Chapter Three

The take down proved easy. The team swarmed the home of the Kalili family. The two brothers were baked on some of their home grown weed, and didn't put up much resistance. The two had been read their rights, marched out of the house, and left to sober up a little in the basement cells of the Palace.

The team all wanted to have a go at them, but they decided since Steve and Danny had managed to get the lead they should get to have some fun.

Slamming the door behind them Kahale jumped as the two angry men rounded on him.

"Let me tell you what is going to happen here." Steve's cold stare sent chills down the young man's back. "We already know it was you who shot Officer Kai. We have video footage of the whole thing."

"You thought you were being smart shooting out the camera, right? Wrong." Danny was enjoying watching him squirm.

"So, you are going to tell us exactly why you decided to shoot the officer, and we want to know where you got the gun and ammo from." Steve stood in front of Kahale now, bearing down on him.

"What's in it for me?" Kahale was trying to act tough, but he was obviously scared.

"In it for you? Is this guy serious?" Steve turned to Danny, at a loss at the gall of the young man.

"Hey, buddy. You tried to kill an officer of the law. You don't get a deal. Consider yourself lucky I managed to persuade my friend, Commander McGarrett here, not to tear you to pieces. Now if you don't start talking I might have to re think that." Danny could see Kahale's eyes watching Steve who was rolling up the sleeves of his shirt as if to prove a point.

"Kill...? I wasn't trying to kill him. I just wanted to get away. I didn't want to kill him."

"You shot the guy and left him bleeding, you didn't think that was a possibility?" Steve roared.

"No dude, we just wanted to get away, didn't want to get busted."

"Busted? Busted for what? What was so important you had to shoot someone?" Danny had come to stand beside Steve.

"We had pot on us bruddah."

"Don't, don't bruddah me." Danny was now as mad as Steve. "All this was over some damn pot?"

"Not some, a pound." Kahale answered, realising he had nothing to lose. His best defence was to be honest and persuade them he hadn't tried to kill the police officer.

"Ok, so if we are to believe that you were stupid enough to shoot a police officer because of a bag of pot, where did you get the gun from? That wasn't standard ammo."

"Bra...Commander." Kahale corrected himself when he saw the detective's eyes widen with fury. "I don't know nothing about ammo. We found the gun down at the dock, the bullets too. There was a whole crate full in this new shipment we were unloading. Tui dropped the crate and it smashed open, we didn't think they would miss one gun and some ammo."

"What the hell were you planning on doing with it?" Steve was infuriated. A young officer had almost lost his life because two idiots had been stupid enough to get their hands on a gun.

"Some guy's been hassling us for dope. We were just gonna use it to scare the lolo bastard off."

"Ok, let's go back a bit here." Danny interrupted. "You found a shipment of guns at the docks? Where was the shipment going?"

"Some warehouse. The shipment is being moved tomorrow. Look I don't no nothing about no guns, and I didn't mean to try and kill the cop. I just wanted to get away. My Makua kane is gonna kill me. Listen, Tui didn't do anything. It was my idea to take the gun. I shot the cop. He doesn't deserve to go down for this." Kahale stared at the floor, the full gravity of the situation hitting him.

Danny signalled to Steve to step outside the room. Kahale could hear a heated discussion going on outside, and finally the two men returned. He didn't dare look them in the eye.

"If it were up to me I'd throw both you and your brother in jail and leave you both to rot, however Detective Williams has persuaded me differently." Kahale's head shot up hopefully.

"Don't get too excited, you are still a dope dealing scumbag that shot my friend." Danny enjoyed watching Kahale deflate. "You will be charged for the shooting and the dope. You're going down for a reasonable stretch. However, if you and your brother co-operate with us and give us all the information we need on this shipment we are willing to just charge Tui with procession."

"Sure. I'll tell you everything." Kahale agreed.

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Steve and Danny entered the main office after handing the Kalili brothers over to HPD to be processed. Chin, Kono and Lou were already busy at work.

"We've looked into the shipment details. The crate arrived at the dock two days ago. It's scheduled to be collected tomorrow and moved to a warehouse near Kapolei." Chin brought the two partner's up to date.

"It was sent from Los Angeles under the company name Hindle PLC. The crate is registered as containing machinery parts for an industrial meat grinder." Kono continued.

"The dock foreman sent over all the paperwork for the crate. It all seems in order apart from the fact that the crate contained guns and ammo instead." Lou finished off.

"Have you looked into the company?" Steve asked.

"So far it looks bogus." Chin nodded.

"What about the company that ordered it?" Danny wondered.

"Sanoe Meats. The company is registered to the warehouse, but it's just in the process of setting up." Kono explained.

"So it's most likely a cover for whatever these guys are up to." Steve pulled out his phone as it started to ring.

"Aloha, McGarrett," The large Hawaiian's voice boomed allowing the others to hear too.

"Kamekona, you get anything for us?"

"Sure did, brah. A contact, who will remain nameless, heard on the Grapevine that some guys were looking for some heavy fire power. They were planning a big raid. They came to him looking for armour piecing bullets, but he sent them packing. Looks like they found another contact."

"Did this contact get a name?"

"Just a surname. Dude goes by the name of Abello. Sounds like trouble. I don't know what the Kelili brothers were doing mixing with the likes of him."

"They weren't." Steve reassured. "They just stumbled upon his goods. Thanks Kamekona that gives us something to work on."

"No problem, anything for my best customers. Err... the Kalili brothers, they still in one piece?"

"Of course they are, but the eldest is looking at some jail time."

"Might be a good thing brah, look what it did for me, now I'm a successful entrepreneur." Kamekona boosted.

"Let's hope so big man." Steve hung up the phone not needing to fill them in. Chin and Kono were already searching for information on this Abello character.

The team worked hard gathering information and formulating a plan to follow the shipment then storm the warehouse. They weren't sure what they were planning, but hopefully they could catch Abello and his gang in possession of the weapons, and stop their plans before they were set in motion.

Steve noticed Danny glance at his watch several times while they where planning. When Danny checked his watch twice in a five minute period, Steve decided to speak.

"You have somewhere to be, D?"

"Grace is having dinner at her friend's tonight but I'm supposed to collect her soon. I'll call her friend's parents and ask if she could stay later."

"No, don't do that. We're pretty much done here. Let's call it a night guys. Give Gracie a hug from me."

"Thanks, night guys." Danny bolted for the door, eager to collect his daughter.

TBC