Legendary FBI Detective-Chapter 294: The True Goal of the Mastermind Behind the Scenes

Inside the computer, Mona mainly pulled up three segments of chat records.

In the first chat record, the person chatting with "Wild Dog" Victor was one of the eight deceased, named "Ben".

He is the young man who had an ambiguous relationship with Melody and had slept with Lan Rui Sha.

It showed in this chat record that it was actually "Ben" who first knew Victor, they met when "Ben" was working a summer job at a bar to earn some pocket money.

After they got a bit acquainted, "Ben" introduced Victor to Anthony, and Anthony quickly became familiar with Victor.

From this chat record, it appears that "Ben" never noticed anything unusual throughout.

More experienced, Luo An and Mona noticed at a glance that during their conversation, it was always Victor leading the discussion.

Encouraging Ben to introduce him to Anthony was also subtly influenced by Victor.

At the end of the chat records, Mona concluded:

"Actually, the person Victor really wanted to get close to was Anthony."

"Mm."

Luo An didn't express any opinion, turned, and went to Reesi's desk to look for the family background information of the eight deceased and gestured for Mona to continue with the second chat record.

The second chat record, according to the time of messages sent, was after Victor and Anthony had known each other for a while.

The content was brief, mainly of Victor sending a message to a burner phone:

"Anthony has started using drugs."

The burner phone replied:

"Good, see you at the bar tonight."

From the chat record, "drugs" mentioned Mona immediately understood what was referred to.

The situation now is clear, the mastermind behind the scenes targeted Anthony.

Their likely objective was to gradually get Anthony addicted to the product, eventually using the drug-addicted Anthony to achieve their goal.

But unexpectedly, Victor provided a combination of fentanyl and carfentanil last night; the overlapping of these two terrifying drugs directly resulted in the deaths of Anthony and the other seven young men and women.

"We can't rule out that the mastermind wanted to use the product to kill Anthony as revenge against Anthony's parents."

Hearing Mona's analysis, Luo An casually added.

He successfully found the family background information of the eight deceased on Reesi's desk, flipped to Anthony's page, it showed his mother was an ordinary restaurant owner, while his father worked at the Federal Transportation Security Administration.

The Federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA), is an agency under the Federation Department of Homeland Security, responsible for the security of public transport within the United States.

The main responsibility of this department is to use various screening equipment and technologies to identify dangerous items among luggage, cargo, and passengers, and to prevent these items from being transported onto airplanes.

Such as firearms, ammunition, drugs, bombs, fire cans, poison gas, and other hazardous materials.

Before the establishment of this department, this task was always handled by individual airports, hiring third-party security personnel.

However, the occurrence of the 9/11 incident seriously discredited these third-party security companies, prompting the Federation Government to establish the Federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA), checking federally traveling citizens at all major transportation hubs across the country.

Anthony's father, is a ground supervisor working at Los Angeles International Airport for the Federal Transportation Security Administration (TSA), named Nasser.

"Wow."

Seeing Anthony's father Nasser's identity, Mona exclaimed, and suddenly realized:

"If they successfully control Anthony, and thus threaten his father Nasser, then the mastermind, whether they want to transport drugs through planes to make a fortune, or send bombs onto planes for hijacking and terrorism, it would become very easy."

"Exactly."

Luo An nodded, the Federation's security checks are interesting, in order to "respect human rights," every person wanting to pass through security can choose a machine scan or opt for a hand check by personnel of the Federal Transportation Security Administration.

The Federal Transportation Security Administration staff personally scrutinized the operational contents, which were not generally straightforward.

As far as Luo An knew, sometimes the FBI, in order to restrict certain individuals from leaving the federation, would tip off this group at the TSA.

Then, these people would find some unknown contraband on the target person or in their luggage, ultimately forcing the target to remain within the federation.

Conversely, if someone successfully bribed the staff of the Federal Transportation Security Administration, they could opt for a manual security check and breezily walk through, eventually boarding transportation at ease with contraband or hazardous materials.

Luo An reviewed Nasser's detailed information, discovering that his financial status was average yet healthy, and he was well-regarded by his colleagues.

Moreover, he worked diligently and, over the years, using his extensive experience, he had caught dozens of individuals attempting to board planes with forbidden or dangerous goods, and thus was promoted to a junior supervisor.

"Besides wanting to use Anthony to control Nasser, we cannot rule out that this is a form of retaliation."

Luo An showed the paper to Mona, which indicated that more than a year ago, Nasser had caught someone carrying plastic explosives in their underwear.

Those kinds of people would have plenty of reasons to seek revenge against Nasser.

Mona took the paper and nodded:

"I'll investigate these people immediately."

The clattering of the keyboard began to sound, and shortly after, Reesi came in carrying several tapes, pushing open the door of the Special Investigation Team.

"The detailed autopsy report is not yet out, but I've got the autopsy results."

"Well done."

Luo An complimented her and then stood up to take the tapes from Reesi's chest, asking:

"What's this about?"

"This is some surveillance footage found near the community where Victor died, from the LAPD."

She dumped the remaining pile of tapes on an unused desk with a clatter, indicating that the nearby community surveillance was quite outdated, still using traditional tape video recorders.

She mentioned that before leaving, she exchanged contact information with a female LAPD patrol officer who promised to send all the surveillance footage afterward.

Upon hearing this, Luo An's mouth twitched.

When did this happen? Why didn't he know about it?

He had been with Reesi the whole time, never separated, so how did he miss the scene of Reesi chatting with the female patrol officer?

Seeing the astonished look in Luo An's eyes, Reesi proudly placed her hands on her hips.

In terms of physical strength, Reesi admitted that even five of her couldn't beat Luo An.

But when it came to women, Reesi boldly claimed that ten Luo Ans couldn't compare to her!

Snap!

Seeing the unabashed pride and arrogance in Reesi's eyes, the displeased Luo An casually picked up a folder and lightly tapped her on the head, then said righteously:

"Tell me the autopsy results for Victor!"

"Hmph!"

Reesi rolled her eyes at Luo An, quite annoyed with his vengeful act but didn't mind, explaining:

"The actual cause of death is as the LAPD suspected; he was smothered by someone, and the time of death was roughly between 4:30 and 5 in the morning.

In Victor's body, the forensic doctor detected some alcohol residue and food remnants.

According to their forms, the forensic doctor believes that it was less than an hour from when Victor ingested them until his death."

"Good."

Just as Luo An was about to ask further, Mona suddenly pulled his arm and pointed at the computer saying:

"Luo An, look here!"