Diana picked up the materials, "OK, first is the artist Rachel. She only ca to New York to hold an art exhibition, and doesn't have a network here. She's only familiar with three people by na, one of whom is the gallery owner, Parker Denley."
According to Rachel, Parker was soone she t in Paris. After getting to know each other, he ntioned he had a small gallery and could organize a solo exhibition for her. After much consideration, Rachel and Parker ca to New York together. It took them a month to prepare before the exhibition officially opened."
The projector displayed a photo of Parker Denley, of course, it was an ID-type picture because Parker wasn't in New York and they hadn't seen him in person.
Diana continued, "After receiving a call from the gallery, Parker will return to New York, expected tomorrow. I'll contact him then."
Diana operated the computer to change the photo to a graduation picture, which had two people circled on it.
Diana: "The two acquaintances of Rachel in New York are these two people, Anthony Gonzalez and Peter Collins. They were Rachel's classmates. Currently, they're both in Queens and not engaged in any artistic work. Anthony Gonzalez is a stockbroker, and Peter Collins works for a construction company. They don't have any particularly close contact with Rachel. Relationally, these two shouldn't have anything to do with the theft.
I will arrange for soone to follow up on their whereabouts from the past couple of days to confirm."
Jones moved over the computer and played several photos, "These are the four employees of the gallery. Since it's a small gallery, they don't have full-ti security. Usually, during exhibitions, one or two people would cycle through shifts. However, for this exhibition, they didn't schedule any staff for the evenings, which raises so questions.
I asked the employees, and they said that the exhibit was a friend of the boss and not a famous artist, so they didn't schedule any duty personnel. Also, there had been very few visitors in the preceding days and nothing unusual happened.
I suspect it might be related to Parker Denley's absence. With the boss away, they slacked off. The alibis of the four employees for the night before last have all been recorded. According to their statents, they all have alibis that need to be verified."
Peter: "OK, for now, each of you verify the testimonies of Rachel's friends and the gallery staff according to the current clues."
After Peter made the arrangents, they began to pack up their things to leave the eting room.
Jimmy: "Peter, what should I do?"
Peter: "You follow Jones to investigate the whereabouts of the four employees. Go."
Jimmy: "OK."
Jimmy and Jones set off together, with Jones driving. Of course, this was a car assigned by the FBI. Jimmy was still a probationary agent, needing to act in concert with other agents, so he wasn't given anything, not even an account to access the database on the computer.
There were four people on the list, luckily all living in the Chelsea District, and two of the won were renting together. For Jones and Jimmy, this was good news, as it could save a bit of work.
Jimmy and Jones first aid at the two of them. They were on the third floor of an apartnt building. Jones led Jimmy to check the surveillance near the apartnt entrance, then they went upstairs to have a look, while Jimmy conveniently activated Heart Eye and scanned their apartnt. The place was a ss; it showed that neither person was particularly fond of cleanliness and order.
However, Jimmy didn't scan anything unusual in the apartnt, especially not any neatly-shaped objects like picture fras.
Since the gallery was now closed by NYPD, all employees had gone ho to wait for news. Jones knocked on the door, re-verified their schedule for that day with them, and with permission, Jimmy and Jones entered for a basic inspection.
After both were cleared of suspicion, Jones and Jimmy went downstairs, preparing to leave.
Jones: "These two should be fine. Let's go."
Jimmy: "Yeah, but it's best to check the surveillance anyway. This apartnt has only this entrance here. The traffic surveillance at the nearby intersection should capture the entrance."
Jones drove off to find the third person, Seyman is, who also rented an apartnt. Jones checked the surrounding surveillance again before entering the apartnt building to knock on the door.
Seyman is answered the door, and as usual, Jones re-confird his whereabouts. This ti, however, they didn't enter all the rooms, just glanced at Seyman's bedroom since Seyman said the apartnt was rented jointly with another person, and without his roommate's permission, he couldn't let them enter the other bedroom.
Frustrated, Jones could only take Jimmy downstairs, ready to leave.
Jimmy: "This person might be problematic."
Jimmy reached this conclusion first and then thought of reasons because he had already seen so rectangular objects leaning against the wall in the bedroom via his Heart Eye scan, about the size of picture fras. Unless Seyman's roommate happened to be a painter, those paintings were very likely from Rachel's exhibition.
Coincidentally, that room was the one Seyman ntioned belonged to his other roommate.
Now the problem was, without a search warrant, they couldn't inspect the room, and to apply for one, they needed a good reason. It was ti to think of a reason to secure a search warrant.
Jones: "How do you know? What's your reasoning?"
Jimmy: "Uh, intuition. I feel like he was lying. Let's still check the nearby surveillance first."
Jones didn't know about Jimmy's capabilities and wasn't ready to abandon the fourth person based on Jimmy's gut feeling alone.
Jones: "You thoroughly check around for surveillance first, I'll go see the last person."
Jimmy: "Alright."
Jimmy got out of the car, and Jones drove away. Walking along the pavent, Jimmy now had a target in mind. How could he nail them? Evidence and reason were very important.
After walking around a couple of tis, Jimmy confird there were no external caras nearby to capture the street vehicles. That made things complicated.
Jimmy took out his phone and called Jones: "Jones, how's it going your end?"
Jones: "No problems here. The person lives in a basent, and there's nothing unusual in the room."
Jimmy: "Yeah, do you have a cara in the car? I couldn't find any surveillance that captures Seyman's apartnt here. I can only try to keep watch."
Jones: "Wait for to co back."
After a few minutes, Jones drove back. He didn't stop outside Seyman's apartnt but twenty or thirty ters away from it.
Jones: "Jimmy, any discoveries?"
Jimmy: "No, Seyman hasn't co out. I'm trying to capture anyone entering or leaving on cara, so we can check that later. My gut says Seyman definitely has issues. He seed very nervous during our conversation."
Jimmy didn't know how else to phrase it, so had to make up so nonsense to bide his ti.
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