Jimmy smoked a cigarette while pondering over the issue. The na Borsa ntioned by David seed vaguely familiar, but he couldn't recall where he had heard it. Even though his mory was excellent, not everything stuck with him.
Regarding the nas of drug traffickers, if he didn't hear it from Ruiz, it must have been from Dallas or Albuquerque. He wouldn't hear the na of a drug dealer from elsewhere. His collaboration with the CIA only involved clearing out a drug dealer's hideout. Oh, right, was that dealer's supplier Borsa?
This matter was a bit tricky, but David was not Ruiz. He could help, but there was no necessity to overdo it. Just a call to Torsten to confirm would suffice. The follow-up was too much hassle; it was better not to bother.
Discarding the cigarette butt, Jimmy returned to the office to continue reviewing cases assigned to their team.
Jimmy wasn't thinking too much about it anymore, but Torsten was quite intrigued by the situation.
A trafficking route capable of delivering drugs to New York implied a large organization. Typically, smaller organizations only handle distribution within their controlled regions or nearby areas. Interstate trafficking generally only involves neighboring states. For Borsa to transport from Texas to New York State without being detected was exceedingly challenging.
However, the na didn't ring any bell for him. As a DEA agent deeply rooted in Dallas for many years, even if he didn't know the intricate details of every drug trafficking organization, he was sowhat familiar with their aliases and gangs. Often, the challenge wasn't identifying who was selling but gathering sufficient evidence.
Torsten opened the system and began to investigate previously recorded drug trafficking groups. He also wanted to check if he could trace any link to this Borsa through these people, or at least see if there were any similar organizations capable of shipping to New York.
As a re team leader, Torsten was on par with Jimmy's current position. His data may not be comprehensive, but it's substantial. It would take so ti to go through the groups he currently had access to.
In the DEA, anyone who reaches the rank of team leader has a number of informants at their disposal. So might even place undercover agents within drug cartels, but such agents typically maintained contact through single lines of communication. Torsten didn't have such an undercover agent at hand. After gathering information, he would need to reach out to informants. Of course, paying informant fees would indeed be costly.
Torsten believed Borsa must exist, given that Jimmy took the trouble to call, indicating that New York FBI likely had reliable leads. Because it involved multiple regions and a lack of familiarity with drug trafficking, the FBI couldn't handle it directly through their Dallas office.
Most of Torsten's informants covered Dallas, basically Northern Texas. After checking the ti, he made a few calls, then took a few envelopes from the drawer, greeted others, and left the office.
Dallas, ranking within the top ten populous cities in the United States, would inevitably have its share of various traffickers. Likewise, as a key regional office for the DEA, Torsten and his team of team leaders had access to plenty of resources.
Torsten spent a few hours outside, successfully contacted several informants, and distributed the task objectives, hoping they could soon return with any information they might uncover.
However, this approach was more of a widespread net, relying on luck. The crucial part was obtaining the information swiftly. So after returning to the office, Torsten consulted a few reliable colleagues. Everyone found Borsa's na unfamiliar; at least he wasn't soone from within Dallas.
Torsten underestimated the drug trafficking intelligence network. Whilst he was scrambling around for leads, soone had already found out who he was seeking and quickly inford Borsa, who was in faraway New xico.
Borsa was not in Texas but in New xico. Though the two states border each other, Dallas is in the northeastern part of Texas, while Albuquerque is centrally located in New xico, with quite so distance between them.
The information David and his team obtained from the gang misled the ssenger who relayed to Jimmy, so the search in Dallas effectively led nowhere. However, the leaked information inadvertently alerted Borsa about issues in one of his subordinate's lines, outing his na.
Borsa was a bald, older Latin Arican man primarily residing between New xico and xico. For soone like him, lingering in one place for too long posed significant risks; he was not the cartel boss but rely a line leader under the boss's command.
Borsa's shipnts usually first traveled to New xico, then distributed across several surrounding states, eventually extending to most states across the U.S. Of course, he wasn't managing these operations single-handedly; dostically in the United States, he used several different teams to handle various regions.
The ssage Borsa received originated from Texas; he imdiately organized a team to verify the information. The drug cartel's power was formidable, with ample manpower and funding to scrutinize specific information.
Soon, he confird that Torsten from the Dallas DEA office was investigating a major Texas drug kingpin nad Borsa. The investigation was very sudden without previous whispers. By cross-referencing multiple sources, he identified that the DEA had indeed targeted him.
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