Bomber Investigation

The bomber investigation was a major criminal investigation done in the Kekstantinople Republic that lasted from late 2077 to early 2078, which involved a major conspiracy to commit coordinated bombings within the capital of the republic.

### The Beginning

The investigation began with a regular traffic stop in the capital at the end of November, wherein a car was pulled over for speeding. Upon further observation, an explosive was discovered in the vehicle, which was reported to the federal police, which opened the investigation. The driver in question was interrogated, who revealed that he was working with a large group of terrorists lead by a person supposedly known as "Hatman". The driver also informed the police of a house within the city that was supposedly producing similar explosives found in the car. With this lead the location in question was put under surveillance, which lasted multiple days, during this 3 main figures were observed entering and exiting the building, these were: A man with a trench coat, a man wielding fertiliser (henceforth known as the "Gardner"), and a man who brought tools and pressure cookers (henceforth known as the "Mechanic"). Eventually after 3 days of observation, a raid was initiated on the building once all 3 suspects were confirmed to be present, with lights cut and the building surrounded, the swat team moved in. Once inside the team subdued the Mechanic and Gardner, but the Trenchcoat man pulled a gun, to which the team responded by shooting his kneecaps, incapacitating him. Upon further inspection of the house, multiple bombs, bomb ingredients, a map with markings on it, a garden of Weed, and a flag containing a Swastika and Ukrainian banner were recovered. Along with these discoveries, a 17 year old male was found in the basement on a computer, who surrendered promptly. Post raid the house was removed of intelligence and during the disarming process of the bombs one exploded, injuring the person who was defusing it.

### A conspiracy forms

Once all 4 were brought to the police station, the interrogations began. The first was the trench coat man, who was bound to a wheelchair thanks to loosing the function of his legs, it was found that he was a Ukrainian that had made himself a devout National Socialist, hence the flag that was discovered. During the interrogation he admitted that the weed that was being grown was unlicensed, along with asking for a deal to rat out his colleagues for a reduced sentence, which was granted, to which he explained that the Mechanic and Gardner bought the supplies and assembled them at the house. The next to be interrogated was the Mechanic, who was intimidated by the circumstances he found himself in and immediately confessed to being apart of the plot, making it the quickest interrogation. The second last was the Gardner, who was apprehensive to speaking, once he was informed that there was evidence to land him a life sentence, he broke. Upon further interrogation he revealed that his brother, who ran a Fish n Chips shop down by the Canal district, was the one handing the supplies over to a distributor. The final interrogation was of the minor, who admitted to being a relative of the trench coat man, who had supposedly allowed the boy to live in the basement as long as he provided instructions on bomb manufacturing, it also was discovered that the kid had searched up some questionable stuff in the meantime. With the new lead to the Fish n Chips shop discovered, a team was dispatched to stake out the joint.

### Ascending the food chain

A day into the stakeout of the shop, an incident occurred. Two men arrived at the shop in a truck labelled "Dave and Sons Co." and spoke to the owner of the shop, believed to be the gardners brother, a wire tap caught the pair getting angry at the owner for not having the "packages" and roughing him up, demanding that he have the goods by the next day or else. Shortly after this affair, a couple of the agents entered the shop in plain clothes to speak with the owner, after a small chat regarding the earlier incident, the pair declared themselves to be police and asked the owner to come in for questioning, to which he agreed. Once at the station, the man indeed was the gardners brother, who was shocked to hear that his brother had been arrested, claiming to have no knowledge of his brothers illicit business actions. The man went on to say that his brother had gotten him to give the 2 men who showed up in the truck oranges boxes that were provided by his brother, claiming he had no knowledge of the contents. The police then asked if he would be willing to cooperate with them in a sting to destroy the terrorist cell, he agreed on the condition of getting his brother a reduced sentence, which was agreed to. The next day the 2 men in the truck returned, who were happy to see the owner having 2 orange boxes ready for delivery, however these weren't bombs, they were filled with recorders to record the 2 men's conversations as evidence, once the boxes were handed over the 2 men, who had been identified as Mr Dave Senior and Mr Dave Junior, they left, with a team shadowing them from a vehicle. The 2 men were recorded speaking about the organisation and their boss, who they intended to meet with. They eventually pulled up at a pub further down the canals, where they were sighting speaking within the establishment with a man wearing a fedora, who was suspected to be Hatman himself. Once both parties left the pub, the shadow team split in two, one following the Dave's, and another following Hatman, the Dave team shadowed the pair back to a large warehouse, which was registered as a fishery under the Dave and Sons Co. company. The second team followed Hatman through the city, wherein they saw him drive slowly past the former location of the production site that had been raided was, then was able to loose sight with the shadower's as he vanished around the rich mansion area of the city.

### The Big Bust

The next day the police prepped a raid on the fishery warehouse, with a warrant obtained via the evidence of explosives being present within the building. When the raid commenced the side doors were breached and swat teams cleared the building, both Dave Sr and Jr were present and were swiftly apprehended, it was also discovered that the pair had hired illegal immigrants from Argentinia to do the labour within the facility. The team discovered 20 orange boxes all filled with explosives, which were promptly sent to a military range for disposal via controlled detonation, with this the Dave's were brought into custody, and the interrogations began with Dave Sr. Initially the man denied everything, but once being informed there was incriminating recordings of him and his son, he confessed and pleaded to at least spare his son, Dave Jr, who he claimed only was apart of it as an accomplice. A deal was struck for Dave Jr getting a lighter sentence in exchange for information about the organisation, which was agreed to, Dave Sr explained that there were 3 production sites, which they would go to for delivery of the bombs, which were stored in his warehouse and then distributed to vehicles with sleeper agents on standby. Dave Sr also was questioned about Hatman, who he claimed he barely knew anything about, furthermore he provided the addresses to the other 2 production sites. With the addresses on hand, the other 2 production sites were simultaneously raided, but unfortunately had been rigged to blow, with the swat teams tripping trip wires and causing the deaths of multiple officers as well as the inhabitants of the production sites, who had no means of escape. Upon this news it was decided to enforce a lockdown of the Captial, as it was feared that the sleeper agents may soon be activated as a result of these simultaneous incidents, so all targets listed on the map captured were swiftly evacuated along with perimeters set up to prevent any ditch attempts of bombings. Though it was also found on Dave Sr a beacon that was meant to hail the drivers to go to said beacon, but it was decided not to activate it under the assumption it would not work, so it was disregarded.

### Taking in the Alpha

The most important find associated with Dave Sr was his contacts within his phone, one of the was a number labelled "Boss", upon this discovery it was traced back to a home phone located in a shed on the outskirts of the Capital. Once this was realised a team was dispatched to investigate, upon arrival they had to disarm a trip wire attached to a bomb present at the entrance to the shed, once inside the team discovered the phone and a board atop it, listing multiple names of known suspects along with other unknown names, most of the names were crossed out, being ones that were in custody. The names also had times that presumably were when calls were made, therefore it was decided to stake out the shack. Along with that the phone was forensically examined for finger prints, which when put through the criminal database came up with a man known as "Sharim Azarenka", a former drug smuggler sentenced to 5 years and released 3 years prior, his last known address was found to be a small house in the down town of the captial. So a raid on the house was conducted and the building was found to be inhabited by a small family, who were questioned and said they bought the house 2 years prior, with this mishap out of the way the family was compensated for their door being busted down and the investigation continued. A couple days later a man with a fedora arrives in a black vehicle, the police had tapped the phone line, which allowed the police to listen to the conversation, which was between the man and a person with a distinctly African accent. Once the pair finished the call, the team sprung the trap and arrested the man, who was confirmed to be Hatman, or by his birth name, Sharim Azarenka. With his capture it was hoped that big leads could now be acquired, but unfortunately he was resilient under interrogation, and none of his items he had on him provided any clues. Though it was found his car's registration was under a person called "Judenman", who turned out to be Sharim's fake identity, once this was realised his residence was successfully located, a Manor in the same rich person area that he had shaken the shadowing team in. The manor was seized, though there was no substantial evidence of any kind present, frustratingly this would be the most that authorities could extract from the man. Though there were 2 people on the discovered board list yet to be investigated.

### The Royal and the Jew

On the board that was recovered from the shed, there were two names that were yet to be crossed out, those were two figures called "Mr Boganville" and "Mr Juden". The first individual was an easy find, Mr Boganville was a minor celebrity within the city, being famous for a few things, primarily his rapping career, along with being an Artist/Art Critic, he also had the prestigious title of being the 48th nephew of Mr Zimbabwe, the leader of the Bongo Kingdom, who it was known he got money from. Having a warrant from the fact he had been confirmed communicating with Hatman, his Manor that he own a couple blocks away from Hatman one was raided, with Boganville arrested, the swat team discovered bricks of cocaine scattered around the house, along with these narcotics was copious amounts of money that was found to have been laundered from his various art pieces. An investigation into his financial situation found he had been funnelling money from his Uncle and his art gig into the terrorist cell to fund their bomb making and paying the accomplices, which was found to be done by transferring money to Mr Juden. During interrogation Mr Boganville claimed that Mr Zimbabwe was in on the plot and that the Bong Kingdom was using it to bring down the Republic, along with this he bragged that his Uncle would bail him out, and if not he would be broken out, for which he was awarded the honour of being guaranteed a stay in maximum security facilities. Meanwhile the house of Mr Juden was visited, when searched the team found Mr Juden giving a lecture to a bunch of little Goyims, when he realised that he was going to be arrested he ordered his goyims to pull out their guns, to which the swat team had no choice but to shoot them. With this Mr Juden was brought in and was found to be attempting to erase any paper trial of the money to be distributed to the terrorist cell, as a result his interrogation was completed with ease.

### Grand Finale

The last of the explosives on the loose were seemingly found a couple days later with a car being searched at a checkpoint and finding 2 explosives within it, with it being believed that these were the last bombs, the case was officially closed and its details would be released to the public a few weeks later during a press conference on what had occurred. In total, roughly 25 members of the cell were either killed or arrested, with roughly 30 explosives in total being found and disposed of, this was a major win for the government, who had successfully stopped a major plot. But the work was not over, during interrogation of Hatman and Dave Sr, it was found that at least 2-3 other similar terrosir cells existed within the country, so the work would quietly continue to find these cells. But overall, this was an exceptional success for authorities, and hopefully not the last.