Page 84 of Family Bonds- Jarrett & Andi

“So you knew about this boyfriend she had?” he asked. “Yet didn’t know anything about him?”

Jack sighed. “Not enough. Those pictures came two days after Jonah Kennedy was killed in jail. Since Andi was grieving, it was easy to keep track of her and she wasn’t spending time with Leo. She’d only gone on a few dates with him prior like she told you, then he gave her time to mourn her father.”

Which Jarrett found odd but didn’t say much more. Andi had said it’d only been two dates so maybe it wasn’t that big of a deal to step back for a bit in their eyes.

“Then what happened?”

“We had enoughonthe Dustin Family. We arrested who we could. The one who sent the pictures admitted it. He’d said he did it to get us to back off looking into his family. It was a nephew of Winston who called the hit. Winston claims hehad no knowledgeof any of it nor any idea of what his nephew was doing. With Kyle, the nephew, in prison, we backed off of monitoring Andi some. Winston assured us that he’d make sure if anyone thought of harming her, they’d deal with him. We had nothing on him but his word and since he didn’t want a bigger target on him, we cut back some of the surveillance. Those orders came from well above my pay grade.”

“And you regret that, don’t you?” he asked.

“I have a lot of regrets,” Jack said. “My point is, I’m not too worried about the Dustin Family, but I’m also not accessing their files either. Those were pictures of things I had when this all went down. It’s someone else’s headache right now, but I know people who have their ears to the ground.”

“Do you trust those people?” he asked. “Those that know what happened to Andi?”

“Her plane crash?” Jack asked.

He’d told his brother about that too. “Yes.”

“I do trust them, but there are only two others who know. Both are higher tiers than me. What I’ve got on my computer is Leo and what happened to him until that case was handed off. I know you’ve got more questions there.”

“Yes,” he said. “It seems to me he is the reason you got her out. Why you didwhatyouhad.Hope you don’t get caught.”

“Jarrett,” Mac said. “It’s not what we would do, but we weren’t in his position either.”

“It won’t come back to me,” Jack said. “I cover my tracks.”

He nodded his head. “Tell me about Leo then. Andi and the guy are done. She’s out of the picture, but Leo is arrested a year later?”

“Yes,” Jack said. “I passed on what I knew to the FBI. It was in their hands. I did keep up as best as I could. I only met Leo that once. He probably didn’t even remember me and had no idea I was a marshal. Leo was under investigation for a while after Andi disappeared while she was recovering. He was still their inside source for fentanyl from the pharmacy he worked at and supplying it to a local drug cartel. He didn’t have access to get enough to put him away and his biggest part in this was finding out where and when shipments were coming in. We believe he was tipping people off and there were a few heists. Nothing concrete to get back to him.”

“So arrested and not charged?” he asked.

“Exactly. The best they could do was strip him of his license since there was fentanyl unaccounted for multiple times. He said it was poor bookkeeping. Some said he was using it himself.”

“Nothing stuck,” Mac said.

“No,” Jack said. “Last I heard Leo was in California working in some lab or something.”

“Doing what?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” Jack said. “Not drug related. Here is the report sent over from the FBI to me as a personal favor.”

Jarrett and Mac moved over to the computer and read what they could on Andi’s ex. Nothing in there thatmentionedher or any connection toa personallife or women.

Maybe the guy got smart because, if the FBI was watching, they’d have any women on their radar since they’d even seen a report on Leo’s family, who were clean.

“Why didn’t you tell Andi any of this?” he asked.

“She knows he was arrested,” Jack said. “And not charged. I didn’t even want to tell her that much, but she’d been following things online and saw it.”

“But she didn’t know all of this that we read.That thereis no mention of her in these reports. You were scared for her, she was scared, but it seems like nothing came about it.”

“We didn’t know what was going to happen,” Jack said. “And if you go to the next file, you’ll see the people that Leo was in bed with are some pretty nasty dudes. To this day, Leo has never flipped on them and we are sure they are threatening him over it. Or holding something over his head. There are still ongoing investigations on them.”

“No arrests on the stolen drugs?” he asked.

“Nothing,” Jack said. “Leo is still watched, but there has been no sign of him being in contact with anyone that he was with in Denver. None of his friends.”

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