Carpenter Road by N.M. Brown

Author:N.M. Brown [Brown, NM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

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It took Leighton over an hour to find the report he was looking for. A couple of times he’d got excited when he found the phrase ‘attempted abduction’ in the incident description box. However, in both cases it turned out to be a divorced parent trying to see their kid during the holiday season. One of them, which was familiar to the entire station, had involved a recently separated dad who had apparently met his twelve-year-old kid outside school, and taken him to McDonalds on Atlantic Avenue to hand over some Christmas gifts. The guy had told the kid’s childminder what he was doing and that he would drop the kid home afterwards. The concerned mother had made a phone call, alleging that an abduction had taken place, and the festive father found himself cuffed, face down on the floor of the burger bar, with four officers aiming locked and loaded handguns at him.

Eventually, Leighton opened a document folder to see the name Danielle underneath the incident description of assault/attempted abduction.

He sat on the floor of the records area and held the stapled white sheets of paper in his hand, peering at them. The document confirmed that the report had been made the week before Christmas. The name recorded was Miss Danielle Millar, age twenty-three, her occupation was marked as unemployed, but someone had written the word prostitute beneath this. Her address was listed as the Four Seasons RV and Caravan Park.

The report stated that the victim was propositioned at 11pm. by a dark haired, Caucasian male in a red Toyota. When she rejected his advances, he’d got out of his vehicle and pursued her along the street – at which point he attempted to force her into his vehicle. The recording officer had written that it was a possible case of mistaken identity, as the victim said the alleged perpetrator had called her Veronica at various points during the altercation. Leighton took a small notebook from his chest pocket and wrote down the report number and the licence plate.

There were two things in particular that concerned him about the report. The first was that in the box titled action taken, a simple pen mark had been slashed across the page. This suggested that the incident required no further investigation. The second – and perhaps more alarming – was the fact that the officer who had made the report was Detective Slater.

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