Her hands trembled as she complied four agents in dark jackets entered their badges gleaming in the early morning light the lead agent a woman with steel gray hair and sharp eyes presented. The warrant officer Savannah Mitchell you're under arrest for tampering with evidence obstruction of justice and conspiracy to violate civil rights under color of law. As they led her out in handcuffs Savannah noticed her neighbors watching from behind curtained Windows her Cruiser sat in the driveway she wouldn't be driving it again. Across town similar scenes play played out at other addresses Captain Drake despite his immunity deal was taken into custody for additional charges uncovered. During the investigation three training officers were arrested even the it manager Phillips was brought in after evidence suggested he'd been more involved in the coverup than he'd admitted.
In his Chambers judge Carter reviewed the federal arrest warrants us attorney Rebecca Chen no relation to um his clerk sat across from him explaining scope of the federal investigation. The evidence tampering wasn't isolated to your jurisdiction she explained we found similar patterns in departments across three states your case broke it open. Carter studied the files the River Creek connection exactly officer Mitchell's former Department was the key once we started pulling those threads Chen spread out a diagram showing links between multiple police departments it's. A network they share techniques technology even Personnel how long has this been under investigation 8 months we were building our case slowly until your investigation forced. Their hand the blog post attempting to discredit you that spooked some of our targets they started making mistakes a knock interrupted them Sarah Chan entered with urgent news your honor federal agents just.
Raided the precinct they're seizing all the computer equipment and files Carter nodded make sure today's hearing is moved to the federal courthouse and contact Mr. Williams his civil me case just got much bigger at the FBI field office Savannah sat in an interrogation room still trying to process. The morning's events the door opened and the lead agent she'd introduced herself as special agent Monica Torres entered with a thick file letun talk about River Creek. Torres said taking a seat specifically about what happened there before you transferred Savannah's throat went dry I don't know what you mean Torres opened. The file removing a photograph it showed a younger Savannah with several River Creek officers including a man Torres identified as Lieutenant James Cooper Cooper's been running.