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While Katlain is out and about making funeral arrangements. Her cell phone starts alerting her that the trucking warehouse where her husband parks his eighteen wheeler, along with his backup truck is parked was being broken into.
“Hang on, Katherine.” Katlain makes a quick u turn and heads back towards the direction she came.
The warehouse was in the opposite direction she was heading. She presses down on the accelerator to give her maverick a little bit more gas. It was a good thing her maverick was souped up, because she manages to get to the warehouse in six minutes flat. She hated leaving Katherine in the car, but someone was in the warehouse.
She turns the air on, and calls the police. Katlain turns and looks at her daughter “stay put beautiful. Mommy has to go inside and catch some bad guys.”
Katlain locks the maverick, and makes way towards the warehouse. She quietly enters the warehouse. She saw the door on her husband truck cab opened. She grabs a nearby wrench and makes her way towards her husband’s truck. She could see a person inside holding a device in their hands. It looked like it was hooked into the semi’s data port. She knew the onboard computer system kept a record of every destination her husband drove. It also allowed a mechanic to diagnostic the truck as well.
“Hands up right now.” Katlain was ready to strike whoever the person was in her husband’s truck.
The figure was decked out all in black and turned their head to look towards the voice. The figure saw the woman standing near the cab door with a truck wrench in her hand. He puts the device he was holding down and jumps out of the cab towards the woman.
Katlain didn’t expect what the person in the truck was doing and before she could swing the wrench in her hand. She lands backwards on her back, with the guy standing over her. The next thing she knows, the figure punches her in the face and knocks her out.
The figure was about to get back into the truck, but hears police sirens coming towards the warehouse. He looks back towards the cab and figures he doesn’t have time to grab his device. He looks down at the woman, he should shot her before she gets back up, but he needs to get out of here.
“Katlain, wakeup!” Officer Davenport tries waking up Katlain.
Katlain starts moaning as she starts waking up. She slowly opens her eyes and spot patrol officer Davenport looking down near her. She tries to sit up, but falls back down.
“What happened Katlain?” Davenport knew Katlain owned several warehouses and was a member of a special unit inside the Augusta police department.
Katlain looks at Davenport “I was jumped by the person who killed my husband.”
“Katherine! I got to get to Katherine.” Katlian tries to get up.
“She’s fine. Officer Colley is looking after her.” Officer Davenport extends his hand down towards Katlain.
Katlain grabs Davenport’s hand and use him to pull herself up off the ground. She was still feeling a little light headed. She steady herself, using Officer Davenport for support.
“Did you managed to see who attacked you?”
“No, because he was covered from head to toe in a black suit.” Katlain slowly start to recover.
“Why was the person here?” Officer Davenport was curious.
“He was digging around inside my husband’s truck.” Katlain walks over towards her husband’s truck and saw the device still connected to the data port of the truck.
“Why don’t you go outside and get your daughter, before you do anything else.” Officer Davenport would stand guard over the semi.
“Alright.” Katlain walks outside of the warehouse and spot Officer Colley outside with Katherine.
“Thanks for looking after Katherine for me, Officer Colley.” Katlain looks at her baby girl.
“It’s a good thing you left the car running or I would have to charge you with child endangerment.” Officer Colley knew Katlain would do anything for her daughter.
“Yeah, it was a bad idea to bring my daughter with me, but I got an alert from the alarms.”
“Well, next time think about what would happen to your daughter if you hadn’t called us.” Colley hands Katherine back to Katlain.
“Thanks for looking after her, Officer Colley.” Katlain hated that she left her daughter unattended.
She walks back inside her warehouse with Officer Colley following behind her. Both of them spotted Officer Davenport looking inside the semi.
“Why did your alarm go off.” Officer Colley was curious.
“Someone was breaking into my husband’s semi. I have concealed security system on this place.” Katlain walks over to her husband’s semi and looks into the cab.
“Officer Colley, can you hold Katherine for me, please?” Katlain wanted to know what that person was looking for on the computer system.
“Sure.” Officer Colley takes Katherine back and smile at the little girl.
“What is that, Katlain?” Officer Davenport was looking at the device Katlain was holding.
“It’s a data reader. The onboard computer system records every place my husband goes. It’s a new DOT regulation because a lot of truckers
like to be dishonest and keep a double log book of their times.” Katlain goes through the menu and reads the destination of where her husband has been.
“You seem to know a lot about this system.” Officer Davenport wonders where Katlain learned this.
“Who do you think maintains his trucks.” Katlain looks at Officer Davenport when she ask that question.
“So, what could your husband be hiding in the computer system?” Officer Davenport wonders what could be so important?
“I don’t know.” Katlain downloads everything she can.
She knew her husband had a secondary destination computer in his truck for special trips he did. However, you can’t access it from the main data port. There was a hidden data port only she and her husband knew about. She disconnects from the primary one and connects to the secondary one. She downloads the information in it.
“You are going to share that info, aren’t you?” Officer Davenport heard about Katlain’s husband being murder.
“Of course I’m going to share this information.” Katlain was going to keep the secondary information to herself.
After Katlain gets everything she needs and fill out the police report. She looks towards Officer Davenport “let me transfer this information to a thumb drive for Detective Knight and Detective Collins.”
“Alright, I’m holding you to that promise.” Officer Davenport makes sure he gets his meaning across to Katlain.
“I promise, now I’m going to lock up and disable my husband’s semi, so if that person comes back. They won’t be able to access any information.” Katlain wipes the information form the onboard computer.
Afterwards, she retrieves Katherine from Officer Collins and head back to her cousins place after locking up.
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