North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 355 Interstate Cooperation
Jimmy has been observing Agent Brock, and Hughes probably needs a lot of time to contact their boss. After all, there is only one agent on site, and it is not so easy to find the corresponding superior.

After waiting for about 10 minutes, Johnny Bullock answered the phone. Don't know what was said on the phone, but he looked very excited.After hanging up the phone, he gathered the others and said a few words, and it seemed that their faces were not happy.

Agent Bullock walked towards Jimmy and was about to speak when Jimmy's phone rang, interrupting his actions directly.

Jimmy walked away and answered the phone, "Hughes, what's up?"

Hughes: "The two parties cooperate and investigate together. Jimmy, cooperate with them and come to a conclusion as soon as possible. Remember, you are responsible for the bombing terrorist attack. If it has nothing to do with our case, let them handle it by themselves. "

Jimmy: "I see. Goodbye, Hughes."
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Jimmy returned to Agent Brock, "Agent Brock, I think you have also received the call from above, happy cooperation."

Jimmy shook hands with Bullock, and Bullock said, "Well, we're working together on this case. Where's your explosion expert?"

Jimmy: "It's not here yet. If your people are here, you can start first and wait until they arrive. By the way, pay attention to checking the composition of explosives first."

Bullock: "Can you tell me about your case?"

Jimmy: "A group of people intend to use urea, nitrate, and ammonium nitrate to refine and make giant bombs. We have destroyed their main dens, but the amount of materials does not match, and one or two hundred kilograms is missing, so I hurried to the bomb after the explosion happened here. Came here to confirm."

Bullock: "OK, I'll let the blasting experts test the composition."

After finishing speaking, Brock turned around and waved to their people, and several people entered the collapsed building together, "The explosion point should be the garage location, as the people from the fire department said." Jimmy reminded him that he was completely indifferent to bombs. I was familiar with it, so I didn't get involved, I just stood on the side of the road and watched them search for the explosion residue at the scene.

A few minutes later, the explosive detection experts from the FBI bomb disposal team also came. After Jimmy greeted them, the three experts also entered the garage area and began to inspect the wreckage little by little, collecting some things from time to time and putting them in the evidence bag. .

There is nothing Jimmy has to do here, and it's time for him to do what he should do.If it wasn't for the ATF people to interrupt, he should have made inquiries to several nearby households. There was an explosion, which is not a trivial matter.Fortunately, the neighbors were more cooperative. They saw Jimmy's FBI badge, and they didn't hide anything. They told Jimmy about the big and small things that happened in the neighbor's house.

After inquiring about the two, he finally got some somewhat complete clues.According to the landlord, the house was not rented out at all, nor was it arranged for people to live in it. It was just idle, but people have moved in in recent months.The person who checked in claimed to be Joe Coleman, a middle-aged white male, about 40 years old, with a thin face, no beard, and short brown curly hair. He usually wore a suit when he went in and out, and looked very business-like.

Usually, he usually leaves early and returns late, and occasionally brings women back. He looks no different from ordinary people.There is a Nissan car for transportation, which is silver and white, and it is often taken care of, but none of them remembers his license plate.

These behaviors of Joe Coleman seemed normal, but at the scene of today's explosion, there was no car in the garage, and there were no casualties at the scene. It can be seen that he had arranged everything and detonated the bomb after he left.

Jimmy didn't continue to ask other people, but called Gordon directly: "Gordon, is Noah here?"

Gordon: "Yes. I turned on the speaker, you say."

Jimmy: "Mr. Watson, I have new information here. Ask your people to look up the cameras on East 108th Street in Brooklyn and find a silver Nissan from this morning until the bombing. The owner is white, middle-aged, brown hair."

Noah: "Any other clues?"

Jimmy: "This man has lived here for several months, and his neighbors call him Joe Coleman. He occasionally brings women back, usually by himself. I will continue to ask the surrounding families about the situation, it's not finished yet."

Noah: "Okay, we also started investigating."

Suddenly a person next to him said, "Could this name be fake? Joe Coleman has the same name as a pitcher from the Detroit Tigers."

Noah turned to look at him: "Tell me in detail."

"Joe Coleman is a well-known pitcher who once helped the Tigers win a division championship. Although he is not well-known nationally, we Detroit baseball fans still know him. If this person's name is false, he is very good. Probably from Detroit, or at least lived there for a while, it's easy to come up with a false name, but with this kind of athlete's name, there is something to it."

Noah: "Jimmy, remember to ask his neighbors if Joe Coleman is a baseball fan. That's it, let us know."

Jimmy: "Wait a minute, I'm conducting an on-site investigation with the ATF people. They may also intervene later. This is Hughes' arrangement."

Gordon: "OK, I see, Jimmy."

After Gordon finished speaking, he hung up the phone. What the operator of the command center just said made sense. This is indeed a direction. The focus now is to investigate the whereabouts of this person through surveillance.

Noah didn't say anything to Gordon, but said to the people in the command center: "I heard it all, let's start investigating."

Jimmy hung up the phone, returned to the previous neighbor, and asked Joe Coleman again what hobbies he had. Unfortunately, although he lived for several months, Joe Coleman had very little contact with other people, and everyone did not It is not known about his occupation and hobbies.

The same is true for the other houses. Some people even didn’t notice that someone lived in that house. Although this kind of community in the United States is familiar to everyone in many cases, there are still many people who will not tell others about their personal situation. It's normal.

But it’s not nothing. There is a surveillance camera at the entrance of the garage of the first house at the intersection. The main picture of this surveillance is the garage entrance, but a small part of it can capture the road.Jimmy and the homeowner fast-forwarded through today's surveillance footage and found Joe Coleman's silver car inside. He drove out once more than 8 o'clock in the morning, then came back, and left again 10 minutes before the explosion.

Jimmy called Gordon again: "Tell Noah, check the surveillance at the intersection of East 108th Street and George Road, the time is around 11:42. I saw the video from a neighbor, a silver car Leave 10 minutes before the explosion."

Gordon: "Understood."

Jimmy's on-site investigation was successfully completed and he gained a lot. Now it's up to Noah and the others.As long as they can get the monitoring done, there is always a chance they can get it done after the investigation continues.

It's a pity that this Joe Coleman has little communication with other people, and everyone doesn't have the habit of taking pictures casually, so Jimmy can't get a high-resolution photo for identification.

Jimmy went back to the front of the exploded house and found Johnny Brock: "Agent Brock, any results?"

Brock shook his head: "It's not that fast. The evidence found at the scene needs to be taken back for testing to know the specific composition. It will be before get off work in the afternoon at the earliest, and it will be tomorrow if it is normal."

Jimmy frowned: "Is it so slow? This may have caused the suspect to escape early. You guys continue to investigate. I will go back to the bureau to investigate other clues."

Brock: "Any clues?"

Jimmy: "Well, there was a person who lived here before. The name the neighbors know is Joe Coleman. I need to go back and investigate."

Bullock nodded and returned to the explosion site again.

Jimmy told the inspectors and left the scene. He is not familiar with the content of the explosion. He might as well go back and see what clues there are from Gordon and Noah. It is best to track the past.

Just before Jimmy got in the car and drove out of the street, he received a call from Gordon, "Jimmy, can you start now? To Union City, north of Jersey City, although we haven't determined the detailed route, but the silver car The direction of the car should be the Lincoln Tunnel, and he will probably go directly to New Jersey through the Lincoln Tunnel."

Jimmy: "Okay, let me know the route as soon as possible."

Jimmy turned and asked, "Gordon, ask Noah, is the person who called Joseph last tracked in that direction? Maybe he's going to meet that person."

Gordon stopped there for a while, and it was Noah who spoke again: "The people in the Newark FBI office didn't find the camel, and there was no clue there. , that camel was obviously a professional and the place he chose to call was very bad for us.

The location where the camel called last time was Springfield, southwest of Newark, and Joe Coleman, who was involved in the bombing, went in the northeast of Newark. It is also possible that they met , not far from Newark.We will notify the Newark office, and after you have a clear clue, you can cooperate with them to track it down. "

Jimmy: "It may be worth tracking. You continue to investigate. I am now rushing to the Lincoln Tunnel."

Noah: "By the way, this car also appeared in the warehouse area of ​​the cruise port this morning, but it's just that I haven't had a good angle to take pictures of the driver."

The Lincoln Tunnel connects Union City and Midtown Manhattan, and is an important traffic artery on both sides.Calculated according to the time when the bombing started, he has been away for more than an hour. No matter where he is going, he should have arrived at the place by now, so the most important thing for Noah and the others is to investigate the whereabouts of the car. Chasing, but more or less considered a clear goal.

It is now basically certain that this person is a real engineer. He was supposed to go to the warehouse in the morning, but Jimmy and the others were one step ahead.When he came to the warehouse area, Jimmy and the others were already searching the warehouse, so he didn't show up, went back to his residence, set the explosion time, and then drove away by himself.

Now there are two possible directions for him, one is the escape route, and the other is to meet up with other people to discuss the future plan.No matter which one, it is to track down the silver car.

Jimmy's call today was definitely the hotline, another call, just no number on record. "Hi, I'm Jimmy."

"Agent Yang, I'm Forensic Konik. We found the fingerprints of two other people from the equipment in the warehouse. One of them was compared and found his identity. Javier Vance, a former employee of the chemical giant DuPont, had He was arrested for stealing and reselling factory materials, sentenced to 5 years in prison, and was released 2 years ago. He has been unemployed since then, and there is no relevant record in the system.”

"Thanks, Nick, who's the other guy?"

"There is no matching information in the fingerprint library."

"Okay, I'll give you a call. You contact Agent Gordon and fax him the information. He will arrange follow-up processing." Jimmy found Gordon's mobile phone number and reported it, then hung up the phone and called Gordon. .

Jimmy: "Gordon, we found the fingerprints of two other people on the equipment in the warehouse. One is not recorded, and the other is a former DuPont employee who used to resell the factory materials. I suspect he is the supplier of these materials. If not The supplier is at least an intermediary, Nick from the forensics department will contact you and fax you the information, you can arrange an investigation, and if necessary, you will be arrested and interrogated directly."

Gordon is speechless, why are the clues suddenly so dense?The previous clues were all operated on a single line, but suddenly they became multi-line and developed together.He didn't delay, hung up the phone and waited for Nick to contact him.Jimmy has already gone to track down the engineer, it seems that this supplier should let their people come forward.When the information arrives, I just use the Anti-Terrorist Bureau to investigate. Let Scott and the others take action directly. I can't come to New York and let their branch take the bulk of the credit.

Jimmy dismissed the matter and continued on to New Jersey.Now that there are suspicious suppliers, and they are following the tail of the engineers, the camel behind the scenes is almost unknown.

This unlucky case has tormented him for a long time, and he couldn't bear it any longer.The previous cases never took so long, and the process was too cumbersome. Chris, a bastard old man, disappeared at a critical moment, and most of the pressure of the whole case was on him.Although the current leader of the case is Gordon from the headquarters, it would be too embarrassing if their office didn't make some achievements.

When Jimmy drove to Union City, he had already received a message from Gordon. The detectives in the Newark office had investigated the trace of the silver car and were following up. Jimmy just needs to wait for them to notify the final location Just rush over there.Because he didn't know when to meet with colleagues in Newark, Jimmy couldn't go to the restaurant either, so he had to drive around twice and find a fast food truck for lunch.

At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Jimmy finally received a call from the detectives in the Newark office and rushed to Rutherford.

(End of this chapter)