Raise by A Thief

Chapter 10

Jack POV

This thief case take my full attention. I was not handling this case from the beginning. The 2 jewellery robbery in Indiana and Michigan wasn't mine. But Peter Pearson, my supervisory spesial agent tasked me and my partner Samuel Gray to take the case.

The case lead me to Chicago, where we found a repair car shop coupon on the scene in Indiana. I didn't know how it got there, but the museum told us that they always clean up the floor before they close the museum. So the coupon should be new, the thief brough it with him.

I came to the repair shop and met the owner, Max Carter, Well build man, black hair, brown eyes with warm smile. His fingerprint and one of his employee was found in the coupon, but not the thief fingerprint. It was just a lead, didn't enough to put the man or his employee to jail.

I was this close to take the thief at the museum. I was surprise to realize that the thief was a woman. The profile in the earlier case lead to a man, not a woman. It was dark, but I was sure it was a women. I lose my guard that moment at the museum, thinking that a women will not took me down and smashed me to the ground, but I was wrong. This women of thief was good. But she was not good enough.

I still has no idea who she was, but I had a plan. A plan that a thief will not resist.

I asked a friend of mine, a success businessman to help me. I know his wife have this valuable ring, the rare one. So I asked him to cooperate under Fbi surveillance to display the ring in the Chicago, as a trap for the thief. I know she must still in Chicago and can't resist a valuable diamond in front of her.

The Carter guys, who own the repair shop, he was killed few days after the robbery in the museum in Chicago.

I didn't do the homicide case this time, but a friend of mine from Chicago police departement told me the weird thing about this Carter guy murder case. It was his identity. He had no picture face recognition everywhere. He was Noone before 7 years ago, but his finger print lead to a man named Maximilian Davis. This Maximilian Davis was known for his skill as a thief around 10 years ago. He join a mobster in Indiana but gone missing exactly 7 years ago. Connection? Maybe.

And his daughter Alexandra Carter, was just the same. We can't find her face recognition everywhere, even in social media. Not even a single picture of them in their house. Suspicious? For sure.

My insting told me to lead on him. And the women thief could be his daughter Alexandra Carter. So Sam and I waiting for her in Max funeral.

" That was weird" I said

" what?" Sam asked me

" his daughter is not here at his funeral" I said

" The police still looking for him." Sam said.

" But, if that you father funeral, you will come anyway." I said as I looked around to the cemetery, some people I didn't recognize at Max funeral, except his employee at the shop I met. And an old women and a man visiting a grave yard. Nothing suspicious.

" That's true." Sam replied." I would come. Maybe he is not her real father or they took her" Sam tried to conclude.

" They?" I asked Sam.

" max's killer, who ever they are" Sam said.

" But you are right. If Max Carter is Maximilian Davis, then Alexandra Carter is not her real name. Maximilian Davis didn't have a daughter. So who is she?" I said thinking.

" Could be anyone" Sam said.

" They hiding from something. That's why they use fake ID."

" Or they just want to run away from the law" Sam said. There were a lot of assumption, but I know I'll getting it. I was sure the robbery should have connection with Max Carter.

I already know the thief metode, I think she got help from other people. She didn't worked alone, someone with computer skill help her to deal with the security camera. So we work something with the Camera it self, we still can see what ever happen on the scene, even she do something with the Camera.

Sam and I on our way to the City Hall. We want to trap the thief. It will be our 2nd night of watching the ring.

" Hi Candice" I answer Candice phone called. Candice is my girlfriend, we have been dating for 6 months. But we were in not a good condition lately. She think that I was to focus on the case that I don't have time for her.

That's part of the risk dating with FBI agent, sometimes we don't have time for other things when we working on a case.

" Jack, where are you?" she asked me.

" I'm still in Chicago" I said.

" What? You told me you'll be back soon" she said

" I told you before, I still have case on going. I can't go home." I said. Can she understand that I'm doing my job?

" but tomorrow we have party." she said

" I told you I cant come." I said. I already told her I can't come to the f*****g party, why she still insist? My case is more important than some party she attend every night. Yup, she is a party girl. I met her in one of my friend party. I don't really a party type of man, but she is an attractive girl, so ya, when I have time I go with her to the party.

" You know what Jack, just f**k your self, I'm leaving." she said. What?

" Fine! " I said. I'm getting tired of this fight. She was okay in the beginning, but she became demanding lately. She check on me every where I go. And we fight a lot recently.

" What Jack? You can't break with me like that." she said. What? Seriously? She just said she left me!

" Just go Candice, do what ever you want. " I said and then hanged up the phone.

" bad timing man" Sam said.

" yeah" I said shortly. She called my phone again but I didn't picked up. I put my phone in silent. I can't work if she keep making my phone ringing.

Sam and I arrive at the city hall, we wait for her in security camera room at back. I started to doubt she would come, but then I saw some movement on the back fence. Black shadow, moving fast and quietly. She break the window in the back city hall building. I let her inside, and watched her. I told the 2 cop and Sam to wait for my instruction.

I can see clearly how she stole the ring in the large safe box, how she open the door safe and she looked for the ring. She didn't took any other value things, like other diamond or pile of money in front of her. She focus on the ring. Only the ring. Which confuse me, will a real thief reject other valuable thing in front of you? Even if you are not a thief, it will drawn your attention. I was sure she did that for a reason. And I'm going to find out when I catch her. She walked out of the safe box and closed it right away.

I told the 2 cops and sam to stand by at their position.and then I saw her sneaking in the hallway, and I come out of my hiding place.

" Freeze!" I told her.

She raise her hand but her back facing me, I can't see her face. The 2 cops were out of their hiding place and pointing their gun on her. She has no other way escape now.

And then I hear her say something.

" Did you say something?" I asked her.

" Who do you talked to?" I said out loud so she can hear me.

" No one" she answer me. I swear I hear her say something.

" Hand on the ground" I said to her. I don't want anything happen like the last time I caught her and let her lose. And she did what I said.

I told the 2 cops to handcuff her. They walked closer to her. A cop grab her wrist while the other one stand by near her, but before the cop took her other wrist, she turned around and kick the cop's legs until he fall down and she took the cop's gun and put the gun on his temple. It was so fast, the cop didn't realize it. And I can't see that coming either. How can she did that so fast? And it happen again.

" Move back!" she said to the other cop and me. The other cop move back gave her some space.

" Put the gun down." I said to her. She didn't do what I said.

" No, you two, put the gun down! Or I'll shoot! ", she said warning me and the cop.

" Okay," I said. I told the other cop to put his gun down.

She started to walked backward to the window.

" Don't do this, you are not a killer" I said looking to her eyes. I try to persuade her to gave up.

" Don't followed me" she said keep walked backward and holding the gun and drag the cop in her arm.

But she didn't realize Sam's present behind her. Sam hold an electric shoot that can make people unconscious in a few second.

She keep move backward and Sam electrisize her in her side neck. She was in shocked and about to felt to the ground, but Sam catched her. And they both fall to the ground.

I hear her say something but I can't hear clearly as I run to her direction. I help Sam stand up, and put the woman in sit position as I handcuff her hand. She open her eyes few time, but she was in languid. The cop hold her hand to keep her in sit down position, while Sam and I took off her mask.

I was surprised to see her face. She looked familiar. She has different hair colour but I remember her. She was Maddie! Maddie is a girl I met in the exhibition at the museum, when Sam and I supervise the necklace a week ago. She was a reporter of a jewellery magazine, I forget what magazine it was. And her name waz Madison Fowler as in her reporter ID card. I remember her because she is smart, know a lot of things about the necklace and she also attractive. Well, I'm a normal guy and she definitely attractive with her brown bright eyes, light soft skin and beautiful smile.

" Maddie?" I called her name. But she was unconscious can't answered me.

" You know her?" Sam asked me.

" Ya... I mean no." I said, correcting my answered right away.

" let's get her to the office room." I said to Sam.

I called Peter Pearson, my supervisor to report about the result that we finally catch the thief. He order Fbi team to examine the crime scene right away. Took some time for the tean to came to the City Hall.

I order the police to keep out of the scene until the Fbi team came to documentated the scene and gather evidence.

We put her on the chair with her hand cuffed in the office room and we wait until the team came.

FBI documentary and Evidence team came in an hour and do their job. Supervisor Pearson told me to take the thief to the save house. In the save house we met Agent Dalton. Agent Virginia Dalton preserve the safe house for us.

We handcuff her to a bed where she layed down. We run some check background on the thief identity. She hasn't conscious yet. But We took her finger print and picture.

I check on Madison Fowler name, the name that I know, but as I guess it was fake name. And then I check on Alexandra Carter. Her face just like in her ID data base picture, but with different style with glasses.

I told Sam to wake her up using some aromatic scene, and she started to open her eyes.