The deputy had always been checking the documentation, however, he simply didn't like the FBI.

Otherwise, being crafty from experience, how could he be energized simply by a few words from Luke?

Luke carefully observed and noticed that his words had the most significant effect on Jackson.

This young man was truly hardworking. Since Anthony had left, he had been sitting at his desk reviewing the data and even watched surveillance videos while eating.

Raymond and Jenny, on the other hand, were quite diligent at work, but they lacked the persistence and recklessness compared to Jackson.

Luke suddenly realized why some impressive departments would hire newcomers, not just because of the new recruits' high educational qualifications or connections but because they brought energy and motivation, which could inject new life into the department.

...

At five o'clock in the afternoon.

Jackson knocked on the captain's office door.

"Come in."

"Captain, I have found some new clues."

Luke pointed to the chair across from him, "Sit down and speak."

Jackson laid a document on the table, "I found some issues while checking the North Hollywood Bank robbery case." Jackson flipped out a list, "This is the list of customers whose bank deposit boxes were stolen.

The lead on the bank deposit boxes was initially investigated by the FBI, and they identified the suspect Jerrang Kazafei while checking the deposit box customers' data.

After that, Jerrang Kazafei's home was attacked by a bomb.

The lead on the bank deposit boxes might have been shelved by them.

I re-examined it and found a new doubt, where one of the deposit boxes has never been claimed. I checked the owner's identity in the police system and discovered that he had gone missing recently."

Jackson handed another document to Luke, "This is the detailed information of the missing customer."

Missing person's name: Jacob Johnston

Gender: Male

Date of birth, Age: 40

Phone number: 626 476 1252

Address: 202 Candil Community

Social Security Number: 623-53-3454

Date reported missing: September 27

Employer: Balldini Funds Investment Management Company.

Jackson pointed at the last piece of information, "Captain, the president of this company is the abducted Muriel Balldini.

I suspect that the North Hollywood Bank robbery and the kidnapping of Muriel Balldini are not coincidental, and the two cases might have some internal connections."

"Employee missing, boss kidnapped...", Luke thought aloud, "Do you know what Jacob Johnston had in his bank safe deposit box?"

"It's still unclear."

"You go out first, tell everyone to meet in five minutes."

"Yes, sir." Jackson stood up and left the office.

Luke picked up the document and reviewed it in detail. Previously in the investigation, the police always thought the robbers targeted the bank for money, and kidnapped Muriel Balldini for the same reason; now, it seemed they might have had other motives.

Perhaps the robbers robbed the North Hollywood Bank to get something Jacob Johnston had stored in his bank safe deposit box.

After kidnapping Muriel Balldini, the robbers also stole the contents of Muriel Balldini's bank vault, questioning if there was any connection between the two.

As Jacob Johnston was an employee of Muriel Balldini's company, both incidents could be targeting Balldini Funds Investment Management Company.

Luke boldly speculated that the real motive of the robbers might be to steal an item or document related to the company.

After clearing his thoughts, Luke left the office.

"Guys, let's have a meeting." Luke looked towards Jackson, "Share with everyone what you've found."

Jackson cleared his throat and repeated what he had said earlier in the office.

Little Black said, "If the rookie's right, those robbers are insane, robbing a bank vault just for an item.

Moreover, if they had kidnapped Jacob Johnston, they must have gotten the keys and codes for the safe from him. Why not just open the safe rather than robbing it?"

The deputy said, "There's no such thing as a perfect crime in this world; no matter how well planned, unexpected events always occur during the actual execution.

The fact that the robbers chose to rob the bank clearly indicates they didn't obtain what was needed to open the safe from Jacob Johnston."

Jenny said, "But during our interrogation of Andres Towns and Jerrang Kazafei, they didn't mention anything about the safe deposit boxes? They only said the robbery was for money."

Luke also considered this issue, "I see two possibilities, first they might have also been involved in the kidnapping of Jacob Johnston and don't want to add to their charges.

The second possibility is that they were just on the periphery of this criminal gang, merely used by Soster and not really aware of Soster's other motives for the bank robbery."

Luke personally leaned towards the latter, as during interrogations, there were no clear signs of lying from Andres Towns and Jerrang Kazafei.

Whereas Soster consistently spun tales.

Little Black asked, "What is it that could make Soster take such huge risks, first robbing the bank, then kidnapping Muriel Balldini?"

The deputy said, "Although it's still unclear what it was, their crimes of robbing the bank and then committing a kidnapping indicate that they didn't obtain what they wanted, or at least not all of it, from the bank's safe deposit box."

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