bernie tavalerio was still racking his brain trying to figure a way to catch the webb county sheriff in something that would lead to proving his complicity in the smuggling operation.-he had concocted several schemes and then had to discard them due to fatal flaws.-he understood what the deputy meant when he said he had no idea who he could trust.-he needed to be able to tie him to his superior and he sure wasnt having any luck in doing that.-he was relatively sure that carl forrester was the big boss as far as anybody local knew.-and carl forrester was , no doubt , high up in the organization ; but he simply , in his opinion , did n't have the brains to mastermind an enterprise as complex as smuggling.-the leader would be required to synchronize the transferring of the shipments across the border , then set up a distribution system and make portions of the shipments available in the proper quantities for each of the distributors after the distributors had been screened and selected..-then would come the system of handling of the monies collected from the buyers and then the laundering of those funds so they could be accounted for as legitimate income for dummy corporations that also had to be set up.-he just did n't think carl forrester had the intellect , the connections nor the leadership abilities to be the brains behind the organization.- if he knew a judge he was sure he could trust , he could maybe get an order for a phone tap , but he didnt know anybody local , so that was out unless deputy colton keenan could come up with an idea and sufficient evidence to warrant one.-he could do the phone tap anyway but without a court order , it would be illegal and any evidence would be inadmissible at a trial .