North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 842

Wilson's words sounded nice, but it was undeniable that they contained a considerable element of threat. Jimmy looked at Wilson with a smile and said, "You know my identity, Mr. Wilson. Please be careful about what you say."

Wilson didn't care. He was not a criminal. His identity as a lobbyist was public. It was just that his relationship with the various parties was different. "I apologize. I'm sorry."

Jimmy: "Okay, I think you've finished what you're saying. Tell Mr. Viggo Trasov to be a smart guy and I'll visit him when I get a chance."

Wilson accepted Jimmy's order to leave calmly, and said while buttoning his suit: "I will. Goodbye, Mr. Yang."

After saying that, he picked up his bag and left, but did not take the bottle of wine on the table with him.

It's just a bottle of wine, no big deal. Jimmy tapped his fingers on the table unconsciously, raised his hand to call a waiter over, asked him to help deliver the wine to his room, drank the wine and left the club directly.

In fact, people in the club are well-informed. Jimmy's identity has spread in a small circle, not only to himself, but also to his father-in-law Kevin. Especially for the director of the NYPD, it is really difficult for ordinary people to get in touch with him. So there are a few people who want to get to know Kevin and will come to get close to Jimmy, but such requests are generally rejected directly by Jimmy. Kevin has his own circle, and Jimmy will not intervene unless it is necessary.
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Keeping an eye on MS13 is an important task assigned by Jimmy, and it is also the gang he most wants to deal with. These guys are a bit too arrogant. While other gangs are being cracked down and dare not show their heads, they are still acting recklessly. It is their bad luck to be listed as a target.

The FBI has cleared out two or three strongholds intermittently, arrested more than a dozen people and thrown them into prison, which has put a lot of pressure on MS13.

They are indeed very brutal and good at fighting, but they are still a little inferior to the FBI, so much so that several well-known underground bases seem to have been abandoned by them.

The surveillance team was going crazy. They had been following the information for a long time but had not found the target person. Although the underground bars and casinos were still operating normally, the marked gang members had disappeared, and only a few gang members were maintaining order.

It was a rare occasion for Jimmy to explode during the morning meeting. It had been almost three months since he came to the anti-gang unit. The daily business of small gangs was not something Jimmy cared about at all. Other agents handled them on their own. He mainly caught MS13.

This cancer has developed into a transnational criminal group over the past ten or twenty years. Although their main activities are still in the southern border states, New York, a megacity, is also an important node for them. After all, whether it is drugs or smuggled goods, they can be dealt with quickly in New York, and they don't even need to seek cooperation from other big gangs.

According to their style, it is impossible to do business peacefully in New York. There are at least several gang turf disputes involving them. Missing people or committing crimes in public are commonplace. Several previous anti-gang team leaders have failed to knock down their tentacles in New York, and Jimmy wants to challenge this difficult problem.

What I didn't expect was that after only a few small attacks, I disrupted the opponent's operations and strongholds, and suddenly I found that the opponent had disappeared, and even the territories that I had seized were temporarily ignored.

Javier knew how much energy Jimmy had invested in MS13. When Jimmy knocked on the table, he took the initiative to take over the investigation of the main members of MS13. New York is a megacity with nearly million people. It is too easy to hide dozens of people in such a city. The FBI is seriously understaffed. Unless there are clear clues, it is impossible for surveillance personnel to find the hiding places of these people.

Javier is an old member of the anti-gang group after all, and is relatively familiar with all aspects, especially some of the gang members who still charge informant fees. Jimmy is helpless, he can't go out and investigate by himself, after all, he is already a management member. Although Mark is good, he still lacks a lot of experience. If he wants to be independent in the anti-gang group, it will take at least a few years of experience.

However, when Jimmy was about to end the meeting, an agent suddenly provided a not very clear clue. The Coast Guard intercepted a cargo ship in the open sea because someone anonymously reported that the ship was engaged in smuggling activities. After that, they searched the ship and found a considerable number of electronic products, ranging from relatively low-value USB flash drives and MP3 players to more expensive speakers, mobile phones, laptops, etc. Since they were not hidden in containers but stored in the cargo ship's cabin, it is temporarily impossible to determine who the goods belong to, but it is certain that the destination should be New York.

There are many gangs engaged in smuggling business in New York, and Jimmy and his team have no way of determining which gangs might be involved in this smuggling case. However, with such a huge one-time loss, no matter who it is, they will definitely not give up.

Jimmy and his team asked other people with missions to leave. They discussed the matter in the meeting room and finally decided to keep quiet and wait and see how the underworld reacted. There was no other way. Official affairs were restricted by rules and many methods that could be used privately could not be brought up in a meeting.

After the meeting, Jimmy returned to the office. Although he had a lot of things to do in the past few months, the time he spent in the office was not much less than when he was in the support team. Ruiz's reminder to Jimmy still worked. A leader must act like a leader. Now he is no longer the homicide team with only three or two small people. He is more responsible for arranging tasks for others rather than leading the charge.

It is really hard to say whether this kind of life is good or bad for him, but Kevin is very satisfied with his current status. The anti-gang group is a real powerful department, and the resources it controls are incomparable to before. Sitting in an office is also the only way to climb up. At least in the eyes of most people, people in this position should be like this.

Jimmy was too lazy to bother. He had received a lot of invitations in the past few months, but he did not attend many of them. He picked and chose to attend a few cocktail parties with good reputations. He also got a lot of club membership cards. Of course, not all clubs require annual fees of tens of thousands of dollars like gentlemen's clubs.

The club is doing pretty well, thanks to the strong recovery from the economic crisis. Jimmy also entered the stock market under the lobbying of some powerful people. Of course, the people who can participate in the club's activities are not bad, so even if it is only for such a short period of time, the income has made Jimmy satisfied. These are all legitimate investment returns and can be used at will.

Of course, if you want to gain something, you must pay some price. For someone in Jimmy's position, even a little reminder is enough to make some of their gloves safe to a certain extent. Of course, it is mainly for those who make small troubles. For those who go too far, the actions of the agents during this period are the gains.

After getting in touch with people at a certain level, Jimmy got more inside information, and some of the doubts he had before were of course solved smoothly. For example, he received an unexpected income in the second month after becoming the leader of the anti-gang team. Although it was not much, it almost scared Jimmy. If Ruiz hadn't reminded him, he would have mobilized agents to investigate.

Some income is dividends from a certain position. No matter who holds that position, he will inherit that share. He doesn't have to worry about it, someone will naturally take care of it.

The shock caused to Jimmy in just a few months was quite great, and he also understood a little bit the operating logic of certain aspects of this society. Many times it is not about a certain person, but a certain position. I believe this is also one of the reasons why others suppressed Jimmy before. According to his personality, if he really let go and investigated, perhaps many people would be missing.

As he gradually pieced together some clues, he had a clearer and clearer understanding of what had happened before. Many things could not be said, such as how those small managers with an annual salary of 12 to 15 could live so freely in a place like Manhattan where every inch of land is worth a lot of money...

Only people like Jimmy, who don't have a lot of money but are not short of small changes, would really think about it. He would use his own money to buy houses and things, and put them all under his own name, paying various taxes and fees. According to the bigwigs in the club, his behavior is a complete waste of resources.
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It was similar to what Jimmy and his team discussed in the meeting. The New York underworld was indeed a bit unstable. Gangs usually did not have only one source of money, but were involved in all walks of life. However, for certain smuggling industries with huge profits, the losses caused by an intercepted ship were still quite large.

After losing a considerable sum of money, they must find a way to make up for the shortfall. This is a gang, not a business, and the weekly contribution must be paid. Even if there is a problem, it is the business of the business manager himself. For the higher-ups, if you can't pay, it means you have failed, and you need to make up for it yourself. Just consider it a lesson learned.

So some people began to take risks and start other businesses, such as robbing underground casinos that were temporarily abandoned by some people.

The MS13 stronghold is still within the surveillance range of the monitoring team. Although no target has been found for many days, they cannot retreat until the order is lifted. Just as they were playing cards in the car out of boredom, a few gunshots startled three people. They immediately came to the computer and operated the movable monitoring probe on the roof to search around. They quickly determined the direction of the gunshots because a panicked crowd had appeared there.

"Call 911 and contact the duty agent in the office to send someone out. I'll drive the car."

The head of the monitoring team stared at the chaotic crowd on the screen and immediately arranged the follow-up. He ran to the driver's seat to start the car and warm it up. A few minutes later, two cars came out of the alley next to the underground casino, got on the road and started running wildly.

At night, traffic in Brooklyn is much better than during rush hour. With the two cars running at full speed, the surveillance car at the back didn't dare to drive too fast. If it slowed down from the other cars, it would be easily discovered. It could only start to follow and was slowly left behind by a considerable distance. Fortunately, they had already contacted the command center, and someone had taken over the road surveillance. Although they might be one or two intersections away, at least they wouldn't be completely lost.

The NYPD patrol cars have also been notified and are chasing in the direction the two cars fled, but it is not certain whether they can catch them.

By the time Jimmy got the news, the monitoring team had already arrived at the residential area where the target vehicles disappeared. It was obviously difficult to find the two cars here, so they could only stare back and forth and ask the command center to check the surrounding intersection surveillance to see if they would appear.

The next morning, Jimmy came to the conference room for a meeting. The focus was on the underground casino robbery that occurred last night. This casino belonged to MS13, but they seemed to have temporarily given up arranging senior members. Only some grassroots members were here to maintain order. Last night, three people came in and robbed them. They shot and injured three people. One of them was seriously injured and was pronounced dead shortly after being sent to the hospital.

The NYPD has received a notice from the FBI and the case has been taken over by the FBI.

The surveillance camera placed by the monitoring team not far from the entrance of the underground casino recorded the whole process of the other party arriving at the door, waiting for a few minutes, and then rushing in to quickly escape as soon as possible. The only problem is that the situation inside the house was not recorded. Unfortunately, due to the problem of ambient brightness, the surveillance camera had to turn on the infrared mode. The video taken was in black and white and lacked some detailed features, making it difficult to directly identify who these three people are.

They were well prepared. With three people and two cars, they could change cars and escape immediately if anything went wrong. From this perspective, they were much better off than many robbers.

Jimmy arranged for the investigation to proceed as a key case and soon got some clues from the surveillance. Combined with the appearance and tattoos described by the people who were shot in the underground casino, they successfully locked on to a suspected gang. After determining the scope of the suspects, the rest was relatively easy. The FBI had many informants to question and quickly locked on to one of the suspects based on the description and appearance.

Perhaps Jimmy was a little annoyed by the disappearance of MS13 members. After determining the target, he personally led the team to arrest them. For these low-level people, it is sometimes easy to catch them. Of course, following the clues can also lead to a lot of big things. For example, at the scene of the arrest, Jimmy found a large truck pulling a container. The door of the container was not locked. When he opened it, he saw the car that appeared at the robbery scene.

Sometimes when you are lucky, solving the case is really easy. After "inquiring" about the whereabouts of the other two people on the spot, Jimmy led his men directly to their stronghold.

(End of this chapter)