Chapter 5 of The Finders

The Washington D.C. and Virginia Police Investigation of The Finders Network - Is Ramon J. Martinez Honorable? - Part 3

Special Agent Robert Harrold revealed in an interview that his Report of Investigation had been leaked onto Usenet, an outdated system for global online discussions predating modern message boards. We spent hours attempting to locate it but could not, which puzzled us. Harrold described his investigation report as relatively “boring,” stating it primarily detailed requests from the Tallahassee Police Department. I had never heard of Harrold’s Report of Investigation before our conversation. I believe Harrold’s Report of Investigation was scrubbed from the Internet it would have helped corroborate certain aspects of Agent Ramon J. Martinez’s Report of Investigation. Finally, Harrold told me he was just an observer and a helper while serving the search warrant. Further analysis of any possible United States Customs criminal would have been Agent Ramon J. Martinez’s responsibility afterward.[1]

Special Agent Robert Harrold told me that on the afternoon and evening of February 5, 1987, when the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Search Warrant was served at The Finders warehouse, the atmosphere was “strange from the onset.” Harrold stated that according to some unnamed nearby Asian shop owners in the alleyway behind the warehouse, two or three vans arrived before the search warrant was served. The unnamed Asian shop owners also told Harrold, “several people hurried out of the back of the warehouse carrying boxes that they put into their vans and jumped into the vans when they were finished and sped away.” It is mine and Harrold’s belief that those were members of The Finders and they were removing evidence from their warehouse.[2]