On: How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime

[meric]

A DEA agent boarded the train at the Albuquerque Amtrak station and began asking various passengers, including Rivers, where they were going and why.

I wonder if the DEA agent followed him on the train after having found out the bank had reported a bunch of "suspicious" cash withdrawals and given up the victim's identity.

[spacemanmatt → meric]

That's how parallel construction works.