Jimmy was out to catch so unlucky drivers this ti, and he maintained the old rule of driving at 45mph, waiting for anyone surpassing the police car to be stopped.
Before Jimmy could catch the first unlucky driver, his own police car tire burst. He pulled over to the side of the road, where a piece of angle iron had lodged itself in the front right tire. With no choice, Jimmy took the spare tire from the trunk, spent so ti replacing it, and then got back on the road.
Unfortunate incidents usually co one after another. As Jimmy returned to the highway and drove for a while, another tire was punctured—the rear right this ti. Jimmy pulled over, only to find that it was again a piece of angle iron lodged in the tire, which was suspicious.
Jimmy imdiately contacted the dispatch center and reported the situation, only to discover that the center had already received multiple reports of punctured tires, all occurring on the sa road.
Jimmy called for a tow truck to take the police car back, then he phoned Cage, needing him to pick him up and to figure out whether soone was maliciously throwing angle iron on the road or if it was accidentally falling off a truck.
The dispatch center also started an investigation, tracing back from the first reported case. However, there wasn't much useful information; traffic caras were only present at so intersections. Now close to Christmas, with many people driving trucks full of goods, monitoring only the intersections made it impossible to determine from whose vehicle the angle irons had fallen.
Jimmy sat in Cage's car, slowly driving forward alongside the road to continue the search. A few hundred ters later, they found another vehicle parked on the roadside, also suffering a flat tire and lacking a spare to change.
After learning that the driver had already called for a tow truck, Jimmy continued further in Cage's car to search.
The road was already very clean, seemingly all the angle irons that had been on the ground were now picked up by passing tires. Reaching the location of the last reported tire explosion notified by the dispatch center, Jimmy looked around. This area was still within a residential district, not in the middle of nowhere, making it overly difficult to find any suspects.
Luckily, no more tire explosion incidents were reported, and Cage decided to give up. He drove Jimmy back to the headquarters and then continued his patrol in the Northwest Division.
Jimmy felt like bad luck was clinging to him; he barely got a long vacation, which coincidentally fell near exam ti, and now that he was back at work, his patrol was interrupted by two flat tires, and he and Cage couldn't even find the culprit.
"Jimmy, there's an operation tomorrow, co to the precinct early." Deputy Chief Martin at the county police briefed Jimmy. Martin had been previously handling affairs in another office, but after institutional reforms, he had returned to the headquarters.
Jimmy was revitalized; operations that needed advanced notification were usually significant, and for the County Sheriff's office, such grand operations were rare; at least in the past year, Jimmy hadn't encountered any.
Typical cases were either ergency incidents or notifications from the dispatch center, but this ti Deputy Chief Martin individually notifying of tomorrow's duty ant that it wouldn't be a minor case.
"Yes, Deputy Chief. What is the case about?"
"You'll find out tomorrow." Martin said, then turned and went back to his office.
Full of hope, Jimmy arrived at the precinct the next day to find more people than usual at the headquarters, with representatives from various divisions attending the morning case briefing.
"OK, everyone's here, let's get started." Deputy Chief Martin stood in front of the conference room's whiteboard and affixed several photos onto it with magnets.
"These are our targets, Farrek Bain and Franz Beins, two brothers who own three residential properties linked together in the John Barrow Region, all under their nas. Here's the map."
Chief Martin pointed to a printed map, already marked with three houses on a street corner.
"The Beins brothers belong to a local small gang, whose main inco cos from a few bars and nightclubs near John Barrow."
"Their previous supply chain had been taken down by the DEA, and the Beins brothers had previously been arrested in Texas for growing marijuana on a remote farm.
After being released from prison a few years ago, they returned to their hotown in John Barrow Region and joined the local gang."
According to the informant, the Beins brothers had resud their old business of growing marijuana in Little Rock. Until now, the location of the plantation had not been confird, but now there was precise information, and their farm had been located.
Director Martin handed two docunts to Cage and Ali.
"What we need to do this ti is to clear out their plantation and arrest the Beins brothers. Cage, you take a team to raid the farm; Ali, you will be responsible for arresting them at their ho, but wait for Cage to make his move first before proceeding with the arrest,"
"Yes, Sir." x2
"Choose your teams."
Cage imdiately pulled Jimmy into his team, and Ali, a bit slow in his response, had no choice. However, Ali's task wasn't difficult; the personnel from the North District alone were sufficient to arrest the two brothers.
Cage set out with people from both the Northwest Division and the Southern Division, heading for a forest in the western part of Chicot, south of Little Rock.
The marijuana farm wasn't a conventional outdoor farm; it was actually an indoor plantation augnted by fluorescent lamps and an irrigation system. Indoor-grown marijuana could mature faster than those cultivated outdoors; the only issue was that the constant need for lights typically ant high electricity consumption.
In the United States, identifying marijuana plantations through abnormal electricity consumption is a common practice. Hence, various thods are employed to mask this consumption, such as family constant temperature swimming pools, disguising farms inside factory buildings, and in extre cases, using solar panels or diesel generators for power.
Jimmy had never seen marijuana before; he hadn't had the opportunity in his past life, and in this life, he had no interest in interacting with such substances. Seeing the farm this ti was quite an eye-opener for him.
About one kiloter from the target site, Cage stopped everyone, re-emphasized the map locations and everyone's roles, then set off again, this ti with sirens blaring, rushing straight to the farm's building.
The people inside the house, startled by the sound of the sirens, were thrown into chaos. So rushed to the doors, while others moved towards the cultivation racks, intending to destroy the evidence.
Cage and his team smashed through the door and rushed inside. With a large number of county police officers present, everyone quickly identified their targets and pursued them, and after about fifteen minutes, they managed to capture everyone working there.
Jimmy looked dazed at the farm before him; he had expected to see marijuana planted directly into the ground in rows, topped with sprinklers and lights. Instead, he found a setup similar to the vegetable greenhouses he had seen before, where marijuana was planted in pots, placed on high racks with three layers from the floor to the top, each layer equipped with separate lamps and drippers. The marijuana had already grown to about 60 to 70 centiters tall; unfamiliar with it, he didn't know if it had reached maturity.
While Jimmy was lost in thought, Cage and the others were busy. They handcuffed everyone, lined them up against the wall, and police officers began checking through the building's contents in groups of two or three.
"Jimmy, co here," Cage called out to Jimmy, who walked over.
"Jimmy, keep an eye on these two. I'm going to notify Ali to stand down."
"Huh? What's going on? Why stand down?" Jimmy asked, puzzled.
"Hahaha, we're in luck, take a look at these two," Cage pulled out the docunts provided by Director Martin. Oh, good luck, both the Beins brothers were here, just happened to visit the farm and got caught in one fell swoop.
Cage moved a little farther away and first called Deputy Director Martin to inform him that the Beins brothers had been captured at the farm. Then, Martin inford Ali to cancel their operation, just to surround the area and wait for further instructions.
Cage, while tallying the haul, Deputy Director Martin directly contacted the district judge, requesting a search warrant. It was three hours later when Deputy Director Martin obtained the search warrant.
With the warrant in hand, Ali went to search the Beins brothers' ho, while Cage had finished tallying everything and arranged for three trucks to co, taking the people, goods, and confiscated funds and weapons back to the police station.
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