“Judge Hayes,” Rebecca said into the phone.

“I have an urgent child endangerment and fraud case.

I need a search warrant for a commercial storage unit in Norfolk, and I need it signed tonight.”

She read the exact address on Tidewater Drive into the phone.

She listed the nineteen-thousand-dollar theft and the forged custody transfer document.

Then she described the video.

She didn’t soften the details.

She spoke in plain, completely factual sentences.