North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 839 Invitation Letter
"Cease fire! Cease fire! The suspect has fallen to the ground! Everyone, stay safe, get close and arrest them."

"Everyone please wear gloves before touching the evidence on the ground to avoid contaminating the evidence."

"Call an ambulance, call the forensics department, and the surveillance team should come with cameras to take pictures first."

Jimmy put away his pistol as soon as he was sure that the three men had lost the ability to resist, took out his walkie-talkie and directed the others to go over to work, while notifying the monitoring team to come and help. The agents did not have cameras or the like, and it was unknown how long it would take for the forensics department to arrive, so the monitoring team had to act as a temporary guest to avoid destroying the scene when the ambulance came to take the people away.

But he was obviously overthinking it. It is usually more important to preserve the details of the evidence at the scene of a homicide, but in the current situation there is no need to pay too much attention to the details. He waited for the detective who was handling the scene in front to call him over, and when he saw the box on the ground, he knew it was safe.

There were three boxes lying on the ground. Two of them were of the same style and were filled with cash. Just a quick look showed that most of them were 50 or 20 yuan notes. The other box contained packages of brown and yellow cubes. You could tell what they were even without opening them.

In addition to the eight people in the three cars, there were five bodies on the ground. If they were not robbers at the transaction site, they must have come to rob when they learned that other people were trading. The details will have to wait until the three known survivors are treated in the hospital and then interrogated. Anyway, no matter what, the monitoring team has complete surveillance video and information records, and they can't escape.

Today was destined to be a sleepless night, but Jimmy refused Javier's request to rush back to the office overnight and asked him to come over during the day to take over Jimmy and Mark's investigation. As for Mark, he had to stay up late with Jimmy.

The facts are very clear. The anti-gang team is not deployed very often, so this kind of harvest is already a big harvest. Therefore, even if they have to stay up late, the spirits of the agents are still pretty good. The only trouble is that there are no forensic doctors on duty at the Forensic Center at night. They have to wait for them to be at work during the day, and then arrange the autopsy sequence, etc. It will take a long time to get the autopsy reports for everyone.

The next morning, before going to bed, Jimmy contacted a federal judge to apply for a search warrant, asking Javier and Mark to work together to carry out the search of the underground casino during the day, and then he went back to rest.

Jimmy was too lazy to do the menial tasks. Now that he was the boss, he couldn't handle every detail by himself as before. He had to give opportunities to his subordinates. Besides, Mark had just arrived at the anti-gang unit and needed to be involved in more cases to get familiar with the handling style here. So he had to hold on for a while. At worst, he could just be given one more day off later.

Jimmy didn't know much about the anti-gang team's previous handling style, but that was not a problem. Javier was Ruiz's man, and that was already known before. As an old member of the anti-gang team, there would definitely be no problem for him to handle cases with Mark. As for Jimmy, he didn't need to cooperate with other people's handling habits, as long as others cooperated with him.

However, Jimmy's plan to sleep during the day was ruined. Just after he finished taking a shower and was about to go to bed, Ruiz called him, "Jimmy, what happened? Ten people died and three were seriously injured. What did you do last night?"

Jimmy sighed, "One of the MS13 guys was acting unusually last night. They must be doing something big when they are out together. After the monitoring team notified us, we rushed to the scene. From the scene, it looks like they are robbing each other."

Ruiz paused for a moment and said, "Come to my office when you wake up."

Jimmy: "OK, see you in the afternoon."

What a trouble! Jimmy looked at the time and found that he could still sleep for four hours, which was enough.

Ruiz saw Jimmy come in and spoke directly: "You are too anxious, Jimmy. We usually don't raid gang scenes when we are not prepared. It's too dangerous."

Jimmy shrugged and pulled up a chair to sit across from Ruiz. "There was a massive gunfight at the scene. There was no way I was going to let them go. As for the danger, I think the situation was acceptable. After all, there were only four people still standing, and there were seven of us."

Ruiz rapped his knuckles on the table. "I'm not worried about you, you monster. I'm worried about it being too dangerous for other people."

Jimmy: "Relax, I'm here, they'll be fine."

Ruiz: "You still don't understand. I'm talking about the department's operational rules. You can't act with them every time. You are already a supervisory agent. You must understand this. Management, what you need to do now is to learn to manage people, a lot of people."

The corners of Jimmy's mouth drooped. This was indeed his weakness. No matter whether he was a policeman or an FBI agent, he had always been used to doing things by himself. Even if there was an action, it was only a small action involving a few people, and there were more than just a few people to manage. There were too many agents and auxiliary staff on the anti-gang team's side.

Ruiz was also a little disappointed. Jimmy seemed to be no different after his level was upgraded. He didn't understand what he needed to pay attention to most now. "All our rules are to protect our people as much as possible. You should stop the action after last night. As long as you get the evidence, you can deal with it during the day. Even if we want to take action, we will notify the SRT team to come. You should know that there were eight people there before you arrived. It is very dangerous for you to rush to the scene of the gunfight."

Jimmy: "OK, OK! I understand."

Ruiz looked at Jimmy's expression and knew that he was just perfunctory, but this was not something that could be changed with just a few words. For Jimmy, doing it himself was the most efficient option, but this kind of fighting state was not what he should do in his current position, and he could only change it little by little in the future.

Ruiz was also kind-hearted. He gave Jimmy a thorough explanation of what the anti-gang group should do and what they should focus on. David should have communicated these to Jimmy before he left, but... In short, Jimmy only did an office handover with David. In fact, there were still quite a few shortcomings, but Jimmy himself didn't care and just let it go.

Jimmy returned to the office, called Javier, and then waited for the results of their search.

If the first fire after joining the group cannot be lit or the fire is not big enough, there will be some trouble later.

In fact, this trouble does not mean that he will be very troublesome. Everyone in the office knows how powerful he is. It will just affect other people's judgment of Jimmy's reliability in judging the gang's targets. You must know that every large-scale operation of the FBI must have results. If it fails, there will definitely be a lot of rumors.

Fortunately, Jimmy chose a good target this time. These Salvadorans from MS13 often do not hide their evil at all. Although it is an underground casino, they do not hide it too much. The reason why they have not been wiped out is that their brutality has given some people too much oppression. It is not worth it to put police officers on the death warning list just to run an underground casino.

The FBI is certainly not afraid, but they are too lazy to deal with it unless there is other purpose. There are too many underground casinos in New York. If the benefits of the operation are evaluated, there is no need to raid this underground casino.

Now, five of the eight main gang members are dead and three are injured. It will be easy to clean them up when there is an actual case. After Javier returned to the office in the afternoon, he sorted out the search results and quickly sent them to Jimmy.

The underground casino arrested several gang members and seized a large amount of weapons and cash, as well as a considerable amount of drugs, which was a relatively fruitful harvest.

Jimmy looked at the information and left all the follow-up matters to Javier, but he also assigned Mark to accompany Javier to gain some experience.

The anti-gangster group's operations are usually large-scale, so it is difficult to keep the corresponding information confidential. On the third day of the operation, Isabel Martinez from the Public Affairs Office came directly to the door and said, "Jimmy, you guys have done something big again."

Jimmy looked at Isabel standing at the door in surprise, then stood up, walked over and gave her a hug, "Hi, Isabel, long time no see."

Isabel patted Jimmy and asked him to let go, then continued, "How is your case preparation going? The media people are already urging us to hold a press conference."

Jimmy: "Wasn't it on the news yesterday?"

Isabel: "That's the news they got from other channels. We still have to hold our press conference."

Jimmy thought for a moment and said, "Give us another two days to sort out the materials. We will have a meeting tomorrow to discuss the content of the press conference."

Isabel nodded: "Okay, I'll go back and inform them first. Will you host the press conference this time?"

Jimmy shook his head: "We'll talk about it when the time comes. Maybe the agent in charge of the investigation will appear on camera."

Being a crime-solving detective is still very hard work. Of course everyone wants to be in the spotlight. Let Javier or Mark do it. Jimmy doesn't need it for now. He will be in big trouble if he appears in public frequently. The biggest problem is those dazzling kill records before. Once they are made public, if nothing else, he will definitely be labeled as inhumane and racist.

This is not groundless worry for him. He has figured out over the years that under normal circumstances, more than 80% of police officers have no record of firing shots, and killing more than single digit people is rare. Even SWAT and SRT teams that specialize in urban assaults basically do not have many kill records. They mostly injure and then arrest people. His official kill record is now in three digits, which is more than the number of kills of those US military soldiers during the war.

The official US military record shows that the sniper with the most kills is Kyle, who killed 160 targets in the Iraq War...

So no matter before or after, Jimmy will try his best to avoid over-promoting himself and just quietly get the credit and get promoted. Too much publicity will be counterproductive.

Of course Isabel knew Jimmy's current situation. She curled her lips and nodded, then turned and left his office. It was very troublesome to hold a press conference and it had to be carefully arranged.

A series of charges including drug trafficking, shooting and murder, illegal possession of firearms, and attacking federal agents were thrown at the remaining members of MS13. With actual evidence, it was only a matter of time to deal with them. Nothing unexpected happened, so Jimmy contacted the Federal Prosecutor's Office in advance and asked them to intervene in the case in advance, striving to complete the testimony and submit it to the court as soon as possible.

While dealing with these things, Jimmy did not let others sit idle. The surveillance team that had been keeping an eye on MS13 continued to keep an eye on other small gangs, and also arranged a car with two agents to squat outside one of their strongholds, openly watching them. This time the FBI treated them like chickens, and killed a small character to warn those monkeys.

The internal communication within the department every two days is not stressful for Jimmy. Each of the dozen or so senior agents under him is divided into several gangs and is responsible for collating the corresponding information with the ordinary agents. They update the information at any time according to the information provided by the monitoring team and decide whether it is necessary to take action against a certain gang based on the evidence in hand. Of course, they need to synchronize with Jimmy and others before taking any action, and they also need to confirm with others whether there is a possibility of overlap during internal communication.

The Anti-gang Unit is the most complicated department Jimmy has ever been involved in. If it were a small city it would be a little simpler, but for a mega city like New York with a population of 800 million, even with the assistance of the Brooklyn-Queens Field Office, there is still a lot to manage in the Manhattan office, with too many people, too many things to do and too few agents. This is their biggest problem right now.

Such a complicated environment resulted in Jimmy being unable to memorize all the information despite his good spirits and memory. He could only remember which gangs each person was responsible for, and then find the corresponding person to retrieve the information when needed.

In this way, one month after the transfer, Jimmy's first fire had entered the prosecution process, and the second fire was also ready.

Several MS13 strongholds in Harlem and Queens, Manhattan have all been under surveillance. Perhaps they feel that the FBI is keeping an eye on them, so they have been very honest in recent times, doing only some ordinary gangster activities, such as collecting protection money, running underground bars or regular street transactions. The people Jimmy arranged in advance are left with nothing to do almost all day and are very bored.

While Jimmy was still wondering how long their existing resources could last, he suddenly received an envelope containing an invitation from the gentleman's club that Ruiz used to frequent.

Jimmy took the invitation and looked at it again and again. He was still confused as to why they sent him an invitation. He came to Ruiz's office and saw the invitation in Jimmy's hand. Ruiz nodded and said, "It seems that they are moving very quickly."

Jimmy: “You knew this?”

Ruiz: "Well, this is normal. You will receive more invitations from other clubs later. Don't worry about it."

(End of this chapter)