Chapter 42: Rapid Case Closure

The urgent footsteps accompanied by the knocking on the door woke Officer Lukaer from his half-asleep state. He cursed two dirty words, then squeezed out some smiles to look at the duty policewoman at the door, "So the rebels have reached the Presidential Palace, right?"

The recent outbreak of the immigration issue had caused a huge stir, and there were people gathering outside the Presidential Palace to protest the federal government's "inaction" on illegal immigration and smuggling issues. Some people jokingly used "occupying the Presidential Palace" to call on people to stand up against the government doing nothing.

Being called up in his dazed night shift, he definitely had to vent some dissatisfaction.

It could be understood as dissatisfaction with the status quo, and it could also be understood as a complaint about the system.

The policewoman's originally serious expression couldn't help but laugh out loud after a brief astonishment. She seemed to realize that this was actually very bad, and hurriedly said, "A serious home invasion robbery and injury case has occurred, the branch needs you."

The criminal investigation team of the Jincheng Police Department was set up under the headquarters. After the branch received a criminal case, it would be handed over to the headquarters for case allocation. The branch did not have the right to handle criminal cases.

Of course, "handling" here didn't mean that branch police ignored criminal cases when they saw them. They still had the responsibility to stop crimes and arrest criminals on the spot, but the investigation work of the case would be completely handed over to the headquarters' criminal investigation team, which would integrate and unify the city's resources to solve the case.

This belonged to a kind of resource optimization.

Officer Lukaer was one of the three criminal investigation officers on duty at the headquarters tonight. The other two had already left. The night in Jincheng was not safe.

He patted his legs to stand up, rubbed his face, bit a cigarette, and walked toward the door. The policewoman hurriedly followed behind him and gave him a note with rough information on it.

Lukaer drove to the crime scene, Jonny's bakery, very quickly. He put on gloves, crossed the cordon, and came into the bakery.

There were already many colleagues working here, collecting evidence and so on. The person in charge of the scene was the night patrol officer of the branch.

"Hi...", the two knew each other. Lukaer walked to his side, handed him a cigarette, and they smoked together again, "What's the situation?"

The patrol officer briefly explained, "Someone reported a home invasion violent robbery. Just now the hospital said more than twenty fractures, and more than a thousand dollars were robbed."

Lukaer noticed some labeled bags placed on a table. These were evidence.

Among them, several bags of bread packed in kraft paper attracted his attention, "What's inside here?"

"Bread and ham."

Officer Lukaer opened one of them and whistled, "Looks like they left their midnight snack behind." He turned to look at the patrol officer, "What do you think?"

The patrol officer briefly explained some situations he found, "No signs of violent break-in. The windows are all locked, no signs left by climbing, the only door that can enter has two fans, no problems, they entered and exited from the main entrance."

"The main entrance is also intact?"

"Is it possible they picked the lock core?"

Ordinary people might not understand too much, but as an officer, he knew very well that the current lock is actually not too safe. People with good skills can easily pick it open, and it won't leave any traces.

The patrol officer shook his head, "The lock is inside."

Officer Lukaer raised his eyebrows, "Then when the shop owner was victimized, there should have been a second person in this bakery."

The patrol officer nodded, "The bakery's apprentice."

The case was basically figured out. He glanced at those paper bags again, packed very skillfully, and at a glance, it was work often done.

If there was only bread or only ham inside, perhaps it couldn't explain anything.

But putting these two things together, it was obvious there was a problem.

Because after putting bread and ham together, the flavors would cross-contaminate. The flavor of the ham would erode onto the bread. As a commodity, neither the shop owner nor the clerk would make such a mistake.

Then it could only explain that this was done outside of work.

Looking at the bread crumbs left everywhere on the ground, he had already deduced the process of the case in his heart, "Where is the person?"

"Went to the hospital with his boss."

"This kind of case really shouldn't be handed over to us.", he couldn't help complaining. A case that could be understood at a glance, there was absolutely no need to waste police resources.

Most importantly, there was absolutely no need to disturb his rest!

The patrol officer smiled, "Actually I don't want to either, but this is the rule."

The two shook hands, and Officer Lukaer returned to outside the cordon, drove the car to call the radio to request support, and returned directly to the headquarters. Catching people didn't need him to go out.

And at this time, Jonny had just fallen asleep.

His two arms were broken into seven or eight sections. According to the doctor, they wouldn't be able to heal at all for six months, and even if they healed, they would leave some deformities, and it would be difficult for both hands to bear heavy movements in the future.

Like kneading dough, don't even think about it. The apprentice who heard this had been enduring very hard, but his face still showed a strange happiness.

"Your boss has medical insurance, this is good news, but there are some non-medical insurance expenses here that need to be settled, for example, the ambulance fee, you'd better notify his family."

Not long after, the boss's daughter and her boyfriend came. The apprentice had heard that she had a boyfriend. This was the first time he saw him, skin slightly dark, looking like he was in his thirties.

"How is Jonny?", she asked the apprentice hurriedly as soon as she arrived. The apprentice explained the general situation.

Just as he was comforting the boss's daughter, two officers walked over, "... Sir (apprentice), we need you to cooperate and explain the situation at that time."

The apprentice comforted the boss's daughter two sentences, hurriedly followed the two officers and left.

It's just that he didn't have any experience. According to reason, if he was just a victim, the record should only be done in a quiet place.

But he was taken directly back to the headquarters and sent into the interrogation room.

At this time, he also felt something was wrong.

When Officer Lukaer came in with a writing board, it was already ten minutes later. The "quietness" during this time not only didn't make his heart calm down, but instead made him become uneasy.

The moment he saw Officer Lukaer come in, he stood up subconsciously, wanting to say something, but didn't know how to start.

Officer Lukaer sat opposite him, signaling him to sit down, "Smoke?"

The apprentice shook his head, "No, thank you."

Officer Lukaer took one out for himself, "Mind?"

"No."

He lit it, took a deep breath, "Can you tell me why you wanted to hurt your boss?"

The apprentice was stunned for a while, and immediately denied, "I didn't do that!", his innocent expression made Officer Lukaer feel a bit funny, too fake, acting skills didn't pass.

Here he had seen all kinds of criminals, some with bad acting skills.

There were also those with good acting skills that made him doubt whether he had caught the wrong person, whether he had made a mistake in the evidence.

The young man in front of him belonged to the one with bad acting skills; he couldn't hide his emotions.

"The door lock is internal. In other words, someone opened the door for them, let them in. There were two people in the house, you weren't injured, your boss was not only robbed of money but also seriously injured. Do you think this is a coincidence?"

The apprentice was already sweating all over, and his body was trembling slightly. There was a feeling of hunger and wanting to take a dump. He was still trying hard to defend himself, "Maybe... we just forgot to lock the door at night."

Officer Lukaer laughed out loud, "The bread you packed for those people they forgot to take, there are your fingerprints on it, and theirs too."

Looking at the apprentice who was completely stunned, Officer Lukaer shook his head. For such a simple small case, disturbing his rest in the middle of the night really made people speechless.

He was lazy and had no interest at all, "Write down their names, and how you planned it, you also have to write it down. This way I will plead for you to the judge, at most I'll give you a prison sentence of two or three years."

"If we investigate it ourselves, home invasion violent robbery is a felony. If they say all this was planned by you, you might face a prison sentence of more than ten years."

"There is no controversy in this kind of case. Even if you don't say it, I investigate your social interpersonal relationships, and I can also find this group of people."

"I say this, besides looking at the fact that you are not old, it is also because I don't want to waste unnecessary police force and time on your small case."

"You have already made a mistake!"

The apprentice sat blankly for a long time. There was only one question in his brain that had been bothering him: don't movies and storybooks say that police are all retarded?

So... it hadn't even been an hour, and he had already been caught?

About two or three minutes later, his whole body suddenly tensed up, but soon became relaxed again. He lowered his head and started to confess the names of those people, as well as his own motive for committing the crime.

When hearing that he just wanted to find a way to learn his boss's recipes and technology, he took the initiative to invite people to create this case, Officer Lukaer's brain couldn't turn the corner either.

In the end, he looked at the record signed by the apprentice, touched his eyebrows, even if he cooperated with the investigation, it was still more than five years.

From the causal relationship of law, he was the mastermind of the whole case, the planner, and those people were actually just the implementers.

The degree of hatred of the law for the mastermind is far higher than that for the implementer!

He looked at the apprentice for the last time with pity, "I hope this time's matter can let you get a lesson, child." ===== CHAPTER 43 =====