Greyson pointed at one name, and it stood out to both men.
‘Aaron Figueroa.’
“It doesn’t say what happened, but I can look it up,” Greyson offered.
Oh, no need.
As soon as they both saw the dead-man’s name, they knew what was going on.
TROUBLE.
How did they know?
“Uh, that was the victim right before Jarod,” Gene said, cluing him in.
Then, he shared how he knew, because the look on Greyson’s face was of confusion.
“Last night, Corbin was researching and came up with the same names. We have some issues in paradise,” Gene admitted. “All three victims showed up on the beach in the general location. One of them was Jarrod, one was Aaron Figueroa, and one was Jaden Mendin.”
Greyson stared at him, and he didn’t like the implications of that.
Not.
At.
All.
“Seriously?” he asked.
Ethan nodded.
“And guess why the cops wanted Aaron Figueroa’s case tossed back toward them?” he asked, since now, they were putting two and two together from the man’s notes, and what they already knew.
He couldn’t imagine.
“Why?” Greyson asked.
Blackhawk shared.
“He’s a cop, and that’s his house,” he said, pointing at the precinct number. “I’m going to bet that when the cop died, they wanted to work the case in-house, like we would insist. They likely reached out to Jarod, and he handed it over, but according to his notes you just opened, he was planning on continuing independently.”
Greyson pulled up the report on his laptop, and showed them what it said.
In the notes section to whoever would be reading the report, it said one thing.
‘I have been contacted by the local police who have requested that we let them have jurisdiction of Detective Aaron Figueroa’s case. I spoke to Director Rothschild, and he’s instructed me to return jurisdiction. Only, something about this is bothering me, so I plan on keeping it on the back burner and digging into it when I have some time.’
And there it was.
“So Gabe cut it free because it was just a body washed on shore?” Greyson asked.
Gene nodded.
“You know he’s not going to fight for an isolated case especially when we’re running low on agents? He wouldn’t care if it came in like a drug running case, or if it was something the FBI had jurisdiction on. Jarod likely asked via email, and Gabe’s so overwhelmed, he told him to cut his losses. You know how it is,” Gene said.
The man was right.
Still, this was chaos and Greyson knew it. Of course, with this office—sans a director—would be more than willing to hand it back over. They wouldn’t want to make waves with the local police over the case.
