The Easy Way Out: A Detective McDaniel Thriller by Axel Blackwell

Author:Axel Blackwell [Blackwell, Axel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 38

After the Tovmasyan interview, Vanderwyk called it a day, but McDaniel had a couple of things to finish up before heading home. Most of the day crew had left for the night by the time he got back to the office. Sam and Frodo were among those who had left already, so McDaniel had to lift the prints himself. He figured the practice wouldn’t hurt, and he wasn’t about to drop his personal phone in an evidence bag and leave it at the station overnight.

He managed to pull four fingerprints and one thumbprint off Biscuit’s photo, all Tovmasyan’s, of course. Louis had only touched the phone once, with one finger, but he had done so firmly enough to leave a very pretty print.

Tovmasyan was an Armenian immigrant, which meant his prints should already be in the federal system. However, with the steady increase in immigration document fraud, there was a fair chance that his prints might not match the name he was operating under. If he had any prior criminal history, under Tovmasyan, or any other name, a quick query in IAFIS would uncover it.

Louis, on the other hand, could be just about anybody. He hadn’t offered a last name. His print would be just as good as a name, if he had ever been entered into the system.

McDaniel wasn’t quite sure what to make of Tovmasyan. He certainly didn’t intend to invite the man over for dinner, but he also felt fairly confident that he had not been involved in Biscuit’s disappearance. The man and his thugs claimed to believe Biscuit could be easily found, and McDaniel believed their claim. On the other hand, the altercation in such close proximity to his disappearance could hardly be a coincidence.

While waiting for the IAFIS system to process the prints, McDaniel typed up a BOLO for Nadene Cooper, a.k.a. Naddy. He expected that if she was, indeed, a protected narc, her protector would contact him as soon as he saw the BOLO. He also pulled up the file containing her criminal history.

As Vanderwyk had told him, her record showed eight arrests. Most of the record had been redacted, so only a few of the entries indicated what the arrest was for. The three that still contained charges were for narcotics violations.

As he examined the records more closely, he discovered that the three arrests where the charges were still showing had all been arrests inside city limits, while the five arrests with redacted charges had been in the county. He sat back in his chair and grinned. Whoever was handling her must be with the Sherriff’s Department rather than Bellingham Police.

The original arrest had been in the city, and most of the details of this encounter had not been redacted. The photo was missing, but the file did contain her date of birth. McDaniel did a quick bit of math and realized she had just turned eighteen when this arrest occurred.

He backed out of the records for adult offenders and accessed the juvenile records.

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