More information is exchanged over a couple of cold ones, than all the phone calls all year long.
This is the best opportunity to compare notes between departments. This occurred at the U.S. border crossing in El Paso after Carter talked the family into getting Ramirez to turn himself over to law enforcement officials. Ranger Carter started by thanking us as a group and acknowledging our part in Ramirez eventual capture. He said that the first clue that indicated that Ramirez used the railroad as transportation were field interview contact reports from railroad police officers. The first one he found was from a Detroit Special Agent in 1976 when Ramirez was 17 years old.