Fool Me Once..Fool Me Twice!

Her name was Catrina Wells, She was known to her friends as simply "Trina"...She was also known to some as "Victoria Wells"in some circles.. I did a little digging as I promised I would do...

Catrina Wells had been born here in Philadelphia had attended Philadelphia Public Schools up until the 10th grade..When she had dropped out of school...

She did a stint in the Peace Corps and earned her GED High school equivalent...She attended community college as a Fashion Design major for all of one school year and dropped out and then moved to Atlanta where she lived with a cousin and took several jobs as an Administrative Assistant in different offices..

She tried her hand at modeling and ventured into Prostitution...High class...She had one misdemeanor arrest for soliciting...Charges thrown out! She next ventured into acting...In a couple of porn movies...and from there a few stints on reality television shows...

She was involved with a member of the Atlanta Hawks Basketball team for a year...Accused him of sexual assault and attempted to sue him...For some reason she dropped the charges...and then moved to New York City...She was involved with a member of the New York Knicks and The Boston Celtics.... Accused both men of sexual assault and attempted to sue them...Both cases were dropped...

She moved back to Philadelphia, a year and a half later and got involved with a semi-pro football player...Robert Foxworth's client, Mike Davis...She accused him of the same thing...Only the charges stuck and he did several months in prison and was fined several thousand dollars which she collected...She also sued the apartment complex she was living in at the time for having lax security and they were forced to pay her $50,000 dollars.

I took my findings to Robert Foxworth!

"So she's done this before eh?  " he said.

"Yeah...most of the players were bench players...Not superstars...Mostly guys you never heard of." I said.

"You think any of them will testify in Mike's behalf?" he asked.

"I called all of them...None of them want to talk about it...but maybe you can try." I said.

Robert looked concerned...

"You think you got enough here to maybe put doubt in a Judge or a jury's mind?" I asked.

"Well...it could be...but Kev,I need a smoking gun..." he said.

"Sit tight ,Robert...Maybe I can get you something more." I said.

II-

Finding her house was easy...She was renting...She was working downtown in an office building...Clerow put a GPS unit under her car and he followed her in a rental car with tinted windows to her job and kept me posted by cell phone of her movemants...

Lockpick Johnson, Peeping Tom and I broke into her house...Owen Todd stood guard outside the house...
We wired her house for sound and video and cloned both of her cell phones quite easily...We were in and out within forty minutes and back in the van and on our way...Owen followed us in his car...

"Okay guys...good work...Now we can listen and watch  any and everything that may go on in that house and be privy to any phone conversations she may have."I said.

I met with Mike Davis...He showed me his Facebook page..

"Kev...I wasn't out of jail three days and she was sending me a friend request on Facebook and saying let's let bygones be bygones." he said.

"Friend her...We'll be able to watch her page and see if it gives us anything." I said.

Her facebook page was filled with photos of her in Bikinis and panties and bra, taken in her bathroom ,with thousands of comments from many admiring males.....

Our survelience of her house yielded some interesting things... She had sex with at least three semi-pro football players and one basketball player within a week....She had hired another private investigator to find out how much money they had and was planning to accuse yet another unsuspecting sap of sexual assault..She had even hired a guy to edit and photo shop her videos of these guys and her having sex...

Clerow, Sean Jackson and I had followed him and had got good photos of the guy in action...We even had tape recorded conversations of the Private Investigator and Trina...She was playing for keeps...She had stepped her game up since her days in Atlanta...

Finally, I had Peeping Tom and Lockpick Johnson wire Mike up real good..

"Now Mike, you gotta get her talking about your case...get her to admit that she falsely accused you of rape,okay?? Play it cool...Never let on that you're wearing a wire." I said.

"Okay Kev." he said.

III-

The Oyster House was noisy, but the wire Mike Davis was wearing was so sophisticated that it picked up the sound incredibly well...

"The Police and The FBI don't have bugs as good as my stuff." said Peeping Tom...

Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson ,Sean Jackson and myself sat in the van outside ,watching and listening...

Clerow and Owen Todd were inside,posing as customers...Quaffing down beer and slurping Oysters, something not hard for them to do...

"I'm really glad you decided to let bygones by bygones and friend me on Facebook..." said Trina.

"What you ought to be is surprised...Surprised I didn't cuss you out." said Mike.

"Aww,I knew you wouldn't...You remembered how good this stuff was...And I figured you might want more." she said.

"You must be joking...So you can set me up again? No Thanks...Jail aint my favorite place." he said.

''So why are you here with me?" she asked.

"Because I need closure." said Mike.

"Closure? You sound like a woman." she said.

"Why did you do it? Why did you set me up? You know I never raped you...You know the sex was consensual." he said.

"I know you didn't rape me.....The sex was too good for a rape...But I was young then and immature..." she said.

"Meaning you've changed your ways?" he asked.

"Meaning I wouldn't set you up again...Besides...I've moved on to bigger fish..I got two dudes I'm getting ready to roll for a fat payday..." she said.

''Why do you do this? Lie on people, set em up and take cash..cash you didn't earn?"He said.

"Because I can....People have wanted my body since I can remember....I might as well get paid for it." she said.

"You got a couple thousand from me." said Mike..

"And 50G's from the apartment complex I was living in...I sued them after you went to jail..." she laughed..

"So why do you want to be my friend now? I've got no career thanks to you..You ruined it and my good name...I've got no money." said Mike.

"I know, but you're cute and you are good in bed...I figure we can still be like friends with benefits.You'll find another job" she said.

"Always about you huh? No thanks....Bye Trina...and tomorrow,I'm defriending you." said Mike ,who got up and walked away...

"Aww don't be like that boo...Come on...it was two years ago...let the past go." she said.

Mike walked three blocks away and got into my car.

''Did you get it?" he asked.

''Every Bloodthirsty, conniving word..." I said.  "Mike, based on the stuff I dug up about this chick and what we have on audio and video...I'm sure Robert will not only get you cleared,but a full pardon and some money for your troubles..."I said.

Mike Davis shook my hand...

"Thanks Kevin.." he said.

"Tell Robert..I'll see him tomorrow." I said.

"Will do." he said.

Another satisfied customer!

Robert got Mike's Record expunged and the court ordered Trina to pay him three thousand dollars she owed him...The apartment complex she sued ordered her to pay them the 50G's she had sued them for the previous year...She couldn't and was forced to file bankruptcy... She was forced to give up the house she was renting and is now living with cousins...The private investigator and the photographer sued her for non-payment of fees and the basketball player and three other football players she slept with cut all contact with her...

Mike got his revenge!

IV-

It had been a good day...I had cracked a case , a rather easy case at that...I didn't get too many of those....Robert would be pleased...I'd be paid handsomely and a falsely accused young man would get his life back!

I was headed home when I saw several police cars and a couple of cars I recognized around an apartment complex... I got out and I walked over to the apartment...A couple of the uniform cops recognized me..

"Hey Kevin... Lt. Sissy and her crew is upstairs...It's bad man..." he said.

TV News reporters were here also... I followed the crowd up the stairs...Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace recognized me and told the uniformed policemen to let me through...

"Hey Chica...What happened?" I asked..

"Kevin,it's real bad...We got an anonymous tip that our murder suspect..from that killing at Sam Mother's diner was holed up here....Only when we got here..We found him beaten to a pulp and Lt. Cantrell in the room standing over the body...The Desk clerk said that he showed his badge and went charging up the steps and that he heard cursing and screaming and a struggle." she said...

"What?" I said.

"The victim was a close friend of Cantrell's and he did take it pretty hard." I said.

"I know right? Kevin ,he was a nuisance...Following me and Duke around..questioning our witnesses before we could...Asking us about every particular of the case...Aye caramba." she said.

Just then I saw Detective Edwin "Duke" Baylor...

He looked sick....

"Hey Kev...Man, of all of the cases I've worked...This is the absolute worse...I guess Top told you what happened huh?" he said.

"Yeah...Is Sissy here?" I asked...

"Yeah, she's in the apartment at the end of the hall.." he said..

I felt sorry for both Duke and Carlotta....I was surprised at a good cop like Eddie Cantrell...I couldn't believe that he would do something like this...


I walked into the room and there was the bloody and battered body of 25 year old murder suspect, Bill Blake.

Lt. Edward Cantrell was sitting in the hallway outside of the room muttering...

"I never touched him..I swear...I got a tip that he was here and I came to nab him...He was dead when I opened the door.." he said.

Sissy and Dr. Hunter were examining the room, along with police photographers and uniformed policemen..

"Oh my God Sissy...So much blood...Somebody worked this kid over." said Dr. Hazel Hunter...

"Yes...this was a crime of passion, definitely...Rage!" she said.

"Hey Sissy." I said.

She looked at me wearily...

"Hey Kevin".....She whispered in my ear.... "You weren't the one who tipped Cantrell off that Blake was here were you?"

"No, not me...I haven't even had time to look into this...I was across town working on my case..Besides ,you know I would have called you if I had anything...I don't deal with anyone else but you and your people." I said.

"Cantrell claims that he got a tip that Blake was here and he came here and the door was unlocked and when he went in he found the room just as it is..Only thing...We got a witness who says he heard yelling and screaming and a struggle...It's his word against Cantrell's.." she said.

''You can't believe that a stand up cop like Cantrell would do something like this.." I said.

"I don't want to believe it, but I gotta admit...It's not looking too good for him right now." she said.

Duke and Carlotta entered the room..

"Lou...I don't want to believe this either...That man trained me ,Angie Belton, Tyriq and You for that matter, All we are as Detectives is because of that man, but he was out of pocket on this...Too emotionally involved...Everytime Top and I made a move...There he was..." said Duke.

"If he had a tip, why didn't he call us for back up??...It was our case." said Carlotta.

"He should have at least took some uniforms with him." added Duke...

"You're right...You're right...Get him out of here!!!..Don't handcuff him...We aren't charging him with anything yet...Not until we investigate this thoroughly...I'll have Jimmy and Tyriq look into this..Chica, Duke..walk Cantrell out of here..." she said...

As they did, a throng of reporters yelled...

"Is this how you enforce the law?"

"Guilty until proven innocent??"

"Yeah Did Cantrell kill that boy?"

"Police Brutallity..Yall gonna cover it up!" screamed another person...

I looked at Sissy...

"You said that you guys got an anonymous tip too?" I asked.

''Yeah..Duke and Chica got the call..but they got here wayy too late...Reporters and Uniformed policemen from the District were already here..." she said.

"Hmmm, this looks very suspicious.." I said.

"I'll say." she said.

"You got a mess Lieutenant." I said.

"Who are you telling?" she said.

"I'm coming down tomorrow." I said.

"You got something?" she asked.

"No...but maybe we can all brainstorm." I said.

"I always wanted you to work with my detectives....But not like this." she sighed...

"You need all the help you can get right now." I said.

"Yeah, I do." she said.

(TO BE CONTINUED..)