Martha and Robbie were just coming into the Great Hall with some new things that they had seen on their way in.
"I knew that ESPN was interested in our Mesozoic Fight Club, as well as UFC-A," said Martha, having seen such a thing on the Internet about ESPN doing an interview with the people behind the Mesozoic Fight Club, as well as what was now known as UFC-A, "But what are the other news vans doing here?"
"One of them is for a news show called Highly Questionable." said the current desk jockey, "They are apparently going to do some questions staring Animalia based off of news reports."
"I think I've heard of that show." said Robbie, having heard of it but not really watching it, "Just as long as they are respectful of us."
"The other one was from CNN, and they're covering something that happened during the ACE. It wasn't reported at the time because of the bigger things that was going on at the time."
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Apparently, due to black ice, one car from out of town t-boned another car from out of town. While both car owners were getting their insurance claims filed, both cars were towed to the local repair shop. During the repairs, one female member of the Piper Brood, who had dropped off her recently purchased, used, moped for "retrofitting" noticed a strange smell coming from the muffler of one of those cars.
After removing the muffler from the "strange-smelling car", they found that there was what looked like a heat shield over the muffler. When they cut into it, they found lots of money. The DEA was called in because, not only was the strange smell coming from the bills found, said bills ranged from $50 to well over $200. They ended up finding so much money that a machine was needed to count it. Eventually, it was determined that more than $10 million in drug money had been seized.
While life continued for the rest of Animalia, the DEA continued investigating where the drug money came from. The search led them to a trailer park on the outskirts of Las Vegas, which was actually a drop point for a major cocaine trafficking ring. Using what they had found, the authorities managed to shut down the ring. They had just finished the shutting down, and now they were doing an official report on it, and how something simple could lead to something big.
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"I'm glad they aren't causing too much trouble for us." said Robbie, "We're having a trying time keeping out the celebrity newsmongers trying to get stories on which celebrities are becoming Animalians and for what reasons."
"That's why we got the new PR-MD, so 'freedom of the press' doesn't turn into nasty 'flame' stories." answered Martha.