Chapter 18
The posting began on Facebook and a lot of good replies came in. Other people expressing their concern for Akiko and being glad to hear she was coming home. TARU tech ShakuntalaPatel was tracking who was looking at the post and getting IP addresses. She knew which one belonged to the halfway house and she was glad that the halfway house had allowed them to place NYPD certified tracking software on their tenant computers.
"We've got a live one!" Shakuntala announced.
"Can you turn on the web cam?" Fin asked.
"Already done," the tech smirked without looking up and she ran her fingers over the keyboard with what seemed like an unnatural speed, or at least it's a lot faster than the Sergeant could type.
"Look who we have here," Fin smirked.
"That would be Dylan Jovin," Elliot chuckled.
"Couldn't help himself," George nodded. He'd been able to keep Fiona out of her son's room while forensics searched the bedroom. They'd managed to find a piece of paper with a phone number which matched the burner phone number on Drew's phone records.
"You'd think that his buddy getting scooped up would have been a red flag," Velasco figured. He'd been able to confirm the time that Dylan had gotten in and the night door buzzer at the halfway house had told the detective that he never trusted Dylan. Man gave him the heebie-jeebies, more so than the rest of the residents.
"His parole officer is outside the halfway house, right?" Olivia wanted to know.
"Yup," Fin told her.
"Tell him to go and pick Dylan up," the Captain said. The Sergeant got on his phone and called the man, who had a few patrol officers from the local precinct with him. The whole squad and Akiko's friends watched as the man at the computer screen was taken into custody. Olivia turned to the woman and thanked them for their time. They were free to leave but Eliza was not. There was more they needed to get out of the woman. On the one hand, Olivia felt bad for her. A friend spouted off and she didn't believe it – there was no proof of what she was going to do. On the other hand, none of that was going to clear Eliza's mind of her self-imposed guilt. The Captain wanted George with her when they talked to Akiko's friend.
"Ok, when they bring him in here, I want Elliot and Fin to talk to him," she told them before turning to George and Eliza and telling them to join her in her office.
"I messed up," were the first words out of Eliza's mouth as they took seats on either side of Olivia's desk.
"No, you did not. Caitlin gave you no inclination as to her being serious. You'd never seen her do anything like this. What you can do now though is help us catch Caitlin. Dylan is going down for this on his own right now," Olivia told her.
"How did Caitlin meet Dylan?" George wanted to know.
"I'm not entirely sure. She mentioned his name a few times when we'd talk. I'd tell her that she needed to be focusing on her sobriety and she'd tell me that I'd need to mind my own business. I always assumed that he was giving her drugs or they'd been drinking together or something like that," Eliza admitted.
"Dylan lives in a halfway house while he's on parole. He has a curfew," Olivia explained.
"He does? Caitlin said they closed down one of those bars not too far from her place and that he'd spent the night," the woman was confused and so was Olivia. She pardoned herself from the room and quickly told Bruno what Eliza had just said. He told her that he and Velasco would go down to Caitlin's neighborhood bars with Dylan's picture. Someone was lying and they had to figure out who.
To Be Continued…
