Team Lead: Gear up, boys; our detectives just hit the jackpot following a new lead for methamphetamine production in 213 Park and need some door kickers for the job. They booked this tweaking gangbanger for shooting up a 4U station the other day. The fool had a note in his pocket all about this meth lab in 213 Park. he was planning on spending his earning from the robbery up there.
Officer: How do we know it’s legit?
Team Lead: Good question. Well, as our luck would have it, a uniformed patrol just happened to drive near the house a few days ago and picked up what they presumed was a hit-and-run victim by the side of the road. It turned out he was a runner for the guys that run the neighborhood. He admitted everything while in the back of the ambulance. He was in a bad way and wanted to clear his conscience. He’d pocketed the cash from this big deal he’d overseen. He was planning on skipping town with this hooker or something like that. They tortured him in the attic of this house and left him for dead. Once the hospital got him stabilized, he sang like a bird. He told us everything he could about this place in exchange for immunity.
Officer: What sort of premises are we dealing with?
Team Lead: We’re dealing with multiple. There are two properties. Both empty. One went into foreclosure and somehow got lost in the bank’s systems. Nobody’s touched it since. The second is a house just to the north. The family was killed during a robbery on their way to the airport. The house was being fumigated and it’s sat that way, empty, ever since. Nobody seems to want the thing. But they’re just the top layer. Our boy Reece managed to explain that there’s a secret garage built under the property. That’s where the heaviest footfall is happening. That’s where we need to be.
We’ve got house under surveillance, but Reece gave us the core opening hours. That’s when we move.
The orders are to arrest at least two suspects tat the property for detectives to pursue this investigation. We nail them and get this lab shut down and it’s a big check in the win column.
We won’t be welcome in this part of town. I’m sure most of you here know how its residents feel about police presence, so this will be a big crackdown. Be advised that we have no information on suspects or civilians other than the possibility many will be under the influence of methamphetamine and be highly erratic and potentially violent on contact, not to mention gang activity, meaning the presence of firearms on persons within the meth house, so I would advise you proceed with extreme caution. We don’t want to cause a riot, and lethal force is only permissible as a defensive measure.
Am I clear on that?
Officers: [in unison] Yes, sir.
Team Lead: I want us to split into three teams. First team, I want you to take the first property. Sweep it, arrest anybody that gets in your way-second and third teams, you guys are going north. I was that house cleared and the garage held. Nobody gets in, and nobody gets out until we’ve processed them. This mission is just as much about making a statement to the 213 District as it is about anything else. |