Nick Nack Patty Wack

Pink had four cracked ribs and a fractured nose.....

He was going to live though....He refused to talk to the police...but the cameras inside the bar clearly showed Dice Raw....

The police searched his tony loft uptown and two other addresses for him, but he was nowhere to be found...

By now I was on him....

Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson and our four ex-CIA operatives and one ex-KGB operative had slipped into his other loft and his two other residences under the cover of night and had wired all three residences for sound and video...He had to return sooner or later...

Clerow and Owen Todd stood guard outside of Pink's room....They were armed and ready for his return, but I didn't seriously think he would be returning...He had made his point...He was gunning for me..What he didn't know...was that now that he had hurt my friend...I was gunning for him...

Everybody in and around that bar knew who he was and feared him.....but for a few dollars and free drinks..some were willing to talk to me..

Yes,it was true that Dice Raw was the new power in the streets...He had met with Walter Becker and began working with him almost as soon as he was released from prison...He became the conduit to which Bob "Big Butt" Thornton  was getting his drugs in the prison....He tired of just working for Walter Becker.....He waited for his time and he took Walter Becker out...Now he was the new Boss on the streets..He had a hot package...10-12 represenatives of different Drug Organizations bought from him and he supplied Bob "Big Butt" Thornton in the prison.

A week went by, an eerily quiet week and we finally got something from our feed.. A phone call from the prison....to him...

"Hello.." 

"Dice...This is Bob....I need a re-up....and soon..."

"No problem....When is your man coming?"

"He'll be down in two days...He has to pick up prisoners...prisoners being transported...Hey is this a secure line??"

"Of course Big Butt...Why wouldn't it be..I only use burners and I toss em after two days.." he said.

"Good...Now he'll be on this prison bus...here is the license plate...That will be my guy..."

"Okay...the stash will be in four mail sacks..."

"My man Nash...will make the pick up at the prison...."

"Good...We are in business babe.."

"You guys find Crump yet?"

"No...I got a good man on it...He'll turn up..."

"I don't trust him...I don't want him goin near the police or the feds...So don't just find him...kill him!"

"That was always the plan Big Butt..."

"What's this I hear about you beat somebody up in a bar and the cops was lookin for you?"

"That was nothin...Just a little misunderstandin...."

"Yeah?  Don't let this little misunderstanding bring Kevin Morris into this , you hear???  Just like I had Becker replaced when I got tired of his business...I can have you replaced also...GOT IT?"

"Yeah Big Butt, I got it..."

"And don't call me Big Butt...I'm Mr. Thornton..."

"Okay..Okay, Geeez..."

"Just remember who's runnin things..."

"Okayy."

(Click!)

So Dice Raw wasn't the new power in town...The Real power, Bob "Big Butt" Thornton was running the town from his prison cell...

Interesting...as was what we heard next...

Two young guys walked into his loft...

Dice Raw looked at them...

"You locate Crump yet?

"Naw....We checked all of the hotels down town...He has no relatives or known friends here and we checked movement on his cards...Nothing since last week...He must be using cash.." said one..

"We got guys coming for pick ups tomorrow and the day after."said Dice Raw...

"We'll drive out to the warehouse and get ready..." said the other guy...

"Hey you found Kevin Morris yet? I gave you his home and his work address..and he hangs out at Josies..."said another guy...

"I know.....but I want him to come to me...and I know just how to do that..." laughed Dice Raw.

III-

My wife Sepia had just picked up our daughter, Kimberly from the Day Care Center.....Her business partner, Bonita Foxworth was laughing and talking to a man, A dark skinned six foot three man with a cleanly shaved head and a platinum earing...

The man was well dressed....Nice suit...Nice fragrance....

"Hey Bonita...New Client?" asked Sepia..

"No...He was asking about you....So you want to buy a house from my girl and not me...I'm hurt Mister...You never told me your name.."laughed Bonita..

"That's cause I don't need for you to know it whore." he said, still smiling..

"What did you call me?" asked Bonita...

"That wasn't very nice." said Sepia..

He slapped her in the face....hard...

"THIS WASN'T EITHER!!! "

"HEYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" said both women...

"TELL KEVIN YOU MET DICE RAW!!! TELL HIM TO COME FOR ME IF HE'S GOT THE GUTS!" he said and walked out to his car and got in...

"Bye Hookers.." he laughed and pulled off....

"I'm sorry Sepia....I had no idea..." said a shocked Bonita...

Sepia was crying a little bit....She had been slapped hard....

Kimberly was even a little upset...

"That's okay girl...He was some kind of nut...I might not tell my husband...Kevin will kill him." she said.

IV-

At Penn's landing...My guys...Sean Jackson, Peeping Tom, Lockpick Johnson ,Clerow and Owen Todd snapped photos of Dice Raw's two operatives...They even found the warehouse ,which was heavily guarded by about ten goons...

From a distance ,using a telephoto lense..

They snapped photos of who was going in and who was coming out...Of small trucks going in and small trucks coming out..

We got photos of 12 represenatives of Major Drug organizations pulling in and pulling out with high grade dope and coke and meth and other opiates as well...

That and my recordings was enough for me to call a meeting with my friends...

I found Assistant Warden Jonah Crump and took him with me to Police headquarters....Here I met with Assistant District Attorney Keith Wallace, Lt. Sissy Van Buren, Criminal Investigation Division, Deputy Special Agent in charge of the FBI, Sharon Hopkins and Regional DEA Special Agent in charge, Carol  Redding and ASUSA Brendan Burnside...

"Oh My God Kevin....This is incredible...We hadn't even started to put our guys on this just yet..."said ADA Keith Wallace...

''So our suspicions were right ...Dice Raw is the new power on the streets....."said Sissy...

"No...He's not...Bob "Big Butt" Thornton is the power on the streets...Dice Raw takes his orders from him...He's the face on the streets...he supplies the drugs to the prison...but Big Butt calls the shots.."I said.

"Your wiretapped calls prove that...This is incredible." said Sharon...

"Okay, so we've identified his warehouses and the players who buy from him.....but how do we get Big Butt?" said Carol...

"You know we had a case like this before....Malik Clarke, remember him?? You guys put him away and he was running  his own kingdom....but that was inside the prison...Nothing like this...Nothing of this scale.."said Brendan Burnside...

"Give me some time...They have a shipment going to the prison...Here are the license plates to the buses coming in to transfer the prisoners...The shipment is going to be in mailsacks....The point man is some guy named Nash..." I said.

"I know him...he's a sergeant.....I can't believe he's mixed up in this.." said Assistant Warden Jonah Crump...

"When we went after Malik Clarke...We had a man on the inside...We don't have time to do that...We've got to move with what we have and move fast.." said Brenden....

"It's going down the day after tomorrow...Just sit tight....Then make your move.."I said.

I then passed Sissy two photos of two young men...

"These two killed Walter Becker and his bodyguard....Check em out." I said.

"Thank you Kevin.." said Sissy...

"Crump...I'm going to have to put you in protective custody until we clean all of these rats out." said Keith Wallace...

"Give me your keys...I'll have my guys clean out your hotel room and bring your things here.."I said.

"I've got a place I can keep him...Since he's not under indictment he'll be easier to hide than most." said Brendan...

"Thank you sir and thank you Kevin." said Crump...

"That's what you paid me for buddy..." I said.

V-

Sepia and Bonita were sitting in the living room when I got home...Neither was smiling...In fact they looked very disturbed..

"Hey girls...What's going on?" I asked..

Sepia was in tears...She ran into my arms...

"Kevin, you know a guy named Dice...Dice Raw?" she asked...

"I've never met the guy...but uh I've heard a lot about him lately...Hey what happened to your face?" I asked.

The side of her face was swollen...

"He slapped her Kevin!! He slapped her while she was holding the baby....He called us both whores and said to tell you to come for him if you had the guts..." screamed Bonita...

I was furious in a way I had never been furious before...I was already angry that he had put Pink in the hospital....but he had put his hands on my wife...

NOW HE HAD GONE TOO FAR!!!

"Kevin wait....please baby...Don't do anything rash...This is a set up he wants you to come after him...Don't fall for the okey doke...Please...I'm scared...He's a scary guy.....If...If I can't stop you...At least take Walter..: she said...Tears streaming down her face...

"Good Idea..." I said...

"Call Walter..." I said calmly...

Dice Raw wanted to meet Me.. He was about to!

(TO BE CONTINUED)