Usually, there are only one or two or two or three people. This time they dispatched three vehicles, which was obviously a large-scale operation. This was the opportunity Jimmy had been waiting for.

In Yangtou Bay, near a small pier, three cars were parked on the side of the road. No one got out of the cars. The surveillance car stopped far away and did not approach.

Jimmy came to the surveillance team's car and knocked on it. After getting in the car, he asked, "Has the other party taken any action?"

"No, no one got off the bus."

Jimmy looked at the surveillance footage. The rooftop camera had adjusted its focus. Although it was not clear, the outlines of the three cars were still visible. They couldn't have come out in the middle of the night to enjoy the sea breeze. There must be something wrong here. If they could be caught in the act...

He took out his phone and called the office. There were not many agents on duty at night, but it was not a big problem. He called a few people to come for support. Jimmy said to the monitoring personnel, "I'll go and take a look. When the others arrive, don't alarm them. Wait for my notification."

Jimmy drove along the road and took a look at the three cars when he passed by. There were eight people in three cars and he didn't find anything unusual about them.

The supporting agent came over quickly. After waiting for a while, he suddenly found that the car in front started and rushed towards the dock without turning on the lights. Jimmy picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Everyone, pay attention. Approach covertly. They have started to move."

Before Jimmy and his men could surround them, dense gunfire suddenly broke out at the dock. From the sounds, it could be determined that they were mostly pistols, with only a few rifles.

After waiting for the gunshots to fade away, Jimmy and his team moved closer. Several people were bending over to move the bodies on the ground and cleaning up the scene.

"FBI, don't move!"

Jimmy and his men shouted warnings, telling them to turn on their flashlights and point them at the dock to illuminate the people. They immediately dropped the objects and bodies in their hands and hid in all directions. Some fired warning shots to prevent the agents from getting close. "Bang, bang."

In this environment, the agents had no intention of approaching to arrest anyone, and immediately opened fire at their location.

Jimmy did not follow suit and open fire. This large-scale operation could not be handled by one person alone. However, as a backup, he opened fire when the agents had emptied their magazines and were reloading. The three people who were still hiding could not withstand Jimmy's mind and eye visual lock, and they were all knocked down with just a few shots. He did not hit them in the head, but only made sure that they lost the ability to fight back.

(End of this chapter)