Chapter 628: Motive

Before noon, Liu Cheng had the suspect brought in for questioning.

According to regulations, criminal evidence must be determined within 24 hours. If it is deemed necessary to detain, a criminal detention must be processed before the suspect can be sent to the detention center.

Criminal detention can last for 3 days. If the case is deemed complex, it can be extended to 7 days. For multiple offenses, group crimes, or cross-jurisdictional crimes, it can be extended to 30 days.

And all of the above do not count as an arrest at the legal level!

An arrest requires clarifying the main criminal facts and collecting the main criminal evidence, then preparing a "Request for Approval of Arrest," sending it to the Procuratorate, and waiting for the Procuratorate to approve it within 7 days before preparing an "Arrest Warrant" to execute the arrest.

Therefore, if a friend has been formally arrested, generally speaking, there is no need to hold onto any fluke. As long as you see the arrest warrant, you don't even need to think about a suspended sentence; it's definitely a real prison sentence. Because if a suspended sentence is given after an arrest, the Procuratorate would be held accountable. Without detailed evidence, you cannot get an arrest warrant.

By the time the suspect Yue Hanwei entered the interrogation room, the Zhengguang Bureau chief had also arrived at the Criminal Police Detachment, and Tao Lu personally played the surveillance footage found by Jiang Yuan and the others for him.

On the 42-inch television, in the corner of the video, two people were engaged in a fierce shoving match. A few seconds later, one person was pushed out of the surveillance range, and the pusher immediately rushed out.

The bureau chief watched very carefully, repeatedly asking people to rewind and pause to see the faces and figures clearly, and then compared them with the captured suspect, Yue Hanwei.

After a long time, the bureau chief let out a long breath and said, "Looks like the same person."

"The image enhancement done by Jiang Yuan is very clear," the political commissar said from the side.

The bureau chief waved his hand and said, "This is our first—well, second cooperation. We still have to focus on ourselves. Whatever needs to be verified must be verified. Otherwise, if any problems arise in the future, we will be the ones held accountable."

The political commissar and Tao Lu looked at each other, not daring to say anything.

The bureau chief was suspicious. Indeed, the case was solved too quickly, which made people wonder if there were any fraudulent components. This kind of thing, regardless of the proportion, has happened before. For example, the Zhang family uncle-nephew case reported by public media. At that time, the head of the pre-trial detachment, Nie Haifen, convicted them through various means in the extreme lack of evidence. And this was in Hangzhou, which claims to have a very high level of civilization.

Even worse was a drug enforcement detachment leader in the Northwest who stuffed 1 kilogram of drugs into the trunk of a taxi driver and then arrested him...

It must be said that the two people mentioned above were also local "famous detectives." Nie Haifen even appeared on CCTV and won the title of "March 8th Red Banner Holder." Even the case she used to corroborate in the program was the Zhang family uncle-nephew case.

However, it is very normal for criminal police to have doubts. Tao Lu himself checked it repeatedly; he just didn't say anything.

The technicians from the image investigation detachment were quickly called over to re-evaluate the image enhancement done by Jiang Yuan and the original version of the surveillance video.

He had actually already evaluated it; the service object was the detachment leader Tao Lu sitting opposite him. But Tao Lu didn't speak, so he pretended not to know and evaluated it again in a proper manner, then said, "Bureau Chief, the video is the original version, unedited. The image enhancement is also fine. The technology is very good. From a technical level, it meets the requirements."

"Can it be used in court?" The bureau chief's requirement was higher than just providing clues.

The technician evaluated it twice and said affirmatively, "It should be possible."

"Hmm." The bureau chief nodded, then picked up a photo that had been printed out and looked at it for a while, saying, "Did you not notice this surveillance footage before?"

"This footage was beyond our estimated time of death," Tao Lu said cautiously. "It was Jiang Yuan who re-determined the time of death and re-read the video footage of that day before finding this."

The bureau chief sighed to himself. He also regretted the cost spent, but his side just couldn't pierce this layer of window paper.

Turning his head, the bureau chief asked, "In that case, this Yue Hanwei is a major suspect. What is his relationship with the victim?"

"Currently, they are neighbors living upstairs and downstairs. The victim lives on the first floor, and Yue Hanwei lives on the 16th floor," Tao Lu replied.

"What kind of upstairs and downstairs is that?" The bureau chief frowned and asked, "Do they have any economic dealings?"

"None found so far."

"Social relationship?"

Tao Lu shook his head: "Currently, there isn't any. The two have no phone records, and no WeChat contact..."

The political commissar added from the side: "The spouses were also cross-checked, and nothing was found for the time being."

The bureau chief said "Hmm." Just the neighbor relationship between the two doesn't count for anything in modern life. How many people live for ten or twenty years without knowing who their neighbors are? In contrast, if one of them had been the "neighbor next door" (an affair), the case would have been half-solved.

However, the bureau chief himself knew this wasn't easy. When this case was still in the current case stage, there were similar investigations. Although it wasn't as accurate as this pair-by-pair matching, the phones of the victim and the spouse had long been turned upside down, including the victim's deleted messages, which had all been recovered from the server. ===== CHAPTER 629 =====

However, the Bureau Chief himself knew this was not easy. When this case was still in the active investigation stage, there had been similar inquiries. Although they were not as accurate as this time's pairing, the mobile phones of the victims and their spouses had long been turned inside out, including the messages deleted by the victims, which had also been recovered from the servers for the recent period.