Chapter 671 Discovery in the Junkyard
Although Mark Vasco cautiously turned off his mobile phone as soon as he got off the plane, the high-end Mercedes-Benz he drove later could not turn off its on-board GPS.
The FBI obtained his vehicle information from the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives). By querying GPS information, it was learned that after leaving the airport, he drove to Danbury (southwestern Connecticut). (an industrial city in the center of the country), after a circle, I am now enjoying myself in the Mohegan Sun Casino.
At this time when Jack returned to the operations center, a group of FBI field agents had just taken up position outside the casino. After he issued the confirmation order, the agents swarmed in and arrested him.
“Don’t you need to sleep?” Jubal yawned and walked into the operations center, just in time to see Jack put down the phone.
"You've already slept. Didn't you rest for a long time?" Jack poured him a cup of coffee and tapped the corners of his eyes with his fingers, indicating that this guy hadn't even wiped the shit out of his eyes.
"Thank you, this thing really saved my life." Jubal rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand nonchalantly, drank half the glass in one gulp, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
“When you get to my age, you will realize how rare it is to have a good night’s sleep, maybe after you catch Emma Kane and her accomplices "It's time for me to take a good vacation."
"I can get you some drinks to help you sleep. You may just drink too much coffee." Jack said this, but also gave it to himself. He poured a glass, but he simply wanted to add some sugar to himself. After all, the rest of the work mainly consumed his brain power.
Unexpectedly, Jubal refused and showed a badge, "No, I have given up drinking. I will not touch even Irish coffee."
"Uh, I'm not talking about alcoholic beverages." This was the first time Jack had seen such a thing as an alcohol-free badge. He took it and looked at it carefully. It was just an ordinary small badge made of brass, with the words " First anniversary lettering and some religious patterns.
Jubal seems to have mentioned that he had a history of alcoholism, which led to a crisis in his marriage that eventually ended in divorce and the loss of custody of his two children.
However, his wife was pretty good and did not completely deprive him of his visitation rights. Otherwise, this man would probably sink into the abyss. Later, Jubal finally repented and stopped drinking, but A heavy price has been paid.
“It’s just pure natural scented tea, with some herbs added to improve male physique.” Jack felt that sooner or later, he would turn the FBI into a meeting where everyone had a thermos cup and wolfberry.
The two men chatted for a while and soon got to the point. Jack spread out a map of Connecticut and marked a circle on one of the locations.
"I suspect that Emma Kane has completed a deal with Mark Vasco. When our agents caught this guy in the casino, he had just lost $50,000 in chips and there was something in his suitcase. $150,000 in cash was also found.
Although this was The bastard is clamoring to see a lawyer and refuses to speak, but I have already informed the on-site agents to send his clothes to the CSI lab to check for traces of explosives."
Jubal finished his drink. With the remaining coffee in the cup, I clicked on the circle on the map. Circle, looked at Jack and asked, "Do you suspect that this location called Eagle Road is their trading location?"
"Yes." Jack took out the GPS tracking record he had obtained before, "Although he detoured It’s a big circle, but I only stayed here for nearly 20 minutes. This is a The remote location of the garbage transfer station is a good place for trading. I plan to go there and take a look. "Bring the CSI people with you. I hope we can find something." Jubal picked up and hummed. He hung up the phone after a few hums and continued.
"Lacroix is on his way over. After Mark Vasco is escorted back, he will be handed over to him for interrogation. There is also the ICE officer Austin Stevens. They should have a lot to talk about."
“You caught that bastard too?” Jack was a little surprised. This was quite efficient. In order to prevent the news from leaking, he specially invited the ICE agent named Gizelle back to the bureau. , just to see what kind of article Emma Kane plans to use Lacroix's daughter.
"It was a secret arrest arranged by Dana herself. ICE doesn't know about it yet. We don't want to alert too many people yet before we deal with Emma Kane."
Very Obviously, both Jubal and Dana Moger were thinking of Jack.
"Then I'll leave this place to you." Jack said and left, picked up the coat hanging on the stool and left the combat center.
First, fill up the gas in the Dodge Hellcat, and then go to the CSI laboratory to meet Mike Taylor. This uncle still has a pair of big eyeballs that seem to never get enough sleep.
As soon as they met, Mike Taylor gave some bad news, "Our people found traces of Semtin on Mark Vasco's clothes." Semtin plastic explosive is Invented by the Czech Republic in the 1950s, it is mainly composed of RDX and PETN, known as "Tyne Explosive", that is, pentaerythritol tetranitrate, with an explosion speed of 5000m/s.
Both of these ingredients are very sensitive, especially the latter, which has long been eliminated in the regular military field. However, pentaerythritol tetranitrate itself is a medicine, which is effective in treating angina pectoris. Very cool.
Therefore, Semtin has been circulating in some underground channels due to its good plasticity and easy availability. When it comes to illegal explosives, not to mention nine out of ten, but at least five or six.
So things eventually developed to the worst possibility. What the Kanes had been planning was not some piecemeal shooting, but something that would make big news in one go and shock the public.
“Today, the price of a pound of semtin on the black market is about $1,500. We need to know how much Mark Vasco traded, even if it is calculated based on the 300,000 cash we have found. At least 200 pounds, enough to completely destroy a medium-sized building."
From the tone of the female boss on the other side of the phone, Jack could imagine her expression at this moment. Shootings are happening frequently now, even on campus. The number of casualties in a case is less than twenty or thirty, and it may not even make national news.
But the bombing is another matter. Once this kind of high explosive detonates in a densely populated building, the casualties can easily reach hundreds. In addition, Emma Kane has launched an attack on the church before. Consider the number of historic religious sites in New York and it’s mind-numbing.
Even someone like Jack, who is not very interested in religion, can casually cite a few examples, such as St. Patrick's Cathedral and St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue. and the Cathedral of St. John on the campus of Columbia University.
Once an explosion occurs in these places of great cultural value and historical significance, it will not be a national news issue. Think about how the fire at Notre Dame in Paris two years ago caused the French people to lose face. The media called it the second 911 incident.
Mark Vasco is destined not to see his lawyer, and the FBI will do everything possible to pry his mouth open, regardless of whether Emma Kane has revealed the target she wants to attack to him.
"There is also Emma Kane's accomplice in ICE, Austin Stevens. Maybe he may know something." Jack's words were somewhat of a revenge, even though the other party was It was directed at Lacroix, but it also caused him to travel back and forth for hundreds of kilometers.
After hanging up the phone with his female boss, he was going to drive Mike Taylor to Connecticut again.
An hour and a half later, the Dodge Hellcat and a work van belonging to the CSI Laboratory parked in a garbage transfer yard.
"We found a total of five pairs of footprints and two types of tire marks left by different people. One was a Ford Raptor F150 and the other was a high-end Mercedes-Benz sedan.
There is no security here. I called to ask According to the person in charge, no staff has been around since last night. It is indeed a quiet and good place for some transactions.”
Mike Taylor’s female partner has big wavy hair. As Stella Bonasilla spoke, she held a very exquisite packaging box and shook it towards Jack.
"Look what I found?"
"What is this?" Jack was a little surprised, why did this look like a toy packaging box.
"What a terrible discovery, a toy car that can be remotely controlled. The car is still inside, but the remote control and the receiver chip in the car are gone." Mike Taylor took the box, opened it, checked it, and gave an unpleasant answer. answer.
"I guess this can be used to detonate bombs remotely?" Jack said nonsense.
Obviously, Emma Kane and her gang did not have some professional knowledge. Mark Vasco not only provided the explosives, but also provided considerate after-sales service and helped them make one on the spot. Remote control bomb.
This discovery made Jack's hands feel itchy. He didn't know what Lacroix's methods were, but he really wanted to go back and loosen the bones of that bastard himself. What the hell was he doing as an arms dealer? With such a professional ethics, do you want to imitate Uncle Cage and become the King of War?
(End of this chapter)