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The Illegal Police
Diego slipped into the police station’s filing room with his heart threatening to beat right out of his chest. It was dim here, with only a single light bulb hanging from the ceiling. He walked down the rows upon rows of labelled plastic boxes, until he reached ‘R’. He pulled out the box, as quietly as he could, found DeeDee’s file and yanked it out. It was dull yellow, with her name printed in imposing black letters. He flipped it open. He was greeted with the now-familiar list of DeeDee’s run-ins with the police. Arrested for some protests in the 50s and 70s, drug records...she even served time for battery. Diego pulled out the piece of paper from her file and quickly replaced it with the one he’d printed the night before – almost identical, except the charge at the bottom was for ‘excessive marihuana smoking in public’, not growing and supplying, of weed or anything else. To make sure his lie wouldn’t be caught out, Diego had Raphael move DeeDee’s van to a more remote location fo
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