01x02 - Cavity Courier

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OFFICER LEON: There's
somebody that we're
interested in

coming from Nigeria.
I believe he's
traveling alone.

They already came off the
flight, so, we're gonna get
him by passenger processing.

DC FINN: We've arrested a lot
of people in the past coming
from Nigeria with heroin.

The drugs will come
from Afghanistan.

They'll end up in Nigeria
and then they'll break it
down and ship it

to different parts
of the world.

New York primarily
being one of them.

OFFICER LEON: A
needle in a haystack.

DC FINN: Look.

That's him.

Keep him in sight.

OFFICER LEON: The passenger
that we're interested in is
actually using

the automatic kiosk machines.

DC FINN: The intel on
this guy is pretty good.

He's associated with some
people we arrested swallowing
heroin coming from Nigeria

about 10 years ago.

This is the first
time he's come in to the
United States since then.

OFFICER LEON: He's
coming right now,
in the white suit.

DC FINN: We're waiting for
him to get his bags and talk
to him a little bit more

and see what his story is.

OFFICER LEON: It's like
a game of hot and cold,
man, you know?

You don't want to get
too close because then
it gets too hot.

You want to keep your
distance, take a look around,
see if he's with anybody.

I don't want him to feel
like, you know, all eyes
are on him.

For now we're just waiting
on the bags to come down and
him to pick up his luggage.

If it's there, we'll find it.

If it's not, "Have a nice day.

Welcome to the
U.S.A." So let's see.

AGENT: It's busy today.
SA MICHAEL: Yeah, I'll say.

With the festival, there
is a lot of people that
are gonna be coming in.

It's the start of
spring break too.

AGENT: Yeah. LAX, man.
It's non-stop.

OFFICER BARBOSA: You
travel alone today, sir?

Just you?
PASSENGER: Yes.
OFFICER BARBOSA: One?

OFFICER LARA: And what
do you do for a living?

SA MICHAEL: There's a major
music festival this weekend,
with the party scene,

there's a lot of younger
people coming in.

Sometimes we run
into issues with pills,
personal use of marijuana.

We really just wanna see
everyone having a good time,

but it's got to be
on the up-and-up.

OFFICER: So you do
YouTube, like, blogger
or something like that?

OFFICER ALBRITTON:
Hypothetically, say,
someone comes here,

they decide to get high
on something, they leave,
they get in a car accident.

They may hurt or k*ll
someone. So, you know,

we wanna do our best to
keep that from happening.

OFFICER BARBOSA:
First time America?
PASSENGER: Yes.

OFFICER ALBRITTON: So if
you wanna to come here and
go to a music festival

and do whatever you do,
hey, that's fine.

But, while you're in
the United States,

we want you to follow
the laws in this country.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
And this is your?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Your girl?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: This
your girl? What's the
purpose of your visit?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Coachella?
How long are you gonna stay?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Five days.
Are you bringing any.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: You
guys have hotels reserved
and all that?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Oh yeah?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: No, no. I
don't want the name of it.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
What about her?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: No.
No. All right, can you
come with me?

So what do you do for work?

PASSENGER: Uh, I'm a
manager of a club in Paris.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
A club in Paris?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Oh. So
what kind of work do you do?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: What
is a fashion blogger?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: No.
Instagram? I barely got,
like, Facebook.

I have like five
friends I think.

I'm gonna go through
your bags, okay?

Any contraband, any
narcotics? Yes?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: No?

Do you guys have any issues
with drugs in your clubs?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Oh,
yeah, without a doubt.

But at yours that
you work at?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: No? Oh,
these are heavy.

What do you think that
is, boss? Did you buy
them for her?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Thank
you. Have fun.

Remember, as you're going
back out of the country
drugs are still ill*gal

and you're still subject to
be searched in leaving the
country. Okay?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
So, just be safe.

Don't take anything
for granted so you
guys can come back

and enjoy more festivals
in the future.

SO KEARSE: Not every
narcotic is gonna give out
the same imaging but we do

a pretty good job at
finding a lot of stuff.

That's for sure.

We intercepted another
shipment that officers suspect
of containing some pills.

We're gonna test it
to see what it is.

OFFICER PEREZ: So we
got these two packages both
going to the same individual.

We're gonna open them up right
now and see what we got.

So here we have some pills.

They're vacuum-sealed
and the pills are in
the image of a skull.

We're not certain what it
is but both of these
packages are coming

from the Netherlands,
which is a good source
country for ecstasy.

So we're gonna have
to do a field test.

This should turn blue.
There you go.

So it's positive for MDMA.

Usually, when there's a music
festival in town or spring
break we see a rise

of ecstasy coming
into south Florida.

Let's get a weight on
it, see what we got.

There's a nice amount here.

It's probably about
a thousand pills.

So, we're gonna reach out
to Homeland Security
Investigations

for further enforcement
action.

OFFICER LEON: He
keeps looking around.

I don't know if he's
looking for an exit,
somebody he knows.

So we like to give him the
space and we like to let
him think that they're not

being looked at.

Finn.
DC FINN: Yeah?

OFFICER LEON: He got two bags.
He's going towards the back.

He just picked up his bag.
He's just looking around.

I'm not sure what he's looking
for but, could be a signal,
he's waiting for somebody.

You never know.

So I'm just gonna give
him the space and let him
come towards the exit

and as he's on his way out,
I'm gonna grab him.

How are you, brother?

How you doing?

What do you need
help with, man?

OFFICER LEON: What do
you need help with?

OFFICER LEON: Do you
need help with anything?
You need a hand?

SUSPECT: Yeah, I need help.

OFFICER LEON: What
do you need?

OFFICER LEON: Oh, well you
need to get change or you need
to pay with a credit card.

SUSPECT: (inaudible) but
I can't find (inaudible)
OFFICER LEON: Yeah.

No. I can't help you, man.
I don't carry change.

If you got all our bags I'll
help you get out of here.

OFFICER LEON: Let me get your
passport one second, man.

OFFICER LEON: You all
right? Good, man. Good.
Happy to hear that.

Come on, come on over, man.
Bring that over.

As soon as he saw me, it
looked like mom just
walked into the bathroom

while he's, you know.
One of those, "Whoa!"

That lets me know that
something may not be right
in this situation

and definitely worth a
thorough bag check.

While I'm doing the search,
I'm gonna ask you

don't touch anything on
the table, okay? We
good? (inaudible)

DC FINN: Thirty-two length?
I'm a thirty-two length.

These are yours?

DC FINN: What size
pants do you wear?

DC FINN: Thirty-three,
thirty-five, right?

Yeah, you're a tall guy.

OFFICER LEON: Thirty-two.

DC FINN: Oh, it's spandex.
Do they expand long ways?

How about this way?

They don't expand long ways.

As officers, we're
trained to be observant.

The items people are bringing
to the United States,
they need to make sense.

If it doesn't make sense,
the items that they're
bringing in their bag

may be a key point to make
us think that something
else may be going on.

OFFICER LEON: Who you
bringing this for?

OFFICER LEON: His phone
number. You're bringing
for somebody?

DC FINN: Who's this
guy? Umi? Who is he?

DC FINN: He's gonna come
and get it from you?

DC FINN: Oh. Okay. You're
like a deliveryman.

OFFICER LEON: Pack
it up, brother.

DC FINN: Nothing for him.
It's all for other people.

OFFICER LEON: You got the
reaction. You got the
body language there.

DC FINN: He's nervous, so.

OFFICER LEON: With this
gentleman, like any other
person, my job is very simple,

make sure they have good
intentions on entering
the United States.

This gentleman is gonna be
taken to the pat down room,

and we're gonna make sure
he has nothing on his body.

LEON-FINN: We're
gonna check your body.

Nothing to be afraid of.
We don't bite.

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SA MICHAEL: With major music
festivals, CBP has been
alerted to cargo coming

inbound from certain origin
countries that have
historically resulted

in seizures of drugs or at
least casework has been
developed from them.

OFFICER URIARTE: We're just
selecting certain packages,

laying them out on the ground
for the K-9 to go over here.

It doesn't look like
it's really anything.

OFFICER MOY: Oh, this
one's good to go.

I got a feeling
there's something.

It's got like a deep brownish
look to it

like it might be something
thick in there.

This is what I was
looking at.

It says it's supposed to be
some kind of milk chocolate
egg but by the look of it,

I don't think so.

And it's white powder.

I don't know what kind
of drug it is but it's
not chocolate.

We have to test it on
our machine to tell us
what kind of drug it is.

I have to put all this
protection gear just
in case it is some

kind of drug that might
do harm like fentanyl or
any other narcotics

that could put me out on
the floor right here.

We do have our Narcan
against the wall there in
case something happens.

It's telling me it's
ketamine, not fentanyl.

Let's go weigh it.

A hundred forty-six grams.

They actually did send
real candy with it.

They'll try any way to,
they can to hide it from us.

It's going somewhere here in
Southern California but they
won't be getting it now.

SSA MARCO: Okay, guys.
Our CBP officers
intercepted two parcels

that contain approximately a
thousand pills of ecstasy,

which are going to an
individual, we identified
in Coral Springs.

As far as ecstasy is
concerned, it's usually
produced overseas

and smuggled into
the United States.

For the most part we see
it from the Netherlands,
we get it from Germany.

The purity usually
tends to be pretty high.

This is our subject,
black male.

He has prior criminal
history for narcotics
trafficking.

We're gonna have an
undercover officer deliver
the parcel to him,

make sure that he accepts it
and get him to sign for it.

We do have a warrant
signed by the judge.

The package has to be
accepted into the residence

before we can execute
the warrant.

Any questions,
comments, concerns?

All right, gear up and
we'll see you guys out there
at the staging location.

All right, everybody's
going mobile. We're
heading toward you.

OFFICER LEON: There's three
ways you bring in narcotics
into this country,

that's either in the
bag, on the body, or
inside on the body.

It's a negative for
anything on the body.

So, we're gonna continue the
inspection, have an interview
with him and then we'll see

how far we gotta
go with this.

DC FINN: So you're gonna
be here for three weeks?

That's a long time.
What do you plan on
doing on your trip?

SUSPECT: Just visit a
lot of amusement parks.

DC FINN: Do you know
anybody in New York?

SUSPECT: No. Except that
person that pick his clothes.

DC FINN: Whose house
are you gonna be staying
at while you're here?

SUSPECT: Here?
DC FINN: Yeah.

SUSPECT: I'm staying
at a hotel.

DC FINN: This one? The
Orchard Street Hotel?

Sit, sit, sit. Orchard
Street? Sit, sit, sit, sit.

SUSPECT: That's why I
made two reservations
so that if I go there,

if it's too expensive I
will check for another
one that is cheaper.

DC FINN: Wait, so, you
don't know how much
money the hotel is?

SUSPECT: Two hundred and.

DC FINN: Two hundred and what?

SUSPECT: Two hundred.
DC FINN: Sit. Sit. Sit.

Please don't, please
don't keep standing up.

I need you to stay seated.

People get nervous when people
stand up on our side, yeah.

So you have a reservation
right now in two places?

Can you be in two
places at once?

SUSPECT: It's not possible.
DC FINN: It's not possible,
right?

That's silly. Just as silly
as having two reservations
for the same amount of time.

SUSPECT: You have
to check the hotel.

DC FINN: You know what's a
good way of checking hotels?

SUSPECT: No, sir.
DC FINN: The internet.

So what kind of
business do you have?

SUSPECT: Used clothings.
DC FINN: Used clothing?

So do you have like
a warehouse?

SUSPECT: No. Not warehouse
like factory.

DC FINN: Sit, sit. Sit.

SUSPECT: Not warehouse
like factory.

DC FINN: Right, so it's
a store.

SUSPECT: Just a store.
You know, this textile.
DC FINN: Sit, sit, sit, sit.

SUSPECT: I want to
show you something.

DC FINN: No, no, no.
Sit. Sit. I'll get it.
Don't worry.

We can talk, right? I saw
the textiles already.
SUSPECT: Okay.

DC FINN: I'm gonna go over
something with you, okay?

How much money would you
make in a good month?

SUSPECT: Seven hundred
dollars.

DC FINN: Seven hundred
dollars? In a good month?

So a bad month would be what?

SUSPECT: Four hundred,
three hundred.

DC FINN: Four hundred. So,
let's just say you make five
hundred dollars a month.

Right? So that's six
thousand dollars a year.

How much money you have
in your bank account?
Approximate.

DC FINN: So the money
you have in your bank
is only about $2,000 US?

Have you paid for
your hotel yet?
SUSPECT: Not yet.

DC FINN: That's
$4,400 for your hotel.

That's $4,400 that you
have to pay before you
leave America.

You only have access to
$2,200 plus the $1,500
in your pocket.

Can you tell me what that
math is? Under $4,000.

So something does not
add up.

SUSPECT: How? I don't
understand, sir.

DC FINN: Well, I just
played it out for you.

How did, how can you
afford this trip?
SUSPECT: Oh.

DC FINN: Your one-year
salary is $6,000.

And what you're telling
me right now, this trip
costs more than that.

There is money coming
from somewhere else
in your situation.

He has two different
itineraries at a hotel.

The money he's traveling
doesn't seem to be enough
to substantiate his trip

and keep him here for the
time he's saying.

So, you know, those are
things that are
important to us.

When things aren't adding
up, we have to question
travelers a little bit

further to make sure that
they're here to do what
they say they're going to do.

Right now we don't know where
you're going. Safe to say.

DC FINN: So if I call the
Orchard Street Hotel
they're gonna say that

you have a reservation there?

DC FINN: I know I can
do a lot of things.

I'm asking you if they
are going to confirm that?
SUSPECT: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

DC FINN: We'll call them
up and.

DC FINN: No. I'm not
calling pick you up.

Calling to see if you have
a reservation 'cause I'mma
bet my bottom dollar

you don't even have one.
You wanna bet?

SUSPECT: Go ahead and call.
I have reservation.

DC FINN: Yeah, I know
you're not gonna have one.

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OFFICER LEON: No
problem, thank you for
your time, all right?

You have a great
one. Bye-bye.

We ran his name, told them,
"Hey, listen, you know what?

We wanna find out if there's
any reservation

starting today or tomorrow
to the day that he said

he was gonna be here."
Nothing's on file.
Nothing's there.

They don't even have a
record of him even attempting
to make a reservation, so.

It is not, it's playing
out too well in his favor.

God knows where this guy is
gonna be staying tonight but
hopefully by the time this

interview's done, we figure
out exactly where he's going.

DC FINN: But you don't
have reservation at the
Orchard Street Hotel.

We called them.
SUSPECT: You said I don't
have?

DC FINN: No. Hundred
percent.

So at this point, we
really haven't gotten to
the bottom of the story.

It seems to be he's
lying about a lot of the
things he's telling us.

We definitely haven't
ruled out the fact that he
swallowed some narcotics.

Being as this guy is
associated to internal
couriers from Africa

in the past, we need to talk
to him a little bit more

about his associations to
those people because

they may very well be
just friends, family,

or they may be
associations in the drug
game in a business

that he probably
shouldn't be a part of.

SO FONTANA: Where you
from in Nigeria, again?

SUSPECT: From Abiriba.

Abiriba? I met a few
guys from there.

I wanted to see if you
knew who they were.

Daniel (bleep).

SUSPECT: Daniel (bleep)?
He's from Abiriba?

SO FONTANA: Yeah. Doesn't
remember?

SUSPECT: No.

SO FONTANA: What
about Michael (bleep).

SUSPECT: I don't know.
SO FONTANA: No?

You don't know him either?
What about Samuel (bleep)?

SUSPECT: I don't know, sorry.

SO FONTANA: You know anyone
by those names? Daniel,
Michael, and Samuel?

SUSPECT: I don't know.
SO FONTANA: No friends?

SUSPECT: No.
SO FONTANA: No?

SUSPECT: What does
that (bleep).

DC FINN: Think he was in the
same business as you actually.

Actually I think he was here
right around the same time
you were here last in 2010.

Same business,
same hometown, here in
America at the same time.

SUSPECT: Does he live
in States?

DC FINN: He lives in the
U.S. for probably about
five years.

Yeah. Penitentiary.
In prison.

He lived in prison for
swallowing cocaine.

Coincidence, I guess.

SUSPECT: I don't
know about cocaine.

I don't know
anything about drugs.

DC FINN: Nothing?

You gotta understand,
I know a lot of things about
the people we interact with.

You know why you're
in this room?
SUSPECT: Yes, sir.

DC FINN: What do
customs officers do?

We look for people coming
into America maybe to do
some harm to us but

the officers you're in
the room with now,

we're on a specialized
unit here at the airport.

We're on the narcotics
unit, the drug team. What?

SUSPECT: I'm having
pain here.

DC FINN: You're having pain?
You want an ambulance?

SUSPECT: Ambulance?
DC FINN: Yeah.

SUSPECT: No.
DC FINN: Oh, okay.

Your safety is the most
important thing right now.

Go ahead, lay down.

Just let him rest.

SSA MARCO: We're on
our way right now to
the staging location.

We got a team that's got
eyes on the apartment.

Basically we're gonna start
heading in for the delivery.

SSA MARCO: Negative,
negative. Stand by.

See where we're
gonna set up.

AGENT: Right now we're
just driving around

until we find the most
advantageous place to park.

And we're waiting for the
other units to get staged
up and ready to go.

SSA MARCO: All right,
so, I think that's our
building right there.

Hey Chris, Marco. That's
that the location, right?

Where the stairwell is?

SSA MARCO: Yeah, that's it.

It's the door under
the stairwell.

Everybody inside
perimeter, everybody's
all set, ready to go?

SSA MARCO: Okay. Let's go
ahead and send the U.C.

in whenever he's ready.

That's the target residence.

Right now we're gonna
have the undercover
officer come in

with the two packages
to make the delivery

and then subsequently
after that we'll give
it some time, you know,

for him to open the
package, go into it.

So when we make entry we sort
of, you know, catch him with

the hand-in-the-cookie-jar
type of analogy.

AGENT: That's a crummy
analogy.

SSA MARCO: You don't
like that?

SSA MARCO: Ten four.
Copy that.

Okay. We got a visual.
U.C.'s at the target

residence right now,
just knocked on the
door. Stand by.

Doors open. U.C.'s
made contact.

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SSA MARCO: Door's open.
U.C.'s made contact.

Okay, package has been
accepted. Delivery has
been made.

It is inside the apartment.

Entry team and secondary
back-up team be ready to go.

SSA MARCO: Ten four.
Copy that.

All units, all units be
advised that the subject
is not at home.

The subject is not at home.

The female accepted
delivery of the package.

She was on the phone with
the target at the time.

He's allegedly on his
way home. Everybody copy?

OFFICER: Ten four.
Good copy.

SSA MARCO: Unfortunately,
in law enforcement this
is typical.

When we're doing these
type of operations they
don't usually, you know,

we deliver and then we'll
just have to sit here
until he does arrive.

On another controlled
delivery we sat on it
for three days in a row.

So it's, you know,
part of the job.

SC WATSON: We're just kind
of looking for a bunch

of Coachella people
on this flight.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: We also
have four twenty coming up.

SC WATSON: Exactly.

We're going to conduct an
outbound operation today.

We find that a lot of
travelers that come here
to attend these festivals

will obtain narcotics and
bring them back with them.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Sir?
Sir? Come with me.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
You have nothing?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Nothing. What are we
talking about nothing?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Hey, listen to the
questions. All right?

When you say you have
nothing with you what
are you talking about?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Why
would you tell me weed?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Is there anything in here
that I need to know about?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: No? Have
you been around it before,

while you were here
in the U.S.?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Somebody offered you what?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Weed?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Did you have some?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Where
were you while you were in
the U.S.? Where'd you go?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
You were in Coachella?
PASSENGER: Yes.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: So you
were around, all right.

All right. You know
what? It's a little
leaf of marijuana.

You were smoking
weed at the festival?

It's a yes or no question.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Thank you. And you're
a visitor, right?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Federally, marijuana
is ill*gal.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: You
visit America first and then
you go visit California.

You're not supposed to
be partaking in, now
what does that mean?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: You
might want to take this a
little bit more serious.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: You have
work to go back to today?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Next week
you have to be, all right?
PASSENGER: Yes.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: So,
you have plenty of time.

You might not make today's
flight, my friend.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ:
Oh, now it's serious?

Remember the little
sign that you had?

You were making a commercial.
Now, it's not funny anymore.

Now it's not fun
and games, right?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Oh, yes it
was when you were throwing up
your little signs.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Keep
smiling.

Go ahead and stand up
against that wall right
there, for me.

I'mma talk to my boss. He
just has a little leaf.

He was at Coachella
like everyone else.

SC WATSON: Oh, that's it?

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Yeah.
Now that's what I'm saying,
it's a little leaf.

SC WATSON: How often
do you use marijuana?

SC WATSON: Give me the number.
OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: Per week.
SC WATSON: Yeah.

SC WATSON: Get his
information. We're
gonna cancel his ESTA.

We encounter these ESTA
travelers who only visited
for the purpose

of attending the
music festival.

If we go through their
belongings and we find
any controlled substances

or they have a long-time
history of drug use, then they
actually become ineligible

for the Visa Waiver Program.

We already know that you're
an habitual marijuana user.

If you try to come in on an
ESTA again per federal law
we're gonna have to

remove you from the
country. We're gonna
visa waiver refuse you.

We're gonna let you go today
because it's just, it's,
it's just like nothing.

OFFICER RODRIGUEZ: We allowed
him to go home without
interfering with his travel

but we're gonna flag him for
future travel into the U.S.

SC WATSON: Good job, Ringo.
Good job, Ringo.

DC FINN: You all right?
SUSPECT: I'm all right.

DC FINN: No problem.

Here in New York, we see a
little bit of everything.
We see people coming from,

from Africa, from South
America, from the
Caribbean, all right?

We deal with people
coming from all over.

SUSPECT: All right, sir.
DC FINN: Right?

And one of the ways people
bring drugs into the
country from, you know,

different places but Nigeria
one of them, is they swallow
pellets. Right?

They make a phone call,
they let the people in New
York know that they're here

and then they start to
pass the pellets that
are in their stomach.

And they make a lot
of money on that.

We went over your
finances before.

You know, maybe
business isn't so great.

Maybe things aren't
doing too good at home.

So, when we deal with people
like yourself that may be
doing that, you know, we want,

we want to help these
people out, right?

What's gonna happen
today is we're gonna
take you to the doctor.

Yes. So, an x-ray
from here to here

is gonna show everything
inside of your stomach.

When people swallow drugs
and they try to come into
America, they go to jail.

You will not walk out this
door until we find out
what's in your stomach.

SUSPECT: Oh my God.
DC FINN: Yeah. Let's go.

So in order for us
to take you for an x-ray
we need your permission.

Are you willing
to take an x-ray?

SUSPECT: Yes, sir.
DC FINN: Okay.

So I want you to sign it
here. Okay, that's good.

So now, this is the first
step in doing better, right?

SUSPECT: No problem, sir.
DC FINN: Step one.

We see over 12 million
international travelers
come in at the JFK.

We take literally under 50
of those to a doctor to have
an x-ray examination done.

We're not grabbing people
off the plane and throwing
them in front of an x-ray.

We do our due diligence.
We're gonna bring you over
to the doctor. Okay?

So, according to our
policy, we're gonna have
to put handcuffs on you.

You're not under arrest.

You're just being detained.

Once the doctor says there's
nothing inside of you,

we take the handcuffs off
and free to go. Okay?

OFFICER LEON: Okay,
do me a favor. Stand up.

Turn around. Okay.

We're gonna grab this arm
over here and this arm back.
There you go.

DC FINN: You okay?
SUSPECT: Yes, sir.

DC FINN: The x-ray
doesn't lie.

It'll be the answer
that everybody has a
question mark for now.

OFFICER: Your arms
good? Okay.

Just a few minutes
like this, all right?

DC FINN: And we'll
know for sure.

We won't be thinking
about it later.

OFFICER LEON: Thank you.

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OFFICER LEON: Keep going.
Nice and slow.

Come right over here.
Take a seat over here.

Sit down. Sit down.
Wait for the doctor.

DC FINN: Dealing with
internal couriers of
narcotics,

it's a very dangerous game.
Some people

do desperate things
because they're in
desperate situations.

The guys that want those
drugs here are not gonna
care about their health.

Now, we've arrested many
people that as soon as we
get to that doctor

and take that x-ray they
need immediate medical
attention.

You know, first and foremost
is the safety and the health

of the passenger and keeping
these drugs off our streets.

OFFICER LEON: X-ray
don't lie, man.

X-ray don't lie. There's
no in between with x-rays.

Either it is or it isn't.

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OFFICER URIARTE: Two what, oh,
these two pieces right here?

Going through some
cargo boxes here.

Just doing a random check,
seeing if we can find illicit
contraband, mainly drugs,

narcotics.

OFFICER URIARTE: Yeah, we
just wanna x-ray these two
pieces of cargo right here.

OFFICER: You see all the
metal. Yeah, and then
this is organic.

OFFICER URIARTE: Well,
it's definitely something we
wanna take a closer look at.

OFFICER: Leave it in.

OFFICER: Yeah, so
you can pull it out.

OFFICER: Just screw it,
yeah, just like that.

OFFICER URIARTE: Well, it looks
like it's marijuana but we're
gonna test it to make sure.

OFFICER: Oh, you
can already smell.

Kind of a purple hue.

Looks like marijuana.

This is an export shipment
so, you know, it's fairly
common going out to the U.K.

A lot of dispensaries
here. Ship it out.

OFFICER URIARTE: So this
cargo was manifested as
computer parts and it has

a switch on the side here.

Probably to make it look
like it's something legit.

But then after opening it
up, we find that it's not
computer parts at all.

It does look like a lot.

We have three pallets.

So right now we're just
gonna go ahead and
process this seizure.

We contact our sister agency
HSI and they're gonna make a
determination if they want

to get involved in
this seizure and take
a closer look.

SSA MARCO: We've been
sitting here probably about
five and a half hours

since we arrived on scene
and started surveillance of
the target residence.

Minimal activity but no
sign of the main target yet.

So, we shall wait.

SSA MARCO: Copy. Please.

Yup.

SSA MARCO: Yeah. Ten four,
confirm. Confirm.

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SSA MARCO: You see him?
He's outside with
something in his hand.

OFFICER: It's gotta
be the box, man.

SSA MARCO: Yeah. That's the
guy picking up the dope.

Just gave him something
in his hand. I don't
see what it is.

SSA MARCO: Nothing's
exchanged hands except money.

SSA MARCO: Stay on the
residence. The packages
haven't moved

and we didn't see him
come out the door so,
we're still good.

Keep eyes on the apartment.
That's the primary target.

Door opened.

He's got something
in his hand.

Appears to be one of the
boxes, he just placed it
outside in front

to the right and now it's in
front of the apartment.

And he seems to be
breaking it apart.

Entry team and secondary
backup team, go.

SSA MARCO: Guys.

Clear. We got one.

AGENT: The suspect
brought the two packages
outside of the apartment.

Looked like he started
tearing one open.

So, entry team,
arrest team moved in.

We had them take him down
outside without any incident.

SSA MARCO: (inaudible)
(bleep) right?
MAN: Yes, sir.

SSA MARCO: After a long
five and a half hours of
waiting doing surveillance,

the patience paid off, we
went ahead and ex*cuted
the search warrant.

Took one into custody.

SSA MARCO: We're all
family men. We're all
men of family here.

SSA MARCO: We understand.
All right, bro?

SSA MARCO: All right,
my man. Just bear with
us a minute

and we'll bring you
inside and get you out
of the open here.

Nobody needs to be
looking at this.

Right now, we're
gonna be sitting down
with him, talk to him.

Seems like he's, he'll, he's
gonna cooperate so basically
after a long day's work,

mission accomplished.

Unfortunately, when we did
the search warrant we did
encounter the subject's

family, two children and
unfortunately his actions
have consequences

and the family now has
to deal with that.

OFFICER URIARTE: So,
we called HSI, let them know
of the seizure that we have.

We have all the boxes out now
for them to take a look at
with the original packaging.

There was 30 boxes.

The weight came in
at 386 kilos.

Definitely a good
bust for today.

SA DON: With this
information we have,

we ended up reached out
to our Attaché office.

They talked to their
international
partners overseas.

They're good to go and
they wanna continue
the investigation.

We'll repackage it and
we'll send it overseas.

OFFICER URIARTE: All
right, sounds good.

SA DON: We'll jump in
and give you guys a hand.

OFFICER URIARTE: Roger that
that's most important.

OFFICER: Hey, one down,
eight hundred to go, right?

OFFICER URIARTE: So right now
we're just repackaging it how
we found it originally.

So it will be all ready to
go for the trip overseas.

SA DON: This is great
partnership between CBP
and HSI.

We get the narcotics
off the street.

We get to continue to
potentially the
investigation overseas

with our law enforcement
partners and then of course

we'll hear back if there's
anything that we could

potentially work back
here in the United States.

We'll get that
information as well.

OFFICER LEON: It's negative
for foreign bodies meaning

he doesn't have anything in
his system of our interest.

Okay. Come on outside. And
take a seat over there.

We took the inspection
as far as we needed to
for our satisfaction,

you know, about, there was a
lot of holes in the, in the
gentleman's story

from where he's staying
to who he's seeing, to
what he's doing here.

So, it's our job to
verify that everybody
coming into the U.S.

has good intentions and
that's what we did today.

SO FONTANA: No hard feelings,
man. Don't take it personal.

OFFICER LEON: Good,
good. I'm happy that
this was negative.

SUSPECT: Thank you.

OFFICER LEON: You're welcome.
SO FONTANA: Enjoy, all right?

OFFICER LEON: Appreciate it.

You have that bag I'll grab,
I'll grab the heavy one.
I'll grab this one.

OFFICER LEON: Go, man.
Let's go.

No (inaudible) go
ahead lead the way.

And then you enjoy your
stay here in America.

DC FINN: My job is to
keep the drugs from
coming here into America

and getting out on
the streets.

I'm not here to delay people.
I'm not here to annoy people.

I'm not here to bother them.

OFFICER LEON: How
are you, buddy?

What was the purpose of
your travel, brother?

DC FINN: This gentleman,
at the end, he understood.

I mean, he knew that
we have a job to do.

It's nothing personal.