The Cop Is Too Strong [EN]: Chapter 239

< #239. Catching the Drug Kingpin >

Following Han Moon’s orders, the chief secretary gathered money and ledgers from the vault.

Inside the vault was a small wooden box. As the secretary reached for it, Han Moon grabbed his wrist.

“Just take that one out.”

“Yes, sir.”

After the secretary stepped back, Han Moon carefully took out the wooden box and opened it. Inside were a pistol and bullets.

He loaded the pistol, put it in his inner pocket, and left the room.

He got in the car with the secretary, and they were just pulling out of the garage when it happened.

“Huh?”

“What is it?”

The car wouldn’t move. Another car was blocking their way.

Honk! Honk!

The secretary honked the horn, but the other car didn’t move. Instead, it turned on its high beams, blinding them.

“What, what is this?”

Time was of the essence. It was best to avoid trouble. The secretary put the car in reverse, trying to back up.

Screech-

A gray van appeared behind them, blocking the road. Only then did Han Moon feel a sense of foreboding and frowned.

“These sons of bitches.”

The moment Han Moon put his hand inside his coat, feeling the heavy, cold sensation of the gun he had brought.

Crash!!

The window next to him shattered, and a thick hand reached in.

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!!

The rough hand grabbed Han Moon by the collar, slamming his head against the window frame several times until he lost consciousness. Then, he was dragged out, and the gun was snatched from his right hand.

“Han Moon, you are under arrest for solicitation of murder, solicitation of aggravated assault, drug trafficking, and more.”

While Hae-soo recited the Miranda rights to the slumped-over Han Moon, special team members who had exited their vehicles approached and surrounded Han Moon’s car.

The secretary, who had been stiff with tension, lost his will to resist and got out with his hands raised, without a word.

Oh Gyeong opened the carrier in Han Moon’s car trunk and exclaimed.

“That guy was right. He said it was the main residence, but it was at the villa, this guy.”

Oh Gyeong rummaged through the bundles of cash and ledgers in the carrier with one hand, listening to the radio.

“This is Special Unit One, target secured, disperse the personnel at the main residence.”

-Understood… Good work, everyone.

-Good work.

-Special Unit One did it again today, congratulations.

The languid voices of other violent crime units echoed over the radio. A slight sense of disappointment, but more than that, satisfaction.

Although they didn’t make the direct arrest, it was meaningful that they successfully caught a guy who was eating away at the Republic of Korea, rather than coming up empty.

“We all caught him together, let’s go home quickly.”

* * *

[Drug Kingpin Han Arrested]

The heinous crimes of Han, who did not hesitate to commit drug trafficking, murder-for-hire, assault, and intimidation, have been stopped.

The police said…

┗roanes: How many times do we have to catch them before they stop popping up?

┗책방속돌쇠: Can I keep living here? It’s scary…

┗책방속돌쇠: Emigration party [1/99999]

┗식빵이: Other countries are worse. [Street shooting, 42 dead (link)]

┗책방속돌쇠: Emigration canceled. Long live the Republic of Korea!

┗구름: Detective Shin, I love you! (From Tuk-il)

┗개같이짖는닭: If you catch bad guy 1, ordinary guy 1 turns into bad guy 2. The immutable law of bad guys.

┗해리포터: Don’t put laws on bullshit, it’s true that it decreases as you catch them, don’t say nonsense that makes the people who are working hard lose their strength, or you’ll die.

┗개같이짖는닭: The immutable law of bulletin board outbursts. Are you a cop?

┗마지막: The person above should please go live on a remote island without police

The number of gangsters directly connected to Han Moon and his gang was about thirty.

However, although the number was small, the area of business was much wider.

Han Moon himself was the headquarters, and he expanded his territory by dividing it into subcontractors in every corner of the Republic of Korea.

Since there was a ledger, they only had to inform each corresponding agency and leave it to them to arrest them, and 120 companies came out from all over the country.

With the drug case settled for the time being.

Hae-soo went to visit Park Sun-hoo and his wife again with Kim Ji-ahn.

“…So it’s been resolved well. You won’t have to see those guys again. As I said before, this kind of thing is rare, and if you deal with it as I told you, you won’t get caught up in this kind of thing.”

“Thank you for your hard work, Senior.”

She had been very surprised by this incident and came to give as much detail as possible to reduce her anxiety, fearing that she would be anxious.

At Hae-soo and Ji-ahn’s words, Park Sun-hoo lowered his head and his shoulders trembled.

Sun-hoo’s wife, with tearful, sparkling eyes, approached Hae-soo, hesitated, and hugged Ji-ahn.

“Thank you. Really, really, thank you so much.”

“I didn’t do anything… I’m glad, Sister.”

Suppressing the overwhelming emotions, Sun-hoo, who barely managed to control his emotions, held Hae-soo’s hands preciously with both hands.

“Detective, Detective Shin Hae-soo! Really, I will never forget this grace. If you tell me to die, I’ll pretend to die!!”

“Honey, don’t say such things…”

His wife made a difficult expression and stopped him when he thanked her and became so emotional that he even said nonsense.

Ji-ahn couldn’t help but laugh and covered her mouth, and Hae-soo nodded with a smile on her face.

He’s a good person, enough to understand why Ji-ahn fell for him.

“I’ll let you know if that happens.”

However, because of Hae-soo’s visuals and serious tone, the atmosphere turned cold even though he took it as a joke.

It felt like there would really be a time when he would tell him to die.

Hae-soo was slightly embarrassed and took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over.

“Please contact me anytime if you need help.”

Sun-hoo received Hae-soo’s business card preciously and bowed deeply again.

“…Yes, thank you!”

* * *

Jangseong Prison visiting room.

Shin Hae-soo and Seo Pro are sitting face to face with a sofa table between them.

“…After that incident, Teacher Chun [a term of respect for a senior figure, often used in criminal organizations] took only a few people with him, and the rest scattered.”

“They’re not in groups?”

“There was an order not to be with even one other person.”

Since the organization had collapsed, it seemed that they were afraid that if more than two people were together, they would have other thoughts.

Since they couldn’t be seen anyway, they could live in groups and say they were separate, but the company employees, who had lived as Teacher Chun’s bodyguards for their entire lives, followed those words to the letter.

“That’s how Teacher Chun gives orders.”

The company employees had their own infrastructure network. It was a top-secret site created after the emergency situation broke out.

He gives orders there.

“He probably gave the order for the kidnapping of Assemblyman Oh there as well. In a 1:1 conversation.”

Hae-soo frowned slightly at those words.

“Does Chief Ma know about it too?”

“Um, it was opened after the chief went in, so I don’t know.”

Hae-soo nodded slightly and continued the question.

“Why were you next to Han Moon? You’re not a dispatched worker.”

“I was…”.

Seo Pro went into a brief reverie.

He remembers the time when he was slowly dying mentally, staring at the moldy ceiling of a dilapidated inn room.

“I wanted to live.”

It’s a very simple answer, but the sincerity is deeply embedded in his tone and eyes. He is a company employee with a stronger attachment to life than anyone he has ever seen.

Hae-soo used his power to have Seo Pro admitted to a different prison than Hyosung Prison, where Chief Ma was.

Chief Ma didn’t talk about this site. But he must have known.

* * *

Hae-soo came to the hideout and told Jung Young-soo about the site.

To see who Teacher Chun is, who is with Teacher Chun, where Teacher Chun is, and so on.

Seo Pro gave him the ID and password, but that wasn’t enough.

He had to have the cell phone that was given out directly there.

“This security is quite thorough.”

“So, can’t you get in?”

“No, 5 minutes.”

When it was the 4th minute, Young-soo clapped his hands and rejoiced.

“I broke through!”

The company employee site was very simple.

There were only two bulletin boards: an attendance board and a free bulletin board.

[This is lunch today.]

[This is dinner today.]

[I went for a walk.] (1)

[My neighbor came because of noise between floors. Should I kill him?] (3)

[How to adapt to society naturally, part 11]

[Training never stops. (photo)]

[I’ve been tracking cats for 24 hours to kill the sound of my footsteps. (video)]

[Simple cooking method]

Hae-soo and Young-soo’s eyes changed strangely as they looked at the bulletin board.

Young-soo, who had been looking at the bulletin board for a while without saying a word, let out a small sigh.

“Hmm, those scary company employees are all human beings.”

“······.”

There is no way to know what they did in the past. Even if they catch Teacher Chun, it will not be easy to reveal it.

Hae-soo’s eyes deepened.

How nice would it be if they could be persuaded before they were given more terrible jobs? He thought.

However, 1:1 conversations between general members are prohibited.

Only the site manager there, Teacher Chun, was able to do so.

“Take a good look, let me know immediately if anything comes up.”

“Yes, hyung [Korean term for older brother or close male friend], get some rest.”

* * *

The one-room apartment on the 4th floor of the shabby building where the hideout is located is Hwang Jang-soo’s temporary residence. However, Jang-soo became Ahn Seo-eun’s bodyguard and didn’t use it often, and only Hae-soo occasionally went there to sleep.

Today, it was late, so he went up there thinking of sleeping there.

“Hmm.”

However, he saw that the trash from the next door was piled up in front of the door. There was a bad smell in the hallway.

“Oh, do you live here?”

At that time, he ran into a neighbor lady coming out of the next door on the opposite side.

Hae-soo covered his nose and waved his hand, pointing to Hwang Jang-soo’s house.

“I live here.”

“Ah… do you know the number of the owner of the house in front of here? I can’t live because of this.”

Hae-soo was startled and opened his mouth slightly.

“I’ll check it out.”

Hae-soo ran into the house as if fleeing.

One of the duties of a building owner is to handle complaints. Hae-soo fell asleep thinking that he would have to find the root cause of the trash pile next door.

That dawn, Hae-soo came out to go to exercise and ran into a middle-aged man coming in.

He saw the house full of trash, sighed deeply, kicked it roughly with his foot, and grabbed the doorknob. Hae-soo immediately approached him and asked.

“Do you live here?”

The middle-aged man was startled and shrugged his shoulders when a threatening man with a large build and face suddenly approached him and spoke to him in the dark dawn.

“Yes…”

“Please clean up this trash; many residents are having a hard time because the smell is bad.”

“Ah, yes… I’m sorry.”

The middle-aged man was about to go in, but he immediately picked up the trash pile and moved it. Hae-soo couldn’t just stand by and watch, so he cleaned it up together.

The middle-aged man seemed to be getting off work now, judging by his appearance.

“Then, please take care.”

“Ah, that…”

The middle-aged man grabbed Hae-soo, who was about to leave.

“I… can’t come often. I’ll come once a week… Please take care of my son. He’s alone… Just sometimes… just check if he’s alive.”

While moving the trash earlier, he heard that his son was sixteen years old, a third-year middle school student [equivalent to a ninth-grader in the US system].

He’s a third-year middle school student, but he doesn’t go to school and just stays at home, so the trash piles up. It’s not normal.

Hae-soo frowned slightly and asked.

“Shall we talk?”

The middle-aged man grabbed the doorknob, looked at Hae-soo once, put the doorknob back down, and turned his toes.

His family was not rich, but they were harmonious. The father went to work and lived in a dormitory, so they were a weekend couple.

‘I want to eat Best Ice Cream; it’s my birthday. Can’t you even do that for my birthday?’

‘Okay, Mom will buy it for you.’

That was the last conversation the son had with his mother, who came home from work with a tired face.

She crossed the center line and collided with a drunk driving vehicle, was transferred to the intensive care unit, but died after 3 days.

After looking into it, it was revealed in the black box that the mother was talking to the father on speakerphone right before the accident.

Using that as an excuse, the other party was given a suspended sentence, citing failure to pay attention to the front and lack of defensive driving.

“But really…”

The middle-aged man took a deep drag on his cigarette and then looked at the dawn sky with empty eyes, exhaling smoke with a long sigh.

“They cheered when they got the suspended sentence, like they scored the winning goal…”