“Now this is good. Half the time, I cook frozen, prepared meals because I don’t want to make anything else. But this is great,” he said.
“Thanks! I like to make my own food most of the time. But I do the frozen meals when I don’t have time or when I’m stuck on what to make. So what are we going to do next as far as Younger is concerned?”
“We ought to do some surveillance on Billy’s mother’s home.”
“I’m ready.”
They dressed for the job, packed their backpacks, and headed out to Grayson’s SUV.
“I thought Rowland’s deputies would handle the surveillance,” Kendra said.
“And my brother. But he probably won’t be there all the time.”
He put the mother’s address in his GPS. “It helps to have a couple more people there to assure Younger doesn’t grab his stepson and take off with him.”
“Agreed.”
“Both of us are used to this kind of reconnaissance.”
She got a call and put it on speaker. “Yeah, George?” She covered the phone to speak with Grayson. “My boss.”
“I’ve got another case for you. Dan Matson was spotted going to his ex-wife’s home.” George gave her the address.
“All right.” She looked at Grayson.
“We’re on it.” He figured if they could take one fugitive into custody, that was better than just sitting at a house where deputies would already be.
She chuckled. “You heard Grayson. We’ll take the case.”
“Is he coming to work for us permanently?” George asked.
Kendra raised her brows at Grayson.
He laughed.
“I think not.” She winked at Grayson.
He hadn’t thought that far ahead. He just smiled.
Then she ended the call.
“Okay, tell me about Dan Matson,” Grayson said as he put the new address into his GPS.
“He is charged with a misdemeanor theft at a store of $1,500. So he was right at the threshold for the amount to be a felony. They were sure that he had stolen before, but couldn’t prove it. But he’d been in the store enough that they figured it wasn’t the only time he had stolen from them.”
“So aggregated amounts of theft would have put him into the felony category.”
“Right.”
“Did they trespass him from the store and parking lot?”
“They did. So if the employees recognize him, they can call the police and have him arrested for trespassing. He was also charged with resisting arrest and battery on a law enforcement officer.”
Grayson thought about it. “No weapons on him?”
“No. He has never been charged with anything before, and I think he just figured he wouldn’t ever get caught.”
“Yeah, that’s the way it usually is. Criminals never think they’re ever going to get caught. Sometimes, they commit tons of crimes before they’re captured.”
