On a trip down Albany Ave I would see many nice suped-up vehicles, say 8-10. That would increase after dark and on a Friday/Saturday night (when total mayhem broke out) forget about trying to keep track of them there would so many. There are lots of "barber shops" down this stretch that ALWAYS had nice cars sitting in front of them...status symbols. This area is really a mixed bag that runs the gamet. From druggies, to business owners, to confidential informants, to crooked cops (sadly), everyone is immeshed in with each other and they are always watching. They are the best of friends one day, the worst of enemies the next, and the order changed daily. I got to where the multiple gunshots I heard each night, I was able to tell how far off they were and they didn't phase you anymore.
A Google maps street view trip from the corner of Garden St. and Albany Ave. to the Starbucks on Albany (if that is part of the route, which I gather it is from the search warrant) is mixed downbeat couple of miles, interspersed with some greenery.
Still it is is not insular, Albany is highway street as well so there is always some through traffic. I don't think a ford Raptor would be so out of place. I saw some newer Audi's BMW's a two year old Tundra. Generally older cars still nothing would be too out of place. Most noticable, lots of trash bins out on the curb.
MOO FDs thinking was that lots of trash bins are easily accessible on the street.
Per the city schedule of pick up the trash collection along most of Albany between Garden (where the FedEx box was put in a storm drain) and the Starbucks has a Friday collection in 2020 (assume same day of week in 2019) with some portions of the street having a Monday collection day, which would have been collected on Tuesday due to the Memorial day holiday.
MOO FD was too late for Friday collection. If he threw bags in those bins annoyed people put up with it, some one throwing a bag in their empty trash, but let it stay there until the following Friday... a stroke of luck for police again, as Friday 5/31 was when they saw the video and stopped the incinerator. He may have thrown some rest of the bags into trash bins that are always left sitting out, or dumpsters, which would not to be picked up until Tuesday.
I don't know how efficient MIRA is, but MOO the bags picked up on Tuesday got burned before Friday. But not so long as a week before.
I have greater hope they found evidence at MIRA after looking at the collection schedule.
They went through the ash in the incinerator and every bit of torn up city trash.
Some one here mentioned that 911 had greatly sharpened the police's forensic ability in finding human remains in ash.
The MIRA search results are not in the Jan 2020 unsealed search warrant so perhaps they did find some indications of JF there.
Search evidence which was just about to go to discovery stage with NP.
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