Cleaning Up

Bobby Wanamaker , the new guy who Bob "Big Butt" Thornton put in charge was very,very different from Dice Raw...

He was all about business....

Neither he, nor his associates knew that we were still watching and listening to his every move...By "we" ,I meant ,my associates and I..They had thrown out all of their phones and tablets and replaced them with new phones and tablets...that we had also cloned and were monitoring...

I knew for instance that he was busy putting out feelers for other buyers ,now that 12 big clients were incarcerated...and that the fish weren't biting...People were antsy about doing business with them since 12 heavy hitters and crews had gotten pinched by the feds...They felt too much heat was on them..and not only that..They were used to dealing with Walter Becker or Dice Raw...They didn't know Bobby Wanamaker and didn't trust him...

What I'd found out about him was that he had no sheet, no convictions or arrests...No Juvenile record either...That alone made him suspect....He had a BA from Temple, And an MBA from Lasalle... He was the son of Bud Wanamaker...A noted Philly Drug Kingpin, now serving a life sentence himself for murder and a one time associate of Bob "Big Butt" Thornton..

He was ruthless...

 I was there with Sissy

When her Detectives...Duke Baylor and Angie Belton-Barlow..

picked up one of the two guys I told them was responsible for the murder of Walter Becker... Between their investigation and what I gave them , they had more than enough to make a case against him...He wasn't in county lock up two days before being discovered in his cell, stabbed numerous times...

I was there with Sissy again , when two of her other detectives...

 Detective Sirena Pile

And Tony Hopkins picked up the other gunman accused of murdering Walter Becker... Between their investigation and what I gave them on this guy from my investigation , they had more than enough to make a case against him..

To our frustration, He was found hanging in his cell at CFC that same afternoon he was arrested...Which spoke to the efficiency of Bobby Wanamaker..

"Kevin , you got anything on tape?....Him calling the prison, Him saying something to somebody in that loft?" asked Sissy...

"No...he's too smart for that...My guess is he's going through someone else....A conduit...He's been trying to drum up business lately....for the drugs ,but so far...nobody wants to do business with him...They don't trust him.." I said.

"Well the bodies are piling up.....You guys have to find a connection soon." said Hazel..

"I've been on him...He eats lunch and dinner with the Attorney...A.J.Miller   at a very fancy spot twice a week...He may be funneling his orders or the orders of Bob Big Butt Thornton through him.."I said.

"Well...our next move is to snatch Mr. Nash when he comes in tomorrow...He's supposed to pick up another stash of drugs..." said Sissy..

"I heard Big Butt Thornton is back at the prison..." I said.

"Yeah he's back.....Trying to rebuild his little empire again....But once we snatch Nash...His supply man, he's shut down for good." said Sissy...

 I stopped by the office of Attorney's Olivia Bennett-Alexander and Beverly West to talk to them...

Olivia greeted me with a smile and a kiss on the cheek....

''Kevin...My second favorite private investigator." she said warmly...(Her first would naturally be her husband and my freind, Donnie Ray Alexander, who was eating a sandwich when I walked in...He waved....

''What's up Kev?" he said as I sat down...

''What's up man? Happy New Year." I said...

Her cute little niece and partner, Attorney Beverly West greeted me with a hug and a kiss....

"Hi Mr. Kevin." she said.

"Hi baby." I said and sat down...

''So what brings you by here? You want information on another former client of mine?" asked Olivia..

"Not a client...A colleague of sorts...What can you tell me about A.J. Miller?" I asked..

The mention of his name turned both women's face into huge frowns...

"Ughhhhhhhhhhhh him?" said Beverly...

"Gee Kevin...I was getting ready to eat.." said Olivia..

"I uh take it they know this guy and uh they don't care for him too much." laughed Donnie Ray...

"He was once a very good man....He is a very good Attorney...But he's no longer a good man." said Olivia..

"What Auntay means is that A.J. Miller has a hole where his soul once was and that morals and human decency slowly slipped  and ooozed out of him." said Beverly...

"He was a Public defender for years.....Bev and I knew him....Like I said, a damned fine attorney....Then he became an ADA , he actually put criminals away...Then he went into private practice...Representing those same criminals...The ones with fat pockets....The Drug Lords...Fences...Heist Guys...I don't have a problem with that except that he's become just like them over the years...He does more than just represent scumbags...he does their dirty work for them too, if you know what I mean.....He's been censored and cited more times than I can count...but somehow he has always come up as clean as a baby's butt..."said Olivia..

"But you think he's dirty don't you Livy?" I said.

''And if you didn't...you wouldn't be here asking us about him." said Beverly...

Donnie Ray smiled...

" Shortcake has a point " he said..

I smiled...

"She does at that..."I said and smiled..

I kissed Beverly...

She giggled like a school girl...

"Liv, Donnie Ray, Beverly....Always a pleasure talking to you guys...It's always so educational.." I laughed..

"Glad we can be of help....Anytime Kevin...You know that!"said Olivia...

"Bye Mr. Kevin.." said Beverly smiling...

"Sure you don't want something to eat? There is another sandwich in the frig...It's from Sam Mother's joint."said Donnie Ray...

I laughed...

"No thanks...I'm good guys." I said.

II-

The bus pulled into the courthouse yard....Ready to take new prisoners back to the prison.....Three guys carrying three huge sacks nodded....

Sergeant Frank Nash nodded to them and they walked toward the bus...

Detective Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace walked in between them...

Sergeant Frank Nash stopped her...

"Where do you think you're going little lady?" he asked...

"Actually...I was coming to see you.." she said.

"Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh??" he said ,all teeth...

"Si..." she said and stuck her gun in his ribs and flashed her badge...

The three guys dropped their bags and went to run...

Her partner, Detective Tyriq Pile and three plain clothes guys from Narcotics pulled guns on them and handcuffed them...

Her other partner, Detective James Barlow and I, along with six or seven plain clothes cops from Narcotics and three DEA agents...

opened the bags and sure enough...under the mail was several baggies of high cut heroin, cocaine, meth and opiates...also Viagra ,Cialis and Levitra..."

"He's got a drug store in these bags Siss..."I said.

"Excellent! That prison gets no re-up tonight! Kevin, your information was spot on as usual" she said..

"Mr. Nash..Welcome to Philadelphia..." said Carlotta..

III-

If we weren't getting conversation on the phones before...They certainly were buzzing now..

Bob Big Butt Thornton called from the prison....

"Bobby, you've given me nothing but bad news man.." he said.

"Hey ,I took care of those two numb nuts of Dice Raw ,who whacked Becker.." he said in his defense..

"Yeah, but the stash didn't arrive here tonight...and I haven't heard from Nash..."

"What?"  Well I sent three of my best guys to deliver that stuff.." he said.

"What did they say?"

"I haven't heard from em.."

"My guess is they got pinched..."

"They couldn't have....It would have been on the news.."

"FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO MY STASH....AND WHAT ABOUT NEW CUSTOMERS??"

"Nobody yet...everybody is antsy about the recent arrests...We got too much heat..."

"We got a warehouse full of dope that we can't move...Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"I'm workin on it Boss.." he said.

It wasn't going to be too much longer...Based on my live feed

ADA Keith Wallace actually showed up with Sissy and I...

They watched as Detective Duke Baylor, Angie Belton Barlow, Carlotta Rodriguez-Wallace,Tyriq Pile, Jimmy Barlow, Sirena Pile and Tony Hopkins and about nine uniformed officers armed with shotguns,

 raided his loft and arrested Bobby Wanamaker and his five associates...

The warehouse was next.....

Deputy FBI SAC Sharon Ferrell Hopkins and a squad of FBI agents...

Joined by Regional DEA SAC, Carol Redding..

and a squad of DEA Agents raided the warehouse and arrested 25 people working there...

Bob Big Butt Thornton's operation was officially ended...He had tried to take over Walter Becker's street operation and had wound up destroying it...

He was now in Segregation at the prison..

And the crooked warden, removed....

"I DON'T BELIEVE IT!   THIS WAS A FOOL PROOF OPERATION..WHAT THE HELL WENT WRONG??????" he bellowed in his cell...

"Hey Thornton, knock it off...Now turn around..Let me get a good look at that butt of yours" said an inmate who was leering at him...

"Do you know who I am?" said an angry Bob Big Butt Thornton..

"Yeah..a tall dude who is shaped like a woman from behind...Nothin more." said the inmate, laughing...

EPILOUGE-

The 17 inmates and the 14 guards were charged with RICO offenses and conspiracy charges and sentenced to 25-30 years in prison...

The 12 Drug Kingpins and their associates all got no less than 25 years behind bars in Federal Prisons...

25 people arrested ,working in the warehouse all got 10-15 years in state Prison...

Bobby Wanamaker ,the new guy who would be Kingpin ,went to jail for 10-15 years on his first try at being a boss for only a few weeks...

Ironically enough...Dice Raw was not charged with anything or arrested...His hospital stay and demotion had ironically spared him from being indicted and the two killers who might have testified against him were dead now, So he was free and clear....

The Rest of the gang that hadn't been indicted and the girls who had once worked the streets all scattered...

No new charges were brought against Bob "Big Butt " Thornton, but he's still serving life and now in an empty cell...No Internet, No Cable TV, No gourmet meals and no army of inmates and guards to carry out his edicts...He is now just an inmate and miserable..

Attorney A.J. Miller no longer had any high powered clients...but scumbags like him will always hook themselves on to somebody else...Another playa, another day...

I stood with Sepia and our daughter and ASUSA Brenden Burnside and Newly minted Warden, Jonah Crump...

"Kevin, your agency's work once again helped us a great deal...We busted up the Becker organization...and liberated our prison from Bob "Big Butt" Thornton....Shame we didn't have enough to actually charge him with a crime...but his days of Flat Screen Cable TV, Gourmet Meals , Internet use and a private army of inmates and guards alike is over...Wanamaker and some of the others cut deals as soon as they could..Who knows..we may put charges on Thornton yet..."said Brendan Burnside..

"Kevin, it sure feels good to not have to look over my shoulder  , I can't thank you enough...." said Jonah Crump...

"Just watch your back up there with those cut throats.." I said and shook his hand..

"I will Kevin...Thanks again." he said.

We watched as they got in their cars and pulled off..

"Well...I'm glad that's over...You got em all...What about that Dice Raw?" asked Sepia..

"Ironically enough...My beating him up was the best thing that could have happened to him...His name wasn't in the indictments...None of them....Everybody else is locked up , except him....Imagine that?" I laughed..

"Yeah, imagine that...I just hope we never have another run in with him..."said Sepia..

"I don't think we will." I said...but who really knew?