A Deadly Turn by Claire Booth

Author:Claire Booth [Claire Booth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn House Publishers
Published: 2018-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Sheila asked Dale for everything BPD had on a certain young lady. Once he stopped laughing, he told her he’d pull the files – plural – and have them waiting for her in the back-conference room. It was smaller, but it had a white board. Hallelujah. She took out the criminal record she’d printed before she left her office in Forsyth and opened the first of two three-inch-thick files. Time to learn the details of one Fitch, Emily Jane.

An hour later, her head was spinning. This kid was a mobster in the making. She’d started with some shoplifting in her early teens. According to the reports, the responding officers let her off with warnings until they started comparing notes and realized she was doing it all over town. Then they began hauling her in, which resulted in a series of wrist slaps from the county’s juvenile court judge. At seventeen, she was picked up in a 1999 Honda with an older boy and four hundred fifty grams of pot – a full pound. She pleaded ignorant of the drugs and embarrassment at her choice in boyfriends. It worked – she got off with another warning. The older boy was convicted of drug trafficking and sent to prison.

Next came two more thefts and then some more pot, this time found on her person as she sat in an empty parking lot of one of Branson’s outlet malls at two in the morning. She had to do a drug diversion program for that one. Sheila turned to the report narrative filed by the arresting officer. This was the stuff that didn’t make it into the computerized rap sheet. The officer, a G. Fesse, was convinced she was dealing, even though he caught her with only fifteen grams. She’d flashed the light on her phone when she saw him pull up and he heard the sound of a car driving away. She hadn’t batted an eye when he searched her and sat in the back of his squad car ‘disinterested and bored-looking’ during the ride to the station. Fesse had returned to the parking lot as soon as possible and searched the planters and surrounding area, but aside from some suspicious sandwich baggies in one bush, couldn’t find anything stashed anywhere.

After Emily left high school, three years ago, there was only one more drug arrest. She once again managed to convince a judge that it was a boyfriend’s fault and got sent to another diversion program.

There was no question why. Sheila stared at the color photo attached to the file. Big, blue, guileless eyes in a heart-shaped face stared back. Golden hair curled around her face and down her shoulders. She was the human equivalent of a yellow Lab puppy. Sheila chuckled to herself. They never could get over little blonde white girls around here. She opened the second file, curious as to what it contained if there were no other drug arrests on Fitch’s rap sheet.

Now Sheila laughed out loud. Emily was upping her game.

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