Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 170 Case Escalation
After Shiraishi's suggestion, the case was able to avoid "technical issues".

Although the whereabouts of the gold bars have become questionable, but...

At least we now have a direction to investigate the criminal who broke into the store and took the card.

Proficient in IT and has a connection with the card, most likely young people...

With these elements, Bai Shi feels that solving the case is just around the corner. The most he can do is to figure out the whereabouts of the gold bars, which may require some wrangling. However, as long as he catches the man first and lets him resume surveillance, the truth will naturally come to light!
Therefore, Bai Shi did not take this case too seriously at this time. After all...

Although the amount involved in the case is not small, this is Beika Town, and everyone is accustomed to more vicious crimes.

Shiraishi's mentality lasted until the next day, which was Monday!

Shiraishi, who was signing skillfully, suddenly heard Kunikida's footsteps...

dong dong dong-

"Come in." After Bai Shi invited him in, he found that he was indeed holding the file. He immediately realized that something had happened!
"Director, a murder just occurred in Beika-cho 6-chome. The deceased was the owner of a used store. Here are the preliminary investigation data at the scene." Kunikida placed the information on Shiraishi's desk.

"Used store?" Bai Shi noticed.

Kunikida nodded at this time and said, "Yes... it's the one that lost five kilograms of gold bars yesterday."

It's still the familiar Beika Town...

The case has escalated!
"Has the search meeting been held?" Bai Shi asked after flipping through the case files on the table.

"It's about to start." Kunikida came to report to Shiraishi first as requested.

"I'll go and sit in, too." Shiraishi doesn't actually sit in on every murder case, he just keeps an eye on the progress.

Only cases with a greater impact or that are more urgent will actually be intervened.

The special concern about this case is that it involves "cybersecurity crime", which is an emerging type of crime.

This search meeting was held directly in Conference Room No. 1. In addition to the several departments that committed forced crimes, the head of the theft search department, Daoshan, was also present with his three criminal police officers.

Because this murder case is closely related to the previous theft case, we need to conduct a joint investigation!

"Director."

Seeing that the director had also arrived, everyone naturally stood up.

After Shiraishi sat down first, he waved his hand for everyone to sit down as well, but the Akasaka class and the Bandits Mountain class were still standing.

Seeing Shiraishi looking over, the detectives from both departments bowed in apology.

"We are extremely sorry! This murder happened because we failed to solve the case immediately!" Akasaka took the lead.

Bai Shi nodded and said, "Well, in the future, when handling cases, pay attention to the time limit and do it as quickly as possible."

Shiraishi did not blame him too much. After all... it was not a normal phenomenon for a theft case to become a murder case if it was not solved one day. We cannot treat all theft cases with this mentality. After all, the police force of the police station is not unlimited.

But since something had happened, Bai Shi did not excuse them. He just said something neither lightly nor seriously and continued the search and meeting.

Kunikida personally chaired the meeting.

"At 8:15 this morning, when Gen and Yamada went to the second-hand store in Roku-chome to check on the situation, they found that the store was closed. Just then, someone from the security company came over, so after unlocking the door, they found that the store manager Takazawa had died at 6:45 in the morning.

"The scene is as shown here... There are obvious signs of a fight. The victim died from a blunt object hitting the back of the head. The murder weapon is basically confirmed to be the gold bar stolen yesterday. This is... the surveillance footage from the time of the crime."

Kunikida then played the surveillance footage - it was precisely because of the surveillance that the time of death was so accurate.

In the surveillance video, Manager Gao Ze had just come in and was checking the accounts. Perhaps the losses had not yet been counted...

At 6:35, the door of the store opened again by itself, and then the manager looked in the direction of the door and... started talking.

Just because of the setting problem, the sound is not included!

Not long after the store manager and the "invisible man" talked, a gold bar appeared out of thin air. It was the one that was stolen...

Then the store manager started to make physical movements, and it seemed that the two of them were fighting. Finally, after a struggle...

The gold bar quickly hit Gao Ze's back of the head, and he stopped moving after that, just like the crime scene photo of a murder!
Soon the store door was opened again. The criminal must have left at this time. The time shown on the surveillance camera was exactly 6:45.

The next time the door opened was two hours later, when Gen, Yamada, and another woman entered the scene.

"Hmm? This lady is from the security company?" Shiraishi originally thought that the person from the security company would be a male.

"Yes, that person is Ms. Kitaura, a technician of the security company... In fact, Ms. Kitaura has always claimed that there are loopholes in the security system. It's a pity that the security company has never repaired it, but just muddled through. Otherwise, this case might have been avoided." Yuan said regretfully. "It seems that the murder weapon is the gold bar... Is it at the scene?" Shiraishi confirmed.

"Nothing was found." Yuan said immediately.

Although Bai Shi said yesterday that the thief probably did not take the gold bars, judging from today's situation, the gold bars were not deliberately hidden by the boss or pretended to be lost.

Someone did come back with gold bars today to commit murder, so...

There is a high possibility that the thief is the murderer!
"Are there any clues in the theft case?" Bai Shi Xiangyuan confirmed. He went to his boss to confirm because he had something to do in the morning, so he should have found some clues.

"Yes! That card... We confirmed with the boss yesterday that it was sold to him by a group of high school students. Afterwards... another high school student who looked very honest came to us and said that the card was stolen from him.

"But of course the boss didn't return it to him, he just chased him away. After that, we also locked down the school where the incident happened. We just need to wait for the boss to confirm the photos, and then we will go to the school to apply for an interview."

Yuan said helplessly at this time.

Precisely because it involves minors, Gen and Yamada cannot rush into it - arresting minors late at night requires more complicated procedures, so it would be better to wait until school hours and go to the school for an interview!
The premise is that, after Bai Shi's reminder yesterday, the two of them both agreed that he was not the one who took the gold bars...

As a result, this kind of thing happened all of a sudden today!
"Which high school? Is it in Beika Town?" Shiraishi confirmed.

"Mihua High School." Yuan said quickly.

"Send more people, including those who snatched the cards, and have separate interviews at the school. Tell the school that you can communicate with me directly if you have any opinions." Shiraishi was a little disappointed when he heard that it was not "Teitan High School."

If it was Teitan High School, there would be no resistance from the school.

"Yes!" Akasaka class and Haidani class responded.

But Shiraishi corrected him at this time: "Akasaka, you and Aoki go to school, and Huitani, you go to the security company to investigate."

Shiraishi changed the order.

Since there are women among the people involved in the case, it is natural for Zi Narcissism to investigate and find out whether there is any result or not!

Besides, Shiraishi also looked at the photos and found that the girls in school were all boys, so it would be a waste to be narcissistic...

Then Shiraishi looked at Kunikida and said, "Section Chief Kunikida, go get a search warrant later. The head of the thief mountain department, you guys search his house thoroughly."

"Yes." Kunikida also agreed. He felt that there was nothing wrong with this application.

Applying for an "arrest warrant" for a minor is very troublesome and requires very detailed evidence, but...

If we have a search warrant, it will be much easier. We can then go to his house to search and confirm whether he stole the card, as well as the issue of the gold bars.

Shiraishi's arrangement was not actually very brilliant. Apart from specifically calling in Zinarcissistic people to "investigate the people involved in the female case", everything else could only be described as being mediocre.

but……

Since this was arranged by Bai Shi, everyone felt relieved!
The biggest obstacle to the case is that it involves minors and requires communication with the school.

Generally speaking, unless it involves a serious incident like murder, the school will tend to handle things happening on campus on its own and will be very resistant to the police.

After all, in the general environment of an island country, schools are basically independent kingdoms. Once pressure is exerted, the police will inevitably be restrained.

But now that Bai Shi has made such an arrangement, he is taking on the pressure personally.

Even if it is the same arrangement and the same process, Shiraishi is much more useful than Kunikida!

……

Shiraishi had originally thought that the case would progress steadily from then on - for cases like this that were not murders caused by passion, as long as all the people involved in the case could be gathered together, solving the case was usually just a matter of time. Not everyone had the ability to handle the case without leaving any trace!
However, what Bai Shi did not expect was that one of the three routes would soon be blocked...

Mihua High School refuses to cooperate!

Even if Akasaka and the others brought up Shiraishi's words - Principal, you don't want us to apply for an arrest warrant just because you refuse to cooperate with the interview, right?

But unexpectedly, the other party didn't seem to care at all.

At the beginning, Akasaka and the others didn't want to report, but preferred to solve the problem themselves - after all, they couldn't go to the director for everything!
In their opinion, Chief Shiraishi has done enough, especially in creating a case-handling environment and withstanding external pressure, which is something other police stations would not even dare to think about.

You can't just let yourself be spoiled. If you can't solve any problem, you go to the director to complain, right?
By the time the search warrant was approved, Daozeishan had already taken people to the suspect's home and found the card and the lost gold bars...

In this way, with the "stolen goods", the "arrest warrant" can be applied for at any time. Kunikida then came to Shiraishi for instructions - the arrest warrant and search warrant must be submitted to the court by a police inspector-level officer, and if the target of the arrest is a minor, it must be applied for by a superintendent-level officer or above.

"Refuse to interview? What does Beihua High School think?" Shiraishi was also puzzled at this time - it's okay if they don't give me face, but why would they force me to issue an "arrest warrant"? Can't they tell which situation is more serious?
(End of this chapter)