Chapter Twenty-Five

It was already 9 o’clock in the night when they reached Lents, a neighborhood of Portland where Freddie Miller owned a house where they usually stored their illegal drugs. Jeremy had mentioned that he sometimes hid his prisoners here as well. They cautiously approached the two-storied house with a huge unkempt backyard, full of trees and creepers growing wildly that made it look more like a jungle. Without alerting anyone, officer Thompson of the Portland Police Department led his team inside the property. They spread out all over, covering the entire property so that no one could escape. Nikolas stayed back at a distance while they forcefully broke open the front door. A series of gun firing erupted from inside making them take shelter. Suddenly there was chaos everywhere as several policemen at the back door were shot brutally and before they could take any action, the criminals jumped into a car and sped away. A police car trailed it while th