It was a little after six in the morning....We were on a lonely deserted back road...Some miles outside of Philadelphia's city limits...Lt. Sissy Van Buren, FBI Special Agent in charge, Sharon Ferrell, Myself, Assistant District Attorney ,Keith Wallace...My wife, Detective Carlotta Wallace, Detective Tyriq Pile, Detective Edwin "Duke" Baylor, Detective James "Jimmy" Barlow and Detective Tony "Hop" Hopkins...
We came in one van that was hidden in a wooden area...Detective Hopkins was a little ahead of us..on higher ground with two plain clothes officers, watching with binoculars...He had a walkie talkie with him...Prepared to call him when the car we were waiting for arrived...
Duke and Jimmy and four plain clothes officers all wearing kevlar and armed with shotguns were hidden along the highway...With them were four FBI agents...They too were armed with shotguns...
Carlotta, who for some strange reason chose to wear a white trenchcoat with a pair of black tights and flats and a kevlar vest was stationed a little down the road with Tyriq....She looked hella hot...Those tights accentuated every curve...I was turned on just watching her get dressed this morning before we came to this stakeout.
While I was with Sissy, Agent Ferrell and about five FBI agents....
The first call Sissy got on her walkie talkie came from Tyriq...
"Yes Tyriq..What's up?" said Sissy.
"Lou...I gotta question for you...How come you got me up here with Top and she has a white trench coat on? This is your girl...You should be up here...This is dangerous." he said...He was joking of course...both he and Duke would protect Carlotta with their lives if need be...They thought of her as their little sister.
"I know it's dangerous standing next to chica today...That's why I'm a Lieutenant and am down here where it's safe." said Sissy smiling...
Sharon, The FBI agents and I all smiled and laughed a bit.
"That's cold Lou." said Tyriq laughing...
"Get off this line Rico...before you make us miss an important call."laughed Sissy
who looked at me and gave me the side eye...
"Why did your wife wear a white trench coat?" she asked smiling...
"That one conceals her shotgun better...and the other one is in the cleaners." I said.
Sissy just shook her head...Sharon and her FBI agents laughed..
"Sissy, you're sure your information is good?" asked Special Agent Ferrell...
"I'd bet my badge on it... Ask Agent Cotton about a Private Investigator named Kevin Morris...He has helped us immensely over the years...His information has always been on the one...Agent Cotton will tell you...We've cracked cases nearly impossible to crack thanks to his help...He got this information for me from his numerous street sources...Gave me the make of the car, the plates and the route the car will be traveling." said Sissy.
"A private investigator huh?" said Sharon...
"And a good personal friend of mine." said Sissy.
"Sounds like a good friend to have." said Sharon.
"He is.." said Sissy.
"Lou...Showtime!!!.....The car just passed my checkpoint...The license plate numbers match the numbers you gave me and three guys are in the car..." came the voice of Detective Hopkins..
"Okay...Chica...Tyriq....Here it comes...Intercept.....Duke, Jimmy...fall out." said Sissy.
"Okay Guys...Fan out!" said Sharon as her five FBI agents cocked their shotguns and
moved in closer.
Carlotta pulled a riot pump shotgun from under her trench coat..and was the first on the road, running out toward the car.....
"POLICE!! STOP THE CAR NOW!!!...STOP!" she yelled...
The car began to accellerate...Carlotta fired a loud shot up into the air, then pointed it square at the driver...He jammed on the breaks!!!
Tyriq, glock drawn, ran to one side of the car...While Duke, Jimmy,four plain clothes policemen all armed with shotguns and four FBI agents all brought up the rear.... The three men were shocked!!!!
Cars driving on the adjoining highway slowed down and began to look...People pulled out their smart phones and snapped photos...
Carlotta pulled one door open and pulled the passenger out...Al Campbell...a stone cold killer....She took a .45 off of him and a silencer....I wondered what his orders were after the delivery was made??? Was he supposed to kill the other two?
Tyriq pulled the driver , Willie Rover, another small time hood out of the other side...He had no weapons on him....
Duke pulled the third passenger, David Priestly, another small time hood out of the back seat...He had a .45 and a .38 on him....Duke pulled a sawed off shotgun from under the front seat.
All three men were handcuffed...Jimmy popped open the trunk and yelled...
"Jackpot babyyyy!"
"This is it..All of it!!!!!!..." she said.
"This is it." I said...
"Yup...Case closed...." said Sissy...
II-
He replied -"Go screw yourselves federalis."
He was not going out easy....He fired a shotgun blast out the window of the house...Then broke a window and fired an uzi at the agents....The FBI agents then fired a volley of shots into the house...Fred ran from room to room breaking windows and firing an assortment of guns...
Tyriq , Jimmy and Dr. Hazel Hunter had done a work up on him and had given it to the FBI... High School graduate with serious psychological problems...Did one year of college, expelled for an assault.. Diagnosed as a sociopath while doing a short stint in the state prison for an assault. Word on the street was that Fred didn't mind killing to settle an argument...He was a suspect in the disapearence of a local hood who vanished last year and was never seen again!!
We had traced him to several residences and just missed him...An FBI wiretap got his location from a conversation they overheard by two of the men we took into custody today.
The battle between Fred and The FBI raged on for close to an hour and a half...With Fred dashing from window to window shooting at agents and agents sending volleys of shots into the house...and tear gas......and then .....nothing........His body was discovered in the living room of his house with 14 slugs in it.....His death cleared five murders for Sissy and our unit! we found 13 different guns in the house!!!
Agent Ferrell looked at his body and shook her head....
"So much death...So much waste." she said.
The only two of our guys on the scene was Duke and Hop...They relayed the story to us later.
Willie Rover and David Priestly cut deals...They testified under immunity from prosecution that they were hired by Fred and Arthur Bunker to move that money to a fence in Deleware...The Fence, also in custody cut a deal himself......He named Arthur Bunker as the man he talked to on the phone and met with in Philadelphia , a week before. Only Albert Campbell refused to cut a deal....All we had to hold him on was weapons charges..
III-
He saw Sharon and he smiled....
"You know I'm going to have your badge for this." he said.
"Arthur ,what's going on?" said a bank official..
"I'll tell you what's going on.....This man here engineered the 9 million dollar robbery of your bank that resulted in a security guard losing his life and the deaths of about four or five other people...We recovered that money yesterday and killed his co-conspirator, his younger brother in a shootout!....We are here to arrest this man." said Sharon Ferrell..
"That's preposterous." said one of the men at the boardroom table...
''Arthur is this true? What is the meaning of this?"asked another man.
Arthur ,cool as ever said- "This is nonsense gentlemen,I've been falsely accused, call my attorney...when he gets through with you...None of you will have a job." he sneered..
Sharon tossed the handcuffs on the table...The other gentlemen looked astonished...
"Put the cuffs on Arthur....Your brother is dead....and we have three people who cut deals with us so fast it made my head swim! You are toast....." she said.
"Lies...All Lies....You got nothin...but the words of some criminals...You think a jury will believe some poor white trash beer drinking thugs over me..a Pillar of the community?? You got nothinnnnnn sugar britches!" he sneered...
"We got you playa...You wanted to be in the game!!....Well now you are!!...Put the cuffs on Arthur...You're under arrest for conspiracy to commit Bank Robbery and five counts of first degree murder...You have the right to remain silent....Any thing you say can and will be used against you in a court of law...If you can't afford an attorney, one will be given to you...Do you understand these rights? Of course you do..." she said.
Sissy pulled him up and Carlotta put the cuffs on him...Sharon smiled...
"I told you I was a patient woman Arthur...I waited a longggg time for you...." she said.
"YOU GOT NOTHIN!!! NOTHIN!!! This can't be happening...I can't be getting arrested... ..I can't be...THIS IS A MISTAKE!!! IT'S A MISTAKE!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM??? I'M ARTHUR BUNKER...UP AND COMING BANK OFFICIAL...I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO GO TO JAIL....NOOOOOOOO!" he screamed as two beefy FBI agents grabbed him and took him away.
"YOU CAN'T DO THIS!!! I AM TOO IMPORTANT TO GO TO JAIL...I'LL HAVE YOUR BADGE!!! WHEN MY LAWYER HEARS ABOUT THIS...YOU'LL SEE,
LET ME GO....LET ME GOOOOO!!!" he screamed as they dragged him down the hall.
"Well... That went well. Thank you so much...All of you...Sissy,ADA Wallace, Carlotta...You tell Angie Belton and Hazel Hunter that when I come back to Philly,we are all going to hang out...Hit the malls on Saturday and go clubbing that night...All us Girls High Girls..." she said.
"That's a bet girl." said Sissy as the two hugged each other... Carlotta smiled broadly.
I laughed....
Sharon grabbed Carlotta and hugged her.....
"I'm so happy for you girl....All married and what not...Sorry I missed your wedding..." she said.
''Sissy, Keith..I couldn't have made this case without you...Thank you soo much...Tell Duke, Tyriq and Jimmy I said thank you and to look for something in the mail from me...I ordered all of you 'FBI -Phila Police Strike Force windbreakers'" she said.
"What about Hop?" I asked.
She smiled slyly...
"Well...I might as well share this, since we are all old friends now... Tony and I are planning to move in together when I come back and we may even get engaged again...I'm seeing him tonight." she said.
"Awwww..That's great" said Sissy.
I put my arm around Carlotta...
"I'm seeing you tonight!" I said...
"You see me every night ...nowww." she said and hugged me...
"Sharon...Don't you two,become all mushy like THEM!" I can't take it..." said Sissy who playfully slapped me and Carlotta on the back...
Sharon smiled...
"Sometimes mush is good." she said.
EPILOUGE:
He had lost that smirk of his by the time they marched him off to death row...In fact...He looked frightened!
Someone put money in the jukebox...A nice slow song came on......
"I like that song...Come on, dance with me." said Carlotta...
I held her in my arms and we danced slow to the music....From the corner of my eye and to my surprise..I saw FBI Special Agent, Sharon Ferrell slow dancing with Detective Tony Hopkins....Her head was buried deep in his chest and he looked like he was in another world..So did she....
"Tonight is the night for lovers isn't it papi?"
"Yes it is babes...Yesss it is." I said as we continued to dance slowly.
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