Chapter 59
Beckett and Lisbon led a team of police officers to Philip Johnson’s single-family apartment in East Los Angeles. After Jenny Johnson had produced a search warrant, they immediately launched a search.
Fortunately, Philip Johnson’s two sons are at school and not at home. Although Jenny Johnson is reluctant, she has nothing to do in front of the brigade police.
The search continued for more than two hours, but the results of the search were not satisfactory.
In Johnson House, apart from the grand competition cash and a few pistols found in the hidden compartment of the garage, there is nothing else to gain, even the few pistols have legal procedures. The trouble is that Jenny Johnson has called the own lawyer and whispered.
“How is it?” Lisbon and Beckett met and discussed the situation in a low voice.
“Do you think the clues are hidden in the computer?” Beckett frowns glanced at the computers that were being moved from Johnson House, and now I can only hope that.
“It is possible, I hope Van Pelt can gain something.” Lisbon’s face is also unsightly, is it possible that today is really going to be impossible.
“He doesn’t hide things at home.” Jane didn’t know when she stood behind them. He also did a search just now, but he did not find much in this house. Valuable clues.
“Jane, what do you mean by that, do you have other ideas?” Lisbon turned around and looked at Patrick Jane. Although this guy is a headache, he did provide many times The key clue.
“From the layout of this home, we can see that Philip Johnson is a very family-care person. He is impossible to keep dangerous things at home so that his wife and children may unintentionally discover it. If I’m right, this guy must hide his things somewhere else.”
Said, Jane suddenly laughed, looked at the two of them, and said, “If I remember correctly, , This guy is a real estate agent. If I were him, if I really want to hide something, where do I need to hide it at home!”
Hearing Jane’s reminder, Lisbon and Beckett looked at each other. A trace of bright light flashed in their eyes at the same time, and they had realized the problem.
A few hours later, in a single-family villa managed by Philip Johnson, a proud shout suddenly came out. It didn’t take long for the police cars to surround the place.
Until next morning, Lisbon and Beckett, who had been busy all night, saw each other again in the office.
Philip Johnson is a very cunning person. He not at all puts oneself’s money, arms, and evidence of possession in one piece, but put a little bit in each place and put them separately Three or four places, these places are hidden in the basement or garage of real estate that are difficult to sell for various reasons.
But after grasping the pattern, it is much easier to find these things.
Lisbon and Beckett met for a summary. In the past few years, Philip Johnson has repeatedly committed the cash, except for his colleagues and oneself expenses, and the rest is hidden in several properties separately. Inside, as far as they found, it has accumulated more than 100 million.
In these places, there are also a large number of different specifications of light and heavy weapons, bullets, accessories, bombs, equipment, all kinds of things.
Finally, they are the most hopeful information about Philip Johnson’s associates. Many of these things have been found, but Philip Johnson used some codewords to record these things and wanted to organize them. It takes a lot of effort to get out.
But just the things they got now are enough for them to explain this case again. The pressure that has been pressing on everyone’s heart is finally eliminated.
A few days later, according to the information found, the Los Angeles Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigation began to arrest Philip Johnson’s associate one after another. Seven people who participated in the robbery of the museum that night arrived. , Also more than a dozen people were arrested for participating in other cases.
In the museum case, among the five gems of the world, except for the three belonging to Scott West, all the others were recovered. After the case is closed, these things will be returned to the owner.
However, what is strange is that the evidence about the connection between Philip Johnson and Scott West is not at all. What they have is only two interconnected disposable cellphones. No. and a bank account that uses overseas tax havens for transfers. It is almost impossible to use these things to involve Scott West.
“These people are too careful in doing things, it’s too difficult for us to hold their handle!” Kevin sat in the conference room, somewhat helplessly said.
“There is no way. The one that should be checked is still to be checked.” Beckett reassures Kevin, and then looks towards Lisbon and asks: “Teresa, see which direction our next investigation should go towards Aspect?”
“As for the thief, whether you want to find the remaining three gems or clarify the murder case, you need to find the thief first so that we can Keep going.” After Lisbon pondered for a while, he said: “also, Philip Johnson will continue to investigate this aspect. According to the close-up of the characters we asked the FBI to do, with Philip Johnson’s cautious character, he will definitely talk to Scott West. The evidence of the connection remains. This requires us to dig through the information we have obtained now.”
“With regard to the thief, little progress has been made.” Esposito stood up and said in a deep voice. Introduce the case to everyone: “Because Philip Johnson used a new type of safe in the apartment. Based on this, we visited some prisoners in the prison who were serving sentences, and asked their respective informants to inquire about them in a short time. There are not many people in the entire Yellow Sea Case when the safe is open, but according to the investigation, these people almost have alibi on the night of the crime.”
“What does this almost mean?” Kimball Cho frowned, couldn’t help but interrupt to ask.
Esposito turned around and explained to Kimball Cho: “Although no one can prove their whereabouts on the night of the crime, according to some clues before and after the crime, they did not Not in Los Angeles.”
“It is also possible that they rushed to Los Angeles overnight and then left overnight. This is also very possible.” Rigsby couldn’t help but say.
“Yes,” Esposito nodded and said, “I said almost exactly what I meant.”
“You just said it was west coast, our current investigation scope Are there only some thieves from the west coast? What about the central and eastern ones?” Jane suddenly said, his words made many people’s eyes bright.
“In such a short period of time, the only people we can investigate are those within the west coast who can do this.” Esposito spread his hands, and some helplessly said: “Thieves from the west coast, talk to the middle and east The thieves are not in a circle. They don’t have many connections, and they rarely commit crimes across borders. Of course, this is not impossible, but we don’t have many clues. “
“Anyway, check it out,” Lisbon glanced at Beckett, nodded, and said directly: “I’ll go to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and see what information they have there.” No, the bank can’t give up, and also Philip Johnson has to dig deeper. As long as there is a breakthrough in these aspects, then our case will be really easy to handle!”