Angel Flight
Copyright© 2023 by Mark Randall
Chapter 9
After a long night of thinking and worrying about Judith’s concerns and what she might do, Olive called her boss in Boise.
“Hi, Harold.”
“Olive, Good to hear from you. What’s up?” He answered.
With the worry evident in her voice, Olive said, “I wanted to let you know that I’ve sent you my budget recommendations for next year.”
“I know I’ve been reading them, but that isn’t why you called, right?” Harold questioned.
“No, it’s about Judith Stevens.”
Harold chuckled. “Oh no. What has our big city crusader been up to now?”
“It’s not that she’s been up to anything. It’s more about what she may have stumbled on to.”
“Sounds mysterious. Please continue.”
“Well, she had a meeting with a parent who was asking about homeschooling.”
Harold chuckled. “I’ll bet that Judith wasn’t happy with that.”
“True, but that wasn’t the problem. She felt there were a bunch of red flags with this guy. It sounds like he is one of our off-grid folks. You know the type, no phone, internet, not even electricity. What really rang Judith’s bell was that he had no address, just a set of GPS coordinates.”
“I’m guessing that’s the first time she’s encountered one of our nonstandard residents.”
“Yes, but that isn’t why I called you. When Mr. Reynolds claimed that he was fostering the child, Judith started conducting some internet searches. She couldn’t find any entries for either the child or Reynolds. That led her to think that she might have been abducted from Mexico because of the child’s Hispanic surname. So, I ran his and the child’s name through the state and federal databases. I got suspicious when the NCIC system flagged the little girl.”
Now Harold was also concerned. “OK, let me check this out. What are the names involved?”
“Matt Reynolds and Kathy Garcia.”
Lawson pulled up a quick search on his computer after a moment, he said. “That’s interesting.”
“What’s that?” Olive asked.
Reading further into the first report, “It seems that Mister Reynolds was involved in apprehending several escaped federal prisoners a couple of years ago.”
Then he pulled up the next file, his eyebrows raised. “The plot thickens. It also looks like he found a crashed Department of Justice plane a year ago.”
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