Legendary FBI Detective-Chapter 61: Black Colleague (Seeking Follow-up! Seeking Favorites!)

Agent Luo An tilted his head to look at Danny, seeing her delicate little face filled with seriousness.

Before Agent Luo An could ask, Danny continued crisply:

"My mom was working, and a black colleague took her picture. It must have been that black person who kidnapped my mom!"

"What?"

Hearing this, Agent Luo An looked up and exchanged a glance with Reed, then hurriedly asked:

"When did this happen?"

"I don't remember."

Danny pursed her lips, her eyes reddening again, and explained in a low voice:

"That day, I had a stomach ache, and after my mom took me to see the doctor, she took me to the supermarket for fun. While I was playing games on the table, that black colleague of my mom's hid behind the chips, pulled out a black box, and took a photo of my mom..."

Danny's words became more and more jumbled as she spoke, and Agent Luo An didn't understand the specifics of that day, but he grasped the implication of her words:

There was a black person who had covertly taken pictures of Tamara while she was working at the supermarket checkout.

"Thank you, Danny, your information is very helpful to me."

Seeing Danny started to cry again, Agent Luo An quickly and clumsily tried to comfort her.

Just then, a black car slowly pulled up to the curb, and two middle-aged white women in uniform, along with a middle-aged white man in a police outfit, got out of the car.

"Hello, you must be Agent Luo An."

One of the white women, upon seeing the petite, blond loli being cradled by the fully-armed Luo An, with an even more muscular and fully-armed man beside him, twitched at the corner of her mouth but still extended her hand and said:

"My name is Anna, from the New Jersey Child Protection Department."

"Hello, just call me Luo An."

He shook hands with her and after carefully inspecting her credentials, he was sure there were no problems before handing Danny over to her.

He then pointed to the red bungalow next door and briefly described Sanderson's ordeal and current situation.

After listening to Luo An's account, Anna nodded and said in a serious tone:

"Don't worry, we'll take good care of Danny and keep a close watch on Sanderson. We'll only return Danny to him if Sanderson changes his drinking habit and regains the ability to take care of Danny."

"Thank you for your efforts."

After shaking hands with her again, Luo An had a brief chat with her. Just as he turned to leave, Danny suddenly called out to him, then stuffed her little hair clip into his hand.

"Luo An, this is the hair clip my mom bought for me."

Danny, trying to hold back sobs, clutched Luo An's hand and wouldn't let go, her delicate little face filled with pleading:

"You must catch the bad guy who hurt my mom, please..."

"...I promise you, Danny."

He sighed, then in front of Danny, he placed the hair clip into the pocket over his chest and patted her little head, solemnly promising:

"I will definitely catch him."

The black SUV drove forward, and Luo An, sitting in the passenger seat, looked through the rearview mirror to see Danny, who was still reluctantly staring in their direction, and his expression turned grim.

"As the FBI, you'll encounter many more situations like this."

Reed, the driver, pulled out a pack of gum from nowhere, offered a piece to Luo An and popped one into his own mouth, and while chewing said:

"You'll get used to it eventually."

Without speaking, taking the gum and placing it in his mouth, Luo An looked at the information he had just obtained from Sanderson's place. After a few seconds of silence, he took out his phone and called Mona:

"Mona, check the Wal-Mart in ** area, see if they have any black employees."

The clattering of computer keys sounded on the other end of the phone, and after a moment, Mona replied:

"The payroll records of the supermarket show they have two black employees. One is fifty-six years old, a security guard, and is still working.

The other one is a twenty-eight-year-old named Joan, a freight handler, who was fired three weeks ago for theft."

"OK."

Luo An nodded, signaling Mona to send him the home address and place of employment of the second black employee before hanging up the phone.

After reading the home address to Lede, Luo An continued to flip through the documents in his hand:

"Let's check out this Joan first, he's currently working at a mechanic shop, which is conveniently on the way to the supermarket."

"OK."

Lede nodded, stepped on the gas, and turned the steering wheel, the dark SUV immediately headed in a different direction.

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"Joan has been here for two weeks, working hard, and nothing has gone missing here."

The mechanic shop's owner, an older black man, did not refuse when he learned of Luo An and Lede's purpose, and led them straight to Joan while continually praising Joan as a good lad.

Regarding the previous incident of Joan being fired from the supermarket for theft, the black shop owner scoffed and said directly:

"In that supermarket, the guys who worked with Joan were all white, they didn't like Joan, a black man who carried more goods than them and earned more money."

Luo An and Lede exchanged glances without saying a word.

"Joan! Someone's looking for you!"

"Coming!"

Hearing the boss calling him, a black man with thick lips responded and slowly crawled out from under a car, appearing before Luo An and Lede.

"You..."

Before Luo An and Lede could speak, the black man Joan, seeing their equipment, raised his hands without a word:

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"I don't know why you're looking for me, but I have to say in advance that I'm unarmed, please make sure your guns don't go off."

"...OK."

Seeing the other party's practiced motion, Luo An's mouth twitched, then he didn't waste any words and asked directly:

"Hi, Joan, do you remember Tamara?"

"Yeah, the cashier at Wal-Mart, I remember her."

Joan nodded, slowly standing up from the ground, Luo An continued:

"She's gone missing, and someone said that before she disappeared, you had secretly taken photos of her."

"NO! FU-K!"

Hearing Luo An's words, Joan's face changed, and he cursed a few times before hastily explaining:

"Bro, that must be something the Wal-Mart manager told you guys, I'm telling you, it's absolutely a frame-up!

A few weeks ago, when I was moving goods in the supermarket warehouse, I saw two people interacting in a corner over the produce, so I immediately went over to scold them.

But when I got there, I saw that those two were actually the supermarket manager and his wife!

So the next day, the manager said I was stealing in the supermarket and fired me."

"OK."

Luo An glanced at Joan without showing any emotion and did not dwell on this issue, but continued to inquire:

"During your time at the supermarket, did you notice anyone lingering around Tamara, or did someone harass her before she disappeared?"

"Sorry, I really didn't pay attention to that."

Joan, his hands covered in grease, casually wiped them on his work clothes, explaining:

"As you know, my job at that time was to move things in the supermarket warehouse, I hardly ever went to the storefront, so I only knew of Tamara's existence, but I wasn't familiar with her life and work."