quick glimpse of Le Roux as he lumbered down the stairs, hand- cuffed and wearing a pair of cut-off sweatpants and a polo shirt. Then the SOD agents hustled him away, loading him into an SUV headed for the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

Brill and Bailey had booked rooms in a downtown Brooklyn Marriott, just across the East River from the MCC and the offices of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District. They'd been prepar- ing to join in the initial questioning of Le Roux, who was sched- uled for his first formal court appearance later that morning. After breakfast, they decided to walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, together with an agent from SOD, to attend the hearing. Partway across, the agent got a phone call: the hearing was off. Hours before, Le Roux had met for the first time with a court-appointed attorney named Jonathan Marvinny, and promptly signed an agreement stating his intention to cooperate. The deal affirmed what he'd declared on the plane: he was ready to help. The 960 agents were hustling him to a hotel room at the same Marriott where Bailey and Brill were staying, to begin debriefing him.

Bailey turned to Brill. “Well, he’s on Team America now,” he said.

There would be no press conference announcing the capture of one of the most prolific criminals the DEA had ever faced. The agency had other plans, which now required that no one know Le Roux was off the street. They’d snatched him out of view of any of his employees or associates, and now he would start working from DEA custody as if he were still at large.

It took Bailey and Brill the better part of that day to realize they were being shut out of Le Roux's case. The U.S. Attorneys in the Southern District who’d obtained his indictment now had control of Le Roux, and they didn’t intend to relinquish it, no matter who had first opened the case or how long they’d spent on it. “We waited all that day, we never talked to him,” Bailey said. An agent from SOD advised Bailey to return home to Minneapolis, but he demanded that he and Brill receive a briefing on Le Roux's status.