North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 267 Bank Robbery

More than half of Jimmy's week-long vacation has passed, and there is still no information about the OPR investigation. No one has notified him, and he can't just call and ask. Jimmy doesn't know anyone at OPR.

Fortunately, as soon as Jimmy came back, Peter called. He gave Jimmy a phone number. It was an intermediary company that the bureau cooperated with, and his house was in trouble.

Jimmy made an appointment to meet with someone from the agency. The two chatted at the coffee shop next to Jimmy's apartment. The agent gave them several options, all of which were apartments they had already received information about. The prices were more than 60 in better locations.

Ten thousand, low, just over 200,000. Of course, these apartments are relatively small and the location is not very good.

Jimmy felt that the house was a bit small, so the intermediary finally came up with a trump card. The bank confiscated the auction houses. Because of the stock market crash caused by the Internet bubble in 2000, a large number of people gave up on repayments and the banks repossessed their houses. These houses will be

Entering the auction process, although it is mid-2002, there are still a considerable number of houses that have not been sold. For those with connections, it is not a big problem to obtain some houses.

After Jimmy agreed to some conditions, the agency began to find a suitable house for him. It should not be too far from Manhattan, the price was suitable, and the house should be larger.

The rest of the matter was left to the agency, and Jimmy went back to rest. However, he couldn't rest on vacation. As soon as Jimmy got home, he received a call from Ruiz: "Jimmy, are you still in New York?"

Jimmy: "Yes, I'm at home."

Ruiz: "Get ready, I'll pick you up."

Jimmy: "Wait a minute, I was put on leave by Hughes. Is it appropriate to participate in the case now?"

Ruiz: "I'll call Hughes. You wait for me downstairs." After that, he hung up the phone.

Jimmy rushed back to the bedroom, put on his suit and two gun holsters, and went straight downstairs. Not long after, Ruiz drove up and Jimmy got into the passenger seat.

Ruiz: "Fxxk, there was a bank robbery in Queens. Four gunmen entered the bank and took the manager hostage. A clerk triggered the silent alarm and now the NYPD has surrounded the bank."

Jimmy: "What does that have to do with us? Is this the responsibility of the Queens office?"

Ruiz patted the steering wheel: "The tattoo on one of the robbers' arms has been identified as a member of the MS13 gang. Now we have to rush over to see how deeply they are involved."

MS13 is a Hispanic gang that originated in Los Angeles, USA. In the 1980s, civil war broke out in El Salvador. A large number of refugees left their homes and went to the United States. Among them were some members of the Salvadoran guerrillas. They initially formed a gang in the 13th neighborhood of Los Angeles, and later as

For some reason, their gang gathered a large number of refugees from Honduras and El Salvador.

In order to survive, these refugees must join gangs to ensure safety. M13 broke out completely. They have many members from South America to Canada, and a large proportion of them are in the United States. According to FBI files, there are gangs in more than 40 states in the United States.

There are clear M13 gang members. According to incomplete statistics, there are at least 10,000 members in the United States alone.

Later, they developed members from prisons. The large-scale joining of these senior criminals allowed M13 to embark on the route of large-scale violent crimes. They were involved in criminal cases such as smuggling, drugs, robbery, and murder. They were involved in various crimes in New York.

In the Hispanic community in the area, you can also find guys with M13 gang tattoos.

With the crackdown by the FBI and the police, gangs usually regulate their underworld business. Usually such gangs will not get involved in cases such as bank robberies. It is easy for the entire local gang to be implicated. Strictly speaking, the major gangs in New York usually

People below will be asked to avoid such cases.

Jimmy had also read the information before. He recalled the information he had read before and asked Ruiz: "When did MS13 start robbing banks again?"

Ruiz: "There has never been a case of them robbing a bank in recent times. I don't know. We will go to the scene and see what happens."

Ruiz drove to the Springfield, Queens, area. The bank was surrounded by layers of people, and agents from the FBI's Brooklyn-Queens Field Office were already in place.

The FBI New York Division has a regional headquarters, the Manhattan Office, as well as the Brooklyn-Queens Office, which covers Brooklyn and Queens; the Hudson Valley Office, which covers Dutchess, Orange and Sullivan; and the John F. Kennedy Field Office.

Kennedy International Airport; the Long Island office, which covers Nassau and Suffolk counties; and the Westchester office, which covers Putnam, Rockland and Westchester.

Generally, if other areas are involved in the Manhattan office, the supervisor will coordinate other offices to handle the matter on site. Of course, it is no problem to send people directly from the Manhattan office to the site.

"How is the situation now?" Ruiz came to the scene and found the FBI agent's location to ask, with Jimmy following him.

"Four robbers have been surrounded. Two robbers can be seen in the bank lobby. There are 18 hostages in the lobby, including employees. They are all concentrated in the lobby. The two robbers are hiding in the blind corner. We are starting from

Can't be seen from the outside.

The location of the other two robbers is not known yet, but it is speculated that they may be in the vault area inside the bank. The van over there is the car they drove when they came, and they did not leave the driver in the car."

"Have you got the structural drawings of the bank's architecture?"

"I got it. It's currently with the ESU team, and they are formulating a strategy."

"Have you identified the robber?"

"No, there is currently only one person with part of the tattoo exposed on his right forearm, which can be considered to be the tattoo of the M13 gang. The others are all masked and have no body parts exposed, so there is no way to confirm."

Ruiz did not continue talking, but walked towards the ESU team. The ESU team is New York's SWAT. They have arranged for negotiators, but the negotiators are now shouting at the door of the bank to talk to the inside. The robbers did not open the door at all, nor did they

Make a request.

This kind of case where robbers take hostages in a bank is difficult to solve in a short time. It has been more than 2 hours since receiving the call to Jimmy and the others. At this time, the police, FBI, and special police can't do much except wait and besiege.

Because New York is a large city with a well-developed media industry, the leaders above are often unwilling to take responsibility for the loss of hostages caused by a storm. This directly results in the case processing time being extended indefinitely, and the siege may last for several hours or even a day.

occur.

(End of chapter)