Vice City's Most Wanted Fugitive Evades Capture for Nine Years by Working as VCPD Consultant
An internal review released Thursday by the Leonida Department of Justice revealed that Calvin "Slick Cal" Rourke, Vice City's most wanted criminal for a nine-year period between 2015 and 2024, successfully evaded all capture attempts by working, under his own legal name, as a paid consultant to the Vice City Police Department's fugitive apprehension division.
Rourke, wanted on fourteen counts of wire fraud, three counts of grand theft, and one count that court documents describe only as "the boat thing," submitted his consulting CV to the VCPD's third-party contractor portal in 2015, listed his specialization as "fugitive psychology and evasion pattern analysis," and was engaged at $180 per hour to advise on how wanted criminals think and where they are likely to hide. He was assigned to consult specifically on the Calvin "Slick Cal" Rourke case in 2017 and recommended, in a 40-page report for which he invoiced $14,000, that investigators focus their search on Miami, Tampa, and "probably somewhere in Georgia" — none of which are in Leonida.
The arrangement came to light only when Rourke's government contractor badge was used to swipe into the secure evidence locker where documentation from his own criminal case was stored. The officer who reviewed the badge log recognized the name. Rourke has been charged. At a press conference, VCPD Chief Loretta Baines declined to explain how the contractor vetting process works, stating only that she had "a lot of thoughts" and would "be sharing them internally." Four of Rourke's consulting invoices remain unpaid. His lawyer has indicated he intends to collect.
