PRIORITY:Medium ENCRYPTION: High, RFP-O6D coding IDENTIFICATION:Detektiv Laura Carsten SOURCE:planet New Berlin SUBJECT:One smuggler caught, second probably reformed
*Carsten appears on the screen in her office in the polizei office building on planet New Berlin with view on the metropolis behind her*
Guten Tag, here is my report from yesterday patrol. Lanes were quite quiet, yet there were two events which deserve to mention.
First one was junker Pilgrim Liner named Triton´s.Crown. This one should ring a bell, it´s the one from my last report which I caught around two months ago loaded with cardamine and to add more, it had it´s entry in criminal database too, so in the end he paid total fine of 11,5 million credits to be able to continue.
But maybe there is some hope even some junkers can be reformed. This time, according to TLAGSNET, ship entered Frankfurt with load of some service cargo and 3 153 cargo units of holosculptures. I checked it personally in New Berlin system and confirmed that his cargo is completely legal this time. He was on the way to Kreuzberg Depot and because there was almost no other traffic, I decided to escort him there and keep eye on him because...you know, give a trust to former junker criminal is quite a gamble. But captain was nice and we reached Kreuzberg without any problem. After he moored, I stayed near just to be sure he really isn´t planning anything illegal, but he unmoored with load of mining machinery. I continued his escort slash surveillance through Stuttgart and Omega-7 systems, there we split and he continued to Omega-3. Uploading documentation now...
But I couldn´t finish my patrol before catching at least one smuggler, could I? Just little later when I was on patrol in Stuttgart system, I spotted in TLAGSNET ship loaded with cardamine which entered Frankfurt system. I was quick enough to catch it up near planet New Berlin and stopped it. It was junker Salvage frigate named StealthFrigate - well, captain obviously wasn´t acting much stealthy. Anyway, he cooperated and paid the fine, claiming that he owe something to some person from Junker base in Liberty and has to smuggle this load for him. Well, another story for my collection.
Problem appeared when I wanted to ask for the contraband to destroy it. Out of nowhere, my ship was paralysed by some major malfunction of all important systems and junker took the advantage of it and flew away before I finished rebooting main computer and was able to control my ship again. I sent him message that his action only means he will be added to criminal database and he said he is okay with it. But few minutes later, he obviously changed his mind and contacted me, asking to remove his entry and sent additional 5 million credits fine which I requested. So basically I could remove his entry before even putting it in...