court.
After parking the car, Lake drove straight with Joe, entered the courthouse, and ran up the stairs to Judge Laura Birch's office on the second floor.
Since Lake was promoted to detective, the search warrants for several cases he handled were all issued by Judge Laura Birch.
We are old friends.
After entering the office, Judge Laura Birch's assistant listened to Lake's purpose, said to Lake, "Please wait a moment," then stood up and walked towards the inner office and knocked on the door to make an announcement.
soon.
The judge's assistant came out and smiled at Lake: "Inspector Edwin, you can go in."
Lake said thank you, exchanged a look with Joe next to him, and then walked in.
"Good morning."
Lake smiled at Judge Laura Birch, who was working on some documents at her desk. "Laura."
Old friend.
There is no need for such formal titles when meeting someone.
Laura, who is 45 years old and has two children, a boy and a girl, took off her glasses and joked to Lake, "I thought I would see you in the dock. What? You've been reinstated?"
Lake smiled and said, "I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Even if I had to stand in the dock, I would be happy to stand in a dock like Judge Martin's."
Judge Martin, who was found to have accepted bribes last year, was removed from the bench.
Laura shook her head and smiled: "So, you plead guilty?"
Lake laughed, took a step closer, and handed Laura a search warrant for the textile factory that he had just prepared when he left the police station.
Once Laura signs it, the search warrant will become legally effective.
Lake dared to guarantee that if he went to the textile factory, not only the people, but even the textile machine that pretended to be God would be taken back to the police station and thrown into the warehouse to collect dust.
Uproot!
Lake has always been a vengeful person. He may forget to repay a favor, but when it comes to a grudge, Lake always adheres to the principle of being quick, strict and thorough in doing things.
Laura took the search warrant and took a look at it.
Next second.
Laura looked at the object of the search and seemed a little surprised. She looked at Lake and said, "You want to search the textile factory?"
Lake nodded: "Yes."
Lake then told Laura that the textile factory was actually a mutual aid association for killers, and then handed her the contents of Carlos's killer confession. "My informant also told me that this Carlos is one of the killers who defected from the mutual aid association, so I plan to search the textile machines."
Laura was a little confused: "Besides your informant's testimony and this confession of unknown origin, do you have any other evidence?"
The same thing.
When it comes to the Disabled Persons' Federation, even Laura feels a little conflicted. If the Disabled Persons' Federation directly raises flags and causes trouble, it will be very chaotic in New York.
Lake looked at Laura: "My promise."
Laura looked up at Lake.
Lake shrugged and said, "Laura, you know me. If I wasn't absolutely sure, I wouldn't come to bother you."
Laura hesitated.
After a while.
After Laura was silent for a while, she looked up at Lake and said, "Lake, you'd better not let me down this time."
Finished.
Laura took out her pen and signed her name on the search warrant. Then she called her assistant outside and asked him to take the search warrant to the archives for filing.
"etc!"
"Sir?"
Laura stopped the assistant holding the original search warrant, looked at Lake, and said to the assistant, "Take it to the archives for filing in half an hour."
The assistant nodded.
Lake put away the copy of the search warrant, thanked Laura, and then left the office with Joe.
Out of the court gate.
Get in the car.
Joe, sitting in the passenger seat, asked, somewhat confused, "Why does it have to be filed half an hour later?"
A search warrant does not take effect as soon as it is signed. It can only take effect after it is filed with the court. There was a case in which a lawyer found that there was a one-minute difference between the time the detective presented the search warrant and the time it was filed with the court, which directly resulted in any evidence obtained being invalid.
Of course.
This time, the half-hour delay in filing the case is different from the case just mentioned.
As Lake drove towards the police station building, he glanced at Joe out of the corner of his eye and said, "Do you think a textile company that donated five million and is also a member of the mayor's campaign team would know that I was going to search them right away?"
Joe said, "Without a doubt."
Lake shrugged and said, "So, Laura was helping us just now. I got the search warrant and dispatched the special forces. By the time the textile factory received the news, we were already at the gates."
Joe nodded thoughtfully.
She used to work at the 13th Precinct. The precinct handled mostly ordinary homicides, or simply put, crimes of passion. Once organized crime or serious crimes were involved, these cases would be investigated directly by the three detectives at the police headquarters.
That is, George from the police station's serious crime team one, Caitlin from team two, and Lake from team three.
Police station building!
Superintendent Montgomery looked at the court search warrant he had retrieved less than half an hour after leaving. He looked up at Lake standing in front of his desk, a little dazed. "Did you forge this signature as well?"
Otherwise, even Laura Birch, who had almost become Lake's official search warrant signing tool, would not have signed it based solely on a confession of unknown origin.
Are you crazy?
Even if this matter is 90% certain, as long as there is a little uncertainty, if something goes wrong, it will be a big deal.
Lake shrugged and said nothing.
In fact, if it was before, Laura might not sign this document, but this time it was different. The first judge of the court was about to retire soon, and Laura was obviously interested in that position.
so...
This was something that was tacitly agreed upon.
Seeing that Lake didn't seem to be planning to speak, Montgomery didn't bother to ask. He shook his head and directly called the captain of the special forces team. After a few words, he hung up and said to Lake, "You'd better make sure it succeeds on the first try."
The implication is that if anything goes wrong this time, Montgomery will have no choice but to execute Ma Su with tears.
Lake's mouth curled up and he turned and left.
I've been busy for such a long time this time. Even if I don't do anything when I go to the textile factory, Lake will make them do it. If you hit the snake, you have to kill it.
Not only do you cut off the snake's head, you also crush it to pieces.
soon.
NYPD Strategic SWAT Team.
Lake walked in and waved to the SWAT officers who had received orders and were now fully armed. "Gentlemen, are you ready to bring warmth to the killer organization?"
Special police: "..."
have a good weekend!