Tiger Police

Chapter 425 Thief

The phone number of the 24 Command Center: Someone called the police in the Ziyuan Community, and someone stole from the [-]-hour convenience store. Please rush to deal with it as soon as possible.

Hu Pingtao turned on the speakerphone, and everyone heard the content.

Zhou Changhao asked suspiciously: "Ziyuan District...boss, didn't you just go there during the day to handle a case?"

Hu Pingtao picked up the hat on the wooden shelf next to him: "It's normal to report the crime at the same location. The reporter in the morning was at the east gate of the community, and later took us to the underground parking lot. The one said just now was at the west gate, and it was stolen." Things...don’t care, let’s go see it first and then talk about it.”

Putting on the hat, he looked down at his watch first, then turned around and asked Zhang Juan, "It's almost eleven o'clock, are you going to go back to rest, or go to the police with us?"

What Zhang Juan was thinking to say was interrupted by the police call, and she felt a little confused for a while.She thought for a moment and quickly made a decision: "Let's drive with you! Go there first to see what's going on. If it's a valuable case, we'll shoot it. If it's an ordinary civil dispute, like today's As in the morning, we will go back to Taiwan.”

Hu Pingtao nodded: "OK."

He turned to Zhou Changhao: "Old Zhou, you stay in the camp, and I will take Meng Hao there."

……

The west gate of Ziyuan Community, directly opposite the road, has a 24-hour convenience store.

A clerk in a light green uniform was guarding the door, and when she saw the police electric car, she trotted up to meet it.

Hu Pingtao jumped off the passenger seat and asked, "Someone stole something?"

The female clerk nodded her head heavily, and pointed sideways at the lighted shop not far away: "The man has been caught, and our manager is also here, and they are all in the shop."

The duty manager is a middle-aged man in his 30s.He walked into the store with Hu Pingtao, walked around the shelves, pointed at a middle-aged woman squatting on the ground at the innermost door near the warehouse, and said condescendingly, "That's her."

As soon as the words fell, the woman suddenly knelt down facing Hu Pingtao, crying repeatedly: "Let me go this time! I...I don't dare again."

The manager on duty has obviously heard this a lot before.He angrily scolded the other party: "You are such an old man, and you are not a child of three or five years old. If you steal something, you will be caught and put in jail. It is useless for you to tell me these things. Now that the police are here, you can deal with it as you like." .”

The woman cried even louder: "I was wrong, please let me go! I really don't dare in the future."

The manager on duty was about to speak, but saw Hu Pingtao waving his hand at him, so he stood aside knowingly to make room for it.

Hu Pingtao looked at the woman kneeling on the ground.

She raised her head, her face was covered with tears, her loose hair was a little messy, covering part of her face, although her skin was rough, she didn't look bad.She has a thin body... no, it should be said to be too thin, and the collarbone is exposed at the neckline of the loose shirt, with a clear outline.

Many young girls will envy her skinny figure.But on the whole, her living conditions are not very good.

Hu Pingtao stared at her and asked, "What did you steal?"

The woman sobbed and replied, "...I stole...a piece of clothing."

The voice was too low, Hu Pingtao couldn't hear it clearly, and felt a little surprised: "What? Say it again?"

In fact, he vaguely heard the word "clothes".

The reason why I was surprised was that the stolen items were very different from what I imagined.

There are 24-hour convenience stores all over the city, and theft of items is inevitable and happens often.But based on past experience, most of the stolen items in convenience stores are food and drinks, as well as contraceptive sets placed on the shelves at the door.

These things are small in size, and the assailant moves quickly. If they grab them casually and stuff them under the clothes, it is difficult for the shop assistant to find them.

Hu Pingtao can understand if clothes are lost in a fashion store.

But it was the first time Hu Pingtao encountered such a situation of stealing clothes in a convenience store.

After all, this is not a professional clothing store, and the styles of clothes are popular.It's not that no one would like it because of this, it's just that it's a bit weird to choose this kind of place to steal clothes.

"What clothes did you steal?" Hu Pingtao asked.He subconsciously thought it should be a pajamas.The convenience store has a shelf dedicated to bedding.

Before the woman kneeling on the ground could answer, the duty manager standing beside had already brought the stolen goods and handed them to Hu Pingtao.

A women's white shirt, very ordinary style, and the material is also ordinary.

Hu Pingtao looked at the listing on the shirt, the price was 62 yuan, small size.

He turned his eyes back to the woman, compared her figure, and asked suspiciously: "This is not your size, is it! You obviously can't wear this dress?"

The woman didn't answer, but still cried and said: "I was wrong, I was wrong, please let me go!"

As she spoke, she began to kowtow, hitting her forehead heavily on the ground, making a "dong dong" sound.

Hu Pingtao hurriedly stepped forward to hold her arm and pulled it up vigorously.Meng Hui watched from the side, put the law enforcement recorder on his right shoulder belt, and rushed over to help.The two lifted the woman up like this, and sat on a cardboard box next to her.

The woman kept wiping her tears and weeping bitterly.

Zhang Juan was not very interested in this matter at first, until the manager on duty took out the stolen shirt, she looked at all this through Hu Pingtao's shoulder, then called the photographer to come over, and ordered in a low voice: " Hurry up and shoot! This case seems interesting."

The clothes the woman was wearing were very old, especially the collar and cuffs. There were holes in many places, and the edges had been fleshed out, exposing tiny thread ends.

She was wearing a pair of slippers with thin soles and bad wear.

She is more than 1.7 meters tall. Although the stolen shirt is women's, she obviously can't wear it.

Zhang Juan's sunshine is very poisonous, and she can tell at a glance that this matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

The woman's forehead was red and swollen, which was caused by the heavy kowtows just now.

She was crying all the time.

Hu Pingtao comforted: "Don't get excited, don't cry, it's just a piece of clothing, it's no big deal."

He then turned to the duty manager standing next to him and asked, "What was the situation? Who caught her stealing?"

The female clerk who was waiting at the door hastily replied: "I found it."

Then she pointed to the woman and said, "She came to the store and said she wanted to buy instant noodles, but she walked around the shelf for a long time without picking up anything. I felt something was wrong when I saw it, and there happened to be a customer who came to buy cigarettes. I took care while taking the cigarettes." Her movements, I saw her go to the bedding, took something from the shelf and stuffed it under the clothes, turned around and walked out."

"I didn't see it well, so I ran over to stop her and found the dress from her."

Hu Pingtao nodded slightly: "Is there surveillance here?"

The duty manager replied: "Yes."

"Show me the video from that time."

"Ok."

The picture is very clear, and it fully records the whole process of the woman stealing from the food shelf to the bedding shelf.

The facts are clear and the evidence is conclusive.

Hu Pingtao made a record as usual, and the manager on duty and the female shop assistant signed after reading it.

He walked up to the woman with his head down, and said seriously: "Come with us to the police station, this matter has to be dealt with."

Seeing Meng Hui escorting the woman into the police electric car, Zhang Juan went to Hu Pingtao's side and said cautiously: "I think this woman is very pitiful, she must have little money, right?"

Hu Pingtao glanced at her sideways: "You are very energetic today! What, you want to follow us back to work overtime?"

Zhang Juan gave him a blank look: "I want to earn more overtime subsidies, can't I?"

Hu Pingtao shrugged his shoulders: "Whatever you want... let's go."

……

Back at the police station, Hu Pingtao asked Meng Hui to go to the office to input the video of the law enforcement recorder into the computer first, and he took the woman downstairs to make notes in the interrogation room.

"Name?"

"...My name is Liang Ping."

"Where do you live?" Hu Pingtao buried himself in the record.

"No. 84, No. [-], Nanli Village, [-]." Liang Ping said timidly, "This is a house rented by me and my family...don't tell the landlord."

Nanli Village is an urban village, not in the jurisdiction of the Eryuan Road Police Station.

Hu Pingtao was noncommittal.He checked the other party's ID card as usual, and asked seriously: "Why do you want to steal?"

"I……"

Liang Ping hesitated to speak, and was silent for nearly half a minute before she lowered her head and said hesitantly: "My husband and I are from the prefecture and county, and come to the provincial capital to work. The policies have been good these years, and my daughter can go to school in the provincial capital." , graduated last year, and is in the first grade of junior high school this year. In the mid-term exam last week, she took the second place in the class. I have always wanted to buy her something as a reward, but... there is always no money. "

Zhou Changhao accompanied Hu Pingtao to the trial.Hearing this, he asked curiously: "Now there are minimum income standards in various places. At the beginning of this year, the provincial capital also increased by more than 30 yuan on the basis of last year's standard. Let's put it this way, as long as you are willing to work, You can find jobs in many places in the city. Even if you wash dishes in a restaurant, you can still earn two to three thousand yuan a month. You just said that you and your man are both in the provincial capital... two people together, every At least four to five thousand yuan a month."

"The shirt you stole in the convenience store is only 62, so you don't even have this little money?"

Liang Ping cried and replied: "My man used to work outside, and I farmed at home. In 5, when he was working at a construction site, he accidentally fell off the scaffolding. The man who worked with him at that time A friend called me, and I hurried to rush him to the hospital. At that time, the construction site said that he violated the regulations and it was a personal accident, and only paid more than [-] yuan for medical expenses. I am uneducated and understand nothing, thinking Hurry up and take the money to see a doctor for my man, and then sign the waiver agreement on the construction site."

Hu Pingtao listened and shook his head: "How can this kind of thing be exempted from liability? What happened in the unit is a work-related injury, and they have to be responsible to the end."

Liang Ping raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "I only realized these things later, but I signed them all, and it's useless to go to court, I can only accept bad luck."

"My man has a broken leg, and he has been lying down and unable to get out of bed since he came back from the hospital. I really have no choice but to give the land at home to the old man. I will take the child to the city to rent a house and work, and take care of him by the way. Because Go to the hospital for regular checkups to see if there is any possibility of recovery."

"I have been working outside all these years to support a family of three. It is hard to earn money...it is really difficult. I graduated from junior high school and can only do part-time jobs. I have to pay rent every month for my income. The man treats the disease and has to raise a child, barely enough food and clothing throughout the year. Fortunately, the landlord is a good person. She sees that I am living a difficult life. I haven’t raised my rent these years. My daughter sealed a red envelope... I beg you to let me go, don't call the landlord, otherwise my family of three will really be cut off!"

Hu Pingtao was silent for a moment, and asked, "What's your man's phone number?"

Liang Ping cried and replied, "He doesn't have a phone number."

Hu Pingtao explained: "No matter what, you stole something from someone else, and you will be detained. We must notify your family."

Upon hearing this, Liang Ping burst into tears.

She put her hands deep into her hair, choked up and said, "Don't do this...don't let my daughter know that I'm stealing outside. Please, especially my daughter, she will be sad."

Seeing this, both Zhou Changhao and Zhang Juan felt very uncomfortable.

Zhang Juan signaled the photographer to turn off the machine.She walked slowly to Hu Pingtao's side, and asked in a voice that was only audible to each other: "She is too pitiful. It's just a piece of clothing anyway, and it's not worth much. Or... let's forget about it!"

After a pause, Zhang Juan continued: "Or discuss it with the convenience store. I'll pay for the clothes, right?"

Hu Pingtao sat on the chair without moving, and the pen in his hand hovered about three centimeters away from the paper.

After thinking for a long time, he first looked down at his watch, and then asked Liang Ping: "When you stole clothes in the store, it was already past eleven o'clock. Don't you go home at night? Or are you used to doing this every day?" Come out late?"

Liang Ping lowered her head, sobbing and replied: "I found an evening shift last month. A new hot pot restaurant opened outside the west gate of Ziyuan Community, which is open all night. The first and second midnights alternate, so Sometimes I get home very late."

Hu Pingtao stood up from his chair and said to Zhou Changhao, "Well, I'll take Meng Hui out for a while. You stay in the camp and wait for my call."

Zhou Changhao was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and nodded: "Okay, you guys go!"

……

Without knowing it, Zhang Juan followed Hu Pingtao out of the interrogation room and got on the electric car parked outside.

"Where are you going?" Zhang Juan was at a loss.

Hu Pingtao got into the cab and turned the key: "Go to her house and have a look. If she is telling the truth, I can deal with it according to my discretion. If she is lying... then the crime will be added to the crime. Don't blame me. You are welcome. "

It was already past twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and there were few cars on the road.

According to the address provided by Liang Ping, Hu Pingtao soon came to Nanli Village.

Knocking on the door in the middle of the night, no matter who is changed, is not happy.But when he heard it was the police, the landlord who had already fallen asleep quickly got up and opened the door.

(End of this chapter)