Once a direction is set for solving a case, the police never lack execution power.

In less than an hour, cash and an envelope had been handed to Lu Chuan.

"I'm going back to the team for a while; there's no equipment for fingerprint extraction here."

It's quite convenient to extract fingerprints on cash and envelopes using a frequency-tuned laser scanner, and a specialized ultraviolet camera can also do it well.

The Huaguang Street police station doesn't have such equipment.

Recently, over the past month, the Criminal Investigation Team has upgraded its equipment tremendously.

A donation of one hundred million provided by the wealthy Qiangsheng Group was in place the day after Lu Jianguo spoke.

Qin Yong had never seen so much money before; it's important to know that this was specifically donated to the Criminal Investigation Team.

As long as there's unanimous decision-making in the team and reporting to the city bureau for consent, no one can complain even if bonuses were issued.

Of course, issuing bonuses is out of the question; the public security bureau regularly receives donations and there are related management standards.

Over the past month, Qin Yong truly experienced the joy of spending money.

Seven old police cars that were noisy except for the horn were directly put through the scrapping process.

According to regulations, if these cars had been used for over eight years and accumulated a mileage of two hundred thousand kilometers, they could actually be scrapped.

However, due to budget constraints, they overextended their service by over five years.

This time, they were all replaced.

The cafeteria was completely renovated, and the old tables and chairs in the offices needed replacing as well.

The Crime Scene Investigation office received a significant portion of this.

Mainly for the upgrading of laboratory equipment.

For example, an infrared-ultraviolet digital camera, which can directly extract fingerprint traces on smooth, non-porous, and semi-porous surfaces.

Such as fingerprints on glass, aluminum alloy, or ceramic surfaces.

Additionally, a full-spectrum field evidence collection device, effective for revealing fingerprints on rough surfaces such as leather and banknotes without causing blurriness.

Moreover, the Crime Scene Investigation lab increased its inventory with portable multiband light sources, targeted biological trace detection instruments, ultra-wide-spectrum on-site trace evidence recording instruments, laser evidence investigation instruments, and other advanced Crime Scene Investigation equipment.

Besides these, the Crime Scene Investigation office is building a microtrace evidence laboratory.

"I heard there's a case on Huaguang Street?"

Lu Chuan stopped by the office first; Yang Sen and Liu Guodong were out, and only Old Bai was there.

"Initially helped with the fingerprint identification analysis of an electric bike theft case, unexpectedly uncovered another case."

Old Bai nodded; such occurrences are common.

Ordinary crimes are not like murder.

In murder, one might kill just to get caught.

However, it's different with petty theft; one might do it ten times without getting caught once.

So often, working on such cases is like a turtle laying eggs.

Once there's one, more will follow.

"Did our masters go out?"

Old Bai nodded: "The High-tech Zone Criminal Investigation Team had a scene that required our support, Old Liu and the others went."

"A major case?"

Not every major and significant case gets reported to the Criminal Investigation Team; the Criminal Investigation Team below does not sit idle either.

If the whole of Haizhou City entrusted all major and significant cases to the Criminal Investigation Team, even with ten times the staff, they wouldn't be able to handle it.

"Intentional injury, a couple fought, the woman hacked the man, he nearly died, he's in the ICU now."

"A couple fighting? Such a heavy hand?"

"Who knows, the neighbor reported it. If they hadn't gone early, there might have been fatalities."

Lu Chuan nodded, nearly causing fatalities indeed made it a serious case.

"Brother Bai, stay busy, I'll head to the lab to collect and analyze some fingerprints."

"I will head over to the Huaguang Street police station afterwards."

"Alright," Old Bai nodded with a sigh: "Thanks to you, our Crime Scene Investigation got a lot of new equipment this time."

"There's quite a bit I don't know how to use, oh dear, getting old."

Lu Chuan chuckled: "It's just equipment, the more you fiddle with it, the easier it gets."

"Sure, you go about your work, I'll take a look at the manuals."

The underground basement of the team.

Lu Chuan quickly collected fingerprint information from the envelope and cash banknotes.

However, it wasn't just one but over a dozen.

Handling them posed quite a challenge.

An hour later, seventeen clearer fingerprints had undergone preprocessing and successfully matched in the system.

The results were great; among the owners of these seventeen fingerprints were Zhang Baoku and Chen Wen.

Huaguang Street police station interrogation room.

"Chen Wen, these are the cash received by Zhang Baoku and the fingerprints extracted from the envelope containing the cash."

Old Luo placed a forensic analysis report in front of Chen Wen.

"You thought you did it flawlessly; you believed that without directly contacting Zhang Baoku, without calling, without transferring funds, you'd get away with it?"

"How do you explain this?"

At this moment, Chen Wen was sweating heavily.

"That money... might have just been the money I used..."

"Just happened to use? The envelope? Did you also just happen to use the envelope containing the cash?"

"I... I..."

Chen Wen's face changed rapidly, and he opened his mouth subconsciously as if still trying to argue.

But just as Old Luo said, although the money had fingerprints of more than a dozen people, which Chen Wen could explain as just having used it by chance, but the envelope?

Could you possibly say you just happened to use the envelope too?

Chen Wen, having dealt with the police often, clearly understood when things could be brushed over and when they couldn't be avoided.

"I... I'll confess, Officer Luo, I'll confess!"

Faced with irrefutable evidence, Chen Wen confessed the whole story.

"The box contains... contains ivory!"

Ivory?

"You smuggled ivory?"

Chen Wen hung his head: "No, no, I don't smuggle, I'm just the middleman, transporting, I didn't smuggle."

"Speak! Tell us clearly, where did the items come from, why were they sent to the Pine Forest Villa area, who is your upstream contact, explain everything!"

"I'll tell, I'll tell..."

The incident process was relatively simple.

Haizhou City was the processing area for the entire crime chain.

"The Pine Forest Villa side is responsible for further processing the ivory, I'm equivalent to a courier, really."

"Some of the antiques... artifacts in my shop are imported from Myanmar."

"The items were hidden within, shipped to me through logistics."

"I then repacked the items, handed them to the next in line, they were responsible for processing, after which I knew nothing more."

"How did you know these people?"

"I met them when I toured Myanmar last year..."

The case's chain had become relatively clear.

Haizhou City constituted a segment of the entire chain, responsible for processing the items delivered by Chen Wen.

However, the overall upstream and downstream industry situation, Chen Wen was not clear on.

"Director Huang, should we arrest the people in the villa area?"

In the meeting room, those involved in the case were discussing the next steps.

The Old Song and others from the precinct were still watching the Pine Forest Villa area, ready to take action at any moment.

Huang Jianmin pondered for a moment: "With the case handled to this extent, what our precinct can do is almost done."

Everyone understood Huang Jianmin's implication from his words and nodded in agreement.

The nature of the case was already understood; those involved within the jurisdiction had also been captured.

The remaining case exploration, which involved cross-provinces and even overseas, was beyond what a small police station could lead.

"Turn it over to higher-ups?"

Old Luo pulled out a cigarette, ready to light it.

Lu Chuan took out his Chunghwa and tossed it to Old Luo: "Brother Luo, have this."

Old Luo instinctively caught it and returned a deeply wrinkled smile to Lu Chuan.

The past two days of staking out gave the Huaguang Street police station folks a deeper understanding of wealthy individuals.

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