we got busted a month later when we tried to sell them on E-Bay.?
Lhat sentence did you receive??
Twelve months?suspended prison sentence and two hundred hours?community service.?
Aifty hours,?John said tersely. Hou need to know your background story like ite your own life, James. Tell me how you got the alarm codes to break into the car dealership??
Cave and I were pretty lonely. We didnt have any friends in Arizona, so we started getting into computer hacking. Dave drove around Phoenix, while I sat in the passenger seat using a laptop computer and sniffer software to find unsecured wireless networks. We were hoping to get someonee credit card number, or details of company bank accounts. When we hacked into the network at a secondhand-car dealership, we found a document on the hard drive that had all the staff burglar-alarm codes.
i hid in the boot of a BMW on the car lot, climbed out after closing time and turned off the alarms. We stole eight thousand dollars in cash and drove away from the scene in an almost new Lexus RX300. During our getaway, the car veered up on to the sidewalk and killed a homeless woman who was sleeping there. This robbery and the death of the homeless woman were reported in local newspapers at the time, so wete covered if Jane Oxford wants to check our story out.?
Lhat if they find the people who really robbed the car dealership??Lauren asked.
The FBI frequently send officers into prisons to work undercover, either to wheedle information out of suspects or uncover drug trafficking and gang activities,?John explained. I realistic background story is essential for the officere safety inside prison, so the FBI create so-called ghost crimes. Ghost crimes are set up by FBI officers and reported to local police and media as if theyte for real.?
But what about the homeless woman??Lauren asked.
John shrugged. i expect they found a homeless woman who died of a heart attack and changed the details on her death certificate so that it looked like shet been hit by a car. The FBI like to have a few unsolved ghost crimes in every state, so that they can rapidly infiltrate any prison in the country.?
Lauren nodded. Thate clever.?
To, Dave,?John said, Lhat happened after you ran the old lady over??
Dave cleared his throat before he spoke. Lames and I got out of the car to see what It hit. When I realised it was a person, we panicked and drove home. We grabbed our money and stuff, left a note for Lauren and our uncle John and headed north. We spent two days on the run in the Lexus, before we got into another traffic accident in Nebraska. I got some head injuries that match up with a real scar I got in a skiing accident last year. James escaped unhurt and got caught by police after a brief chase on foot.?
OK,?John said. Lames, take the story from there.?
The police busted us and put us in a remand home. We got taken to Omaha juvenile court and sentenced to six months.?
Lhy didnt any other prisoners see you when you were in Nebraska??
James looked blank. Lauren stuck her finger in the air and started rocking from side to side. i know,?she said excitably.
This is not good, James,?John said, shaking his head. Hou should have remembered basic details like this by now. If necessary, wete going to spend this entire flight going over this story, until all three of you can recite it backwards, forwards and inside out ?Go on, Lauren; tell your brother why no other prisoners saw James and Dave during their six months in Nebraska.?
Because they nearly escaped,?Lauren said. Cave managed to pocket some handcuff keys in the Nebraska courthouse. James and Dave released each other and got as far as the lawn in front of the courthouse, before a police officer spotted their orange prison uniforms and pulled a gun on them. Because they were an escape risk, James and Dave were locked up in single cells, with no privileges and no contact with the rest of the prison population.?
John explained. The idea behind having this escape in your back story is that it will make your plan to get out of Arizona Max seem much more credible when youte trying to make Curtis Oxford believe that he has a realistic chance of escaping with you.?
10. ARIZONA
They cleared customs at a United States Air Force base in Wisconsin. The opportunity to stretch their legs at the side of the