Chapter Seven
It wasn’t even lightout the next morning when Shay and Kelly were awakened by someone pounding on the door.
Shay pulled his pants on and grabbed his gun then stomped to the front door.But it wasn’t the police he found on his doorstep so early, it was Pappy and Trudy.
“You need to move over, Shay.”Trudy pushed him out of the way.
Shay blinked his eyes and looked over at Pappy.
The man raised his hands up and shook his head.
Kelly came out from her room and rubbed her eyes as she yawned.
When Trudy saw her, she grinned.“Where is your friend?I need to tell her something.”
Kelly shrugged.“At this hour, I would think she was asleep.”
A door down the hall opened and Char stepped out.She looked wide awake.
Trudy smiled and then went over to hand her a few papers.
Char looked confused then took the papers back into the living room and sat down to read them.The more she read the more confused she felt then gradually she understood and slowly shook her head.When she finally finished reading them she looked up at Trudy.“Is this really true?All of it?”
Trudy nodded.“Yeah, it’s all true.Your grand...Olivia and Victor used a holding company to move contraband to our enemies in foreign countries.Countries the US won’t ship to, for obvious reasons.They hid what they were doing by labeling the contraband under domestic labels.We could never connect people to the holding company until you turned over the papers from when you lived under her roof.Your paperwork made the connection between her, Victor and that damn holding company.That’s all we needed.”She turned to look at Kelly and added, “Oh and your detective is caught up in their dirty deeds too.He’s connected to a huge smuggling ring deal they made.I found a video of him meeting with the actual smugglers and it was to get a pay off, not to arrest them.No one ever knew he was a cop helping a crime ring.But we got him now.”
Shay reached for his phone and sent a text to his friend of a friend.Then he looked over at Pappy.“This isn’t going to go down very well.”Shrugging his shoulders he said, “More heads will roll than just those three.There has to also be some rotten eggs in customs and the border patrols too.Once that pair are arrested, they will start talking and it shouldn’t take too long to have all those bad eggs in one basket.”
Trudy smiled.“Oh, don’t you worry, we’ve got more where this came from.If Olivia or Victor think they can avoid prison by spilling the beans they have a lot more to answer for.This is just the opening act.”She nodded at Char.“And they did sell Victor’s daughter to Barrios as part of a deal to help cover up their schemes.”
Char gasped.“I never knew Victor had a daughter.”
“Apparently, she was a best kept secret.Somewhat like you two were.”Trudy sighed and went on, “She will be free as soon as we arrest Raynando.I am telling you, girl...We can’t even play this all at once.Their crimes are many.Why Olivia Barron had to sell her grand...you both.”She motioned to Char and Rosie.“I don’t know.But it just shows her greed because they were already making bank while breaking US law and international laws.But now we got them and they won’t be getting away either.”
At all of this news, Char gasped as she looked excited for the first time in this mess.Then she looked at Kelly and mouthed the words, “Thank you, girlfriend.”
Kelly gave her a nod.“You and Rosie as well as myself will be free from those two and their sick games.”
A few hours later...
Grizzly from Savaged Souls MC sat at Shay’s kitchen table, reading the reports Trudy found.He looked up at the ceiling and smiled.“Hallelujah and thank you Jesus!”Swinging his gaze over to Shay, he explained his statement, “We’ve been working on these crimes for longer than I care to admit.Then we have tried to help the FBI with their cases for these criminals as well.This will help us get them all.”He handed a few papers to Skeeter.
Shay nodded.“I’m glad we could help but you’re going to have a problem with Olivia and Victor Barron.They think they can’t be touched.In fact, they set up my wife and framed her for something they did themselves.She was arrested for the murder of Ty Regis over San Antonio way.She’s out on bail right now.I hesitate to call that woman their grandmother because she is anything but grandmotherly.She ended up selling both girls to men that used them and abused them although Char wasn’t with her man for more than a few hours.That was because once he got her behind his doors, she showed him the hard way that he wasn’t going to hit her.She left him laid out on the floor and before he could wake up on his own, someone else set fire to the house.He burned to death and there was no video left from that crime.Char then went back to get Rosie out from under her grandmother’s roof but she was too late to do that.Olivia had sold Rosie to Ty Regis and he kept her long enough to....Well, let us just say that he did not care that she was under age.They got her out after a few weeks.Kelly went along and she used a bat on Regis but he was alive when they all left.He was unconscious on the floor of his bedroom.Then we believe ole Olivia came along and slit his throat, probably to keep him quiet.Then surprise, surprise the police got their hands on the video of his murder and arrested Kelly.”
“It was my grand...”Rosie paused as she stood at the door of the living room.“...it was Olivia Barron that killed Ty.We watched the video.I watched it three times.Then we spotted something.”
