PART 5
The video of the break-in was immediately sent directly to the federal prosecutor’s office. Ellis Higgins paid a massive cash bail to free his sons, and desperately began moving money between various bank accounts. He had no idea that those accounts were already under active federal surveillance, and each wire transfer only provided fresh evidence of money laundering.
Three days later, at exactly 5:58 a.m., a long convoy of dark federal vehicles entered Blackwood Ridge without using their sirens.
At the main ranch house, Cheyenne Higgins barely had time to open her front door.
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“Federal Bureau of Investigation,” an agent announced, showing his badge. “We have federal search and arrest warrants for this entire property.”
Ellis Higgins looked out his front window and realized, for the very first time in his life, that none of the men standing on his lawn owed him a single favor.
