Riverside Police.

Chapter 865 Jiangyang Thief ([-])

At [-] o'clock in the morning, a black Santana turned from the highway along the river to the Yangtze River embankment along the sidewalk built to fight against the flood.

During the dry season, the embankment is far away from the river.

The gentle slope outside the embankment is covered with weeds, which contain a lot of garbage brought by the flood season. To the south is a large piece of reed, swaying in the wind.Further south on the river, three [-]-ton inland river cargo ships were anchored, probably waiting to row across the river to a small wharf on the other side to load.

The main and auxiliary channels farther away are as busy as ever, and a cargo ship with a visual estimate of at least [-] tons is going upstream.

Working on the riverside, or even law enforcement on the river, boat recognition is a basic skill that can be quickly mastered without deliberate learning.

Although the flag of the People's Republic of China was flying on the fore-mast of that freighter, Xu Haoran stopped the car and took a closer look, and he knew that it was a Panamanian foreign ship with a pilot on board.Because the Panamanian flag was hoisted on the stern of the ship, and the "H" flag was also hoisted to represent the pilot on board.

Zhao Hongxing, who came by car together, was more concerned about the weather.

As soon as he got out of the car, he tightened the fur collar of his fur coat, rubbed his hands and said with a smile, "I don't feel much in the car. I don't know how cold it is until I get out of the car."

"Zhao Ju, is it cold today?" Liu Guixiang, deputy detachment of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Changhang Branch, asked.

"The weather forecast says the minimum is 3 degrees today, isn't that cold enough?" Zhao Hongxing looked back at Han Yu, who had just gotten out of the car, and Li Jun, the chief of staff of the border inspection station, and said with a bit of self-mockery: "I am in my forties." I can't compare with you guys. It's normal for you to be young and not afraid of the cold."

The law and order in the Binjiang section of the Yangtze River has been good in recent years, but the recent serial thefts on the river have not only slapped the water sub-bureau and Changhang sub-bureau in the face, but also slapped the Binjiang entry-exit border inspection station in the face.

Just a month ago, a foreign ship anchored at the inspection anchorage and waiting to enter the port was also stolen, and it happened when the border checkpoint routinely arranged officers and soldiers to monitor it, and the impact was extremely bad.

The border inspection station and the water sub-bureau have boarded the ship and investigated, and the "inner ghost" can be ruled out.There are various indications that it is likely that the "Jiangyang Thief" who is being investigated by the Water Branch and the Changhang Branch did it.

Because of this, Li Jun took the initiative to join this unofficial "special case team" as soon as he heard that Han Yu was going to lead the joint investigation of the Water Branch and the Changhang Branch.

Study the file in the meeting room of the water branch, not to see it as it is.

So, with today's trip to the river.

To avoid alarming others, none of the five men wore police uniforms.

Today, Han Yu put on the pilot jacket that her senior sister helped to ask for from the Hong Kong Supervision Bureau. Looking at the charming sandbars in the river, the rippling blue waves, the reflected blue sky, the lush water plants on the river beach, and the flying waterfowl, he sighed: "Zhao Ju, Lao Liu, have you noticed that it has really gotten warmer these years?"

Zhao Hongxing was taken aback, and said, "It's a bit cold today, but it's not as cold as before."

Liu Guixiang, who has worked in the Changhang branch for more than ten years, is most sensitive to climate change. Pointing to the reeds by the river, he said: "In the two years when I first started working, the river was frozen in winter. Don't say it in the past two years. Riversides, even inland rivers, seldom freeze, and only in remote ditches and ditches can occasionally be seen to freeze."

It used to be really cold in winter.

It snows as soon as winter enters, and the snow is knee deep at its heaviest.

To this day, Xu Haoran can’t forget the scene of trekking hard in the snow to go to school when he was a child. Walking in the snow was fun at first, but when he went to school and entered the classroom, he sat down and found that the inside of his shoes was wet. Cold and painful, the whole person seems to be in an ice cellar.

He recalled when he was a child, looked back at the surroundings, and said with a smile: "The weather is getting warmer and warmer. Look, the leaves have not fallen, and the wheat and rapeseed are green. It was not like this before."

"It may be true that the world is warming as scientists say, or it may be affected by the El Niño phenomenon."

"Salted fish, do you mean that the glaciers in the Antarctic and Arctic will melt, the sea will rise, the earth will be destroyed, and human beings will become extinct?" Li Jun took out his cigarette and asked with a smile.

This sentence of a good friend seems to be a joke, but "eschatology" like this really has a market now.

At the turn of the century, various fallacies and heresies emerged one after another, otherwise there would not be so many people who believed in cults.

In fact, China is much better than abroad. Xiaoyu has learned to surf the Internet, and there is nothing he does not know about domestic and foreign affairs. According to him, there are more cults abroad than domestic, and they all believe that human beings will perish in the next ten days.

Han Yu didn't believe that, and said with a smile: "Global warming and the melting of glaciers in the North and South Pole will take a process. If you and I can see that day, it will not only be a bad thing but a good thing."

"Good thing?"

"This means that our lifespan will be very long. Isn't it good to live a long time?"

"That's right, hahaha."

"Stop joking, let's talk about business." Han Yu changed the subject, looked at the anchorage in the distance and asked, "Ju Zhao, Lao Li, the foreign ship was stolen. When you came to investigate, did you check the river beach?"

"I didn't expect it at the time."

Zhao Hongxing sighed, and said helplessly: "The anchorage of Hailan is estimated to be two kilometers away from the river beach. When the incident happened, the weather was not as cold as it is now, but it was not warm. Who would have thought that someone would swim from the shore to the anchorage and climb up the anchor chain?" Outer ship theft!"

Li Jun took it for granted and added: "At first we suspected that the 'inner ghost' committed the crime, and the composition of the crew on that freighter was relatively complicated, including Taiwanese crew, Filipino crew, and even Indian crew, and half of the crew came from Boarded the ship in Hong Kong before Binjiang."

"Then how did you exclude the inner ghost from committing the crime?" Han Yu asked in a low voice.

"During our investigation, several crew members were very resistant. The captain was German. He also suspected that the crew did it. Seeing that the crew did not cooperate, he immediately became angry and summoned all the crew to the bridge. He not only asked the crew to cooperate with the investigation, but even asked us to A search of the crew cabin and even a body search."

"Have you searched?"

"I searched, inside and out, carefully searched three times, but found no stolen money."

"Those crew members are so cooperative?"

"The German captain said that if anyone doesn't cooperate, he will call the company and ask the company to arrange crew rotation."

"What's missing from the boat?"

"cash."

Zhao Hongxing was deeply impressed by the foreign-related case, and said without hesitation: "A sailor in the deck department lost more than 600 US dollars, and a mechanic in the engine department lost more than 8000 US dollars. Their rooms are on the second floor of the living area. No one can live there, as soon as you go up the ladder, it's their room."

Han Yu asked, "Has the door been pried open?"

"Well, the room was turned into a mess. The strange thing is that the crew's laptop on the desk and the digital camera in the cabinet were not lost."

Han Yu thought about it and asked again: "The two crew members were not in the room when the incident happened?"

Before Zhao Hongxing could open his mouth, Li Jun introduced: "On the afternoon of the incident, we boarded the ship for inspection with customs and quarantine. Although the German captain is very old-fashioned, he is very kind to the crew. He asked if we could let some of the crew go ashore first. , we agreed, so at the time of the incident, six crew members went ashore first after going through the immigration formalities."

"How many people are there in total?"

"Including the captain, there are eighteen people in total."

"There were twelve people on board, and the thief dared to break open the door and steal the cabin that was unoccupied that night. What does that mean?" Han Yu was silent for a moment, and asked himself: "If this theft is related to our arrest Jiangyang Bandit is related, then this Jiangyang Bandit should have a certain understanding of shipping, especially the situation of freighters."

Liu Guixiang raised his head and said, "It's probably irrelevant."

"That's right. Although you have searched the ship and even the crew, more than 2 US dollars were stolen. The freighter is so big. It is not difficult to hide more than 2 US dollars so that you can't find it."

"At that time, it would have been great if we had investigated the river beach. If the gangster did it, he would definitely go ashore after he succeeded. As long as he went ashore, he would leave footprints on the nearby river beach."

If you are on the shore, you can ask the traffic police department for assistance and check the nearby traffic monitoring.

If you are at the wharf, you can ask the port for assistance, and now the wharf is also equipped with CCTV monitoring.

But here is the riverside, there is a reed marsh outside the embankment, and a crop field inside the embankment, which unit will install monitoring to monitor the river beach.

The five of them walked eastward along the embankment, stopping and stopping according to the location of the crime.

At noon, I passed the Yingchuan Harbor Water Rescue Center, had a light meal at the rescue center, and walked all the way to the junction of the main line of the Yangtze River and the North Branch of the Yangtze River.

At 06:30 in the afternoon, it was already dark.

The five people watched more than a dozen crime scenes on the spot, and were not in a hurry to go back to the city. Instead, they borrowed the small conference room on the third floor of the Changzhou Maritime Affairs Department, looked at the crime scene marked on the waterway map, and summarized and analyzed the crimes committed by Jiangyang Bandit together. law.

"In terms of the selection of the targets of the crime, the suspects chose relatively remote waters. At that time, there were very few ships anchored, and there was a certain distance between the anchored ships."

Han Yu held his chin, and continued: "Then there are seventeen theft cases, all of which were stolen in cash, and valuable electrical appliances such as mobile phones and VCD players were not lost. According to the previous judgment of the bureau, he swam over and climbed onto the boat to steal it, and valuable electronic items such as mobile phones cannot be taken away, and even if they are taken, they will be damaged by water."

Liu Guixiang said by analogy: "He is very familiar with the terrain in our area, and has a certain understanding of shipping and even ships. He may have run a ship, may have worked in a dock, and may have worked in a shipyard."

"Judging from the frequency of committing crimes, he should not be young and probably over 25 years old." Zhao Hongxing added as he stubbed out his cigarette.

"Zhao Ju, where did your guess come from?" Xu Haoran asked curiously.

"It's very simple. He committed more than a dozen crimes, and only missed one. Before that, almost all of them were successful, and each time the harvest was not small. The cash he stole was tens of thousands. If it were a young man who stole so much money at once, He will definitely spend a lot of money, and wait until the stolen money is spent before committing crimes."

Zhao Hongxing paused, and added: "But this Jiangyang thief is different. He may really be from Binjiang. He only knows how to steal money but not how to spend it. Otherwise, he wouldn't commit crimes frequently after he succeeds."

The people on the boat are different from those on the shore.

Ships need to burn oil when sailing, and it costs tens of thousands of dollars to refuel, and they don’t know where to go on the next voyage, let alone whether there is a bank near the next gas station where they can withdraw money, so there is a lot of cash on board .

Thinking of the total amount stolen by the suspects as high as more than 30, Han Yu pondered: "Bureau Zhao's analysis makes sense."

Xu Haoran said while recording: "Then there is good water quality and good physical fitness, and he dares to go into the water in such a cold day. With these characteristics, it should not be difficult to troubleshoot."

"Xianyu, it's up to you next, you have more face than us, you say one word to your local colleagues is worth ten words to us!"

"It's not as exaggerated as you said, after all, there are other people's jobs."

Han Yu picked up a pen and drew a long and narrow investigation area on the map: "Depending on the water, the suspect should be from the riverside, or work by the riverside. It is enough to ask the police stations of the townships along the river to investigate. What do you think? "

"I can see it."

"Salted fish, what about the one where the outer ship was stolen?"

"What do you mean?"

"It was US dollars that were stolen from the foreign ship. I think this line should also be investigated for how to use the US dollars without converting them into renminbi."

"There are a total of [-] cases of theft that are known so far. Sixteen of the stolen ships are inland river cargo ships, the largest tonnage is [-] tons, and only one is a foreign seagoing ship."

Han Yu thought for a while, and then said: "Zhao Bureau, Lao Li, I don't think the theft of the foreign ship has anything to do with the gangster we are talking about, but you can also check it, in case he did it."

……

They were studying when Han Xiangning knocked on the door and walked in.

"Holmes, do you want to go back? If you don't, I'll ask my colleague on duty at night to cook some noodles for you."

"Han Chu, why don't you treat us to noodles?"

"Yeah, we don't come here every day, and treating us to noodles is not in line with your status as director!"

"We are the Maritime Affairs Department here, not a restaurant. It would be nice to have noodles." Han Xiangning grinned and urged, "Director Zhao, do you want to leave? If you don't, I'll go first. Lots of things to do!"

"What's the matter?" Han Yu asked subconsciously.

"Experts will come to investigate on the spot tomorrow. If the other side is not active, we have to take it seriously. I will accompany you all the way. Mayor Ding made a phone call in person. I don't want to accompany you."

"What about the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge?"

"Well, I'm in charge of doing this now."

There is a lot of preliminary work for the construction of the bridge. Leaders at all levels come to investigate, experts come to investigate and even evaluate, and survey units come to survey. No matter who comes to Changzhou Maritime Affairs Department, they will arrange a patrol boat to send them to the river to see.

As director of maritime affairs, Han Xiangning even had to accompany him.

For city leaders, this is the real big deal.

Zhao Hongxing didn't want to affect her work, so she got up and said with a smile, "Let's not eat the noodles, let's go back together."

……

Han Xiangning drove a small Qingqi to work in the morning.

Now returning home from get off work, Han Yu can no longer ride Santana in the intelligence department, so he can only drive a small Qingqi with her.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he drove out of the yard, Han Xiangning lay on his shoulder and smiled, "Uncle Ge called in the afternoon. He said that at noon the day after tomorrow, a staff officer surnamed Wu from the Navy Headquarters would come to Binjiang to express condolences with the head of the East China Sea base. By the way, I would like to express my condolences to you The Rescue Boat Brigade will commend."

After participating in the exercise last time, Director Zheng of the Cadre Rest Center just read the order of crediting merits on his behalf, and did not award medals, certificates and bonuses.

Seeing that it was New Year's Day, it was customary for the head of the East China Sea Base to visit the seniors at the Binjiang Cadre Rest Center.

Han Yu came to his senses, grinning and said, "Staff Wu came here on a special trip to commend the outstanding reserve officers and outstanding reserve soldiers of our rescue ship brigade."

"You guys know each other well?"

"Very familiar. We were observers together during the exercise. We are colleagues in the observation team."

"Since I know you well, I'm here, do you want to treat me to a meal?"

"Reception by the unit, this is official business."

"Ok."

Han Xiangning smiled, thinking to himself that you don't even have money for a treat.

There is funds in the account of the rescue ship brigade, Han Yu is not worried about the reception at all, but said with a smile: "Ning Ning, the modification of the 825 boats, our bureau has already arranged funds, and then we sold wood and sold hundreds of thousands I figured it out, and there are tens of thousands left after the refit."

"How are you going to spend it?"

"I want to buy a computer, buy a printer, and find a telecommunications bureau to install a cat. I personally can't afford it, but our water anti-smuggling department can afford it!"

You don't need to ask to know, this is stimulated by the little fish.

Han Xiangning suppressed a smile and said, "You don't need to ask me for instructions on how to spend your funds in the department."

"Let me tell you, it will be 2000. Xiaoyu is right. You can't be ignorant of computers. I have to study hard. Not only me, but all the cadres and employees of our department must learn."

"Study is of course good, but you can't go crazy."

"How can learning be obsessed!"

"Xiaoyu went crazy, Yuzhen called me, and said that Xiaoyu now plays computer games after work, and plays games until midnight every day before going to bed, just like your father likes to quarrel with others on the radio, and even eats. I can't even bother to eat."

(End of this chapter)