A Perfect 40

 

THREE DAYS LATER-


I began my morning at the headquarters of The Criminal Investigation Division of the Philadelphia Police department.. Also the headquarters of THE FBI and ATF...

It was a home coming of sorts..

 I sat with my good friends, Lt. Sissy Van Buren

 Detective Carlotta Rodriguez- Wallace

 Detective Tyriq Pile

 Detective James "Jimmy" Barlow..

 Detective Sirena Pile

 Detective Tony Hopkins

 Detective Edwin "Duke" Baylor

 Detective Angela Belton-Barlow

And Deputy Special Agent in Charge of the FBI/ATF , Sharon Hopkins..

also sitting in with me was

Lt. Danny Ho of Robbery-Homicide..

They knew about the Six High End Jewel Heists and were as baffled by them as was The Cyclops Insurance company, who had asked me to investigate...

"This is the most baffling case we've ever had..Six High End Jewel Heists and not a clue, No film footage, no DNA , No prints...It's as if a Ghost did this."said Sissy...

''Not a Clue..No DNA, No Prints..And worse...No movement on the streets."said Lt. Danny Ho..

 "Whoever it is...He, She  or they are very good."said Carlotta..

 "And Very New.. We've checked on all of the regulars in this area."said Tyriq.

 ''Everybody with that skill set is in prison or dead."said Jimmy.

"You can try because I know people on the street may tell you things they won't tell cops...but all of my sources say they haven't heard a peep Kev."said Duke.

 ''Same here and I have good sources.."said Angie.

 "This is definitely somebody new, somebody good and somebody with a lot of good information."said Sirena.

"What do you think Kevin?" asked Hop..

"I think it's an inside job...My people and Bonnie Shay at Cyclops Insurance is looking at a recent employee, A Documents Specialist , who was privy to the schematic design and layout of all six places as well as the safe combonations…"I said.

"The Insurance Company has that kind of information?" asked Jimmy..

"Yes for high end clients they insure.." said Sharon..

"Bonnie and I checked...The schematic designs and the combonation information is still intact in our safe.." I said.

 "But somebody could have copied it right?" said Tyriq..

''With a phone, they could have snapped the photos and sent them to someone else.."said Carlotta.

''So what do you propose Kevin?" asked Sirena.

"I've got three of my guys with Bonnie Shay now at Cyclops Insurance..

They're in her laptop as we speak and cloning her hard drive...as well as her business phone,

which she carelessly left behind..They have the technology that they can clone her personal phone just by having the number..Next time she talks on either of these phones we can listen" I said.

''Your playthings are as good as mine."laughed Sharon..

"I know you guys would need a warrant and probable cause to be able to do what we are doing...but we don't.Since we aren't cops.and we have to get this information fast before whoever strikes again."I said with a smile.

 "Ohhh to be a Private Investigator.."laughed Duke..

''With sooo much Freedom."laughed Tyriq.

''We are going to find out if she is the leak and possibly find out who her connect is...The connect is either your thief or your shot caller."I said.

''Excellent...This is as close as either of us, Robbery-Homicide and The C.I.D. has gotten to this in the past six months."said Lt. Danny Ho..

"Well the best thing is that you don't have THE GREAT DETECTIVE BREATHING DOWN YOUR BACK!" I said.

 ''Oh Hallelujah ,None of his hypocritical COMSTAT meetings..None of his breathing down our backs asking why our detectives haven't cleared a case yet...I'm loving it."

"Meanwhile I heard the WRONGFUL CONVICTION UNIT overturned 12 cases a few weeks ago, ten of them was his old cases....And there was an 11th one too all overturned..He can't talk about anyone's cases..."laughed Sharon..






II-

The reason why they had so much time to look into Tammie's computer and her phone was because at this very moment, she was at the Wrongful Conviction Unit's hearing for

Duncan Hines,recently convicted of molesting her while she was underage and sentenced to 12 years.  He stared at her with a white hot hatred when she appeared at the hearing..She looked intimidated by the size of the conference room and all of the lawyers...

She attempted to cry and put on a theatrical act...but no one was buying it..

 Not ADA Karen Page...

Not Judge Pierce... and certainly not Duncan's three new defense attorneys, Jessica Sanchez- Burrows, Jasmine Jenkins-Coley and Charles "Chip " Burrows.

Jessica Burrows, Jasmine Coley and Chip Burrows, Duncan's defense attorneys presented her true birth certificate as well as the fake one and the fake ID she used at the bar that night...and they brought forth the litany of men and one woman she had falsely accused of abuse over the years as well as the decisions that were made in the cases..These people were more than eager to testify about her and all looked like they wanted to lynch her..

Her entire sordid life history of deception was brought up......Again she attempted to deflect and cry her way out of this, but unlike the jury in Duncan's trial....No one here was buying this....These were trained Attorneys and a Judge and an Assistant District Attorney...She couldn't snooker them and soon she knew it!

She was astounded...Who gathered all of this information on her and so fast?she wondered.

The Sherrif's Deputy who had made the arrest , confessed that he had had sex with her in the days after the arrest of Hines and had kind of fallen for her, only to be jilted and have his number blocked on her phone after the trial.. He was immediately fired.

The ADA who prosecuted the case, now with a private law firm had not thoroughly looked at everything in discovery and had purposely kept some evidence away from the Public Defender in the first trial...

I had located both of them and served them with summons..

She wondered how Duncan could afford not one but three attorneys and who they had hired to dig up all of this dirt on her?? She was obsessed with finding out..

I wasn't there...but I didn't need to be..

Personell from Crime Scene Investigation and the Medical Examiner's office testified...They had done a rape kit and had went over the car...

The fact that she had lied about her age, the rape kit where no semen was found, The thoroughly investigated car where no semen was found, the pair of panties where no semen was found and all of this was more than enough..

Judge Pierce overturned Duncan's conviction and voided his sentence...

"You're free to go young man.." he said..

 "Thank You Ms. Jessica, Mr. Chip, Mrs. Coley and ADA Page.

 "You're welcome/" said Jessica.

 "We are glad we got you in time before you were sent to a prison."said Chip..

 "Yes...I'm Happy for you...Go do something fun tonight."said Jazzy..

"But stay away from loose women."joked ADA Page..

"I certainly will."said Duncan, staring daggers at Tammie.

Tammie got up to leave..

"Hold it right there young lady!  You almost sent a man to prison for 12 years because you lied and we had a room full of people here who you have also lied on....I could sentence you to 5 years for perjury in this case alone...but I'm going to give you a break...Read a story about a boy who cried wolf....When the wolf really came..nobody believed him..."said The Judge..

"Can I go now?" she said with little to no remorse.."

"Get out of here!" he said sternly...

 "That folks was a pure sociopath!" said ADA Karen Page.

 "Chilling wasn't she?"said Jessica.

 "Yes indeed."said Chip.

"If I was still an ADA, I'd throw the book at her."said Jazzy..

"This makes you a perfect 40 doesn't it ADA Page?" said Jessica.

"It sure does...Thank You Guys.."said Karen..

"Thank Kevin for his great investigative work."said Jessica.

 "Yes.."said Chip..

"Nothing like a good investigator." said Jazzy..




III-

I got Walter "Kool Kat" Jones

 We went to Stoley's Lounge

 Aqua Bar

and finnaly Josie's...where all the young and hip people in the know hang out...No one knew of any new playa in the area or anyone trying to move any merchandise..or if they did know, they weren't talking tonight.

We hit all of the local Pawn Shops and talked to all of the known shot callers and fences in the area..

They all said the same thing.. The Cops and The Feds were on them like white on rice...Nobody and I mean nobody wanted anything to do with that hot ice...and not only that...They had no idea who had jacked it..No one had any connections to those places.. I believed them...

Which led me back to Bonnie, who met with me in my place that afternoon,

 after working hours..

We had both had an interesting day..

"The Cops don't know anything and there is no word on the streets." I said.

''Well we know one thing for sure..Tammy Malloy....She's the leak.. She snapped photos of the schematic designs of all of those locations and she copied the safe combonations and she emailed them to this adresss...

 Showing me the hard drive...and more photos...

"It's to a burner phone...The number traces to someplace in India and then is rerouted back to Philadelphia..." said Bonnie.

''How careful is our guy?" I asked.

"Very careful...We traced the number to a building in West Philly, an empty building...The landlord said he never saw the tenant, The tenant paid by credit card over the phone..We traced the Credit card to a Bennett Cerf...a phony name."said Bonnie.

''Very Good.. and she doesn't know we are on to her yet...but pretty soon whoever her connect is ,is going to know...and if he or they contact her...We are going to hear it.." I said.,

"If we are lucky."said Bonnie.

IV-

Sepia and I were kissing , much later at home..

"Mmmmm, so tell me about the case.."she said..

"Really? You're interested in this case?" I asked incredulously...

"I co-own a Real Estate Company..I sell people Houses, Rent people Condos, lofts, Apartments, Collect rents...I don't have this kind of excitement in my life...I live vicariously through you." she said with a smile and more soft and sensual kisses..

that were sending me into orbit..

"Welllll, our little lying suspect is indeed the mole...She used her phone to snap photos of the designs and safe combonations and send them to someone..Who we don't know...We traced the number all the way to India and then to an unmanned relay station operating out of an apartment in West Philadelphia, where no one has seen the renter..." I said.

"How did she do in court?" asked Sepia.

"Jessica , Chip and Jazzy did an incredible job with the information I gathered on her and the people I found...They were able to get that boy's conviction tossed out and him released...Just weeks after his conviction...So he only lost six weeks, rather than 12 years....I'd say that's a win." I said.

"That makes Karen Page , a perfect 40 doesn't it?" said Sepia.

''A perfect 40?" I asked.

"I've been keeping up with the cases.."laughed Sepia.

"Plus you talk to Olivia and Beverly

occasionally, like at the market or Bridget Jones's shop....."I laughed...

and Yvette and Jazzy

 at the hair dresser..."Sepia giggled..

"She's reversed 40 wrongful convictions huh?  Impressive." I said.

"Saved one man from Death Row even.." said Sepia.

"Wow, you really are up on everything.." I said.

"I'm aware that while you've been holding me, you've slipped my panties down and unhooked my bra as well.." 

she said ,giving me the side eye..

"No grass grows under your feet huh?" I said slyly..

"Not a bit.Now I'm about to get up ON YOU!" said Sepia..

We kissed passionately and she slipped herself on top of me and began to guide herself up and down on me..

"Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ." I moaned.. as she moved up and down slowly....

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh husband this feels soooo good." cooed Sepia..

"Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.." I moaned as she moved even slower....

It had been a good day....An innocent man had been freed and spared an unjust prison sentence..and we had identified the mole, the source of information and a possible lead to the thief or thieves involved in these jewel heists...

A Perfect 40 afterall...

(TO BE CONTINUED)