novelraw Chapter 1273 696: A Lead Emerges
Chapter 1273 696: A Lead Emerges
After just two rounds of fighting, all five henchmen were down. This time, they didn't get up so quickly, and Alicia, who had stepped back two paces, spoke up: "Stop! Everyone stop!"
The five men on the ground also struggled to stand up. This time they didn't make a move on Jimmy, but instead stepped back a few paces, looking rather miserable. There were some bloodstains on everyone's faces and clothes, blood dripped from their mouths, and one even spit something out. Jimmy heard something hit the ground lightly, it seemed to be a broken tooth.
Alicia stepped past them and stood in front of Jimmy: "Detective Yang, we really don't have this person BJ. Believe me, I have no interest in opposing you."
Jimmy: "Then gather everyone whose name starts with B or J."
Alicia gritted her teeth, looking at Jimmy, "We don't have anyone whose name starts with a B, not a single one here."
Without the gang's cooperation, Jimmy had no way to find out who this BJ was. After all, the gang had a lot of people, and just using two letters to find someone was basically a dead end. Seeing Alicia's current demeanor, Jimmy could only choose to temporarily trust her. He pointed at Alicia: "You'd better be telling the truth. You wouldn't want us to come back again."
He nodded at Hope, who holstered the Glock and walked out of the bar with Jimmy.
Alicia watched them leave and said to one of her men: "Follow them. Clean up here."
The thug, who had been beaten rather badly, nodded, casually wiped the blood from his mouth, and followed them out of the bar while the others started tidying up the bar, preparing to reopen.
Jimmy and his team drove to the second location. With so few clues and no images, this harassment of locations was essentially just stirring the pot, hoping the gang would secretly help them find this BJ. As long as their actions were big enough, they might uncover some leads for Jimmy and his team.
Peter also knew that such an approach was inefficient and the risk of it getting out of control was high, but it was their only lead at the moment.
The investigation near the gas station was still ongoing. A young employee said they left in a black pickup, and technicians continued to check the surveillance around the area. But pickups were such a common vehicle, finding and pinpointing one was time-consuming, and manually verifying it was even harder since some vehicles were not in Washington, D.C.
So even though Jimmy's team looked a bit rough, they had no choice. Other teams were assigned to investigate other locations, progressing simultaneously would eventually alert the gang boss. As long as he didn't want a conflict with the FBI, he would need to arrange for someone to investigate who this so-called BJ was.
In the ensuing time, Jimmy harassed two more locations, marked clearly in the files, with known leaders. They were successful in prompting action, apparent from the people tailing Jimmy afterward.
They had long since noticed the tailing cars, one after coming out of the first bar, and more behind them. It was not too bad; after completing their tasks, Jimmy's team returned to FBI headquarters, and the followers gave up the chase just before reaching the FBI headquarters. They weren't foolish enough to follow them right to their headquarters, which would be too blatant.
Also, returning directly to headquarters signified that their previous actions were likely instructed from above. The gang had its intermediaries or even behind-the-scenes backers who could contact higher-ups. Many people couldn't sleep that night.
Jimmy and Hope returned to headquarters, and Peter was in the command center where an overnight shift had been arranged. The Metropolitan Police Department had been notified, and any reports of similar disturbances or shootings to the 911 call center that night would be consolidated at the FBI command center for them to determine if FBI intervention was needed.
For the gang, operating at night was certainly more suitable. Not long after Jimmy and his team returned, other agents assigned to the locations also returned to headquarters. Everyone took advantage of the time to rest, awaiting further news.
The Tucker Family was now in chaos. It was normal for the gang's locations to be discovered by the FBI; they never expected all their locations to remain hidden in the dark. But for multiple locations to be investigated and warned by the FBI simultaneously, it was a first.
Members of their gang colluding with others to kidnap two FBI agents, although now lacking solid evidence, was enough to frighten them. Once confirmed by the FBI later, they would face more than just simple surveillance and harassment from the FBI. They would become the FBI's primary target for crackdown, with none of their known business or personnel safe.
911 experienced a significant increase in workload that night. They received many reports of gang members in the vicinity, fights, brawls, and more gunshots than usual. The Metropolitan Police Department wasn't too happy either, as there were fewer officers on the night shift, making them busier, so much so that the call center could no longer handle it, resulting in response times increasing from ten minutes to over half an hour after a call was made.
In the United States, not every emergency call results in a police presence in three to five minutes. Large cities with adequate police forces may respond faster, but those with insufficient forces take much longer, and in remote areas, it's even scarier; it's not uncommon to report something one day and have police come to collect the bodies the next day.
However, such an outrageous situation usually wouldn't occur in a city like Washington, D.C. Typically, you would see a response within ten minutes, but tonight clearly wasn't typical.
Eventually, Jimmy's team received a report of a suspected gang kidnapping. Someone reported that something seemed to have happened to their neighbor; several people rushed into their neighbor's house and took their neighbor away.
Such an incident happening in the early hours was certainly no small matter. Jimmy and Hope grabbed the suits hanging next to them and headed out. Peter, who was also on duty, arranged for follow-up support upon receiving the news.
The command center had already begun coordinating the live surveillance of the surrounding roads according to the reported location. Jimmy's team's car radio was also connected to the command center, listening to their guidance at any time. Hope was very familiar with Washington and would start adjusting routes upon hearing street names mentioned on the radio. Such a driver was indeed very competent.
Of course, Jimmy's wasn't the only car chasing after that vehicle; the 911 call center had also contacted the Metropolitan Police Department patrol officers to search for and chase the car. Comparatively, Jimmy's team was relatively slower.
After adjusting routes several times, Hope finally caught up with the police car in front of them, which was giving chase. The Suburban had hidden police lights, which had been on for a while. Now, following the police car, they closed in. The vehicle ahead finally made a mistake after turning several intersections, skidding across the opposing lane and crashing into a roadside fire hydrant.
Two police cars and a Suburban surrounded the stopped vehicle. The people inside flung open the doors, attempting to escape, but were pounced on and taken down by several police officers. Jimmy and Hope approached the car with their Glocks raised, loudly ordering those inside to surrender with their hands up.
In the end, all five people in the vehicle were captured. Instead of being taken to jail, they were brought directly back to FBI headquarters with Jimmy's team and held in separate interrogation rooms, making the rest simple.
With so many people, Peter assigned additional agents to participate in the interrogations. Jimmy and Hope questioned one of the men who had facial injuries, suggesting he had been beaten earlier since the wounds weren't from the crash. It seemed evident he had been assaulted.
Soon, they obtained information about his identity. Bob Green, BG. He had been taken because someone reported his unusual behavior, stating he hadn't shown up for days. The gang members were currently erring on the side of caution, preferring to make no mistakes, even if it meant taking him back for the bosses to see, even if he wasn't BJ.
However, under the FBI's interrogation, he eventually broke down, admitting he had assisted someone in taking two people out of D.C.
Damn, it turned out the gas station worker had mispronounced the nickname, or maybe Jimmy and Hope misheard it. BG was mistaken for BJ, which led them and the other agents to repeatedly mention BJ when harassing Tucker Family's locations, resulting in everyone pursuing the wrong lead.