Sitting alone in a surveillance van on the streets of Baltimore was not DEA agent's Miss April Porters version of a good time. April is a member of an ongoing task force in Baltimore comprised of Local police, FBI, and DEA. The task force was 10 months into an 18 months investigation to gather evidence and bring indictments again a sizeable criminal organization known The Collective. Members would face charges and stand trial for racketeering, prostitution, extortion, murder, drug distribution, vandalism, burglary, and money laundering. When arrests were made, the hope was the change the face of crime in Baltimore for good and crushed organized crime.
April Porter had been with the DEA for five years since graduating with honors from Florida State at 22 years of age with a bachelor's in Criminal Justice. Now a rising star in the Agency, she wanted to continue her stellar record and come through on this latest assignment. The team was looking for results and had shared their very high expectations for her surveillance.
No stranger to high expectations, April felt up to the challenge again. She grew up in South Florida, an honors high school student, excelled at swimming, cheer, dance, and track during her four years. She would continue with swimming and cheer at FSU during her first three years, where she became a valuable member of the swim team and the cheerleading squads. At FSU, much like high school, boys, sex, dating, and socializing took a back seat to her competitive nature. By no means unable to socialize or enjoy sex, April has just found her competitive juices always drove her to work hard or work more. In her senior year at Florida State, she had dropped activities for finishing up her criminal justice degree, enjoyed college life a little, and even got into some fitness modeling. The modeling gigs consisted of local fashion shows, print modeling, and bikini modeling. With a similar look to actress Minka Kelly, photographers often praised how the camera loved her. At 5"5" April would never walk the catwalk in Paris, but long dark black hair, blue eyes, 125 lbs., tight waist, defined calves, long legs, slightly rounded hips, bubble ass, 34C natural breasts, and a fit upper torso made her idea for fitness modeling. When her DEA team lead handed her a new surveillance job within the task force, April felt prepared for the solo challenge, and why shouldn't she? Her career success very much on plan, the 27-year-old was at the top of her game emotionally, professionally, and physically it was time to take on more relevant solo jobs.
This plan of hers was about to be tested by one Michael Stephan Joyner.
Agent Porter had been assigned to provide surveillance on Mike Joyner to find justification for securing a warrant and arrest. The previous team had been reassigned to a different part of the task force, leaving April alone to watch him for six months until they moved to the arrest stage. Mike's file showed no criminal history, he seemed like a hell of a nice guy and pretty much a boy scout. The only reason Mike was a target was his younger brother, Jamal Joyner was one of the targets of the task force. Jamal Joyner played a variety of roles for the organization related to drug distribution and money laundering, Jamal had kept the agents from accumulating the best evidence, and they hoped if Mike got squeezed, they could lump the little brother in with the worst criminals.
April had listened in on many calls between the brothers, usually with big brother urging little brother to get out of the game, but never really saying anything about crime. Always boring. April reported every few days with little or no evidence proving Mike's criminal activity that would help her superiors lean on him to force some cooperation.
April had learned from his file that he had been a middle linebacker in NC State, decent grades, a business degree, and had returned to Baltimore, took a few sales jobs before starting his cleaning business. From a dozen pictures of Mike, she saw a ruggedly handsome black man, with coal dark skin, still very fit, 6"3", shaved head and appealing features that made him ruggedly handsome. She had been able to get warrants to tap lines phone lines at his office in the Main Plaza Tower and his apartment in downtown.
Agent April Porter Report - Subject Michael Stephan Joyner Notes/Comments August 8, 2018, Tuesday
Over the last 14 days, An agent listens to and records 117 calls from the subject's officeβnothing of note other than a reference to sending mother $2500 for medical bills and donation to boys and girls club. Assigned research to verify to the branch office. All call and text messages from the subject's cell phone reveal nothing of note. The subject dropped off boxes of food and food bank near his house every Thursday, consistent with previous team notes.
Agent April Porter Report - Subject Michael Stephan Joyner Notes/Comments August 22, 2017, Tuesday
Over the last 14 days, An agent listens to and records 98 calls from the subject's officeβnothing of note other than a reference to sending sister $500 for nephews birthday. Assigned research to verify to the branch office. All call and text messages from the subject's cell phone reveal nothing of note. Thursday delivery to food banks continues. The subject has restarted volunteering and local youth center.