"Yes."
"You participated in the false lockdown."
Dana looked briefly at her attorney before answering. "Yes."
Paul did not soften his voice. "And you searched Isaiah Williams's property without a documented arrest or proper evidence intake."
"Yes."
"Whose instruction?"
"Harland's."
Paul waited; Dana continued: "He told me a black storage device had to be recovered before it left the hospital."
"Did he explain what was on it?"
"Not everything. He said it contained internal material that could be taken out of context."
"Did you believe that?"
"At first."
"And later?"
Dana looked down at the table. "Later, I realized nobody puts an emergency department into lockdown over something harmless."
Paul let the silence work; Dana finally continued: "This wasn't the first time he used the hospital liaison office to keep property outside normal intake."
"How often?"
"I don't know the total number."
"Give me what you do know."
She described previous incidents in which property was temporarily held under hospital security classifications before being entered into the precinct system: complaints were sometimes rewritten before reaching supervisory review; language such as "interference," "security concern," and "temporary hold" replaced more specific descriptions that might have triggered outside scrutiny.
"Did Harland tell you to alter reports?" Paul asked.
"Sometimes directly. Sometimes he'd say the narrative needed to be cleaner. Everybody around him understood what that meant."
"'Everybody'?"
Dana shook her head. "Not everyone: the people he trusted."
Paul leaned forward slightly. "Did you consider yourself one of those people?"
Dana looked toward her attorney again, but this time she answered without help: "I thought I was."
The interview continued until Dana had identified dates, procedures, and names that investigators could compare against records already recovered from Turner's USB. Paul did not ask her to interpret motives; he asked for actions: who gave the instruction, who moved the property, who changed the classification, who approved the final report.
By the time Dana signed the statement, the case no longer depended on whether anyone believed her: her account matched evidence that already existed elsewhere. That was what made it valuable.
Across town, Captain Daniel Ruiz sat in his office with two representatives from the independent review team and a stack of access requests waiting for his signature. For years, Ruiz had allowed Harland to manage sensitive hospital incidents because Harland was good at making complicated situations become simple reports. Now Ruiz understood what that simplicity had cost.
One of the investigators placed a form in front of him. "This authorizes full access to the precinct complaint archive, liaison records, evidence routing history, and supervisory review files."