281: Chapter 281: Xiao Lu Favors Connection Over Reason [Four Updates] 281: Chapter 281: Xiao Lu Favors Connection Over Reason [Four Updates] Although Jasper Luna was the legal representative and general manager of New Era Film, he was essentially just a puppet.
He was Dao Ge’s man, so he was fully aware of Lucy Clayton’s influence and knew that if he didn’t follow her orders, it wouldn’t just be as simple as his own death.
Lucy Clayton was a lunatic, capable of anything.
Thus, he had no choice but to call the police, and the report he filed stated there had been a break-in at his ho, illegal detention, and robbery.
Robbery isn’t defined solely by the theft of money, a stolen contract also constitutes robbery, so while his report was sowhat exaggerated, the response speed of the Beijing police was indeed very fast.
Officer Oakley Vance arrived at Jasper Luna’s ho within just ten to fifteen minutes.
This area was indeed under her jurisdiction.
Although Garden Road was just a local police station, the area it covered was vast.
Their station chief held a deputy director rank, and she was currently only holding a full division-level position.
However, after the Spring Festival, it was likely she would be promoted to deputy director level.
Ember Vance brought three people with her, all of whom were officers on night duty.
Their station had nearly thirty people, so there were usually close to ten on the night shift.
Bringing three people ant there were still four or five left to keep watch at the station.
“Did you call the police?” Ember Vance, flanked by her officers, entered and quickly surveyed the room.
Although the criminals had run off, her professional instincts made her analyze the environnt she was in as soon as she arrived.
“Yes, hello, I’m Jasper Luna.” Jasper extended his hand.
After a brief handshake with him, Ember turned to the three people behind her and said, “Record this, produce an interrogation transcript.” She continued to speak as she walked over to the window to look outside, also taking note of the arrangents inside the house.
The three officers sat down and called Jasper’s wife and daughter out as well.
Jasper began recounting the day’s events.
Although he had exaggerated in the police report, once the police arrived, he dared not lie.
He first told the story of signing a contract with a female student and how the student, along with her brother, ca to terminate the contract.
“I originally thought they wouldn’t make a fuss anymore, but what I never expected was that the brother of Sara Zuck, with others, wearing masks, pried open our front door to threaten using my wife and daughter…”
“Sara Zuck?” Ember Vance, who had been looking around, suddenly paused and walked over to the sofa, asking indifferently, “Which school is Sara Zuck from?
What’s her brother’s na?”
“Beijing Film Academy.
I’m not sure what her brother’s na is.”
“A student from Beijing Film Academy?” Ember Vance continued without showing any emotion, and after thinking for a mont, she asked, “What does she look like, and her brother?”
“She is quite beautiful, around 170 centiters tall, a freshman, and her brother is also about 170 to 180 centiters tall, with dark skin, a buzz cut, and he drives a Ford F-450.
He definitely doesn’t look like a good person!”
“Oh, other than intimidation, did they assault you or your family mbers?”
“No, they didn’t.”
“What about the others, did you see what they looked like?”
“I only saw one who seed to be the leader, but he listened to Sara’s brother.
That man had a wide face and looked to be around thirty years old.”
“Right, one of them had a severe stutter.” Jasper added.
“Oh…” Ember Vance had an epiphany.
After asking a few questions, she was certain that Yusuf Zuck had done this with Samuel Ross.
Also, in her mory, Yusuf had a security guard friend who stuttered.
When she was handling Bud Trujillo’s case, Trujillo had hit the stuttering man, so she had seen the stutterer a few tis and had even personally taken his statent.
“Hmm, besides your family of three, did anyone else witness them, like an eyewitness or sothing?”
“No one else.
When I brought that person back to the company, we didn’t encounter any security guards, but the property surveillance there should have recorded everything!”
“Hmm, you guys keep questioning.” Ember Vance stopped asking at this point and stood up, walking around the room a few tis.
To be honest, she felt like detaining soone, not Yusuf Zuck or Sara Zuck, but that surnad Luna, goddammit.
If Sara Zuck wanted to terminate the contract, just let her do it and be done with it, right?
You have to wait until she gets physical with you to agree to the termination, and then once she does, you go and call the police.
Of course, the victim was definitely Mr.
Luna, so even if she wanted to detain him, she needed a reason.
“False report?
No way, they can match the information.
So, how can we detain him?” Oakley Vance, whenever it ca to Yusuf Zuck’s affairs, would side with kin over reason flat out.
Even if Yusuf Zuck committed a major cri, he was still in the right in her eyes.
In her opinion, Yusuf couldn’t do any wrong.
The statent took about an hour, and Mr.
Luna’s wife and daughter were also asked routine questions, and the family of three all said the sa thing.
One hour later, Ember Vance led her team out of the building, and once they got downstairs and into the car, she said straightaway, “This Jasper Luna is fishy.
Give the recording pen and the station’s record; I’ll take a closer look when I get back.”
“Definitely fishy,” one of the new auxiliary police officers said.
“If soone cos to terminate a contract, why wouldn’t he just let them do it, instead of waiting until next week?
And the suspects didn’t harm them, their lock wasn’t broken, the door wasn’t pried open.
Also, did you notice that they had packed up their luggage, as if they were about to leave?”
“Ember, how are we supposed to handle this case?” The other two officers also felt helpless.
This was a contract dispute, not robbery or murder, so it could be easy or difficult to resolve.
Their station had limited police force, vehicles, and funding, making cases like this ti-consuming and labor-intensive.
According to their experience, such cases did not constitute a social nace.
Of course, if Sara Zuck’s brother secretly involved gang forces, that would be another story.
In short, if soone filed a complaint, they had to investigate this unexciting case.
“I have an idea,” Ember Vance said without disclosing her plan for handling the case; she drove her colleagues back to the station.
She didn’t go in, but drove around the corner and stopped not far from the precinct.
Then she took out another phone, the one she used to contact Yusuf Zuck directly, and dialed his number.
“I hear you’ve got a pickup truck?” As soon as the call connected, Ember Vance sounded cheerful, like a young wife.
“Huh?
How did you know?
Did you see driving it?
Where?” Yusuf Zuck asked curiously.
“What do you an ‘where’?
Just got a case, soone called the cops, claiming Sara Zuck’s brother was extorting and illegally detaining them.
I’m really bothered by this—you tell , why is Sara Zuck’s brother so nasty?
He’s a bad guy!”
“Shit, hold on!” Yusuf, who was eating, walked out with his phone and whispered, “So, that Luna really called the cops?
Does their area fall under your jurisdiction too?”
“Just got back to the station after taking the statents!”
“Haha, what a moron.
My wife answered the call.
Anyway, I’m out of it.
You handle this.
I have nowhere to go tonight, just drinking with the guys.
I’ll co over after, bye!”
“Don’t hang up, I’ve got night duty!” Oakley Vance’s heart fluttered with excitent because Yusuf Zuck called her his wife, which made her feel incredibly sweet inside!
“I don’t care; I’m gonna go to your place tonight anyway, do whatever you want!” Yusuf Zuck said before hanging up.
“Jerk!” Ember Vance muttered under her breath, then called back to the station.
She inford the duty staff that she was out on a case and wouldn’t be returning that evening, and she instructed the officers who had accompanied her on the call to check New Era Film’s material the next day.
Right, to get Luna to withdraw the complaint and to get Yusuf Zuck off, they needed to dig deep into Mr.
Luna.
“Hmm, I’ll take a shower first when I get ho…” Oakley Vance hung up the call and directly drove ho—since that jerk was coming over, of course she had to get back.
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PS: There will still be four updates tomorrow; they will be at midnight, 11 a.m., 4 p.m., and 8 p.m.
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