Ma Lan hurriedly said, “I didn’t ask for a penny of payment, it was purely out of a favor between friends ……”
When she said this, Ma Lan was actually very vain.
She knew very well that the only reason she had agreed to help Zong Qihua with her luggage was because he had said that he would give her a Lexus LM300 later and would take her to Hong Kong Island for a few days to enjoy herself.
However, Ma Lan thought that these were all verbal promises anyway and she had not received a single penny from the woman, so it was unlikely that the police would be able to find any evidence.
The policewoman gave Marashi a slightly compa*sionate look, and then, together with her colleague, took Marashi to the police station they had located next to the airport terminal.
Marashi was crying and wailing all the way because of her willingness to break a rib, hoping to get treatment first, but the policewoman said, “It’s only a broken rib, there’s no need to go to hospital at all, our health doctor will come later to give you a simple fix and then some oral anti-inflammatory medicine will do.”
Ma Lan cried out, “You guys are so devoid of humanitarian spirit, aren’t you?! I want to file a complaint against you guys! Oh no! I’m going to sue you, I’m going to take you to court, I’m not finished with you until you pay me ten or twenty million dollars!”
With that, Ma Lan remembered something and deliberately exclaimed, “There was a Vietnamese-American who was forcibly deported on one of your planes a few years ago, and the internet said that he was finally paid US$140 million!”
The policewoman said lightly, “First of all, the incident you are talking about was a dispute between the airline and the pa*senger, while what you are experiencing now is a criminal case in which the American police arrested a transnational drug dealer, and given that you arrested and had the intention to resist, the law enforcement officers are entitled to use force to arrest you;”
“Secondly, the entire process of our law enforcement is captured on the law enforcement recorder, if you have any objections to our law enforcement, you can challenge it with your lawyer, and I believe your lawyer, when the time comes, will give you the answer.”
When Ma Lan saw that she couldn’t even bluff this policewoman with her broken ribs, she realised that this matter must be very serious.
So her tone softened all of a sudden and she choked up and asked, “Comrade police …… I am really innocent. …… What do you have to do to prove my innocence?”
The other side said blandly, “The only way to prove your innocence in this matter is to catch the other side and to prove your innocence by admitting that you didn’t know. Otherwise, there would be no way to prove your innocence, after all, all these contraband were found from your checked luggage, if you can’t prove that you didn’t know about it, then you can’t be cleared of suspicion!”
Ma Lan panicked and hurriedly said, “I have chat records with her, she’s been playing me for a long time, the chat records are proof of my innocence!”
The policewoman shook her head, “If you can prove your innocence unilaterally with chat records alone, then this matter is too simple. In the future, all drug dealers will concoct a chat record and then come over to the plane with a big profit if they succeed, and if they fail, they will produce the chat records and say they are innocent. Do you think there are so many loopholes in the law for you to exploit?”
Upon hearing this, Ma Lan said eagerly, “Then why are you still standing here? Grab that Zong Qiuhua!!! She hasn’t left the airport yet, she won’t get out of New York for a while! If we catch her and interrogate her, we’ll be able to prove my innocence!”
The policewoman said coldly, “You don’t need to tell us how to handle the case, right now we need to give you a full statement first, if you have a lawyer we can inform one for you, if you don’t we’ll a*sign one to you, your choice.”
Ma Lan said offhandedly, “I want to call my family, I want to call my daughter and son-in-law!”