Chapter 27
One Week Later
Hutch had moved mountains over the past seven days, knowing that there was a nine-year-old girl who needed to be reunited with her mommy.
For starters, he’d taken the time on the drive back to the field office with Willard to contact an assistant US attorney he knew well and ask her for a favor: to expedite things by meeting Hutch at the field office ASAP.
As a result of that meeting—and with the anonymous file of damning information courtesy of Zermatt—Hutch got the immediate okay for search warrants for Charles Scott and his company’s financials, as well as the go-ahead to search his house, his office, and to seize all his electronic devices.
The wheels of justice spun at a breakneck pace.
With all the incriminating data now being uncovered by the joint efforts of the FBI, the Bureau had enough for a long line of arrest warrants within days.
Not only was Scott cut off at the knees, so was his entire criminal enterprise.
The evidence was irrefutable, and the entirety of his alliances were now either in FBI custody or, where it came to moles inside government agencies, being ferreted out and taken in.
As for Scott, it came as no surprise that his high-powered lawyers advised their client to stay silent, even after the courts deemed him a flight risk and he was remanded without bail.
What neither Scott nor his attorneys had counted on was Owen Willard being there, alive, and ready to testify.
So much for Scott’s final safety net.
He was going nowhere except behind bars.
And that meant it was finally safe for Caitlin Walsh to come home.
Zermatt had come through big-time.
And the Forensic Instincts team was elated.
Ryan had been the one to contact Caitlin and tell her the good news. She’d wept and wept for joy, and then followed his instructions to call Hutch and reveal her location.
FI’s policy was consistent: let the FBI take the credit. All Casey and her team wanted was Caitlin at home where she belonged.