Chapter 79

The cops bracketed Felipe smoothly, then reached to take him by both arms. One showed him the warrant and spoke the chilling words, “You’re under arrest.”

The young man’s shoulders drooped. He shook his head, just a slow side to side, the gesture eloquent of defeat.

Boz stepped up then. “If you’ll cooperate with us on details about the thefts from the site here, we might be able to make things a little easier for you. Even though I don’t think we can lose that California warrant, at least there may not be one from New Mexico to add to it.”

Jorge spoke a few quick terse words in Spanish. Even though it was rapid-fire and in the slurred border dialect, Jake got the gist of it. Felipe would get no help from his uncle if he didn’t cooperate, quickly and totally. The youth cut his gaze first to his uncle and then back to Jake and Boz.