Scott and his team began to organize the evidence collected here, and the Anti-Terrorism Bureau would help transport the suspects they had arrested to the prison for temporary detention, while Jimmy and his team would return to the FBI office after finishing their work.
Hughes had already received a notification from Jimmy, so he gathered some people to listen to Jimmy's preliminary case report. Upon his return, Jimmy could head straight to the conference room. Jimmy and Gordon went to their previous meeting room and, after settling Gordon and his team, Jimmy went on to the conference room next to Hughes's office. Upon Jimmy's arrival in the meeting room, everyone was taken aback. Hughes, are you trying to stir up trouble? What was expected to be a simple preliminary report now seemed to have taken on an air of grandiosity.
The table in the conference room was already filled, with many familiar faces present, including Ruiz and Peter, Jimmy's two former leaders, and several team leaders he had collaborated with afterward. Among them, the highest-ranking were Associate Director Dave Hudson, Federal Prosecutor Richard Daddario, and Assistant Prosecutor Sara Browning.
When Jimmy entered the conference room, Associate Director Dave started applauding, and everyone else followed suit, "Thank you, thank you everyone." Jimmy pressed his hands together and bowed to the crowd.
Hughes spoke up, "Jimmy, begin."
Jimmy had originally intended to give an oral preliminary report and had not prepared any materials. Now, he could only stand in front of the conference table and verbally recount the investigation that had spanned nearly four weeks.
"Gentlemen, thank you for attending this preliminary case report meeting on the bomb terrorism attack.
The case began with a traffic accident that occurred a month ago. My homicide division received a report from the NYPD of a case involving an independent investigative journalist, Ashi Perino, who died when his car fell from the fourth floor of a parking garage. Given the sensitive nature of the victim's profession, Chris and I went to the NYPD to learn more about the case and discovered some abnormalities, including damage to the rear bumper of the victim's car and the absence of critical items such as a reporter's notebook and voice recorder.
Based on the current doubts, we could not conclude that his death was a murder, so I investigated journalist Ash's background. With the help of his girlfriend, I obtained a notebook containing some sensitive materials. Because these materials could potentially be used to make a bomb, we initiated an investigation of the case and, with NSA's assistance, obtained Ash's mobile records. We then traced the journalist's killer, Abdul, from the parking garage records and, after locating his car, arrested him with the help of NYPD.
In Abdul's car, we found the first bomb, which was also linked to a detonation device, later confirming that Abdul's car was the intended transport for the bombs in their plan.
After discovering the first bomb, we contacted headquarters and ultimately cooperated with the Anti-Terrorism Bureau. With their assistance and that of the NSA, we investigated Ash's communication records and, using the phone logs, successfully located Joseph Yang, who communicated with Ash and was responsible for transporting materials.
Interrogating Joseph and Abdul, we pieced together the death of Ash. Joseph Yang accidentally became acquainted with journalist Ash, and they had a good relationship. Later, he sold information to Ash and received a fee for the clues. After Ash received the information, he contacted the driver Abdul. However, Abdul informed Nu'er Mohammod, the mastermind behind the scenes, about Ash's contact with him. Under Nu'er's instructions, Abdul orchestrated the accident and murdered Ash. He also planned to kill Joseph but was prevented from taking further action because we found him quickly.
Based on Joseph's testimony, we located the warehouse of El Croger, who was responsible for assembling the bombs. However, only an assistant was caught in the warehouse, not El himself. Based on the scene at the warehouse, I deduced that there was a second person involved and speculated that this person may have moved some of the materials. Subsequently, an explosion occurred in Brooklyn, and the suspect, Joe Coleman, was later confirmed to be El Croger's alias. We also found fingerprints on the seized materials in the warehouse belonging to Javier Vance, a former DuPont Group employee who has been arrested. As the middleman, he was responsible for procuring and verifying the materials and equipment.
With the assistance of the Newark office, we apprehended El Croger in Rutherford, and also killed three individuals who were aiding El in his escape at the scene. Unfortunately, our interrogation was a tad late; the mastermind Nu'er Mohammod had already purchased a plane ticket to Paris. We obtained a search warrant for his apartment and residence. After an explosion at the Brooklyn apartment, which left three of our colleagues seriously injured, we investigated his Newark house and discovered in a hidden room all the materials Nu'er had planned for the explosion.
Combining all the intelligence we have, the planning of the explosion was coordinated by Nu'er, who contacted Vance as a middleman to procure materials and equipment. These were transported by Joseph to El's warehouse for bomb material extraction and assembly, and then the bombs were intended to be transported by driver Abdul to the Empire State Building for detonation. We arrested Abdul ahead of time and located the bomb-making warehouse based on various leads, effectively disrupting their plans and preventing the imminent bomb terror attack.
Thus, after nearly four weeks, the investigation into this bombing case is nearing an end, with the exception of the mastermind Nu'er Mohammod escaping abroad, all other involved parties have been apprehended."
Jimmy briefly recounted the investigation process. Lacking prepared charts or a more intuitive presentation like a PPT, his dry description left him very dissatisfied. However, others might not think the same.
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