Bath Salts (Rejan, Mishka, Kaiden)

It was unusual for him to be an active security and on the 'streets' but he sign up part time with the security forces onboard the lux. Part of being on the IDEF was a course in basic space laws, he might as well dust it off and put it in use every now and again. His juniors could handle the bridge navigations without him for a few days. They were still in known space after all, and needed they experience it by themselves every now and again.

Dressed in a freshly ironed suit with a polished silver Patrol badge pinned on his over coat. He could feel the weight of his KAN P230 automatic pistol on his shoulder holster and the spar mages he carries on his belt.

On route to investigate a domestic disturbance and a bit of a fight, that also was also followed up with OD (Over Dose). Fuck what a way to start the day.

The story so far, is officers already arrested and detained one cat woman, tweaked out of her mind on something and is in no condition to be answer question without god consent. One sloth man found in his bed with a pipe and comatose like. And one poor squirrel roommate who got a concussion from a thrown tin cup.

The notes on this case were already making Mishka uneasy. He'd dealt with a lot of drug over doses in the slums and he never liked their outcomes, someone always got hurt, and it wasn't always the drug addict. Certain drugs, Mishka could understand the use of, but none of them were a danger to anyone, well, most of the time, but from what he could understand, this wasn't going to be one of those kinds of drugs.

Entering the office allocated to the police of the ship, Mishka nodded at a few of his fellows and made his way to the viewing room for the interrogation chamber. He'd been asked by one of his supervisors to come in and help on the case thanks to his knowledge of street drugs, he hoped to be able to pinpoint exactly what these people did and where they got it so the drugs didn't spread around the ship.

When he entered one of the viewing rooms, he saw the cat woman that had been detained, and she did not look good... She must just be held here since she certainly didn't look like she could string together a thoughtful sentence, but her mannerisms were quite familiar to Mishka.

Through the intercom in the room, he could hear her muttering to herself, it was faint but you could easily make out the words; "Need more, gotta, fix." Mishka shook his head and walked out of the room to find his mates on the case, from what his supervisor said, it seemed he'd be working with Kaiden and Rejan so hopefully they could all work well on this case.

Kaiden didn't specifically mind taking care of addicts, while personally finding the idea of drugs rather preposterous, he understood that the case had to be dealt with, and with a certain level of professionalism. Nonetheless, he grabbed his SP-32d handgun, which was a pistol capable of sending bursts of sonic energy that could hurl a toughened war veteran a few good feet back, while stunning them pretty badly. He knew of the protocol on the ship and the fact that using sharp weaponry, especially near the heavily windowed living district, would probably result in a breach in the ship. A breach that would endanger many innocent civilians in the area, something he would rather avoid at all costs.

While preparing up for the dealing with the case, he also managed to grab a simple police baton, being rather skilled in its use. After all, riots on Henta can get quite brutal and he has experienced a few of them while working there. He clipped the baton to his belt, along with his pistol and went to the briefing room, humming a rather serious song quietly under his nose. He waved to a few of the colleagues in his department and noticed Mishka, walking over to him with a smile. He didn't mind the Malamute after all, it was hard for him to keep a grudge on someone he didn't really know yet.

"Hey, Mishka, right?" He says, as he nods to him in a greeting manner. He looked over to the woman in the interrogation cell and shook his head briefly before turning his back to him once more. "I doubt we will get any information from her, not until she can sober up. The poor woman looks like she can barely keep her head up..." He said, while glancing at her briefly from time to time, he seemed to pity her greatly, with a touch of disapproval in his eyes.

Rejan walked into the room, while glancing over the current reports over the domestic incident. He was happy to see he would be working with Kaiden and Mishka on this assignment. "Good morning gentlemen. I see we got ourselves the first reported drug incident on Lux."

Lost in thought, Mishka hadn't truly noticed Kaiden approach him, however, recognition sparked in his eyes the moment he saw the man, "Ah! Kaiden, I heard you'd be on this case with me, I look forward to working with you." Holding out a paw for a handshake, Mishka smiled for a moment before turning back to the woman before them. "Yes, she's pretty far into the high right now, could be hours before she's capable of talking with us..."

When Rejan entered the room, Mishka turned, "Good morning sir, and yes we most definitely do. Bath salts just by the look of this woman, not usually dangerous, for anyone other than the user of course, but there have been cases of "bad batches" as they say that have led to incredibly violent behaviors." He reached up to scratch his chin, "I, ah, was called to this case because of my drug knowledge on Wera, I dealt with a lot of people like this back home when I was living in the slums."

It dawned on him that, that could be construed in a different fashion than he had meant, "During the time I was researching the area of course, I didn't actually come from there per se." He mentally kicked himself for a moment at his misuse of words but shrugged it off to recompose his professional attitude.

Kaiden shook Mishka's hand briefly, flashing him another smile, while glancing at the woman a little suspiciously. He observed her for a while, until he realized something. Her chest was moving a little strangely, in an almost jerking way. "She's chocking! GET A MEDIC!" He immediately began running to the door of the interrogation room, bursting in through with his shoulder and grabbing her by her shoulders, lifting her head up.

The woman was barely keeping her eyes open, with her pupils rolling over to the top in a grotesque way. The Bath Salts were causing her lungs to stop functioning properly, as she was subconsciously struggling to breathe. She was gagging heavily as Kaiden was trying to place her down onto the floor and checking her breathing, to then open her mouth and see if there is any foreign body inside.

He placed two fingers on her neck, checking her pulse as he barked out another order. "Someone get me a medkit while you're at it!" He said, constantly checking her breathing and pulse, while placing her in the recovery position on the side.

"Bath salts huh." That didn't surprise him that the lux might be caring more then a few bath salt makers. It chemically made from cleaning detergents, battery lithium and just about anything if you cooked it right. Before Rejan could say anything further, the junky started to lose it. "Fuck." was all the fox said as he disappeared around the corner and unlatched a thankfully nearby medical kit that hung from the wall. "Get a medic down here." He yelled at some desk guys. Rushing back to Kaidens side. Apparently this was a really bad batch of bath salts.

Mishka was at a loss for words, this wasnt much like the usual bath salts he'd seen before. He let Rejan and Kaiden work on the woman,, he didnt want to crowd her since she was already struggling to breathe. But that's what stuck him as strange, while this sort of thing was incredibly common for methanphetimine and cocaine use, a simple bath salts batch wouldnt normally cause lung function to cease. He found himself lost in thought again;

It must have something else in it, maybe someone mixed a low caliber met into it for a higher kick. Plenty of addicts do it. I hope there's a smaple I can get a hold of.

As he finished that thought, the woman had slowly begun to brethe normally again, though her eyes continued to lull back into her head. Needless to say, she wasnt going to be of any help to the officers for quite some time, if ever for that matter. Piping up, Mishka asked, "Should we question the others or is there another matter we should attend to first?"

After applying the breathing apparatus found within the med-kit for a few good moments, Kaiden was able to stabilize the breathing of the woman as he chest moved up and down in a more steady manner. He looked carefully at her, with what seemed utmost care, as if he didn't want to let her die at any cost. He held her shoulders and head up a little, as he squeezed and released the air bag of the breathing emergency utility and nodded over to Rejan in a thankful manner.

"These can't be simple bath salts, there must be something in them..." He said quietly, looking at the Over-Dosed woman, with an increasingly concerned look on his usually concentrated and stern face. "Check her pockets, we need to find the dealer of this stuff..." He said quietly once more to Rejan, while still looking at the woman in a concerned but serious manner. He gently moved her hands a little up and put them together on her front, in order to allow Rejan free access to her pockets, nodding to him slowly.

"Probably a bad batch or an armature is at work. We already have a sloth on emerge." Rejan said with a calm voice that didn't quit match his face. Ruffling through the pockets, the fox didn't find anything "Nothing. Who ever arrested and put her holding probably already did." Rejan probably would have known that if read the paper work first before meeting with the team.
When the people from emerged showed up, they took over for Kaiden and Rejan.
"This is going to complicate things. Had she sobered up we could have just interrogated her for the dealer." Rejan said as he watched the paramedics kart the cat off. "Her belongings she had on her will be in the lockers. We should start there."

Mishka nodded at Rejan, "I agree, either something was terribly wrong with this strain or the manufacturer purposefully added something to his/her product. Kind of a sick thought, but it's possible." Turning towards the office area Mishka motioned with his hand, "I suppose we should be on our way to the lockers then? Though chances are the forensics lab is already working on deciphering the make up of whatever she had on hand."

Stepping out of the interrogation room, Mishka flagged down a near by officer to ask where the lab was located since he wasn't yet familiar with this area of the ship. The cheetah he'd asked pointed off to the left and said it was just down the hall and on the right, "Impossible to miss." he'd said.

Turning back to his companions, Mishka gave a questioning look to see if they agreed that that's where they should be headed next.

Kaiden nodded to both his companions with a somewhat impressed smile, he was glad that he was able to work with some professionals on a serious case. This was his chance, he thought, to solve a serious crime happening within and on the huge ship that is the Lux.

Someone was dealing bath salts, and a dangerous kind too, stuff that was able to kill in larger doses as it could've been seen with the woman. This was more than enough to flare Kaiden's love for the Law and Law enforcement, already making him think ways of solving this crime.

"Let's check out the Forensics lab then, and see what they might have found already. VeX numbers, station addresses, names, nicknames, we need to know anything her possessions might tell us. Afterwards, I suggest we go back to the apartment and have a closer look at the place."

Kaiden said, as he rubbed his chin a little in a idle way looking at both of his fellow Law enforcers. He was -really- glad to be working in such a great team, as his ears were perking up in excitement.

Following the husky and lion to the locker room. Rejan said "Kaiden why don't you go to the lab and check the reports, while Miska and I take a look at the belongings." It wasn't a bad idea there were three of them. "Meet us in room 117. And don't bring the file over when its ready, I want to take a peek at it too." Not that he didn't believe somebody cut like Kaiden would forget.

When they arrived at the locker room. Rejan showed his ID to the officer behind the protective screen and asked for the evidence box for their case. When he came back with a box, Rejan and company took it to a room 117 and laid everything neatly on the table. Most of it was stuff anyone would have on them. Wallet with ID, keys... Cell phone. Probably had numbers on it. "Look for scrap paper too with numbers or names. She may be savvy enough not to keep on the records." Then again she may not.

Mishka followed suit and showed his ID to the officer as well, following Rejan to the room as he began to look over the cat's things. After putting on a set of gloves he picked up the phone and began to look through it, most druggies weren't the smartest of people so chances were a name or two of importance could be in it. And sure enough, there was a short conversation in her inbox talking about the deal. Mishka looked up at Rejan and pointed to the phone, "I found a bit of evidence Sir, it's not much cause she didn't use the dealers full name, but his initials, or what could be his nickname is M.D. probably a cheap joke on a doctor title."

Handing the phone to the fox, he waited to see what the man thought, all the while glancing over the bags of evidence, nothing seemed too important but the cat's keys could come in handy for later when they went to search her apartment.