FBI detective

Chapter 828 Another wave of counterfeit money

Lacey's tone was very excited. Luo An and Chenier looked at each other and immediately moved their chairs next to her.
"What's new?"

“It’s counterfeit money from Washington, D.C.”

Like Chenier, Lacey showed the computer screen to Luo An and the others and explained carefully:

"I started by investigating the relationships between Janedo and his cronies with Mona. Mona found some information, but I found almost nothing.

So I changed my thinking. The ultimate goal of Jannido buying those counterfeit bills must be to spend them.

We found $500,000 in the secret room. In addition to this $500,000, could Giannido have also sent counterfeit money to other underground casinos and bars in the Giannido gang? "

"You mean, the counterfeit money that Janido bought wasn't just the $500,000?"

Chenier frowned slightly, and understood what Lacey meant, but then she remembered something and said:
"But when we busted the Giannido gang, the Trace Examination Department didn't find any counterfeit money in other places of the gang... Lacey, do you think the Trace Examination Department missed it?"

"No."

Lacey shook her head, a smug smile appeared on her face, and then she explained:
“I believe there is no problem with the trace examination department.

Since there is no problem with the trace examination department, it means that Janido only bought $500,000 in counterfeit bills, and before he could spend it, the gang itself was destroyed by our team. "

Chenier frowned even more tightly:

"Lacey, what do you want to say?"

Without waiting for Lacey to answer, Luo An took over her analysis and explained with a smile:
“Lacey thought that since Giannido’s gang only bought $500,000 in counterfeit bills and hadn’t had time to spend them, there shouldn’t be any other counterfeit bills on the market in Washington, D.C.

If other counterfeit banknotes appear on the market, there are two possibilities:
Either the person who sold the counterfeit money used the counterfeit money himself, or the person who sold the counterfeit money sold it to someone other than Giannido.

Snapped--

Lacey snapped her fingers, looked at Chenier with a smile, and said:

"Sure enough, Luo An and I are the smartest in the special investigation team."

Chenier rolled her eyes, not wanting to bother with this topic, and asked directly:
"So, Lacey, have you discovered other counterfeit bills on the market?"

"You guessed right!"

Lacey nodded, turned around and found two pieces of paper from a pile of messy folders on the desk, handed them to Roan and Chenier, and said:
"I contacted the Washington, D.C., police department to ask if they had received any reports of counterfeit money in the past two years."

Chenier looked at the information on the paper carefully. The records showed that in the past two years, Washington DC had received hundreds of reports related to counterfeit money.

The vast majority of counterfeit banknotes discovered by the police when they arrived at the scene were of a relatively low level of counterfeiting, and some could be seen as wrong at a glance.

Until a few days ago, the police department received a report from a store stating that they had received a high-end counterfeit banknote that was basically invisible to the naked eye and could only be detected by a banknote detector.

"The time when this counterfeit money appeared..."

Seeing the alarm time on the paper, Chenier was stunned for a moment:
"The day before we busted the Janedo gang?"

Luo An looked at the relevant information on the paper and narrowed his eyes slightly:
"The amount this time was very small, just $20... That is to say, the person who used this counterfeit bill either received it from the person who sold it without knowing it.

Or, this guy is actually selling counterfeit money!"

Chenelle's eyes lit up instantly. Winslow, Michelle and Mona, who had been listening quietly, also looked excited. Luo An immediately asked:
"Lacey, have you found out who is the guy who used this counterfeit $20 bill?"

"not yet."

Lacey spread her hands and shook her head, indicating that she had just found out about this and shared her findings.

Luo An didn't care. He turned to look at Mona. Before he could say anything, Mona understood what he meant and immediately turned around and started typing on the keyboard.

Mona's fingers danced on the keyboard like a snake. Soon, the lunch she bought over the phone was delivered to the office. When Winslow distributed the food to everyone, Mona suddenly stopped and said loudly:
"Everyone, I found that guy on the surveillance camera!" "Very good."

Luo An handed a box of meat and vegetable food to Mona and said with a smile:
"Let's eat first. Once we're full, we'll gather this guy's name, address, and other information. Then we can go talk to him."

"OK!"

At 1:30 p.m. that day, Roan and Chenier led several SWAT team members to find the suspect named Octavius ​​that Mona had found.

After a brief questioning, Octavio told everything he knew. He was not the seller of counterfeit money, and the fake dollar was just something he accidentally received from someone else when he was buying something.

Luo An was sure that the other party was telling the truth, so he led Chenier and others to the supermarket that Octavi mentioned.

The supermarket owner was completely unaware of this. He seldom put the change into the money detector one by one for inspection. When it was busy, he would directly give the change he received from the previous customer to the next customer. The liquidity of banknotes here was very strong.

Luo An was not surprised by this, so he asked the supermarket owner to take out all the recent surveillance footage and bring it back to the special investigation team for careful review.

Fortunately, when Octavius ​​went to buy things, the supermarket was not crowded, and Luo An and his friends quickly found the person who gave the counterfeit money to the supermarket owner.

When they saw the other person's face clearly, Luo An and Mona frowned immediately. It was the white young man who had attempted robbery last night and was shot dead by the old man.

"Good evening, we meet again."

At 6:30 pm, in the interrogation room of a police station in Washington, DC, Roan and Mona sat side by side. A white young man sat opposite them, his face full of helplessness:
"Mr. Agent, it's just a robbery. Besides, I haven't succeeded yet. Is it necessary for you FBI to come looking for me?"

"Our visit to you this time has nothing to do with your failed robbery yesterday."

Luo An opened Mona's laptop and said with a faint smile:

"Martin Torres, 29 years old, unemployed, has been in prison for drugging and selling flour, and was released from prison two years ago..."

After briefly reading Martin's identity information, Luo An smiled and said:
"Why, you learned new skills in prison, Martin, so you're selling counterfeit money instead of flour this time?"

"Me? Selling counterfeit money?"

Martin's eyes widened in disbelief. Luo An didn't explain much and directly showed him the supermarket's surveillance video.

“NO, NO, NO…”

After watching the surveillance video, Martin's eyelids jumped, and he shook his head and said:
"I have never sold counterfeit money. Please don't accuse me. I have nothing to do with this kind of thing."

Mona narrowed her eyes slightly, Luo An still had a smile on his face, and then asked:

"Where did you get this counterfeit bill?"

"how could I know?"

Martin spread his hands, widened his eyes, and his face was full of innocence:

"Everything costs money nowadays, so who would remember where a bill came from?"

Luo An nodded gently:

"That makes sense."

"That's what it is."

Martin breathed a sigh of relief and was about to say something else when Luo An turned to Mona and said:

"Let's go through the formalities and bring this guy to FBI headquarters."

Martin: “?!”

(End of this chapter)