Chapter 136 Selling Stolen Goods
This barren mountain is located in the suburbs of Yangcheng City. At the foot of the mountain there is an abandoned old agricultural machinery factory warehouse, which is very hidden.
Xia Lili stared at the unfamiliar address on the phone screen, frowning slightly.
She called Leng Xiaohe, her voice filled with anxiety: "Sister Xiaohe, did your early morning operation go smoothly?"
"Nothing unexpected happened?"
"No, don't worry." Leng Xiaohe's voice came through the microphone, her tone gentle and concerned. After she finished speaking, she asked with a hint of worry: "Were you so worried that you didn't sleep well last night?"
Xia Lili rubbed the back of her neck, feeling sore, and said in a relaxed tone, "It's okay. I slept very soundly."
After an entire afternoon of devilish training from Coach Song, she was exhausted as a dead dog last night and it was hard for her to even fall asleep.
Leng Xiaohe chuckled on the other end of the phone: "Are you so concerned about this case? There's a meeting in 20 minutes, can you come?"
She paused, then added, "I know you didn't have breakfast, and I still have the sandwiches and blueberry milk I bought this morning."
“Here it comes!”
Xia Lili's eyes lit up and she jumped up from the bed, which affected all the sore muscles in her body and made her grimace in pain.
Even so, it took her less than 15 minutes to wash up, go out to the police family compound, and then go to the police station.
It’s great to have home and work close to each other!
No need to commute long distances, get up early and drag your tired body into the subway.
Xia Lili thought as she walked.
As soon as he entered the police station, Xia Lili was surrounded by Leng Xiaohe and other colleagues.
Colleagues fed Xia Lili breakfast while talking to her.
"Li Li, your phone is simply the best!" A colleague gave a thumbs up, his face full of admiration.
"A Quan, the unlucky individual, took your phone with him last night," another colleague said excitedly, coming over. "We were able to pinpoint the warehouse's exact location and the route to it."
The location of the warehouse is difficult to find. Ah Quan wandered around in the mountains for a long time yesterday, and the police officers who followed him could not follow too closely, and they also had to worry about encountering members of the criminal gang.
"With your phone acting as a tracker, we don't have to worry about losing people." Leng Xiaohe patted her shoulder.
"Huh?" Xia Lili asked vaguely, eyes wide open and half a sandwich still stuffed in her mouth, "A Quan actually took my phone out in the middle of the night? Did the text message I sent him work?"
As they talked, several people walked quickly towards the meeting room.
Leng Xiaohe explained as they walked, "I guess he thought you might come looking for him at any time, so he simply kept his phone with him. And after he came out of the warehouse, he was so anxious to sell the stolen goods that he didn't have time to go home."
She opened her notebook and told Xia Lili the details of what happened last night: "A Quan arrived at the warehouse at 4 a.m., filled a handbag with cigarettes and alcohol, and took the safe."
"He drove around the old town several times before finally parking in an unattended open-air parking lot. He slept in the car for two hours. Just as dawn broke, he went to a small tobacco and alcohol shop hidden in the back alley of a hardware and building materials mall and sold all the stolen cigarettes and alcohol."
After listening to A Quan's actions, Xia Lili admired him a little. He was really a talented thief, but it was a pity that his efforts were put in the wrong place.
She quickly swallowed the food in her mouth and asked, "What about cigarettes and alcohol now..."
Ning Yutong from the Narcotics Squad entered the conference room and addressed Xia Lili's concerns. "We, the police, watched him the entire time. As soon as he completely left the dealership, we seized the cigarettes and alcohol."
She closed the folder solemnly. "We found contraband in the cigarette and alcohol packaging and in the products."
When the word "contraband" was mentioned, her eyes instantly turned cold and her fingers tightened unconsciously.
"The tobacco was adulterated, and a prohibited substance patch was pressed into the interlayer of the cigarette box."
Ning Yutong's eyes were dark. "And the way they hide things in the wine is even more amazing. Not only are they hidden in the corks of red wine bottles, but the bottoms of foreign wine bottles are fired twice using a special process to create a hollow layer in the middle to store liquid contraband."
——"This criminal gang's methods of smuggling contraband are so sophisticated!"
After hearing Ning Yutong's words, Xia Lili felt a chill in her heart. These people would do anything to make huge profits.
She noticed the coldness that flashed in Ning Yutong's eyes.
"Yes." Ning Yutong confirmed Xia Lili's words: "I once tracked down a smuggling gang whose leader was called "Old Ghost."
The deep sadness and pain in her eyes disappeared in an instant. "And the way Ah Quan hid the contraband in the stolen cigarettes and alcohol is very familiar to me. It's very similar to the usual methods used by Lao Gui's smuggling gang."
Ning Yutong's words made the other police officers look solemn. Her fiancé who died in the line of duty was killed by Lao Gui's men.
"I let the old ghost escape three years ago. This time, I must catch him back with my own hands!"
Leng Xiaohe patted Ning Yutong's shoulder to support her: "It's us."
The other police officers also cast firm glances at Ning Yutong.
This time, after confirming the suspects were a contraband gang, Commander Gu personally arrived. He surveyed the conference room with a serious expression, and once everyone was present, he began laying an ambush around the warehouse and near Ah Quan's home.
Commander Gu asked, "The cigarettes and alcohol have been seized. Where is the safe with the account book now?"
Leng Xiaohe glanced at the latest news on her phone and reported, "After disposing of the stolen goods, Ah Quan drove away. Our people are now following Ah Quan and tracking how he handled the safe."
About twenty minutes later, Luo Xiao, who was following A Quan, called.
"Commander Gu, Ah Quan went to a construction site and asked someone he knew to use hydraulic shears to forcibly break open the safe!"
Home and office safes are made of thin steel sheets and can be opened by brute force using everyday tools.
Mid-to-high-end safes generally use a composite layer of fire-resistant cement and alloy, which is much more difficult to crack. However, the safe can also be violently dismantled using the hydraulic shears used to demolish buildings on construction sites.
Commander Gu said in a deep voice, "This Ah Quan is really capable."
Ten minutes later, Luo Xiao received a message: "After Ah Quan had a great deal of trouble to hire someone to use hydraulic shears to break open the safe, he discovered only a single account book inside. He threw everything away and left cursing."
"Our police officer just happened to pick up a bargain and is now on his way back to the station with the safe and account books!"
The police officers in the bureau were excited when they learned that Luo Xiao had successfully obtained the account book.
This is the account book of a smuggling gang. In the past, undercover agents had to take great risks to get it, but now it is available right away!
The ledgers of smuggling rings are often key evidence in criminal cases. They may record the quantity and type of goods traded, the time and location of transactions, and the code names of buyers and sellers.
It can help the police sort out the criminal networks of these criminal gangs, identify suspects, and grasp the flow and capital chain of smuggled products.
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