Anti-gang campaign: Female bureau chief

The gambling operation was set up in an old factory building in the north of the city in the early hours of that day.

Lu Zheng led the special police and plainclothes officers in three teams: one team controlled the perimeter of the factory, one team broke in through the main gate, and one team flanked the factory from the back.

Meanwhile, another group of police officers rushed to the basement in the north of the city to rescue Ding Liquan and four others who had been detained.

Chen Mo and Zhao Rui followed the rescue team to the basement.

The basement is located beneath an old residential building, accessible only by walking through a narrow alley.

The door was locked from the outside, and the people inside didn't know what was happening outside. They were so frightened by the noise that they shrank into the corner.

Zhao Rui kicked the door open and shone his flashlight inside. He saw five people crammed on the floor, all of them injured. One of them had a swollen eye socket and his face was covered in scabs.

When Ding Liquan saw the police, he was stunned at first, and then he started crying like a child.

He said he had been detained for six days, given only a steamed bun and a bottle of water a day. The loan sharks even cut his toes with a knife and forced him to call for money.

Chen Mo squatted down, took off his coat and draped it over Ding Li's entire body, saying:

"Don't be afraid, we are police officers, you can go home now."

The others also burst into tears.

Zhao Rui cursed:

"These bastards, they actually dared to do this."

Lu Zheng's side has also finished.

When Zheng Shibiao was arrested, he was counting money in a temporary accounting room on the second floor. Several mobile phones were spread out on the table, and three decks of cards and bundles of plastic chips were placed next to them.

He looked up, saw the police, forced a smile, and said:

"Distinguished leaders, I'm here for tea."

Lu Zheng walked over, picked up the ledger in front of him, flipped through a couple of pages, then took the "borrowing code register" from his hand and said:

"Making hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue from tea? Boss Zheng, you certainly have a refined taste. Come back to the station with us and let your tea sip dry."

After Zheng Shibiao was brought to justice, the task force seized multiple gambling ledgers at his various locations, revealing that the gang had illegally profited nearly one million yuan in the past six months through mobile casinos, commission-based gambling, illegal detention, and extortion.

Some of the gamblers were college students and young people who had just started working. After being lured into gambling, some of them were forced to stop working due to high-interest loans, while others stole their family savings to pay off their debts.

Jiang Ruolan said:

"Underground casinos are harmful. They not only make you lose money, but they also amplify the weaknesses of human nature to the extreme. Those who lure people into gambling specifically target acquaintances, colleagues, and fellow villagers. Once you sign up for the chips, all feelings and morality disappear. Their only goal is to drain you dry."

She instructed Lu Zheng to thoroughly investigate the Zheng Shibiao case, to find all the victims who had been controlled by the casino, and to rescue and help those who needed it.

At the same time, she demanded that all branches conduct a systematic investigation of places registered as "teahouses," "chess and card rooms," and "billiard halls" within their jurisdictions. Any establishments found to be involved in organized gambling, usury, or violent debt collection should be cracked down on according to law, and these places should not be allowed to become new havens for crime.

A few days later, Ding Liquan, accompanied by his wife, came to the Chengbei Branch Bureau to present a banner.

He had lost weight, and the injuries on his face hadn't fully healed, but he was in much better spirits than the day he was rescued.

He held Lu Zheng's hand, thanked him repeatedly, and said he would never dare to touch those cards again.

Lu Zheng said:

"Just don't touch it. Go back and rest your injury, and spend more time with your wife at home."

Ding Liquan nodded repeatedly.

His wife wiped away her tears and said:

"Every night I stand by the window and look out, hoping he will come back."

Lu Zheng escorted them to the door, watched them walk away slowly, and then turned and went inside.

The lights in the corridor were a bit too bright. He unfolded the banner he had just seen and glanced at it. It read, "People's Police, you saved my family."

He sighed and said to Chen Mo:

"Let's hang this flag up."

Chen Mo accepted the banner and said:

"it is good."

He hung it on the wall of the duty room of the North City Branch, next to a row of old photos.

The sun was blazing outside the window, and the gold lettering on the banner shimmered so brightly it made my eyes sting...

In early August, the weather in Yi'an was so stuffy it felt like being in a steamer. The poplar leaves along the national highway in the east of the city were motionless, and the cicadas' chirping made people feel restless.

That morning, a couple came to the Chengdong Police Station.

The man's name was Qiu Dacheng, 45 years old, a long-distance truck driver from Hunan. He was not tall, and his skin was tanned like old tree bark.

The woman was his wife, surnamed Zhang. The two of them had brought a truckload of tangerines from Hunan to Yi'an. The goods had already been delivered, but they still refused to leave.

Qiu Dacheng had a bandage wrapped around his right forearm and a bruise on his face, as if he had been beaten.

He kept rubbing his hands while talking to the police officer on duty, saying that he had been extorted and didn't know what to do.

The police officer told him to speak slowly.

Qiu Dacheng said that around 10 p.m. the night before last, he was driving through the old national highway in the east of Yi'an City. The road was narrow and there were few cars, so he was not driving fast.

Suddenly, a white sedan turned out from the intersection, slamming on its brakes and cutting him off.

He was afraid of being rear-ended, so he pulled over and stopped the car.

Four people got out of the car, saying he had scratched their car. They dragged him out of the driver's seat and beat and cursed him.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he was pulled to the back of the car to see a scratch.

The other party said the repair would cost 15,000 yuan.

Qiu Dacheng said he didn't have that much cash with him, so those people dragged him into a private room at a small roadside restaurant and forced him to call home to transfer money.

His wife was terrified when she heard this on the phone and scraped together 12,000 yuan.

Only after the money was deposited into his account did those people let him go.

Qiu Dacheng's arm was hit by a car repair wrench during the scuffle, and it swelled up badly.

He dared not leave, fearing that those people were still waiting for him on the road.

The on-duty police officer at Chengdong Police Station took a statement. Because the crime scene was located at the border of Chengdong and Chengbei and involved a provincial highway, the report was submitted to the branch bureau.

The branch office deemed the clue important and reported it to the municipal bureau.

Jiang Ruolan held a short meeting with Lu Zheng and Zhao Rui in the office.

Lu Zheng said that this was the third such incident in the past two months, but some drivers called the police while others did not.

Truck drivers often travel long distances and many don't have time to stay in other places. If they are extorted, they have no choice but to leave, and less than 30% of them will report it to the police.

Those who try to extort money take advantage of this.

Jiang Ruolan said that such cases appear to be extortion on the surface, but are mostly backed by professional scamming gangs.

They specifically target large trucks with out-of-town license plates, carrying goods, and in a hurry to get to their destination. After hitting them, they surround them and demand money. If they don't pay, they resort to violence, knowing that the drivers are isolated and helpless in a foreign land.

If you're going to investigate, investigate that road.

Lu Zheng took Chen Mo to that section of the national highway.

The road is an old provincial highway, with villages and scrap yards on both sides. At night, there are only a few streetlights every now and then, and many of them are broken.

There are indeed many intersections, with a small path extending out from the roadside every few hundred meters.

The large trucks had to move to the middle of the road to avoid it.

Lu Zheng stood by the roadside for a while and said that this place was simply a natural "crash site for staged accidents".

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