North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 400 Investigating Ma Hong

In the end, Jimmy didn't call Hughes, mainly because he didn't know what to say. No matter what, Mahone was the boss of the homicide team. Although he had just arrived, now was the time for him to establish his authority. At this time, Jimmy If you let your superiors put pressure on you, something will definitely happen, something will happen internally.

Jimmy investigated all the addresses, and after marking them on the map, he started investigating from lower Manhattan in order from south to north.

There are more than a dozen ships involved, and only a few clubs are involved. The problem is not big. The biggest problem for Jimmy and the others is actually how to get them to be willing to provide information, because for the clubs, protecting the privacy of their guests is what they consider most important.

Mahone doesn't need Jimmy to lead the way in. He has been an agent for a long time and certainly knows how to communicate with people in these places. In fact, Jimmy is more like a driver now.

Ma Hong did not go in with great fanfare. Instead, he communicated with a security guard and asked him to notify the supervisor inside to come out for a meeting. After briefly confirming his identity, Ma Hong made a request to contact the club management. He looked at the three people in front of him. The FBI agent in a sharp suit and the security director are also a bit of Muggles, so they can only enter the club on their own to make contact.

It would be better for the three of them not to go in. If they disturb other guests, it will be troublesome. Although it is not certain whether there are guests inside now, the security director must be careful.

After a while, a tall middle-aged beauty wearing a white women's suit walked out. She came to Ma Hong, who was standing at the front, and shook hands: "Michelle Levi, the manager here."

Mahone shook hands with her, then took out his ID and showed it: "FBI Special Agent Alexander Mahone, these two are Ms. Felicia and Jimmy Levi..."

Michelle: "Just call me Michelle."

Mahone: "OK, Michelle, can you show us around your club?"

Ruiz glanced at Jimmy, then looked toward the roadside, "What's the problem?"

Ma Hong shook his head: "The GPS location is meaningless. What we need is their customer list, and they will definitely not give this information."

Mahone: “Can I see your marina?”

Michelle: "Please provide the ship number, and my colleagues will read the relevant information." At this time, her expression and voice had returned to their normal state, and they were less intimate and more business-like. appearance.

Ma Hong: "Michelle, we are here to check the trajectory records of the three yachts with you. Please help us."

The past few days since he came here were fine before, but since we started investigating the case, I suddenly found that he seemed to be in a bad state. How should I put it, during the process of handling the case, he was too nervous. If I didn't know what the case was, What just happened, I suspected that he knew the suspect’s situation, or even that he was the suspect.”

Michelle turned and left, while Mahone and Jimmy were waiting there. It was obvious that Michelle was very professional, and even though she had a slight affection for Mahone, she still did not forget her responsibilities.

Michelle: "That boat is not here currently. It is a long-term charter yacht. It left the club a week ago and is expected to return next week."

Ruiz has not given Jimmy the file yet, and he has not pressed for it. His relationship with Ruiz has gone far beyond the ordinary relationship between colleagues. If there were no problems, Ruiz would never forget to give him the file. Now he must be investigating what he thinks is wrong. But Jimmy has no idea what's going on. Ever since Mahone arrived, everything seems to have gone wrong. Is his bad luck coming again?

Ruiz threw the cigarette butt to the ground, turned around and went upstairs. Jimmy didn't move, and still stood there until he finished smoking his cigarette.

Jimmy called Ruiz, the best tool man, and invited him to go downstairs and smoke together. Well, this reason was really ridiculous. Everyone was on the same floor, and they still had to call to make an appointment. Everyone knew he was busy.

There was a smile on Mahone's face, and finally it was no longer gloomy. Jimmy looked at the clubs corresponding to the three boats. One of them belonged to the club they went to two days ago and was rented on a long-term basis. That yacht.

Michelle turned to look at Ma Hong, and then understood the purpose of their visit. After thinking for a while, she nodded: "For safety, each ship has a black box, which will record the coordinates and time of their travel. As for monitoring, Sorry, due to customer privacy considerations, there is no surveillance on all yachts."

Michelle shook her head: "This involves our customers' private information. I need to ask for permission. Please wait."

Felicia: "There is another ship that is not at the dock currently, the one with the tail number 15."

Jimmy watched Ma Hong communicate with Michelle and was really dissatisfied. Although in his opinion, Ma Hong still looked very serious, but it was obviously very in line with the senses of a mature woman like Michelle. To be honest, if there were no As for Felicia and Jimmy, maybe she would want something to happen.

Felicia took out the information and pointed at the two docked cruise ships, and the two of them entered them respectively.

Michelle nodded and led them out of the club building and into the dock area behind.

Jimmy looked at Mahone, who was deep in thought, and felt something was wrong. Did he use too much force? Yes, the serial murder case was very serious, but was Mahone a little too involved?

Felicia looked at Mahone, her eyes seemed to twinkle. She must know something. Jimmy was looking at her from the side. Frankly speaking, the black girl Jimmy was not interested, but Mahone's current state made him feel that it seemed that You should find a way to find out about Ma Hong. Such a boss is very stressful.

Michelle was stunned for a moment. She originally thought she would talk about things straight to the point, but then nodded: "Of course, please."

Standing at the dock and looking at the Hudson River in front of him, Jimmy's thoughts just now became more and more intense. If it weren't for handling a case, he would have wanted to inquire about the rental price directly. He had played on the Mississippi River with Carg before. Shooting fish is not really a fun thing to do, and even going out to sea to fish is a good idea. The thought comes out as soon as it comes up, and only a young man like him who has no psychological burden can do this.

There were two ships with the same hull number at the dock. Mahone turned to look at it. Felicia nodded. Then he asked the key question: "Michelle, do these ships have GPS? There are also surveillance videos."

Ruiz thought for a while and took two puffs of cigarette before saying: "I think I roughly understand his condition. I will check it for you and don't contact anyone else."

Mahone: "There were two cases involving several yachts that were on the Hudson River at the time, and we have obtained the ship's hull numbers from the Port Authority."

Jimmy: "How to deal with it?"

This time Mahone did not go to the scene to investigate in person. He directly asked Felicia to contact the New Zealand Port Authority to re-investigate the information about the ships on the Hudson River last night. Yes, after they saw the location of the body, they immediately

It is certain that if these three cases were committed by one person, he must have used a boat to move on the river.

Jimmy: "No, that's not the case, you know me. I don't care if a boss comes, even if it's an airborne stranger, it doesn't matter.

After waiting for a long time, Michelle came back with two people who looked like technicians behind her, each carrying a box.

Michelle pursed her lips tightly and kept thinking in her mind, "Can you tell me why?"

Jimmy: "I went out to smoke a cigarette." Jimmy didn't wait for their reply, turned around and left the office. Mahone seemed to have not heard Jimmy's voice at all. He had been deep in thought, and Felicia turned to look at Jimmy.

, glanced at Ma Hong again, but did not move.

Ruiz didn't let Jimmy wait long. After smoking two cigarettes, he went downstairs and came to Jimmy's side, "Give me one."

A clue was interrupted again, and there was no need for the subsequent yacht club to continue the investigation, and the case fell into darkness again.

After receiving the call, the Jersey City Police Department checked the identity of the female body but was unable to verify it. Finally, they contacted the NYPD, and the same three cases were successfully merged.

Time passed slowly, and after three days, the bad news came again. The NYPD once again transferred a case, the same female corpse as the previous two cases, but this time the case was not in the Hudson River Park, but in the

Next door to the river in Jersey City.

Jimmy: "No, it's my first time to go to this kind of club, but I can ask someone."

Jimmy took out the cigarette case and gave Ruiz a cigarette. Ever since he came to Manhattan, he had been buying cigarettes from an old store in Chinatown. However, the cigarette case was so ugly that he had to disassemble and reassemble it every time.

Put it in your cigarette case.

But when they started reading the data, they discovered that the GPS positioning error was a bit large. The Hudson River was not very wide, and the actual recorded position in the GPS records was not accurate as to whether it was on the bank or on the other side of the river.

This is a big joke. If the yacht does not dock, it is impossible for the people on it to fly directly to the shore. Without monitoring, there is no way to judge whether the two ships are there based on these GPS records.

Did you dock when passing through the Hudson River Park?

Jimmy: "Shall we investigate now?"

Taking out the lighter given by the homeless man and reaching out to light Ruiz's cigarette, Jimmy said: "Ruiz, do me a favor."

After Felicia got the shipping information from the New Zealand Port Authority, she compared it with the ships discovered last time. Three yachts that had appeared in the past few days surfaced.

Jimmy was very conflicted. This was the first time he took the initiative to investigate his boss. He was still worried about his condition, not for himself. However, this kind of behavior was really unacceptable. The last time he investigated Nia's information, he had already been punished.

I have been struggling for a long time, and now I have asked Ruiz to help me investigate Mahone. It would be strange if I didn't struggle.

As a team, Jimmy doesn't want his boss to be in a tight situation. If something goes wrong, it may cause greater damage, whether to himself or the game.

Michelle did not refuse Mahone's request. There were not many boats at the dock. Mahone listened to Michelle's introduction. Later, Felicia and Jimmy began to check the three small yachts of this club. , in fact, it is more like a fishing boat, with a driver's cab and a small cabin in the front, and a deck in the back.

Jimmy: "Not sure yet, but he makes me very uncomfortable."

Mahone: "Jimmy, do you know any rich people? Preferably someone with a yacht club membership."

Ruiz: "Would you like to come to my place? I can go find Hughes."

The scene where the third female body was found in Jersey City was the same as the two in the park. There was no surveillance information around. The NYPD had already investigated it once with the cooperation of the Jersey City Police Department.

Sure enough, Mahone and Felicia were sitting in their respective seats and were continuing to check information. These were mainly information from the Manhattan office and previous cases. When Jimmy first arrived at the homicide unit, he also spent a long time. It takes time to get familiar with these, and I even paused the progress of familiarizing myself with the information because of the disgusting plot, so as not to become mentally abnormal.

Ma Hong said nothing and stood up and looked out the window.

Ruiz nodded with a cigarette in his mouth, and Jimmy continued: "Help me check my current boss, Alexander Mahone. I want to see his information."

Ma Hong nodded: "Thank you very much."

It takes a long time to read the data, and with the transcoding, it was nearly an hour before the two staff members got the data, but it also made Jimmy and the others understand that investigating other yacht clubs later would be a big trouble.

After thanking Michelle again for her cooperation, they did not continue. Instead, they returned to the office with these two pieces of data. As the first sample, they needed to get familiar with it as soon as possible. Michelle said that this was considered the first sample in their industry. It is a common practice, so with this record, it will be much easier to deal with other people after you understand how to deal with it.

Jimmy threw the cigarette butt on the ground, turned around and went upstairs. After a while, Mahone must have returned to normal. After all, there are no clues now, and his mind should be away from the case.

He was so preoccupied, and there were so many twists and turns in his head. Jimmy looked at Mahone standing at the window looking outside, and really couldn't guess what his plan was.

Michelle took Mahone in front, Jimmy and Felicia behind, and the four of them entered the club together. It was Jimmy's first time in a place like this, so he just took the opportunity to take a look. There were people in front explaining things together, both public and private. Yes. Although I say that I am not a rich person, it seems that I still have enough money to rent a yacht. I can take Nia out for a spin if I have the opportunity in the future.

Ma Hong: "Please keep it confidential."

Jimmy: "Well, our man, Peter from the white-collar group, should know a lot of people like this."

Ma Hong: "I know him, you go ahead."

Jimmy turned and left the office. He hadn't seen Peter for a long time. It was too impolite to make a phone call, so he might as well go there by himself. If the people around Jimmy knew wealthy people, they probably only had Nia and her father. Next up are Peter and Hughes. Forget about Hughes, Peter is easier to talk to.

(End of chapter)