Chapter 19 – Pants Down
Late Monday afternoon, June 2nd, 2014
“Sheriff, I think we need to go and talk to Manuel Rojas.”
I looked at Shane Harding. “Did Michael Peng come out with something after all?”
Shane nodded. “He admitted that he’s seen Manny give pills to Ben.”
“Bingo! We sort of knew that though but the confirmation is nice.”
“Oh, but that’s not all.”
“Well, do tell!”
“He states that he overheard Manny telling someone that he called Tab on the phone that the restaurant would all be his someday.”
“That’s Interesting because Manny swears that he doesn’t want the restaurant.”
“Liars lie. The larger point here is that he’s talking to someone named ‘Tab’...possibly short for Estaban?” He drug the name out to emphasis that Tab could be a shortened form of it.
“Listen, we coul
