What we couldn't do was directly expose the LAPD with a link to whatever black shit we might be doing. What we COULD do was use their resources. Which we did.

The luggage tag was traced to a home in Beverly Hills that actually did belong to a Ronald Coleman. The phone number and address were traced to a couple in Silver Lake, neither of whose names were a match for those on the lease papers. Perhaps not surprisingly.

We held a team meeting.

"The luggage thingy was for a trip from DFW to LAX," Meyer said. "Which likely was a return trip - likely, because he owns a home...