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“She what?”
“Yep. She thinks I was helping on the Ramos investigation because I was at Barton Plaza the other night.”
“You’re kidding, right? Everything I’ve heard says you, Estes, and Ramos were heroes.”
“Not according to Madden.”
“So this is completely in my court—am I hearing correctly?”
“That’s why they pay you the big bucks.”
“They pay the chief bigger bucks; we’ll have to go through her,” Gomez said.
“Do you trust her?” Gabe asked, knowing he trusted Gomez but was entirely unsure about Raven.
“She hasn’t given me any reason not to.”
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Danni and Marrs left the Heights and drove to the park the boys said they had been riding near.
“What are you thinking?” Marrs asked.
“I don’t know. Something is off. I’d feel better if we could talk to the mayor. We’re missing something obvious.”
She stopped and parked to review Severino Croft’s information again, intuition niggling that there was something right in her face she wasn’t seeing. There were several addresses associated with Croft, but none were in California. Then she remembered Hobbs had been arrested the first day of riots for setting a dumpster on fire. Maybe Croft was as well. She clicked on records of arrests for that date and realized it was a dead end. If Croft had been arrested, his warrants would have come up. He would have been held on a felony warrant awaiting extradition. Everyone arrested was fingerprinted and identified, regardless if Madden filed charges.
Then it hit her. Hobbs was arrested and released; he had no warrants. Quickly Danni pulled up the information on Hobbs. Bingo. He’d given a different address than Moore had. It was one of the tiny homes not far from Barton Plaza.
Danni pushed the laptop to Marrs. “We need to check this address out.”
“We should do it the right way, get another warrant.”
Danni chewed on a thumbnail. She knew Marrs was correct, but a warrant would take time, and she wasn’t positive she had enough evidence to convince a judge. Since they’d already struck out once, she was loath to strike out a second time. She felt an urgency to check the house out.
“Let’s go check it out first. It might be an old address. I’d hate to waste time getting a warrant if someone else lives there. The residents at the tiny house compound are very transient.”
“That’s true.”
“Okay, let’s go.”
