I quickly chose a random silver Toyota Tacoma pickup truck and set up on it in a vantage point. After giving her the truck’s details, I just waited. The victim and her pimp, to my surprise, moved to the truck and stood. The next message asked me, “Where the hell?” I was. I told them I was out walking around the building looking for them. They split up and walked in opposite rotations around the building. I grabbed my FID frames.
(* in some cases, the pimp will be the only one to take the money from the John — control!)
I watched the agitated couple return to their apartment, noting they were in unit H. That was enough for a day. But it had only taken me about 90 minutes, and there was still most of the day ahead. Also, I had jilted an in-call scenario, one in which the John is required to travel to the victim’s location. I noticed that in her post, she also offered an out-call opportunity. This would allow me to jilt her again and gain more important data.
Map reconnaissance revealed the nearest library. I have an affinity for libraries when my out-call jilt opportunities are concerned. This is because they afford me a public parking lot as my cover. Often, I find a library with residents right across the street on several sides. By parking near the street, I have both an offset and an overwatch that support decent frame grabs.
Outcall Services
I moved immediately to the library location that appeared suitable in the satellite photos. I found it to be excellent. I swapped out my burner number for a new one in my phone app and began to text the victim again. Her offering outcalls meant (to me) that either she had a car, her pimp had a car, or there was another player with a car. As my luck had been splendid thus far, perhaps the same pimp from before would drive her to the meeting and I could thus get his plate. I could then run the plate to get the registered owner, address, and other pertinent data.
At this point, it’s helpful to mention how scrutiny from Law Enforcement Officials (LEO) plays out because LEO thinks differently in these matters due to their frequently absurd Rules of Engagement (ROE):
“What happens if she actually knocks on that random resident’s door?”
“If nobody answers, then she gets pissed off and leaves. If someone answers, they tell her she has the wrong house, then she gets pissed off and leaves.”
The LEO is nonetheless very reluctant to let this scenario play out. I can only wonder what their brilliant plan to find the pimp’s car would have been and wish them luck. This is the very reason for a synergy between the private sector and LEO in the hunt — strengths mutually offset weaknesses: I can’t arrest someone, you can’t let someone knock on a door.
Eventually, I saw the victim arrive at the house, though I did not see a car. In fact, her pimp drove her there and dropped her off several houses down the street, allowing her to travel the short final distance on foot. After knocking several times and nobody answering the door, she walked to the corner of the street and made a phone call — my phone rang. I didn’t want to listen to the “why you gotta game me” browbeating so I deleted the burner number as I was through with her anyway.
After another phone call, she began to walk in another direction. Certainly, she was following her pimp’s instructions to meet him nearby. I crept along, carefully following her. A car did pull up and she got in. Snap-snap went the shutter of my Canon 5D Mark II. I followed the car, planning to only make two turns with it before dropping off. Two turns were enough to confirm that the car had returned to the apartment from before — BAM!
It is short work from the plate to determine if it belongs to the car it is on. If there are any doubts, the VIN associated with the plate can be checked against the VIN as it appears on the front driver’s side windshield. (Then, one can find a nearly bottomless pit of personal information about the registered owner. This information, found through database services like Accurint LexisNexis, may include his relatives, neighbors, and work associates.)
My arrival time that day was approximately 1130 local ABQ hrs. My time off-target was 1301 local ABQ hrs. I put together and delivered a report by about 1430 that day. The following day, I was informed that federal agents from Albuquerque’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office had accepted the case as-is.
An Overall Good Day
All in all, it was a very good day. As for what went wrong, my primary camera mysteriously stopped working when I tried to take my first FID photo. This compelled me to divert to my backup camera. When I arrived at my office to process my report, the camera had resumed normal function, prompting me to look upward and shake a clenched fist at the heavens.
By Almighty God and with honor,
geo sends
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