National Forensic Doctor
Chapter 218 - 218 210 Explosive Protection Spree Pull

218: Chapter 210: Explosive Protection Spree Pull 218: Chapter 210: Explosive Protection Spree Pull Jiang Yuan had finished preparing the meal and fed it to Hou Lejia, who had no choice but to chew and swallow it down.

The teams that were originally dispatched to find people began to track down “underworld” fences one by one.

The investigative capabilities of Longli County were hardly commendable.

When Jiang Yuan first started working on fingerprints, it was the cases from Longli County that he cut his teeth on, and that seemed reasonable now.

Generally speaking, aside from the police dog Heizi who stood out for being exceptionally handsome, the operational capabilities of the rest of the Longli County Criminal Police Team were squarely below average.

Of course, this didn’t warrant much discussion.

There will always be rankings, and while education can be joyful, reality often isn’t.

Moreover, once the police force got organized and began utilizing their resources, these “underworld figures” were nothing more than petty thugs.

Even a weak team like the Longli County Criminal Police Team had hundreds of police officers, could request the deployment of hundreds of armed police soldiers, and had the cooperation of grassroots units…

In terms of might, those on the underworld stood no chance.

Within just a few hours, a shop owner who had been dealing in fenced goods for years was brought back to the criminal police team.

It’s true that in terms of old-school investigative work, the Longli County Criminal Police Team had a medium-to-high standard, which probably had something to do with Hou Lejia’s personality and methods.

His squad leaders were generally older types, and in the current environment, a police officer who couldn’t climb walls was bound to have their case-solving ability discounted.

However, this mainly reflected their ability to fend for themselves.

Once the food was delivered to their mouths, they chewed with vicious intensity.

They also looked intimidating.

Before long, the first captured fence shop owner began spilling everything:

“I myself like cycling, so I opened a bicycle shop.

And these days, all bicycle shops organize cycling events, which is how I met Li Qiang.”

“He told me his name was Li Qiang, so that’s how I remembered him.

I didn’t know his real name; we can’t just check someone’s ID card.”

“Cycling events are private affairs; there’s no need for an ID card…

It’s just about people gathering together, setting a time, and then cycling together.

You have to hold these events at bicycle shops, otherwise, there’s no scenario left for using bikes.

Nowadays, who cycles to work?”

“Sometimes Li Qiang would bring bicycles to sell to me, sometimes accessories.

Sometimes he’d say they were his, other times they were a friend’s.

I didn’t think too much…

really…”

“Cyclists like to change accessories, some change them every month, even more frequently than Li Qiang, I really didn’t think…

Changing a chainring, or a chain, it’s so normal.

Once you want better speed, you have to change to better calipers, discs, hubs…

After a whole cycle of changes, you end up needing to switch the front and rear forks, and then the chainring and such again…”

The interrogating detective had been maintaining a stern face all along but couldn’t help himself at this point: “This sounds like a con, illegal, right?”

The shop owner quickly retorted: “It’s just about swapping equipment, Campers are even worse than us…”

“With such rip-offs, you still deal in stolen goods?”

“I really didn’t know the goods he gave me were stolen.

He deceived me, saying he ran a cycling team, helped people switch equipment, sold bikes…” The shop owner’s voice trailed off increasingly softer, knowing full well there was something amiss, but there was money to be made, and he couldn’t bother with much else.

“Did Li Qiang, Li Weibin sell anything other than bicycles?”

The shop owner hesitated a few seconds before saying, “I did buy a graphics card from him once.

At the time, you couldn’t find graphics cards anywhere, and I said I was willing to pay more for a 30 series card.

Li Qiang said he could find me one…

and later he brought it, so I bought it…”

“List out all the shops you know that are involved in fencing…”

The detective, like an emotionless juicing machine, extracted everything from the shop owner, leaving him completely drained before tossing him back into the detention center.

In the face of a case of this level, the detention center had no reason not to detain them, so even the usually insignificant minor cases were now swept up together and joined the list.

They were usually prosecuted separately, but there was no escaping now.

One shop owner’s interrogation ended and another was brought in.

Soon, everyone started to understand Li Weibin’s fencing pattern.

He was essentially breaking down the stolen items and distributing them to various specialty stores.

And when he stole, he targeted categories where second-hand goods circulated frequently.

Just like bicycles or graphics cards, he also liked to steal luxury bags, luxury shoes, various pet products, computer and phone accessories, fishing gear, camping equipment, aquarium gear, cameras, musical instruments…

He even stole an arowana once, just because he heard it was valuable—he was unable to sell it, though, and did not attempt it again.

Some of these shop owners acted with the intent to fence goods; others did not, but the prices Li Weibin offered were cheap enough for them not to care.

Naturally, there were also completely innocent ones.

But regardless of their type, next they would have to play a game of wits with the prosecutor.

All in all, in terms of fencing, Li Weibin had his own ideas and had indeed made quite a name for himself on the “street.”

Interrogation room.

Deputy Chief She laid out photo after photo in front of Li Weibin.

The photos were headshots of the shop owners, still dressed in their prison garb.

Li Weibin’s expression shifted from indifferent to shocked.

“Because of you, these shop owners have all been arrested,” Deputy Chief She’s voice seemed very deep, piercing through Li Weibin’s heart, “Not counting the eight already sent to the detention center, we continue to follow this lead to make further arrests.

Your reputation in the underworld has spread widely all at once.”

Li Weibin lowered his head to look at the table, 8 large photos, 4 on top, 4 below, all showing the familiar faces of shop owners.

Li Weibin, from south to north, from west to east, like a migrating swallow, had worked the field back and forth for years, getting to know some shop owners, which was originally his competitive advantage in this line of work.

Li Weibin was quite proud of this, but what he didn’t expect was that all these people had been brought in.

“You can’t just arrest people for no reason!” Li Weibin suddenly cried out injustice.

Deputy Chief She smiled and said, “They all have a history of helping you fence goods; how is that for no reason?”

Li Weibin was momentarily at a loss for words, and only after a few seconds did he say, “It’s just fencing goods, what’s the big deal?

I’m willing to sell, people are willing to buy, what’s wrong with that?”

The words of Li Weibin didn’t make much logical sense, but actually, they followed his own logic.

Explained in slightly more emotionally intelligent terms, Li Weibin was the typical individual who didn’t integrate into society, who neither understood nor accepted certain widely recognized social rules or even the law, always acting according to his own emotions and thoughts.

Put in less emotionally intelligent terms, Li Weibin was uneducated, spewing nonsensical babble whenever he encountered a problem.

Deputy Chief She had dealt with many criminals, and Li Weibin was not particularly unusual to him.

After letting Li Weibin vent for a few sentences, he raised his hand to interrupt him and said, “Criminal Law Article 312: The concealment and disguising of proceeds of crime is punishable by up to three years of fixed-term imprisonment, criminal detention, or control, and may be punished additionally or solely by a fine.

In serious cases, the punishment is three to seven years of fixed-term imprisonment.”

Deputy Chief She looked at Li Weibin and asked him, “Do you know what is considered ‘serious circumstances’?”

“How would I know?” Li Weibin retorted in annoyance.

“‘Serious circumstances’ refers to cases involving the theft, robbery, swindling, or snatching of five or more motor vehicles or if the total value exceeds five hundred thousand yuan.” Deputy Chief She pointed at the photos in front of Li Weibin and said, “These people, because of you, could face more than three years in prison.

What do you think will happen to your street reputation?”

Deputy Chief She made a firework explosion gesture.

Li Weibin was startled and then began to struggle fiercely, “Are you framing me, messing with me?”

“If you don’t disclose Liu Yiyi’s whereabouts, we’ll continue to arrest people, picking up shop owners one by one who’ve traded with you.

And, we’ll say they were all given up by you.” Deputy Chief She knew what Li Weibin wanted and was now showing him it being destroyed.

To some people, street reputation means nothing, but to others, they would open their bellies to show whether what they have inside is really cool starch jelly.

Li Weibin knew he had committed murder and didn’t have a good end in store, so he stubbornly wanted to leave behind a good reputation—at least what he considered a good reputation in his known world.

Then he saw all this shattered before him.

“If I tell you, can you let them go?” Li Weibin suddenly looked up.

Deputy Chief She slowly shook his head, “I can plea for them with the prosecutor, but letting them go is not possible.

If you don’t talk now, more people will be arrested later on.”

“Then you guys…”

“Stop haggling.

You’d better confess now, to save some people later.” Deputy Chief She continued along Li Weibin’s line of thought, pinning him against the wall.

After pondering with his head down for a few seconds, probably the longest contemplation of Li Weibin’s life, he said, “I handed the kid over to a black pit boss.

That man is pretty nice to kids, I had a chat with him before, and someone in their village wanted a child, the kind that can’t have their own.

Those are the best kind of buyers, and I was also trying to help them…”

“What’s the name of this black pit boss?” Deputy Chief She’s forehead vein was throbbing.

“I just call him Old Wang, Brother Wang.

The one at the very end of Construction Road, number 6.”

Deputy Chief She immediately stood up and went out to report the situation to his superiors.

In a very short time, two teams of people were assembled and dispatched.

When Deputy Chief She turned back and sat down opposite the interrogation chair, separated by the iron bars, he asked, “How did you get to know this black pit boss?”

“I went there to fish.

He also runs a farm stay, and whenever I occasionally get my hands on some dried goods, like dried abalones, dried sea cucumbers, fish maw, and so on, I send them to his place…” Li Weibin described the connection between the two.

Hearing the confession inside through the surveillance, Hou Lejia was completely dumbfounded.

While arranging for officers to make the arrests, he said furiously, “Bringing Heizi back isn’t worth it.”

Turning back, he wanted to say something to Jiang Yuan, but found that Jiang Yuan had already disappeared.

In the corridor.

Jiang Yuan picked up a call and asked, “Director Liu?”

“Liu had a car accident.

This is Gao Qiang, we’ve met before, remember?” The person on the other end of the call introduced himself.

“I remember, you are the province’s third-grade senior police officer.

How is Director Liu?

Where did the accident happen?” Jiang Yuan instinctively sensed something was wrong.

Gao Qiang grunted affirmatively and said, “It happened at Zifeng Mountain Coal Mine.

The right front tire blew out, and the car tumbled down the mountain.

All airbags deployed, his face got a bit mangled, but he’s alive.”

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