Caleb Foster found the financial connection two days before the hearing.
Corridor Metrics had been established by a former police department administrator named Jeffrey Sloan.
Sloan had left the city payroll six months before the company received its first contract.
He was married to Wade Larkin’s sister, but that fact alone did not prove misconduct.
The important detail appeared in the payment approvals.
Sloan billed the city for verifying intervention statistics that his office had received directly from Crestwood Recovery.
The supposed verification process involved comparing each tow receipt with a duplicate copy of the same receipt.
The company had charged more than two hundred thousand dollars over several years for the service.
Priya examined a diagram Caleb had prepared.
“What does the city contract require?”
“Independent review of whether the intervention met program rules.

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“Did Sloan’s office review police reports?”
“We have no evidence that it did.”
“Then the service they billed for may not have been delivered.”
Caleb nodded.
Their investigative team had also located a set of messages showing that Sterling asked Sloan to reclassify several removals after a quarterly performance target was missed.
The messages did not show cash being handed to the chief.
They showed pressure to convert questionable actions into successful program events.
“We need to be careful not to call this bribery without proof,” Priya said.
“It’s still a serious procurement problem.”
“And it may explain why the department resisted correcting its numbers.”
Roth reviewed their findings with the assigned prosecutor handling financial allegations.
He decided that the imminent civil hearing should focus on preserving records, preventing retaliation,

and addressing ongoing seizures.
Potential criminal charges would be reviewed separately.
“I don’t want a judge thinking we have bundled every accusation into a theatrical reveal,” he told Priya.
“We can establish the pattern without exaggerating it.”
That afternoon, the court received a motion from Sterling’s lawyer asking to exclude testimony about the Route 9 stop.
The motion argued that Young Jenkins had an institutional conflict and had deliberately provoked an encounter.
Roth read the filing twice.
“They are trying to turn an ordinary driver’s conduct into a conspiracy because of her job,” he said.
Priya handed him the rental booking confirmation.
Young had reserved the car before the regional schedule was finalized.
The traffic stop occurred outside her assigned meetings, and the footage showed no provocation.
Roth knew that the motion could still complicate the hearing.
He drafted a response explaining that Young had been screened from investigatory decisions and would testify as a fact witness about her own experience.
Her title did not entitle her to favorable treatment.
It also did not erase the ordinary rights she possessed before the chief knew her name.