A payoff

After about two hours, Jack Jenkins, Jr. was brought in to the room. “Mr. Jenkins, I’m Inspector Gonzeles, you’re wanted for attempted murder and vandalism in Alabama. You are entitled under the Geneva Convention to call your Embassy here in Mexico City in the morning when they get there and they will arrange for you to have a lawyer to represent you on your extradition. Of course, good luck getting any money wired to you from the United States. Looking at your file, your father was the intended victim, so who is going to send you any money? Or you can waive extradition and we’ll take you back to the Airport and wait for the Alabama police to arrive to take you home. Oh and by the way, since the U.S. wants you back, their Embassy may not be very helpful.” Jack suddenly felt very, very alone. He couldn’t call his dad and ask for money to fight extradition. He didn’t have anyone special in his life since he kept things in a one night stand. The employees that he knew were just that employees who would be loyal first to his dad. Then he thought about a night in a Mexican jail and perhaps days, weeks or months in a Mexican jail. Once back in America he could get bail and be free perhaps to move around and to hire a good lawyer to defend him. He knew that the case had to be very circumstantial. “Before you answer, senor, would you like to enter into a little arrangement?” the Inspector asked. “What?”, Junior asked with a funny look on his face. “I could put you on another flight to San Jose and forget we even caught you for about $100,000.” “Where am I going to get that kind of money down here”, Jack asked. “Funny a smart businessman like you doesn’t realize that your bank in Alabama, SuperBank has a branch here in Mexico City.” “You can walk into there and take out $100,000 if I let you”, the officer gushed. “But you’ll have to act quickly, in case they try to freeze your bank account”. “Let’s do it”, was Jack’s quick response. The Inspector smiled, he, Dolores, and Ramirez would be $100,000 richer and then they’d let Costa Rica know there was an American fugitive on the way. What Jack apparently did not know was the Costa Rica now had an Extradition Treaty with the United States and Dolores had already forwarded on Jack’s information to the Costa Rica authorities. “At 9 a.m. sharp the Inspector took Jack into the bank and Jack withdrew 1 Million pesos and handed them to the Inspector. The Inspector then took Jack to the Airport and put him on the next plane to “Costa Rica. Jack smiled, not knowing what was going to happen in San Jose.

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