“What about him?”
“Did you prosecute his case?”
“Yes,” she said with a shrug, “although it?s nothing to brag about.”
“How come?”
“It was open and shut. We had a corroborative witness.”
“His partner?”
“That?s right. Gil Winslow.”
“I heard the DEA made the arrest. Wouldn?t that make it federal?” I asked.
“Titan?s people were there. They took the credit.”
“So Titan turned the case over to you for prosecution?”
“That?s right. Listen, if you?re looking to make trouble for Mr. Stoney..
“I?m not looking to make trouble for anybody who doesn?t deserve it,” I said, and hurried on.
“So Stoney took credit for the bust and put the case together. And he provided the turncoat
witness.”
She nodded suspiciously. “If you want to call Winslow that.”
“I don?t mean this to be insulting, but didn?t the boat belong to Winslow?”
“Mm-hmmm. .
“Wouldn?t it make more sense to lay it on him, confiscate his boat, take him off the water?”
“None of my concern,” she snapped. “Look, Kilmer, what happened, the case came to me
with Winslow. His testimony was that Lukatis had the scheme and the financing. Lukatis
knew where a ton of pot was hung up in the Bahamas. He offered Winslow fifty thousand
dollars? guarantee against a split if Winslow went over there and brought the stuff in.”
“On Winslow?s boat?”
“That?s right.”
“How much?”
“One ton.”
“Whose idea was it to land on Buccaneer Island?”
“I don?t know,” she said earnestly.
“What was the other side of the coin? Lukatis must?ve had a story.”
“Yes. He claimed it was Winslow who approached him.”
“And the front-end financing?”
“Lukatis? story was that Winslow did it all; he just went along to help,” she said; then her
mood became hostile and suspicious. “How come you?re so interested in this? Are you going
