The Squeeze by Paty Jager

Author:Paty Jager
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Female sleuth, disabled veteran, Native American Fiction, Casino murder mystery, Pacific Northwest Mystery, Mystery with a twist, Strong woman
Publisher: Windtree Press
Published: 2023-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Stepping into the security office from the employee entrance, Dela met chaos.

“What is going on?” she asked, passing the empty podium and hurrying to the three bodies entangled in the middle of the room.

She grabbed the arm of the person not in a security uniform and wrenched it behind his back. When he tried to round on her, she twisted it higher up his back and buckled his knees.

Margie shoved her loose hair out of her face and grabbed a pair of handcuffs three feet away on the floor. “We’ve been trying to corral him for the last five minutes.” She clicked the handcuffs on the young man who had stopped struggling once he realized Dela knew what she was doing.

Oliver, the oldest member of security, sat on a chair catching his breath.

Dela dragged the young man to his feet. “What is he in here for?”

“He was caught stealing from the gift shop. Jerry brought him in for tribals to pick up.” Margie had her hair pulled back into a ponytail but not back in her usual bun. “I’d just finished calling the tribals when he burst out of the holding room.” She shot a glare at the young man Dela still held onto. “I stopped him but couldn’t get him cuffed. Oliver tried to help me, but you saw how wild this guy is.”

Dela sat the young man down in a chair and zip-tied the cuffs to the back of the chair. She turned to Margie. “Go relieve Jerry and have him come in here to write up the report.”

The woman nodded and left. Dela walked over to her desk, clipped her radio to her belt, pinned the mic to the shoulder of her shirt, and shoved the earbud into her ear. The radio crackled as she turned it on and spoke into the mic. “Ross, tell me when the tribals arrive to pick up our shoplifter.”

“Copy.”

She rolled her chair over to sit in front of the young man but far enough back that he couldn’t kick her. “Want to tell me your story before the Tribal Police get here?”

He glared at her.

“Okay, I’ll take that as a confession.” She wanted to get out on the floor and check in with everyone but after seeing how the young man had gotten the better of Margie and Oliver, she felt she was needed here until the Tribal Police took the thief away.

Shoving backward with her feet, she rolled the chair to her desk and started working on reports.

Jerry walked in.

“Fill out the incident report, please,” Dela said. “I’d like it finished before they come and pick him up.” She liked to be one step ahead of the Tribal Police when the casino had someone for them to pick up.

Jerry settled his tall, lanky body into the extra desk and pulled a sheet of paper out of a drawer. All her staff knew the forms that needed to be filled out for specific incidents. She had trained them all on

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