Dark Pharmacy

Carlotta and I stopped off and got 11 tumblers of hot steaming coffee, the way everybody liked it, the next morning and headed to Headquarters.....

When we arrived at Police Headquarters , We found Sissy and everybody in the conference room talking quietly...

The mood was one of both confusion and worry....One of our own, Detective Angela Belton-Barlow, Jimmy's wife..had gone missing..

She hadn't been seen since lunchtime the day before...

Her Husband ,Detective Jimmy Barlow looked distraught...

''She didn't come home last night...I called her phone and it went to voicemail at first, then I didn't get anything at all." he said.

''I wish you'd told me sooner...I would have rounded up everybody and we could have gotten right on this..Does anybody remember her saying anything about where she might be going?" asked Sissy...

''Yeah...Yeah..Hazel and I were about to leave for lunch and we asked her if she didn't mind, to come with us..We were going to Sam Mothers diner and she said..

"I have a meeting with Detective Jones from Missing Persons...He texted me last night..Said he had something important to show me.."

Recalled her partner- Detective Edwin "Duke " Baylor.

"Yeah...I remember her saying something about meeting with him too before I left for lunch." said FBI Deputy Special Agent in charge Sharon Ferrell-Hopkins.

"I know him..He was in Robbery-Homicide once..Remember him Top?" asked Detective Tyriq Pile.

"I do..Last I heard he was in Internal Affairs.."said Carlotta.

"I know him too...He's in Missing Persons Now." said Sirena...

''Missing Persons? He went from Internal Affairs to Missing Persons?" asked Hop.

"He probably heard that there is a Sergeant's position open...Okay..So Missing Persons eh? Let me make a call."said Sissy...

''Don't worry champ...I'm sure there is some logical answer to all of this."I said to Jimmy , who checked his phone...

"Oh My God!!!There is a text from Angie...I didn't think to check my messages...It's from yesterday around 2:00 pm..How did I not see this?  She said she was meeting with Detective Sam Jones of Missing Persons ...She said some files were on her desk."said Jimmy...

"Junior..You had this information and you're just now finding it?" joked Tyriq....

''Cut him some slack Rico...She sent me the same text and even left the address of where she and Jones were going." said Duke.

"Oh My God...I'm afraid they both are going to have to leave this elite unit..."joked Carlotta...

"I know Right?...Maybe transfer to Auto Theft or something." laughed Sirena.

''I just called Missing Persons..They said that detective Sam Jones left around 1:00 pm to come here to meet with Angie...They said they haven't seen him since and he wasn't at work today." said Sissy...

"Here are some files on her desk...What looks to be from Missing Persons." said Hazel....

"Now we are getting somewhere....Siss, Duke and Jimmy have texts from Angie sent yesterday right before she left here saying she had a meeting with Detective Jones." I said.

''Now that I think about it...She got a text from him the night before when we were all in Josies...saying he wanted to meet with her..." said Sissy.

II-

"Seems like it was two seperate cases here." said Carlotta.

''Yeah look...Here is a photo of a black girl and she's pregnant...I'd say about six to seven months."said Tyriq.

''Yeah you would know about that." Joked Duke.. Tyriq and Sirena had three children...The only ones amongst us who did.

II-

"Her name is Sharon Rogers...She's twenty years old...She went missing a month ago...It says he traced her cell phone to her car...It was two blocks from this Pharmacy... Car had it's keys in the ignition...full tank of gas...good condition..no sign of the girl...Jones had uniforms canvas the entire area..Including this place.."said Jimmy showing us a photo of the girl and the Pharmacy..

Sirena, Carlotta and Sissy looked at the photos...

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"Twenty years old and having her first baby...So young..so Innocent." said Sirena...It's been a month...No activity on any of her credit or debit  cards, No one has claimed the car..Mail is piling up in front of her apartment...She hasn't been to work...The last ping from her cell phone was a few blocks from that Pharmacy, where her car was found." said Sirena.

"This is her car, looks like a new car..." said Carlotta.

''She was a junior at Lasalle...Made the deans list...and she had a job and an apartment...She was a good girl." said Sissy...

"I know Sam Jones...He's as thorough a Detective as there is.. See , here he interviewed the boyfriend, who reported her missing..he alibied out and he interviewed her parents, siblings, cousins , classmates and fellow employees...They all alibied out..." said Duke..

"He's even got zip drives..."said Tyriq...

"It's a combination of street cam footage, traffic cam footage, atm footage and business cam footage for the area..It shows her going into that pharmacy...but never leaving and hours later it shows this guy going to her car ....and he is holding her smartphone." said Sharon...

"Gotta be her smartphone because it's pink....No guy would have a smartphone with a pink carrying case..."said Hop...

"Look there..he's smashing it!" said Jimmy.... "Run that goon through facial recognition" said Jimmy.

"Way ahead of you Jimmy...His name is Falstaff Layton....He was born Frank Layton...He's got three convictions, Assault with a deadly weapon, Assault with intent to kill and Racial intimidation...He's been in the joint three times...He's member of several prison White Supremacist gangs..." said Sharon...

"The owners are Odin and Jessica Farber...Both active in White Supremacist politics.. No records, but active on websites and blogs, suspected of manufacturing and selling meth and running weapons...according to these reports in  Jones's files from the FBI ,DEA and ATF...Jessica has no sheet ,but her husband, Odin does.." said Sissy..

"Yup, Three convictions for sale and transportation and distribution of controlled substances, Heroin, Cocaine and Meth....Suspected member of several Neo Nazi and White Supremacist groups...Real name, Odell Farber..."said Carlotta.

"So these guys are into some heavy stuff and this poor girl walked into their pharmacy at the wrong time...She was the wrong color and she was by herself.." I said.

''What was she doing in that neck of the woods anyway?" asked Jimmy.

 "She was answering an ad for an apartment...Only the apartment wasn't for someone like her.." said Carlotta, sighing.

''So much ignorance and blind hatred in the world..."said Jimmy, angrily punching his hand...

"Yeah and look at this other file.." said Tyriq throwing some more files down..

We all looked at the photos of a young attractive white woman and a young black man...

 "This is Vincent Dearing, 25 and his wife , Cynthia Dearing, 23...They vanished two weeks ago...Their last purchase was at...You guessed it.. This same Pharmacy.." said Carlotta...

" And like Sharon Rogers...They went in...but never left..Not a trace." said Hop...

"And look.. The woman's Credit card receipt said they purchased something there. and yet no trace of them". said Duke...

''Angie and Detective Jones were into something really murky added Hazel....

''We need to get down there as fast as possible...We've got enough for probable cause...Let me call Judge Stevens....He'll email me a search warrant for both the Pharmacy and that building across the street." I said.

"If he won't...I'll get a federal warrant..I know a federal judge who owes me a favor said Sharon...

"Okay guys...kevlar vests, trauma plates...Duke, Chica...Riot pump shotguns...." said Sissy.

"We are on it boss lady.." said Carlotta and Duke in unison....

"The rest of you...call up the very best uniforms you know.. I need at least ten guys .." said Sissy as she grabbed her glock..

 "On it Siss" said Tyriq...

 "I'll go fetch some guys." said Jimmy...

 "Me too!" said Sirena...

"I know a couple of guys..." said Hop...

"I'll grab some agents...Let's go..." said Sharon...

III-

SEVERAL HOURS BEFORE-

 Angie walked into the quaint little Pharmacy...The floor was dusty and the shelves were barely filled...and the bottles and things on the shelves were very dusty....It looked like nothing had been sold here in years....
Plus the place smelled like Ben Gay....

A Matronly looking white woman in her mid fifties walked up to the counter...She smiled..

"May I help you?" she asked.

"Yes...Uh, My husband and I were driving around and we uh are answering an ad you had for an apartment...." she said.

"An apartment.? Well I'm sorry to say but that vacancy was filled last week.." she said.

Angie smiled..

"Oh it was...I'm sorry to hear that....Some friends of mine told me that they were looking for an apartment out here.." said Angie...

"Really? This isn't exactly the best part of town to live in...Uh especially not for uh your uh kind...No Offense...but uh..there aren't a lot if any uh African-Americans living around here.." said the woman...

"I know.." said Angie..."It just seemed that the price met our standards, My husband is out of work right now." she said..

''What line of work is your husband in?" asked the woman...

"Oh you can ask him yourself...Here he comes.." said Angie ,with a smile..

"Heyyyyyyyyy folks...I'm Louis Weitz....My wife and I were uh looking for an apartment that you had for rent.." he said..

"Baby they filled the vacancy..." said Angie..

"Awwww...Well we had some friends...that came out here two weeks ago looking for an apartment..." he said and showed  the woman a photo of the Dearings....You remember them?" asked Sam Jones.

The woman's mood changed...

"You're a Jew aren't you?" she snarled...

''What"?he asked incredulously...

"You're a Jew and you have the nerve to be married to a ..a...Black gal....I don't hold with inter-racial marriage....I don't hold with it...Falstaff!!!" she yelled..

"Wait!  What Did You Say?" said a now angry Angie...

Falstaff, a six foot , four inched...Heavily muscled white man used a taser to hit Angie.....

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed as her body jerked back and forth....

"HEYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" said Detective Sam Jones....who went for his gun, but was hit from behind with a powerful taser from another man.....

Odin Farber...Her husband...

The woman ,Jessica Farber stood over their two unconscious bodies...She went through Angie's purse...


''Well, Well, Well...Like most niggers...She's a liar and a thief...She's a damn cop....Detective Angela Belton-Barlow...Criminal Investigation Division, Philadelphia Police Department..." she said.

Odin and Falstaff went through Sam Jones wallet...

"He's Detective Sam Jones, Missing Persons.....He's looking for that white guy and his nigger wife who was in here weeks ago." said Odin...

"Want me to kill em?" asked Falstaff...


"No.. No...These are cops....Too much heat....I suspect that just these two came out here on their own...If there was a major investigation...we'd be flooded with cops....Tie em both up...Take em to the sub-basement across the street....Call the boys...Tell em to get a truck...Load up the lab and all of the weapons...It's time for us to get out of here and set up elsewhere..." said Jessica..

"Shouldn't we call the boss?" asked Falstaff...

''We'll call him in due time...Get these guys out of here...Take their phones and smash em...Til I figure out what to do with them..." said Jessica.

Within minutes Five guys came over....They lifted the bodies of Angie and Sam Jones up and carried them across the street to the sub-basement of the near empty apartment complex...

Odin looked at Jessica...

"The Boss aint gonna like this...He didn't want any heat...no attention to our operation..." he said.

"I don't give a damn what he wants...He's just interested in money....He's not a true believer...He's not really interested in upholding the purity of the white race....He aint really one of us.." she said..

"Nah, he aint.." said Odin..

"I say,let me kill em....Startin with that pretty nigger bitch first.."said Falstaff.....

Jessica looked at him...

"You like her don't you? You want to sex her don't you? Then kill her...Can't let you do that......If these two were on to us...We don't know how long it will be before they are missed and more cops come lookin..."said Jessica..

"I told you after we killed that pregnant girl that you shouldn't have done this..."said Odin...

"A pregnant nigger wench about to bring another nigger in the world? Nahhhhhh I wasn't havin it." said Jessica and nothin angers me more than to see a handsome white man with a nigger bitch....possibly havin another mongrel like that gotdamn Barack Obama..Hell no...I wasn't standin for it..." spat Jessica.

''Well we got to tell the boss."said Odin.

"In due time...In due time.." said Jessica.

IV-

  "I just got off the phone with Judge Stevens...I got search warrants for the Pharmacy and the apartment..."I said.

"Okay...Let's go...We don't have any time to spare." said Sissy...

"We're going to save Angie ,Jimmy."said Carlotta...

"If...If she's still alive." he said visibly shaken...

''Don't think like that." said Sirena.

"I got ten guys..." said Hop...

"And I picked up ten guys from Tactical."said Tyriq.

"I've got ten of my best agents..."said Sharon...

"Then let's roll." said Duke.

(CONCLUSION NEXT)