Source: CCTV news client
Since March this year, the Public Security Bureau of Yilong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, has frequently received reports of missing people. The "missing" are middle-aged men, who call their wives or parents, but what is even stranger is that just when the police began to investigate, these people suddenly went home, so the family members called again to cancel the alarm, but after returning home, they were secretive about where they went and what they did these days. During one of the arrests, the police uncovered the mystery of their disappearance.
The people involved hid everywhere and there was a lot of cash scattered at the scene
In the early morning of June 28 this year, the Yilong County Public Security Bureau organized more than 100 police forces to break through three dark sentries and carry out a network of criminal gangs in Shenxi Village, Zhouhe Town, to collect the nets of a criminal gang with a particularly large case that had wandered here.
In the houses involved, dozens of people involved in the case rushed to escape after hearing the movement outside, but they were surrounded by the police, the escape route was completely blocked, and a large number of people involved in the case were immediately tied up.
Subsequently, the police shrank the encirclement and launched a carpet search inwards, and gradually found some of the people involved in the case hiding everywhere. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash were scattered in the bushes outside the houses and by the cesspools.
When picking up the cash at the side of the pit, the police accidentally found that there were people hidden in the pit, and in order to escape arrest, this person actually panicked and plunged into the pit.
Unusual police situation draws attention Police combing to find common ground
In the early hours of the morning, the village courtyard, the cash scattered, what are these people doing here? It all started with several unusual reports received by the police in March this year.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: At the same time, I received a number of alarms, and the people who reported the case were basically women and the elderly, and the content of the report was basically to report that her husband and son had run away from home.
On the morning of March 7, Ms. Liu from the "June 1st" resettlement area of New Deal Town reported to the police that her husband Xu Had not returned all night after leaving home for the first night, and that the phone was turned off, asking for someone to find him; On March 19, Uncle Zhang of the "Yipin Jiangshan" community in New Deal Town reported to the police that his son Zhang Mouping had not returned after leaving home three days ago, and could not contact him and asked for someone; On March 27, a family dispute broke out in the "Longcheng No. 1" community in New Deal Town, and Ms. Wang's husband Zeng ran away from home for many consecutive days, causing family conflicts.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: Those police situations occurred at multiple police stations under our jurisdiction at the same time.
The usually rare concentration of police intelligence is very abnormal in itself.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: The strange thing is that after these adult men left home, their mobile phones were not answered for a long time, and these people were basically able to return to their homes safely at the same time, what they did, their whereabouts, and he was also unwilling to tell the truth to his family.
Investigators looked at these "missing" police information, but they had common characteristics: the subjects were adult middle-aged men, had no fixed occupation, turned off their mobile phones during the missing contact, and many of them were voluntarily canceled by family members. Since the missing people all went home safely, it seems that the matter should be closed, but the police who have detected the mystery inside have not stopped here, and the Yilong County Public Security Bureau has dispatched public security, network security, economic investigation and other forces to secretly investigate the personal information of these missing people, and found that several of them have common ground.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: The age of these missing men is basically around 40 years old, and several of them have previous convictions for gambling.
On April 13, Yilong police put these "missing" police information on the agenda, and after analysis, it was believed that there may be a major risk of gambling gang activities in Yilong County.
Deng Chaoping, commander of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: At the first moment, there was a suspicion that there might be gambling gangs carrying out activities in our county town and in our jurisdiction.
Subsequently, police departments such as public security, network security, and economic investigation successively intervened to analyze the activity trajectory, contacts, and capital flows of previously "missing" personnel.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: We found a gang headed by Yang Mou to open an underground casino, and for about 20 days, we basically locked all the backbone members of the gambling gang.
Overlapping trajectories of multiplayer activities are suspected of crowd gambling
On April 14, the police obtained a tip that in the middle of the night for the past ten days, two young men had repeatedly purchased a large number of cigarettes, betel nuts, drinks and instant noodles in a 24-hour supermarket in New Deal Town. The trajectories of some of the "missing" men during the disappearance overlapped with those in rural areas near the county seat. The flow of funds in the bank accounts of the relevant targets is also relatively large, and there may be crowd gambling behavior.
At night, people gathered in luxury cars to get in and out Of the police locked up gambling gangs
After further investigation, the police found that in the remote houses and abandoned factories in several local villages, there was a phenomenon of people gathering at night and luxury cars entering and leaving.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: We have also opened an abandoned sand factory, and then in the homes of the masses that we do not know, he also goes to those who, for example, the elderly, to give him a remuneration of about 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan, and then comes to rent a house in his house to open a casino.
According to the police investigation, the gang organized people to participate in gambling, and the amount of money each time was very large.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: Every night, the flow of funds will be as high as more than 2 million yuan, and the profit share drawn by the gangs that open casinos will generally be 100,000 to 200,000.
The gang is a well-organized, well-divided, hierarchical gambling gang with a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance, and they often choose the most remote houses with only one way to enter and exit as gambling sites.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: He (the organizer) will not allow ordinary gamblers to drive directly to the center site.
Jiang Ping, deputy commander of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: He (the organizer) was afraid that the gamblers would have problems and the gamblers would expose their positions, so it was generally forbidden for gamblers to drive their cars. They are all on site arranged for a car to pick up. For example, when he (the gambler) goes to that place, he parks the car around it, and when he stops there, he calls out to a special person to send the car.
Before each bet, they also set up multiple dark posts on the road to monitor any suspicious vehicles.
As soon as there is a disturbance, the dark whistle immediately notifies the gambling personnel to scatter the birds and beasts. This has created great difficulties for police follow-up.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: Because the location of the gambling site of the gang is very hidden, after he (the organizer) chooses the address, he will only send the address to the backbone members of the gang.
A late-night raid arrested 50 suspects involved in gambling at the scene
After grasping the characteristics of this gang, the police investigation found that in April this year, the gang gathered again in a private house in Xinzheng Town, Yilong County, to gamble, and the police immediately organized police forces to prepare to close the net.
At 10 o'clock that night, 4 investigators dressed in black clothes went to the investigation on foot, and 29 police forces on the periphery were concentrated in the van of the requisitioned transport courier, and 9 people were responsible for controlling the outer dark sentry for the first time. Everything was ready, and at 11 o'clock that night, the assault team deceived the gang into blocking the road on the pretext of delivery of courier vehicles, and then went straight to the center to arrest them.
In this operation, the police destroyed the gambling den of the crowd in one fell swoop, smashed the extraordinarily large gambling gang that had wandered to Yilong County, arrested 50 suspects at the scene, and seized and recovered 730,000 yuan of gambling funds. The amount involved in the case is as high as more than 12 million yuan.
The police found another mega gambling gang
Police interrogation found that the time of the "disappearance" of some people was not consistent with the time when the gang started gambling, but from their trajectory, funds in and out and other indications, they should have been involved in gambling elsewhere, after which the police quietly and secretly continued to investigate and found a larger gambling gang.
After the gambling gang was smashed, a total of 21 suspects were taken criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law, and the rest of the gamblers have been administratively punished. The case did not end so far, and during the interrogation, the police found that the abnormal behavior of some gambling participants indicated that it was very likely that there was a larger gambling gang wandering in Yilong and other places.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: Gamblers are gambling, and when the casino in Ma'an Town is not open, the gambler has no place to gamble, so he will go to other casinos. Therefore, through the expansion of the line of reconnaissance, we further landed a very large gambling gang headed by Xie Mou.
Another gang fled the storm and reappeared two months later
After the "4.19" extraordinarily large casino case was broken, Xie and others sniffed out dangerous smells in the air, and subsequently, the gambling gang headed by Xie mou left Yilong County extremely quickly and fled to Yingshan County and Hechuan District of Chongqing City to continue committing crimes. By mid-June, the gang felt that the wind had passed, and once again flowed into the territory of Yilong County, but unexpectedly encountered the "100-day action" of the national public security organs in the summer to crack down on public security, and as the focus of the crackdown, the Yilong police had been eyeing them for two months.
Deng Chaoping, captain of the public security brigade of the Yilong County Public Security Bureau in Nanchong City: The trajectory of this gang's activities has returned to our county again, and there is a great possibility of committing another crime in our county, and in the end we still accurately obtained the information that their gang will open a casino in Shenxi Village, Zhouhe Town.
The amount involved in the police concentrated on collecting the network reached more than 16 million yuan
After accurately grasping the composition of the criminal gang and the law of activities, after nightfall on June 27, the Yilong County Public Security Bureau organized an action team of hundreds of police forces to deploy near Ma'an Town. However, the gambling gang was extremely cunning and temporarily changed the gambling location, and the special case team immediately mobilized police forces to set up an ambush in Zhujishan Village, Yongle Town. At 1 a.m. on June 28, the gang opened a gambling game in a situation that the gang thought had been safe. The special case team saw the opportunity to remove 3 dark sentries, and then launched an arrest on Xie and others. The people involved in the case saw the police coming, panicked, and scattered.
In this operation, the police arrested more than 70 suspects, seized more than 820,000 yuan of gambling funds on the spot, and recovered more than 300,000 yuan of gambling funds. Up to now, the main criminal Xie Mou and 22 other people have been taken criminal compulsory measures in accordance with the law, and the rest have been punished with administrative punishments, and the amount involved in the case is as high as more than 16 million yuan.