Chapter 813: Arresting Qian San
West Valley Town.
Lu Chuan had the helicopter transferred from Qingzhou City, arriving at Huangcheng County by noon.
Although the Qiangsheng Group doesn’t have a division in Qingzhou City, renting two helicopters wasn’t an issue.
The operation was still predominantly led by the people brought by Lu Chuan.
Chen Yang selected three of the best criminal police officers on his side.
All three officers had previous experience in rescuing people from Gourd Village.
So, they were quite familiar with the situation inside.
"First, let’s take down the one selling birth certificates."
The Good to Come Again Supermarket is located at the northwest corner of the only intersection in West Valley Town.
West Valley Town is remote, with only one street in the whole town, and there are less than three supermarkets in the entire western township as Lu Chuan and others found.
This Good to Come Again Supermarket has the best location, and business is relatively good.
This operation, Lu Chuan and Chen Yang intentionally made it without notifying the local police station officers in the town.
The birth certificate Qian San bought is genuine, not to mention its source, just explaining how to register a child with it.
Ultimately, this matter still ends up in the hands of the household registration police at the police station.
It’s hard to say if there’s any collusion, any misconduct.
If the other side is colluding with Qian San, they might be afraid of the news leaking out.
During this operation, everyone was in plainclothes.
Upon entering the supermarket, there were three to five people selecting goods on the shelves.
Lu Chuan immediately spotted the boss seated behind the cash register.
A mustache and a bald head.
The description matched the characteristics of Qian San provided by Zhang Haiyan.
When Lu Chuan and others entered, Qian San also noticed these few people and was slightly startled.
West Valley Town is not large.
The whole town only has about three hundred households.
It’s not a market day today, so most of the people shopping are local residents of the town.
Qian San has lived here all his life, if not recognizing everyone, he at least finds them familiar.
Lu Chuan and his group were certainly very unfamiliar faces.
"Boss Qian, do you have any hemostatic bandages for sale?"
Hemostatic bandages?
Upon hearing that, Qian San was stunned as he glanced at Lu Chuan, then immediately leapt out from behind the counter to run!
However, with Lu Chuan, Zhang Hui, and Chen Yang in the room, how could they let him escape?
With a sweep kick, Lu Chuan tripped him.
Crash.
Qian San toppled an entire shelf.
Snacks scattered everywhere.
"Still thinking of running?"
Said Lu Chuan as he stepped forward to pin Qian San to the ground, swiftly drawing his handcuffs to lock him up solidly.
"Why run? Did I not get the code right?"
Qian San’s face was now ashen, his whole body trembling uncontrollably.
He knew well what he had done, and was aware of the consequences once caught, hence the fear.
But Lu Chuan didn’t expect that as soon as he mentioned the code, Qian San would immediately react to run, could it be that Zhang Haiyan lied to him?
"It’s correct... but we always deal with familiar clients, even if there are new ones, they’re led by regulars."
Qian San looked at Lu Chuan: "You guys are obviously strangers, West Valley Town is so small, I’ve seen almost everyone."
"Which is why you must be police."
"Ha! You’re pretty sharp."
Zhang Hui chuckled: "Do you know what you’re guilty of?"
"Yes, selling birth certificates. I confess, I’ll confess everything. I beg you for leniency!"
Unlike Zhang Haiyan, who was tight-lipped and refused to admit anything at first.
Qian San was much more sensible.
"Captain Lu, we’ve found it!"
He had no choice but to cooperate; the birth certificates were stored inside the drawer under the counter and were found quickly.
"Three sheets!"
There were a total of three blank birth certificates.
Qian San knew very well that since he had been caught, it meant someone among Yanzi, Li San, and Zheng Hu had definitely run into trouble.
Otherwise, no one would know that he was selling birth certificates.
"Let me see!"
Each birth certificate had a serial number, Zhang Hui had memorized the numbers of 78 missing birth certificates from the Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
Zhang Hui wanted to confirm if these three certificates were among those 78 missing from the Haizhou City Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
Receiving the certificates handed over by the team members, Zhang Hui, after seeing the serial numbers, was overjoyed.
They were indeed connected!
"Where did you get these from?"
"Bought them."
"Where did you buy them?"
"Qingzhou City, I’m a regular customer, they have a steady supply over there."
"The person selling the certificates is called Zheng Hu, almost all the birth certificates in Qingzhou City are handled by him."
"But this person is elusive and difficult to find, even if I want to contact him, I have to call him half a month in advance."
"However, don’t worry, I’m his client, we’ve worked together for over ten years without any issues."
"With me, you can definitely catch him."
Qian San wasn’t stupid. When he heard the police asking where the goods came from, it indicated Zheng Hu was probably still at large.
Wanting to reduce his sentence, helping the police catch someone would certainly count as a meritorious act.
"Officers, I really didn’t get involved in too many things, just two birth certificates resold to them."
"I have more clues, you found me through either Li San or Yanzi, right?"
Lu Chuan glanced at him: "What do you mean?"
Qian San quickly replied: "My handler is Zheng Hu. I get the birth certificates from him and then resell them to traffickers."
"There are only two traffickers in Huangcheng County. One nicknamed Yanzi, a woman, and another called Li San."
"I don’t know their real names, but I have their photos here."
Qian San pointed to the northwest corner shelf.
"I installed surveillance over there, every time they came, they were caught on the footage."
"I’m only linked to these three... oh and the Faraway Printing Shop in the county town."
"I sell empty birth certificates, and then Yanzi and Li San take them to the Faraway Printing Shop in the county town to print the children’s information."
In fact, Qian San was very cooperative.
Without Lu Chuan and Zhang Hui interrogating him, he divulged everything he knew.
"Control him first!"
This case, although only Qian San was arrested now, there’s an entire chain behind it.
The Faraway Printing Shop can be dealt with by just arresting people directly in town.
Then there’s Zheng Hu as confessed by Qian San, who is in Qinzhou City.
"Can we trust what Qian San said?"
"He knows the crime he committed, he’s hoping for leniency, is eager for redemption, I think it’s credible."
"I also think there’s no big issue. Now, this line with the Faraway Printing Shop isn’t problematic, I can organize a team to arrest them shortly."
Chen Yang gave his opinion.
"As for the Yanzi and Li San he mentioned..."
"Yanzi should be Zhang Haiyan, whom we’ve already captured."
"Now on his line, there are only two left, Li San and Zheng Hu."
"The key here, I think, is still Zheng Hu. He can’t possibly have just one agent like Qian San, so if we can catch Zheng Hu, breaking the chain from there, I think we can dismantle the entire criminal network."