Desperado by Hardesty Victoria; Perez Nancy;

Author:Hardesty Victoria; Perez Nancy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Publication Consultants

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Officer Padilla hung up the phone and smiled. “Hey Arias!” he yelled at his partner in the next cubicle. “Just got off the phone with the District Attorney’s office. We do have an extradition treaty with the Bahamas – especially if the person we want to get back here is wanted for Major Crimes against Humanity. Our Mr. Nyland certainly fits the profile. We want him for Arson, Destruction of Property, and Murder. They are contacting the Justice Department to see how we proceed. Do you know if Buck Martin got the DNA back from the blood he found in the driveway?”

“Let me check,” Arias replied as he picked up the phone and dialed the number in Boulder.

Buck Martin was in his office and answered right away. He was just looking at his computer screen for the test results on the blood evidence he’d taken to the lab the day after the fire started. Officer Arias introduced himself as Officer Padilla’s partner and asked if he had the blood results yet.

“Yeah, I was just looking that up. Let me see here…Yes! We have it. Seems we can now prove our Mr. Nyland was in the driveway of that home under construction. You guys must have collected from him before.”

“I’m sure Padilla told you. We’ve picked him up several times for arsons here in the city. We did manage to get his DNA during one of his visits from a soda can. We’ve just never been able to find any blood evidence or DNA at any of the crime scenes before. That guy is slippery as an eel.”

“I wouldn’t give him points for brilliance though,” Buck told him. “The incendiary device he was trying to burn trees down with would have worked fine inside a building, a warehouse, a home, or an office but NOT for something out of doors. The wind blew one of them clean off the tree and into the brook. I found that one myself. Now we know what he used before. I’m guessing he used some kind of tape to attach it inside but he had to staple it to the bark of the trees and left us the staples. The device would have burned completely in a closed environment so there would be nothing left to find except burn patterns and such. You’d be able to tell the fire was started, but not by what. If the guy wore gloves, had keys, or found an unlocked door or window, chances are he would never leave anything behind for us to find.”

“I always say criminals aren’t too bright anyway, that’s why they are criminals and not criminalists,” Arias laughed. “The State Department says he has a U.S. Passport in his own name so we are checking hotels in Nassau, the Bahamas to locate him. We’ll keep in touch.” With that Arias hung up the phone.

He stepped around the cubicle to Padilla’s office and grinned at him. “Remember the soda can we handed Nyland to get a sample of his DNA? Well, it worked.

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