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My wife and Sirena were in a club on the other side of the city at this moment...Laughing and drinking with a couple of guys...Not just any guys...Jack Snowden and Josh Weldon...Supposedly former heist guys...Carlotta met them both when she and Tyriq worked Robbery-Homicide.
Both men had done time, both men had been known to be box men (safe crackers ) and expert bank robbers...They frequented this club in Northern Liberties....
"More Tequila Detective?" said Jack ,who was totally enamored with Carlotta and who couldn't keep his eyes off of her cleavage...
"If I didn't know right..I would swear you were trying to get me drunk Jack."said Carlotta with her heavy spanish accent...
At this point Jack was so turned on, He could barely control his self..
''Are you alright?"asked Carlotta ,who had gotten me to this point several times and recognized it...
"Yes...Yes...Now you were asking me somethin darlin.." he said.
"Si...I'm trying to find two people....A young white guy and a white girl....Bank robbers...very young..not very professional..." said Carlotta...
Meanwhile..Sirena, Detective Sirena Pile was sitting with Josh Weldon on the other side of the bar...
Sirena giggled..
"I work out...I drink a lot of milk..."she said.
"Milk does a body good...My goodness, if all the cops looked like you..I'd of gone straight a long time ago..Hahahahahahahaha." he said.
Sirena laughed..
"You're lookin for Billy Joe Ramsey...He's a punk...He did a nickel for a heist a few years ago...A juvenile bust and he basically fell off the grid...Then he met this babe..Betty...Betty Newly and rumor has it..They started doing hold ups...They keep pretty much to themselves....It's not common knowledge...but they work through a fence named Hawk..." he said.
On the other side of the room, Carlotta was working her magic...
"I'll have another tequilla with you papi if you give me something I can go on.." she said seductively..
"How bout you give me something I can go on?" asked Jack...
"Awwww papi, you are fresh....I told you I'm married now...."said Carlotta...
"Your husband is a very,very lucky man...I hope he knows that..." said Jack...
"Oh he does...He does..."laughed Carlotta....
"Okay, so here it is babes..There's this guy...His name is Hawk...He's a fence...These two kids...a white guy named Billy Joe Ramsey and his girlfriend, Betty Newly...They uh come in here sometimes...They ask for Hawk... He's a fence and he launders money....They uh started laundering money through Hawk...and it was usually a day or two after a bank robbery...Then these two stupid kids started flashing a lot of cash....The dude...liked to play poker...Usually in the illegal crap games..
He owed a lot...Suddenly,he's flush..payin off his debts, buyin a lot of stuff...It wasn't hard for anybody to figure out that him and his girl were the "Bonnie and Clyde" bank robbers that has the city baffled.." said Jack..
"Where do they lay their heads?" asked Carlotta..
"They don't...They move from house to house..apartment to apartment...They have a network of friends..Meth heads...Students...et al that put them up...That's how come no one has been able to get a bead on them....The cops..you guys don't even know their names ,well until now..And you didn't hear it from me right?" he said smiling and rubbing Carlotta's arms..
"I love you baby." he said laughing...
Carlotta smiled..
"Sirena...Can I call you Sirena ,Detective?" said Josh..
"Why of course darling.."said Sirena..
"So here is an address for Hawk...This is one of two places he lays his head...If anybody can tell you where them two kids lay their heads...It's him....." he said.
"Tell me something...What about three other guys...Professional guys..Any hard rocks come in lookin for additional members for a crew?" asked Sirena..
"Now that you mention it...About a month ago...a guy named Junior...Junior Barnes...He's like uh a shot caller...He came in askin for Hawk....He was runnin with two guys..two heavy dudes and they said they needed a driver and another man for a major hit...Somebody put him in a meeting with Hawk..They sat right over there in that booth....I don't know what they talked about...but I can imagine...Haven't seen Hawk or Junior since then.." he said.
"Josh....here is $50.00....That should pay for the rest of your drinks...and here is my card...You get into anything below a felony now...and you give me a call..That's your get out of jail free card..."said Sirena..
"How bout a number? A cell phone number...Huh..Maybe me and you can get together on the sly?" he whispered in her ear...
"Damn...I had to try.." he said and they both laughed...
"I know right? We gotta get out of these hoochie mama dresses..I feel like a hooker" laughed Sirena as the two high fived each other..
"I know, right?" laughed Carlotta.
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Tyriq knocked on the door...
"WHO THE HELL IS IT?" came the angry voice...
"POLICE!" said Tyriq...
Suddenly we heard rustling and the sound of feet on the ground and a woman's voice...
"Tyrone...Where you goin, what is it?"
"Shut up...Don't say nothing..I'm goin out the back.." he said...
Tyriq and Duke kicked the door in and ran in with glocks drawn..The woman who was nude covered up...
One of the patrolmen said-
"He's out the back door detective."
Duke looked out the back window...
Hop had Ambrose Hawkins, better known as Hawk handcuffed..
"Let's Go home fellas.." he said.
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He was known as a fence....He owned a hardware store that was a front...If you needed money laundered,if you needed phony credit or debit cards or even passports you came to him..if you needed a bump key...Used by heist guys and box men to gain access to buildings..You came to him...And also if you needed information on available guys to accentuate your crew...You came to him...
Carlotta and Jimmy walked into the "Fish bowl" and sat down...
Ambrose Hawkins , a tall, thin Black guy with a bald head merely frowned...
"Detective Barlow..Long time no see.." he smirked...
His eyes perked up when Carlotta ,walked in...She said nothing...She didn't even look at him...She put some files on the table..and sat down...
She showed him a glossy mug shot of William Joseph Ramsey.....
He smirked...
"Billy Joe...what about him?" said Ambrose..
"He and his girlfriend are part of that stick up crew that took down eight million in that bank robbery...."said Carlotta..
"So what?" asked Ambrose..
"Aww man."said Ambrose..
"Aww man nothin....I'm bettin if I send a team over to your uh Hardware store..I'll find all kinds of interesting things...Things that will violate you, send you back upstate...This will be your third serious strike Hawk...You know what that means...Life....Now we don't care about you...We are murder police..A Police got killed as well as a security guard...We want that crew." said Jimmy...
"Oh Okay..Okay...I didn't have nothin to do with no murder...Look...about two weeks ago..a guy...
Junior....Junior Barnes....He come in...He said a guy he knows...Had this big job...and he needed two extra guys...I told him about Billy Joe and Betty....I told him they were the "Bonnie and Clyde" robbers....That they were available...Well a week later...Junior came back...He said that his boss didn't want to work with those two ,that they seemed like amateurs ,cowboys...I said I'd get back to him.....A few days later Junior came back....I couldn't find any guys in the hood that were available, so they took them on...I put him in touch with them and that was the last I seen of Junior.." said Ambrose..
"A guy named Campbell...Albert Campbell....A real heavy dude...I only seen him once.." he said.
"You are free to go Ambrose....and if I was you...I'd find a new line of work...Real soon..."said Carlotta...
He stared at her cleavage...
"Damn...you too damn fine to be a cop." he said as he left..
Carlotta looked at Jimmy and they both laughed.
V-
FBI Deputy Special Agent in Charge sat in Sissy's office with me and Sissy...
"Sissy, your guys did great work....Our ring leader is Albert Campbell...He's real heavy..a professional bank robber...He runs with an equally dangerous guy named Joe Cleveland.. These two have turned Bank robbery into a science..Both of them did a dime in the federal pen for a bank heist several years ago...and while they were incarcerated they met William Joseph Ramsey....or Billy Joe, Clyde of our Bonnie and Clyde crew...I get the impression that neither were impressed with him.."said Sharon...
It was a good day...We had made the entire crew....
VI-
"Ohh,I didn't know you were here.."she said...
"I knew you were here.." I said smiling....and staring at her cleavage...She looked a little self conscious and blushed...
"You like it, no?" she said..
"I could wear a trash bag and you'd like it.." she said smiling...
I pulled her to me and kissed her passionately until the elevator door opened in the garage...
"As long as I could take it off of you.."I said..
She smiled and ran her fingertip gently across my lips...
"Good to know.." she said...
(TO BE CONTINUED)
5 comments:
A very good technical outing...Shows you the different ways this team works..They are a well oiled machine.
Love the camraderie and love these guys have for one another..They are truly a family of cops!
These guys grew by leaps and bounds..We were first introduced to Carlotta ,Keith Wallace and Sissy and I watched as you introduced Tyriq,Duke,Jimmy,Hazel,Angie,
Sirena,Hop,Sharon and all of the colorful side charactors like Ed Cantrell, Carol Redding, et al..Love The Murder Police.
I loved the three stories you did where you had them targeting a big fish and staying in that hotel...Why don't you have Sissy and her guys move there permanantly? A secret location where they can operate with autonomy..I think that's cool..
I've been thinking about doing that...Don't know if I will or not..I have a lot of stories to tell.
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