The alert tone cut through the low hum of the FiveM server like a scalpel.

For Officer Mike ‘Vic’ Vicceli, that was the cue. He wasn’t driving a cruiser tonight. He was behind the wheel of a matte-black SUV marked only by the faint glow of a laptop screen inside—.

The unwritten rule: Cops arrest people. State Bags arrest the evidence.

“Visual on the product,” Reese said. “Three duffels. Estimate… six hundred thousand in marked bills from the Paleto score.”

They killed the engine a quarter-mile out and moved through the brush like ghosts. The suspects—young, cocky, wearing skull bandanas—were struggling. A duffel ripped open on a thornbush, and a waterfall of cash spilled into the dirt. One of them screamed, “Forget it! Just grab what you can!”

“Load the bags,” he said. “The State’s not done collecting.”