OOC:
I survived the first of the month!
Before heading to the One-Two, you think to get a few photographs of the warehouse—especially signs of it being used in a large-scale human-trafficking operation. You figure that calling Max's clean cop friends to the warehouse itself would be the legally right thing to do, but that might put a lot of the captives in a predicament, as many of them are themselves wanted by the law: prostitutes, "vigilante gangs," vagrants, etc.
Instead, you move the three captives to the Pantones' van. Fatima explains the situation to the people waiting there. A few grumble, but they cede their seats to you and the captives to get them back to the One-Two. When you reach the gym, Fatima makes herself scarce, uninterested in getting picked up by cops, no matter how much Max tries to assure her that she won't be in any trouble.
Red finds some medical supplies and patches Duke's paw up. She's no vet, but she says she feels confident that with some TLC, he'll be fully recovered in a couple weeks, tops.
Meanwhile, it's fairly simple to boot the PC up in the office, put it in safe mode, and read the data on Mahoney's thumb drive. It seems to be detailed logs the crooked cop was keeping—arrivals and departures, shipments and prices paid... for people. From what you can gather, the cop was keeping tabs on all this by way of blackmail material. It looks like he was on the take, looking the other way from this human-trafficking ring, but he was keeping logs in case Petrovich and his gang ever decided to cut him out. Only now you've caught Mahoney red-handed, so there'll be no escaping the charge that he's involved.
As for the human trafficking itself, it looks like Petrovich and his cronies are part of Russian organized crime. The scheme, according to Mahoney's documents, was to restart drug production in an abandoned factory in Drummond, one that manufactures opiates, and then to ship them across the Great Lakes into Canada. To keep costs as low as possible, the group was kidnapping folks who wouldn't be missed--gang bangers, homeless people, working girls, and the like. Looking over all this with you, Lance is able to confirm this. The whole schtick with Petrovich in the jail was for him to identify people with some sway in these less-than-legal circles and get them to do the dirty work of nabbing victims. The first three people chosen were Jimmy, Fatima, and Lance. Well, you all saw how that plan worked.
In short, from what you can gather, it looks like you've busted not only a human trafficking ring, but also a corrupt cop, a corrupt prison guard, and a drug-production-and-international-smuggling operation.
The question now is: Whom do you want to tell about all this?
