Chapter 988 In Hawaii (End)
The Honolulu Courthouse is a zigzag three-story building with white walls and red roofs in a typical tropical plantation period style. There are still several trees in the middle courtyard. Tall palm trees.
You can still see some improved Greek style from the pillars on both sides of the courtyard cloister that are as thick as a person. Although they are not as magnificent as the 10 Corinthian marble pillars in front of the New York Supreme Court, they are still It is also quite local.
Just as Danny had arranged on the phone, the HPD police officers stood in a row in front of the court. When they saw the Ford F150 with flashing police lights, it suddenly stopped at the door of the court. They all paid their attention.
Compared to the mainland, the Hawaiian Islands serve as the command center of the old US Pacific Theater and are also the headquarters of the Pacific Fleet. There are more than 60,000 US soldiers stationed there for a long time, and nearly twice that number. of military dependents.
At the same time, it is also a holy place for tourism and recuperation. Coupled with its extremely strict gun control laws, the security situation is second to none in the United States.
The household gun ownership rate here is less than 10%, and most of them are handguns. The annual number of gun-related casualties is less than a hundred. It can be said that Jack came over for a vacation and single-handedly increased this number several times. percentage points.
Therefore, even serious crime teams like "Five-O" do not carry "heavy firepower" such as assault rifles with them during their daily operations. The shotgun Cheng Hao had before was the one Jack currently has. The only long gun I saw.
Similarly, although the HPD police officers posted around the court at this time are three steps and one sentry, they are not fully armed. Most of them even don’t even have bulletproof vests because of the hot weather. None were equipped.
Perhaps for this reason, when they saw the four people getting on and off the F150, these police officers had unconcealable surprise in their eyes.
Danny and Cheng Hao were quite normal. Although they were quite hot in their bulletproof vests, they didn't look embarrassed. However, Jack and Julie seemed a bit eye-catching.
After trekking in the tropical jungle for most of the day, Julie's original thin shirt had long been turned into rags. If it weren't for the bulletproof vest that Jack put on her, her beauty would have been leaked by now.
Jack was even more exaggerated. He was covered in mud and water, and he took off his shirt in order to bandage the wound. Now he walked out of the car with a bandage around his waist, and his well-defined muscles were exposed in the sun. It was extremely conspicuous, and at first glance he looked like a governor who had just had a fight with the Predator.
The four of them trotted all the way into the court. A beautiful female prosecutor had already been waiting in the corridor. Seeing Julie appear, the tense look on her face obviously relaxed.
However, when her eyes fell on Jack, she was stunned. She opened her mouth and forgot what she wanted to say for a moment.
"Prosecutor Roberts?" Cheng Hao obviously knew the female prosecutor and said hello.
“Ah!” The female prosecutor came back to her senses, and with great difficulty she looked away from Jack, and nodded to Julie, “I have spare shoes and clothes in the car, follow me. Come on, we have to get ready."
Julie turned around and hugged Jack, murmuring words of gratitude, "Thank you Jack, thank you for everything you have done for me. He is my hero."
"Okay, it's okay, go change clothes first, I will wait outside."
Jack comforted the girl and looked at her. After following the female prosecutor to leave, he also found a bathroom nearby to clean up briefly.
Both Danny and Cheng Hao were quite different in stature from Jack. In the end, he had to temporarily borrow a spare shirt from the police officer on duty outside to get him out of the dilemma of being noticed and saluted from time to time.
Danny patted Jack's shoulder with emotion, "It's really unexpected that the guy who was as thin as a wooden pole turned out to be"
Before he could finish his emotion, Cheng Hao's cell phone The ringtone interrupted what he was saying, and Kono's anxious voice could be heard by the two people next to him without turning on the speakerphone. "The facial recognition program has produced results. The scavenger is an assistant attorney in Ellen Brenner's legal team. She is a blond female, five feet seven inches (170 cm). She should be in the court now."
"Shit!" The three of them were shocked, and they all saw the look of horror in each other's eyes.
"I'll look along the corridor. You go to the prosecutor's office and the court, and notify the police outside." Jack turned and rushed in the direction where Julie and the prosecutor left not long ago.
Unfortunately, he underestimated the size of the court, and besides, this was not the court in New York or Los Angeles that he was familiar with. He ran around the second floor and asked several staff members but could not find out whether Julie and The whereabouts of the prosecutor.
Just when Jack was anxious, Kono, who had just arrived, appeared at the top of the stairs and greeted him loudly, "Jack, here!"
At this time, in the southeast corner of the court , Prosecutor Roberts and Julie, who had just changed into clean formal clothes, were introduced into a conference room. The blond woman holding a memorandum made an inviting gesture to them with a fake smile on her face.
"Where is the chief defense lawyer you are talking about? What kind of plea deal are you planning to propose?" The female prosecutor looked at the woman with a strange smile in confusion.
This woman had been following Ellen Brenner's defense team as an assistant attorney. Just now, she stopped the two of them when she was taking Julie to the waiting area of the court, saying that her client planned to plead guilty and provide a list.
The female prosecutor did not doubt that he was there, and after a brief discussion with Julie, she planned to listen to the specific conditions proposed by the other party.
Right now, Alan Brenner has more than one case. No matter what conditions they propose, as long as he can be sent to jail first, there will be two felony murder cases and two cases against HPD officers. Attempted murder charges await federal agents.
But now it would be an unexpected gain if the other party could proactively reveal the names of some leaders of the Baja drug cartel, so the female prosecutor readily accepted the other party's proposal.
The female assistant lawyer said that the chief defense lawyer was waiting for the two people in the conference room, but after entering the room, there was no one inside. Before the female prosecutor realized that something was wrong, Julie had already subconsciously frowned.
"Wait a moment, he will be here soon." The blond woman put the file in her hand on the table. Using the cover of the table, she pulled up her suit skirt sideways, pulled out a pistol with a silencer from the base of her leg and pointed it at both sides. people.
At this critical moment, along with the sound of hurried footsteps, Kono and Jack finally arrived in time.
Kono, who was rushing in front, grabbed the woman's right hand holding the gun and twisted off her pistol. Jack, who was following behind, came to a sudden stop and inserted the half-drawn pistol into his hand. Went back.
Because he had nothing else to do at the moment, Jack kicked away the pistol that fell on the ground and took several steps back to give him enough space.
The two women were already grappling with each other. The blonde woman was no match at all. It seemed that she had no systematic fighting training other than being able to use a gun. She just scratched her face and choked her neck.
On the other hand, although Kono was a little thinner, he had obviously gone through formal police academy training. He used every move in a precise manner and easily suppressed the opponent.
When Danny and Cheng Hao arrived in a hurry, they just happened to see Kono knocking the blonde woman to the ground with a beautiful side kick.
(End of this chapter)