Kicks

Sissy, Carlotta, Tyriq and I sat in the Broad Street Diner and ordered our breakfast.....The four of us had steaming hot tumblers of coffee and glasses of Orange Juice delivered to us...

It was early...Even for me...Carlotta had a Friatta....Tyriq,Sissy and I went with Pancakes, Hash browns and Sausage...

"This is okay, but it doesn't beat the one that Tego makes "said Carlotta who fed me a piece of her Friatta..

"I agree." I said smiling...

Tyriq smiled as he began eating his food...

''So Top...Tell me why we are here again?" he asked jokingly....He had been partners with Carlotta long enough that when she said she had something..He believed her...He was just joking with her..

"Jimmy says he has broken the case wide open...He has photos of the other two crew members and confirmation and a woman who wishes to talk to us..."said Carlotta...

''A woman?"said Tyriq..

"Not just any woman, the wife of one of our stick up crew....I should say ,widow...
Archie Palmer's widow...Sharon Palmer..." said Sissy, who had joined us... Sissy was very interested in closing this case...It had grabbed National Attention...And not the most pleasent attention...The Philadelphia Police Department looked bad...A Policeman's ball, full of cops had been robbed, held up and a cop had been killed...

The Mayor, The District Attorney and The Police Commisioner wanted this case closed...and fast...We had one stick up guy in the morgue and two in custody..including the actual shooter...and we could even report that we had recovered a portion of the stolen money..All well and good...but we needed to round up the whole gang,including the smug leader...

Jimmy came walking in with a young woman, who didn't look like she was anyone's wife, let alone...Trust fund kid, Archibald Palmer..

She was a young Latina woman....

"Morning everybody."said Jimmy...

"You're late Junior...So we started without you."joked Tyriq..

"Sorry Rico...But I had to pick Mrs. Palmer up....This is Sharon Vega- Palmer.. Wife of the late, Archie Palmer.."said Jimmy...

She looked at Carlotta and said- "Hola."  Carlotta spoke back and then they both said something to each other in spanish...

Carlotta laughed...

"She says she can identify the other two crew members...And that they killed her husband." said Carlotta..

"Does she speak English?" asked Sissy..

She answered herself...

"I do....."

Jimmy put two glossies on the table in front of us...

"I took these a few days ago...That cool guy right there is Verne White....and that other guy is James Parker....Both are well heeled...They come from lots of money..Except for some traffic violations, they have no records...Both attended Prep school and college with Reuben Goldberg." said Jimmy...

"Reuban Goldberg is the ring leader...He's very charismatic....Very Charismatic...When he enters a room ,it was as if he just drew all of the energy out of the air and into him...I hated the way he held sway over my husband and practically everybody in their circle..They have always done whatever he said...I hate him...I tell my late husband...Him no good.." she said.

"Make me understand something...All of these guys are well to do guys...They grew up in the suburbs, went to the best prep schools ,have trust funds...The families of the two we have in custody now have already sent a cartel of lawyers our way...Why were they doing this? Stick ups??"asked Sissy..

"For most of them..It was just kicks...Like you said, none of them needed the money..It was all for kicks...The rush of pulling a stick up...The money was nothing, pocket change for most of them...But for Reuben it was different...He had a deep hatred of the Philadelphia Police Department...He wanted to humiliate you guys....The five stick ups before only whetted his appetite...They were just forerunners to the big score..Catching the Police flat footed, robbing the policeman's ball...Nobody was supposed to get hurt..."said Sharon Palmer.

"But somebody did!  A Cop got killed."said Carlotta..."He was a friend of mine...He was La Raza. This goes beyond kicks as you say."she said.

Sharon stared at her coffee...

"I know...Archie felt bad about that...He was sick....He told Reuben that he wanted out, that he was done...but Reuben told him that him being there taking part in it meant that he was just as guilty as if he had pulled the trigger...Archie  didn't accept that..Donnie Contour, the one who actually fired the shot had nightmares...He also wanted out..But Reuben said no.."said Sharon...

''So who killed your husband?"asked Carlotta.

"Reuben did it himself...He said no way was he going to burn because Archie was weak...He thinks I'm too scared to tell, but I'm not...He would have eventually gotten around to killing me...because I know too much..." she said.

"I can protect you...Will you testify?" I asked.

She didn't hesitate...

"Yes...I'll tell you where they all are...I'll tell you where the murder weapon is..What else do you need to know?" she said.

Carlotta tossed a sheet out on the table...

"Reuben Goldberg enlisted in the Marine Corps after his college graduation...He entered the Officers Training program....Washed out after three weeks... He bummed around here in Philly for awhile and then entered the State Police Academy...Washed out in three weeks...A year went by and he entered the Philadelphia Police Academy." she said.

"Let me guess...He washed out of this too?" said Sissy..

"You guessed it Boss Lady...Washed out in two weeks...Couldn't take it..."said Carlotta.

Just then, Forensic Investigator, Dr. Hazel Hunter-Baylor...Duke's wife joined us...She sat down and looked at Carlotta's report...

"Reuben has a deep hatred for organized authority...because of his failure in training for the Marines, State Police and City Police...Plus deep seated feelings of inadequacy..
He hides this by a false feeling of superiority...He masterminded these heists, not for the money...Like you all said...None of them needed it...but for the thrill, Kicks if you will of humiliating the police...of proving he was smarter than them....He hand picked guys who he could dominate and trained them to be a very well oiled stick up crew...He even knew how to hide evidence..He knew what we would look for...All this gives him those kicks, those highs he needs to feel better about himself." she explained..

"Well, he's gone too far...It's time to show him something about who we are." said Tyriq.

We all agreed!

II-

Detective Sirena Harris-Pile knocked on the apartment door of  23 year old Vernon White..
He came to the door in just his boxers and a bathrobe... He saw Sirena and he said-

"Tyrone lives a few doors over...."

"I'm here to see you playa." she said.

"Uh ,Do I know you?" he asked...looking at her and smiling salaciously...

From the background the voice of a young lady was heard.....

"Vern, hurry up out there...I'm like super naked and it's cold in here...Close the front door."

"You don't know me, but you're going to get to know me.." she said and showed her badge...

"Ohhhh you're a cop!" he said laughing....

"Yesssssssssssssss...now get dressed...I'm taking you in for suspicion of six robberies and accessory to murder." she said.

"Oh Yeah?" he said.

"Yeah...And I'll bet if I search your apartment....I'll find a black shirt,black slacks ,black shoes  and a black ski mask used in all six robberies , plus one of the guns on my list that was used." she said.

"Oh really detective? My dad is a lawyer, a big time lawyer so I know how this works..  I don't know what you've heard...but I'd feel a lot better if you had something called a warrant!  You do have one of those don't you?" he said smiling...

Just then ,her partner, Detective Antonio Hopkins walked up along with three uniformed officers.... The smile vanished from Vernon's face...Now he knew that things had just gotten real!!!

Hop put the warrant in Vernon's hand....

"I believe that''s one of those things called a warrant....For you! That's bedtime reading."said Hop, smiling at Vern...

Sirena looked at Vern and smiled...

"How you feelin now Vern?" she said.

III-

A few hours later ,James Parker had just finished playing three games of Tennis that day....He was sweaty...Detective James "Jimmy" Barlow passed him a clean towel and a bottle of cold Gatorade..

"Thanks man...Hey, that's a pretty snazzy suit...Too snazzy for a towel boy." said James Parker, laughing gingerly....

"Come on man...I'm no towel guy..."said Jimmy...

"No? Who are you?" he asked.

Jimmy pulled out his badge...

"A cop!" he said.

James looked like he wanted to run until he turned around and saw Detectives Edwin "Duke" Baylor and Tyriq Pile staring at him balefully...

"Ohhh hell" he said...

"Ohhh hell as in..I'm in deep doo doo." said Tyriq...

Duke looked at the two uniformed policemen that came with them...

"Hook him up boys." he said.

They read him his rights and took him away....

With his arrest..We had the entire crew....Except it's smug ring leader...

IV-

Reuben Goldberg had just come back from riding his bike...he pulled out his smartphone and made several calls...It appeared that no one was answering him...

He lived in a very Tony Condo.... He locked his bike up to the rack.....

"They aren't answering are they?...They are a little busy." came the voice of my wife, Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace...She was sitting on a bench finishing a bottle of cold water...I have to admit..She looked so sexy that I myself would have surrendered to her....But then again...Hadn't I already??

He looked at her and smiled...

"Detective Rodriguez-Wallace isn't it?" he asked..

"Yes..You remembred.."she said and smiled at him sweetly...

"I always remember an attractive woman..A hot chick like you...How would I forget.."he said.

Carlotta blushed...

"I'm glad you did...Remember what I told you about a week ago? That I was going to put cuffs on you and take down your entire crew?" she said.

"Yeah, you did say that....And I told you to come back with something called evidence.." he laughed...

"I got more than I need...and to top it off...I have your entire crew in custody and they were so nice, so co-operative....They gave you up and I didn't have to wear an extra short skirt or bat my eyes and smile at them or nothing......."said Carlotta...

"Plus" she continued and pulled out a plastic bag with a Glock nine  in it..." I took the liberty to remove this from your condo while you were out...I'm betting this will be a ballistics match for the Archie Palmer murder...And before you ask...Yes..I have a warrant!" she said and smiled sweetly.

She pulled some hand cuffs out her pocketbook...

"It's Tank time Papi....Put them on. You're under arrest for the murder of Archie Palmer , Conspiracy in the Murder of Detective Carlos Tegron and Conspiracy in six armed robberies.." she said...

He smiled and looked like he was going to run and then he saw  three uniformed police officers with shotguns aimed at him!!!!.....and  two more uniformed officers with glocks, in a crouching position aimed at him...

He shrugged...

Carlotta put the handcuffs on him and read him his rights...

"I told you I was going to put cuffs on you."she said ,smiling...

"Yeah I know..but I was thinking of something a little kinkier.."he said laughing...

Carlotta cracked up laughing...So did Reuben. Game set match..The entire crew had been taken down.

EPILOUGE-

Joshua O'Dowd and Donnie Contour got 7 years a piece for their part in the stick ups and their co-operation....Vern White and James Parker got 10-15 years for their part in the stick ups...

Reuben Goldberg got life for Conspiracy and the murders of Detective Tegron and Archie Palmer......He had just missed the Death Penalty!! He should have considered himself lucky...

Despite the fact that she didn't want to...Duke,Tyriq, Sirena,Carlotta,Jimmy,Hop,Sharon,Hazel and I insisted that she attend that Press Conference with the Mayor, Police Commissioner and The Deputy of Operations to announce that the case had been cracked and all of the guilty parties were in custody..

Since She supervised the detectives that actually cracked the case..There was no need for Lt. Tragg to be there and he was not included in the coverage...

This made Duke, Jimmy and Tyriq quite happy to know that he had been one upped!

Carlotta and I enjoyed a nice quiet candlelight dinner...Sometime later...

''Wow Baby..you cracked this case just in the nick of time...Our anniversary is in a few days." I said.

"I was hoping the investigation would be over before our anniversary..." she said.

"I've got a surprise for you too." I said.

''Oh really? What?"she said.

"I've got some time off and I cleared it with Sissy...and well, how would you like to go to Puerto Rico for a few days...To see your sister and your cousins and your dad?"I said and produced two plane tickets...

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh  Papi.....I love you sooo very much" she said.

"Will you take that Leather mini skirt you bought recently?" I asked...

She laughed...and gave me the serious side eye...

"Of course..."she said ,looked at me and sighed...

"And that lavender dress...The tight one......that hugs all your curves...???"I asked..

She gave me the side eye....

"Yessssssssssssss...Anything else you want me to take?" she asked..

"You been to Bridget's store lately or Victoria's Secret??" I asked..

She shook her head....and gave me a serious side eye..

"Sure...Tonight..you tell me what you like and I'll pack it..Silly ,silly husband of mine."she said and she laughed in spite of herself...

I laughed too!

Carlotta leaned across the table and kissed me, softly and passionately....

"Anything you want papi." she said.

 I smiled broadly....How lucky was I?

Tasks At Hand

Lt.Sissy Van Buren sat in her office at her desk drinking coffee...Lt. Tragg sat in her office with her...As did I..ADA Keith Wallace...

I could look at Sissy and tell that she'd rather have Lt. Cantrell or anybody else but Lt. Tragg in her office...Two of her detectives, Tyriq Pile and Edwin"Duke" Baylor hated him with a passion...A passion neither of them hid in their voices when discussing him...Another detective, James "Jimmy"Barlow called Lt. Tragg an ''Overbearing prick"and often thanked Sissy profusely for rescuing him from Lt. Tragg's unit...My wife Carlotta didn't hate him and was the only one of that bunch who could muster a kind word about the man...Sirena and Hop had never worked with or under him, so they were neutral...

I didn't particularly care for the man...He was egotistical,condescending and self absorbed and self centered and cared more about press releases and sucking up to the Commissioner and The Deputy of Operations than he did doing good police work...

He had been a great detective at one time....I had heard...but he had been co-opted by the cult of personality,had begin to love seeing himself in the paper and on the television....Today he was busy talking about his friend, the Deputy of Operations...

"I heard this straight from the Deputy of Operations Sis, If you guys don't make a break in this case soon, He's going to appoint his own task force...With uh er ruh me, heading it up....Now I don't want to step on your toes..." he said..

"Oh of course not...Whatever would make me think that?" said Sissy sarcastically... I held my head down...I was cracking up laughing...

"I know you guys are usually up to the task at hand...But what have you guys done so far?  That dead detective's funeral is tomorrow..."he said.

"We've recovered the murder weapon.!!!...And one of the stick up crew is dead!!....And another arrest is imminent..." said Sissy..

"Oh really?" said Lt. Tragg...

"Yes... and I'll be sure to let you know as soon as our suspect is brought in...So you uh can tell the Deputy of Operations and you know, he won't get blind sided."said Sissy sarcastically......

''Oh but of course." he said.

Lt. Tragg completely missed that..It went over his head...I smiled...

II-

 

Sissy hadn't been lying...In the past few days...We had put two plain clothes cops undercover in that catering business...They were white ,so as not to arouse any suspicions...Jimmy and a plain clothes policeman sat outside in a van and snapped photos of Reuben Goldberg all day long...

I got a court order from a judge that allowed us to wiretap the catering company's phones...and it's breakroom...We had also cloned Reuben Goldberg's phone and his Laptop...He was smart...He said very little on his phone to anyone...


And on the other side of town in a Laundromat...

Carlotta and Sirena walked up to a white guy who was doing his laundry....The man's name was Joshua...Joshua O'dowd..

"Heyy Papi..What's going on?" said Carlotta..

He looked her up and down and smiled...

"Hi Joshua...."said Sirena..

He smiled at her too...

"Hey how you girls know my name?" he asked just grinning..

"You pull any stick ups lately?" asked Sirena...

"You guys are cops!" he said...

"I bet you were the smartest boy in your class ,when you were in school."said Carlotta.

Sirena cracked up and pulled her badge out of her purse....

He looked at them both and then broke away and ran, pushing people out of the way...dashing towards the door..

Duke, pretending to be doing his laundry suddenly appeared and hit him with an old football block that knocked him off of his feet...

And Tyriq and Hop grabbed him and pulled him up... handcuffing him...

"Where do you think you're going?" they said as they read him his rights .....and formally charged him with conspiracy, armed robbery and first degree murder!!!

We had the first of the robbery crew in custody.....

In Atlantic City......FBI Agent Sharon Ferrell-Hopkins and three FBI agents walked up to a guy playing craps..

"You winnin Donnie?" asked Sharon....

He looked up at her...

''Do I know you?" he said.

"No...But you're going to....I'm FBI Special Agent ,Sharon Ferrell-Hopkins...I have a fugitive warrant for your arrest...See you're wanted in Philadelphia for Armed Robbery and First degree murder."she said.

"What?....You're crazy" he said.

"Hook him up boys." she said and the FBI agents handcuffed him  and read him his rights and dragged him out of the casino...

One stick up boy was dead and now we had two in custody!!

Not bad for a days work!

The Deputy of Operations was pleased! He called Sissy and personally congratulated her on a job well done....

III-

His name was Donald Contour...We identified him from his voice...we played the tape of the night of the shooting...

"Hey man, what the hell did you do?" (That was the voice of the now deceased Archie Palmer)

"I didn't know anybody was standing there...I just fired up into the air.." he said. (This was the voice of Donald "Donnie"Contour..the shooter.)

"You shot somebody...." he said.

"Well ,we can't worry about that...Come on..Let's gooo." he said and the five men rushed out of the building and leaped into their van and pulled off...

 Jimmy had taken a photo of him meeting with Reuben Goldberg ...and we had heard him talking to Reuben on the phone...

"Donnie...We gotta lay low for awhile...We may have been exposed.." said Reuben...

''Exposed ?? How?? "

"Archie got a conscience all of a sudden...." said Reuben...

"He's snitchin?  I told you he was weak.."

''Don't worry...I handled it..You should lam it....Go to AC...I'll call you when I need you..."said Reuben."

Thanks to modern technology and The FBI...We got a voice match from the audio from the stick up at the policemen's ball...and this phone conversation, matched with Jimmy's photos...We had our shooter and the murder weapon.

Carlotta and Tyriq walked into the "Fishbowl"....Both suspects were seated across from them....

Hop walked in with a plastic evidence bag and in it was a nine milimeter glock!!He dropped it on the table in front of Donnie Contour...

Carlotta looked at him....

"I believe that's yours..."she said.

He said nothing, but it was quite obvious he was nervous...He was sweating bullets...No pun intended...

"That's not...That's not mines.."he said.

Carlotta stared daggers at him....

"It's yours.....We know you were at that policeman's ball and we know you fired your gun up into the air...
It was Archie who asked you what you had done..."said Carlotta.

"What you did was , kill a cop...."said Tyriq sternly....

"You know what happens to cop killers?  They get a needle..." said Hop...

"That cop you killed was a friend of mine.."said Carlotta.

"I-I-I- I didn't mean to kill anybody...I swear....Nobody was supposed to get hurt...We just ..were hittin places for the thrill of it...I didn't mean to kill that cop.." he said, crying and laying his head on the table..

''Donnie shut up...You're puttin us in the big house." screamed Joshua O'dowd..

"You're already in the big house...We got you both cold..." said Tyriq..

Carlotta then looked quite matronly.....

"Look, I know you didn't mean to kill anybody...I got that....Make it easy on yourself...Give us that crew,the rest of that crew...and maybe, just maybe...The ADA will go easy on you both...You may live to walk free again one day...."said Carlotta...

Both men looked at each other..

"Take the deal...It's the only chance you got...We'll put you both in protective custody ,where the others can't get to you...."said Tyriq..


Donnie went for it right away....Joshua O'Dowd thought about it for awhile...Then he agreed....

Duke and I stood outside....

"Wow...Top and Rico and Hop did their thing...Got both of em..."said Duke.....

''Yeah...Sissy will be glad to hear this....Your favorite Lieutenant was over here today....He told her that if you guys didn't get some results soon..that the Deputy Ops was going to appoint his own task force to look into this with him running it." I said.

"Tragg?? He couldn't run a Stage coach." said Duke...

I cracked up.

IV-

The Deputy of Operations paid Lt.Sissy Van Buren a special visit...Standing with him was Lt. Tragg...

"Sissy...Once again your detectives have proven to be the best in the city...I heard you guys have the shooter and another of the stick up boys in custody.." he said.

"I do....and another of the stick up crew is dead...Three more arrests are imminent...Like within the next 24 hours sir." she said.

''Damn good work...I had complete faith that you and your six detectives could take down this crew...Tragg here wanted to bring in more detectives and head up a Task force...I knew that would be a bad idea..It's never worked before." he said glaring at Tragg....

"Well uh..Uh...Uh...I just thought..."he said..

"Yeah, you're always just thinking...Thinking about being on the 11:00 o'clock news or in the papers...Sometimes it's about the work.."said The Deputy of Operations...

''Yes sir...you are definitely right sir."he said and exited Sissy's office ...

The Deputy of Operations looked at Sissy and smiled..She smiled back...

"Always a pleasure Lieutenant..."he said and saluted her...She stood and saluted him..

"If you need anything...just let me know."he said.

"Thank you sir." she said.

Jimmy was just turning in...

''Hey Guys...That Reuben guy is as slick as oil.. He doesn't talk in that Catering club at all and makes few phone calls...Everything is face to face with him...He's smart, but I think we identified the other two guys in that crew..." he said.

Sissy signaled all of us to come in her office.. Jimmy,Carlotta,Tyriq,Duke,Sirena,Hop and Sharon all came into Sissy's Office..She closed the door.

"I just want to tell you all that I love you  guys and I couldn't have a better bunch of detectives...as well as a friend in the FBI.."she said looking at Sharon.

I smiled...She was right...This was a great bunch of guys...They took seemingly impossible cases and cracked them...

V-

 

 

We took some time off to attend Detective Tegron's funeral...I had known Duke ,Tyriq, Angie,Sissy and Sirena so long as Detectives that I forgot what they looked like in their police blues...Carlotta had hers on too and so did Hop...

It was a very sad funeral....Lots of crying..Lots of solemn faces...

One cop came up to me..

''I heard you killed one of them and you got two in custody..."he said.

"We didn't kill anybody..One of them was murdered, probably by his own people and we caught two of them.."I said.

"You need to leave the jail open....Let me and my guys get at em." he said and patted me on the back...

I was glad I had had Sharon lock them up in the federal holding facility...I wanted no chance of these guys having some unfortunate accident before we could go to trial...Plus I needed Goldberg and the other two members of that crew.

Later at home...Carlotta sat on my lap in the living room...She had on one of my night shirts and a string bikini panty...I was in my boxers...

"You did good today.." I said."You got the man that killed your friend and another guy in that stick up crew."I said.

Carlotta smiled and wrapped her arms around my neck..She kissed me softly...She said nothing...
She kissed me some more and began to rub and fondle my steadily raging erection...

''Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.."I moaned..

''Papi...I've done cop work all day and I've been to a funeral...The funeral of a friend..."she said in between kisses...

"No more shop talk."she said.

"Yes mami." I said...

She looked at me and smiled...Then laughed .....

We continued kissing and fondling each other for the longest time...

Carlotta was so soft, smelled so naturally good and had surprisingly soft kisses that seemed to evaporate into thin air...She was like a drug and I was hooked on her...

I layed Carlotta across our bed...I pressed the head of my pulsing penis into her dripping wet vagina, then pulled out again.She moaned..."Ohhhh, papi don't tease me...ohhhh, give it all to mami..."

I entered her several more times like this, until I could feel her pushing harder and harder against me. I grabbed her hips, and pushed all the way into her. She gasped,

''OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY GAWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.Ayyyyye MIOS DIOS!!!"

as she jerked forward for a moment, then braced herself before thrusting her nice round behind back against my penis. I watched, as each thrust sent waves rippling through her like waves breaking on the shore.

We went at it just like this for close to two hours..Carlotta's moans gradually became louder and louder. I grabbed her hair from behind, and pushed her head into the pillow. Her arms reached for the headboard of the bed and gripped it tightly as her vagina contracted in orgasmic releases.
"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu doddy doddy dodddy....I like it....." she moaned...

Her heavy spanish accent turned me on even more....

 I was about to come, I thrust harder and harder into her welcoming flesh. I exploded with a wild abandon... The orgasm felt like it lasted several minutes, even though it was just seconds.She came violently too..Shaking and rattling the headboard against the wall. I collapsed on top of her, kissing the nape of her neck.
She turned and began kissing me and rubbing my penis until I came again....like a gusher.......It seemed as if she was cumming again too...

"OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, KEITHHHHHHHH!!!.....Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu it felt so goooood.." she moaned as we both collapsed on top of each other...


''That was Amazing!"she said leaning up and kissing me again...

I was out of breath.....


''I'm just glad...I'm just glad ...I'm just glad I was....Up to the task at hand " I said and fell backwards on the bed...

Carlotta cracked up laughing....

"You always have been.." she said and wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me slowly and softly again...

Carlotta lie down beside me...Our legs intertwined and we drifted off to sleep...The most relaxing fulfilling sleep we had both had in a long time.


(CONCLUSION NEXT)