The World of American Drama: From the Los Angeles Patrol

Chapter 42 Arrest ([-])

Zooey turned the laptop in front of her so that the screen was aimed at everyone.

"Max Gibson, only 24 years old, but he has been with the 54th Street gang for more than 10 years."

"He was recently charged with aggravated assault and attempted murder in Victorville and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. The 54th Street Gang will do whatever it takes to help him escape prison, including helping him escape to another state."

Tim nodded and said, "I have an informant in the 54th Street Gang, and he may give us some inside information."

Superintendent Gray ordered: "Talk to your informant."

Tim expressed his understanding, turned and left with Lucy.

Zoe continued: "Very well, the next fugitive is Caleb Yost. In my opinion, he is the most dangerous one."

"This man, 44 years old, is a former bank investor who was sentenced to five years for securities fraud and eight years for resisting arrest and biting off the nose of a deputy sheriff during his arrest."

Everyone who was listening looked at each other in blank dismay.

Superintendent Gray interjected: "The FBI believes that Caleb hid a large amount of cash before he was arrested. It is very likely that he will find a way to retrieve the money and flee to other states with him."

"So we have to find a way to use the FBI's clues to find out where he hid the cash, and then wait for the rabbit?" John thought.

"Then, everyone act. Before Tim learns enough information from his informant, you first visit Caleb's relatives based on the information of the FBI to find out where he hid the cash."

Zoe waved her hand to signal for everyone to disband and act separately.

The duo, Jack and Hannah, visit Caleb Yost's first wife, a former supermodel in her early 30s who has remarried and appears to be in love with her current billionaire husband.

The two left after asking a few simple questions, and returned to the police car. Hannah informed the command center of the latest developments through the radio. The two escaped prisoners have not yet been found.

But there was bad news for Tim, his informant said that the gang member named Max Gibson was unlikely to go back to the 54th Street Gang for help, because the guy had previously hooked up with the gangster Cohen's woman.

Jack almost laughed when he heard the news: "Why did this guy run away? Doesn't he know that staying in prison is the safest thing now?"

Hannah shook her head: "Not necessarily, Victorville's prison level is not high, maybe there are gang members inside who are always trying to kill him."

"It's more troublesome to be killed outside. If the corpse is disposed of by then, our task will be difficult."

Jack shook his head and called John's group over the intercom.

"Hey John, have you found anything over there?"

John's reply came from the intercom: "We just arrived at Caleb Yost's second wife's aunt's house. The volunteer in charge of this community said that she would go to church every day, but she didn't show up today, so..."

"Damn it, I think we need reinforcements, the locks are broken."

Jack and Hannah looked at each other, checked the location reported by John from the police laptop, started the police car, sounded the siren and set out on the road.

"John, be safe, we are nearby and we will be there soon."

Five minutes later, the two arrived at their destination, during which John described the situation on the public channel through the walkie-talkie.

Caleb Yost hid the money in the fireplace at his ex-wife's aunt's house, and when John and Nila Harper arrived, he took the hapless old woman hostage, and they are now jamming the living room fireplace forward.

Jack and Hannah got out of the car and were about to enter the house to help John, when Zoe called again on the intercom.

It turned out that Tim's informant was a former gangster boss who had quit his job. The gangster boy who got his wife was once his subordinate. The informant tricked the gangster boy into his home and informed Tim to arrest him.

As a result, they were discovered by members of the 54th Street gang, and the gang members rushed out and blocked the community where the informant lived. Tim and Lucy had already rushed there, but a large number of police forces were now rushing to John and Jack, and there was no way to support them in time.

According to Tim's report, thirty or forty gang members gathered at the scene, vowing to use blood to dye the color of the hat on the head of their boss back.

Of course, this is Jack's own interpretation, and Lao Mei doesn't say that she wears a cuckold.

But in any case, the situation on Tim's side is actually more dangerous. Once a melee breaks out, the innocent residents of the entire block will be involved.

Zoe asked this side to resolve the hostage-taking incident as soon as possible, while Tim will try to delay the time as much as possible, waiting for Jack and the others and the police reinforcements from other districts to arrive.

"What a mess, it's all coming together." Jack muttered unhappily, and rushed into the house with Hannah.

Seeing the scene in front of them, both of them were a little confused. This was not a normal hostage-taking as imagined. The suspect put a gun on the head of the hostage, and then threatened the police to let him go.

The current situation is that John and Nila Harper guarded the two sides of the living room from the front door and the back door respectively.

The former banker Caleb Yost leaned against the fireplace in the living room in disgrace, with a dozen stacks of knives taken out of the fireplace piled up beside him.

With his right hand he held a rope attached to the trigger of a shotgun that was taped to the shoulder of an elderly woman bound across the living room, the muzzle pointing directly at her head.

Well, this can be regarded as putting the gun on the head of the hostage, but there are a little more links.

John was still yelling at the former banker: "Caleb, it's over, you can't run away."

The expression of the former banker was like that of a desperate lunatic, with his right hand raised high, and the right hand tied to the trigger was raised high, screaming wildly.

"Get out, you bastards, or I'll paint the walls here red with blood."

John is still launching his proficient verbal skills: "Now, what you are facing is only the charge of serious assault, which may make you spend a few more years in prison, but if you kill her"

"To shut up!"

Caleb Yost straightened the rope in his hand and shouted: "Stop talking nonsense with me, I hate prisons, if there is a chance to escape, I will definitely grab it."

"Back me and find someone who can call the shots, or I'm going to pull the trigger."

"Hey, I thought it was a bit silly to tape up Aunt Sally, but now I think I did the right thing."

Seeing this scene, Jack felt relaxed instead, quickly ran through the guy's information in his mind, and immediately had a solution.

He patted John and whispered in his ear: "Don't you think this guy talks too much? Leave it to me."

(End of this chapter)