02x06 - Stash House Takedown

[bunniefuu]

BRITO: Right now we're waiting
on two flights coming

from the Dominican Republic

which is a source country for narcotics,

uh, especially cocaine.

Passport.

You don't know how a
drug trafficker looks like.

They use old people, young people.

The more people you stop the better chance

you have to get something.

Hi.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: You have your passport?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: And you're coming from
Santiago or Santo Domingo?

BRITO: Your flight
is not here, it's upstairs.

Follow me. Follow.

He's a young kid, kind of lost,

he didn't know where to go
now for his connecting flight.

He didn't want to make any eye contact

and I found that strange.

Anybody ask you to put
anything in your bag?

- [PASSENGER SPEAKING]
- BRITO: Everything is yours?

- [PASSENGER SPEAKING]
- BRITO: Okay.

So, how long you were in
the Dominican Republic?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: And what do you do here?

You go to school, work?

BRITO: So the school,
you know, it's open

so you stay there for a whole
month, what happened with that?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: Are you okay?

BRITO: You're too jumpy.
What's going on?

BRITO: So how old are you now?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO:
Who paid for your ticket?

For your plane ticket?

BRITO: Your brother
in North Carolina or where?

BRITO: Oh, he's in California.

Have you ever been in California?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: Okay, you came
from California going to the

Dominican Republic?

Here, come pay attention.

So you came from California here
and then the Dominican Republic?

BRITO: And what is the plan?
What are you gonna do now?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: What is this?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: Why are you
gonna bring an Xbox?

Can you x-ray that for me?
Let me know.

It's something that we always
got to check 'cause we have

found drugs inside
Xboxs, speakers, electronics,

radios, TVs, any item.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: To the x-ray.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

MARRERO: Let's see
what we get with this one.

BISOT: Ready to go to work?

Up.

This is Niro, he's been my
partner for the last five years.

We're here at the mail
facility and we're just

looking for narcotics.

We're looking for heroin, ecstasy,

fentanyl, marijuana.

And lately, we've been
getting a lot of cocaine.

If there's odor, he's gonna find it.

There's something there, huh?

So he's alerted to the package.

And this box is coming from Panama.

Marrero!
I got an alert on the box.

Can you check it out, please?

MARRERO: You got it, brother.

This one was going to Georgia.

I'm gonna run it through
the x-ray and take a look

and we'll see what's going on.

Yup, there's definitely
something wrong with that box.

Now comes the fun part,
we gotta open the box.

Brand new clothes,
it looks like a gift or something.

But maybe that's just to try
to convince us that it's good.

But we'll check it out,
maybe it's in the box.

The only way to tell is
cutting it or probing it.

Let's see if I can get under here.

That's glued really good.

This is definitely something wrong,

these boxes aren't
usually glued like this.

There we go.

It's loaded around the perimeter.

It's got something concealed
inside the flaps of the box.

It could be any drug.

It's not a lot right here
but it'll add up.

That blue stuff is detergent,
you can smell it.

It's to mask the chemical
odor of the narcotics.

Fortunately, the canine
has a really good scent.

So, for him, obviously it didn't work.

And the x-ray machine
doesn't care about smells,

it doesn't look for it.

You know?

We have eight packages total,

we're gonna test it real quick.

We're gonna use a Thermo
Scientific Gemini and it'll

send a laser beam through the material.

It'll tell me what it is.

Oh, it's cocaine hydrochloride.

278.4 grams.

A little over a quarter of a kilo.

Now we're gonna do a seizure report

where we'll document everything.

Where it's coming from,
who it was going to.

We're gonna call HSI maybe do
a controlled delivery or maybe

it ends here and we
just seize the narcotics

and it gets destroyed.

They're pretty good at it,
they put brand new clothes,

they send you the receipt
so you think it's a legitimate purchase.

It was a good try.

They get an A for effort.

It just didn't work out for them.

BRITO: He seemed
extremely nervous, fidgety.

ROBRETCH: What do you got?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

- ROBRETCH: It's good?
- [OFFICER SPEAKING]

ROBRETCH: Okay, where'd it
come out, through here?

BRITO: Everything's okay?

ROBRETCH: Yeah, it's good.

BRITO: Okay,
so there's nothing in there.

You can put it away.

Hang out here, I'll be back.

I'm gonna check the ticket.

We checked the bags, everything was clean

but I trust my instinct.

He told me his brother paid
for his ticket and I would

like to verify all the
information that is possible.

He said he went
from California, D.R.,

but now he's gonna go to North Carolina.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

BRITO: He said a month.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

BRITO: And the ticket
was purchased by who?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

BRITO:
Yeah. Uh-hmm. All right.

I did some research about his flight
and everything was okay.

All right, let's put everything away.

The bag was negative,
the Xbox was negative,

so he's good to go for me.

When you go out the door make
a left and then you're gonna go upstairs.

PASSENGER:
All right, thank you.

BRITO: All right,
have a good day.

PASSENGER: You too.

BRITO: Oy-oy-oy,

some people get nervous
just to be nervous.

So I guess we got to move on.

OFFICER: Search warrant!
Open the door!

OFFICER: Damn!

OFFICER: Yeah, it's meth.

- OFFICER: Meth?
- OFFICER: Meth. Yes.

OFFICER: There you go.

DAVE: All right. So we got information
that a large quantity of

methamphetamine was smuggled
from Mexico and has come to a

local stash house and it's
possibly being distributed

from this location.

So what we're gonna do today
is we're gonna do some

physical surveillance
on that target location.

Uh, see what kind of activity
is going on at the house.

We did start doing
surveillance three or four

days ago on this residence.

And we've seen somebody
moving back and forth.

[WIT SPEAKING]

DAVE: He was driving
a black pickup truck.

DAVE: We do believe
he's a drug dealer

but we don't have that probable cause
to kick his door right now.

Hopefully if everything goes well,

we'll be able to do a search
warrant inside the house

and take off this large quantity of drugs.

So that's it, ready to roll?

THOMAS: Ready to roll.

[OFFICER ON RADIO]

DAVE: Loud and clear.

I'm gonna go ahead and do
a drive by and see if I can see

any other cars
that we haven't seen before,

see any other people moving out.

See the activities
of our main target just to,

kind of, get a feel of a pattern.

So just beyond this white house.

So this is what we
believe to be the stash house.

It's got a light blue door
so it's very easy to identify.

All right, so we're gonna drive by.

We think that this bulk load
of methamphetamine is probably

sitting in this house.

Hopefully, we'll see some kind
of deal go down where these

drugs are being exchanged.

MARRERO:
We're gonna run all these boxes.

Through the mail facility
we get narcotics every day.

You name it, we've seen it loaded.

Sneakers, coffee beans, radios,

hard drives, electronic equipment.

Nothing surprise us anymore,
it's like every day you get

something new.

This one was a negative,
definitely not narcotics.

That doesn't look good

and it says sporting goods
equipment and two fans.

I don't see the reason to send fans,

they got them everywhere.

This package is coming from
a source country Trinidad and Tobago

and it's going to a demand
country, Australia.

The value is very high over
there for any type of narcotic.

Something doesn't look right.

It seems like cheap plastic
but in the image it looks too thick.

The only way to really look
if you don't like the image is to

take a quick peek inside.

See that right there?

That's not supposed to be there,

that's why it looks
thicker in the x-ray machine.

They usually glue them in

and they're not hard to pop off.

Try to see if we could peel
back a little bit of it so we

can see what's under it.

And whatever it is,
it's wrapped in aluminum foil.

Here we go.

See, it's loaded.

You can see that it's white.

I'll test it real quick.

We should have blue
with some pink above it.

It's hard to see but it's there,

it's positive, it's cocaine.

You have 806.4 grams.

I can tell you what it's
going to go for now, nothing.

One for the good guys.

BRITO: Huh? You need what?

You need a witness?
You're gonna do the PD or no?

All right, go ahead and tell
your passenger we're gonna

take her to a private room
and I'm gonna head up there.

We have a female passenger
coming off from the Caribbean.

What's up with this one?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

BRITO: One of the officers
randomly selected her.

She had a short trip she went
for a few days but she had a

huge bag with her and I want
to see why the bag is so big.

What she has in there.

Check everything.

We gotta feel every panel,
the sides, bottom.

Can I see the purse?

That felt heavy,

something else in here.

Oh, wow, surprise!

What is this?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: Something
was inside behind the lining

of the purse, a package.

On each side of the bag.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: Yeah.

[ROSARIO SPEAKING]

BRITO: Get me the test kit.

Remain seated there, we're
gonna test what you're bringing here.

[PASSENGER CRYING]

Oy-yoy-yoy. Here you go,
positive for cocaine.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: Now we're gonna place
the passenger under arrest for

the importation of narcotics
into the United States.

- Go ahead.
- [SHAEFER SPEAKING]

OFFICER:
You're under arrest for importation

- of narcotics. Okay.
- [PASSENGER SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Just relax.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

BRITO: She's thinking it's
a nightmare but this is reality.

RAIO: 1.167.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

[RAIO SPEAKING]

[BRITO SPEAKING]

[RAIO SPEAKING]

You understand you were
transporting narcotics into

the United States?

So at this point, the more you give me,

the better that this
is going to go for you,

so do whatever you can to help yourself.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

DAVE [ON RADIO]: In position
with an eye on the target door.

THOMAS: All right, 10-4.

DAVE: The target left
what we believe to be the stash house

probably about an hour ago
but we didn't have enough people

up here at the time to follow him.

I was able to see him walk out
and he didn't have anything in

his hands, so he may be
running some errands,

but we don't know.

THOMAS: Our target is driving
a black Dodge Ram pickup truck.

So now, it's just a waiting game.

DAVE: Oop, this might be good.

The target just arrived back.

[OFFICER ON RADIO]

DAVE: Oh, yeah,
he's sitting in his black truck.

Oh, he's moving right now.

He's out of the truck.

He's got a small bag.

He's looking around quite a bit.

That could be money, it looks boxy,

kind of like if you have a stack of cash.

Who knows?

It's gonna have to be
something certain to find

the right amount of probable
cause to take him down.

It's the bag he had in his
hand when he went into the

target location, so to me
that looks like he went

and picked up some cash from somewhere.

And then we've got a train.

About to be out of my view,

have a train that decided

to stop for some reason
right in front of me.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

I can't tell what he's got in his hands.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: No, I could
barely see under the train.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

THOMAS: Copy.

DAVE: The bags could be
some meth ready to go.

THOMAS: Uh, he's,
uh, in the truck.

He's backing out.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: Oh, sh**t.
He's moving right now.

He maybe going to a drug
deal and I am blocked.

DAVE: Oh, he's
moving right now.

We've got a possible
drug dealer with possibly

the drugs in his car.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER 2 OVER RADIO]

[THOMAS OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

THOMAS: He might be going
through the neighborhood.

All right, let's see.
Yeah, right here.

So that's him right
there, black Dodge RAM.

Yeah, I just met him at the intersection,

going Northbound.

DAVE: So our target pulled out
and we've got some guys

that are following him right now.

We're gonna try to catch up to him.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

THOMAS: Yeah, he just turned
left into the shopping plaza

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

THOMAS: All right,
let's get in behind him.

I just don't want to get too close.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

DAVE: All right, so target's
vehicle is parked in front

of that thrift store.

So he's just sitting in his truck out in
the middle of the parking lot right now.

THOMAS: His truck's right there,
facing away from us basically.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

DAVE: We're speculating
what he's actually doing here but

with his mannerisms as far as
parking way out from a store,

not going in,
that's very suspicious activity.

Kind of makes you think
that he's waiting on somebody

to show up, which would be great.

If he drops that bag to somebody
and we can get that guy

taken off down the road,
then we're gonna have our

probable cause to get in that house.

[PASSENGER CRYING]

OFFICER: See the rest of baggage.

RAIO: I know you're upset
so we're gonna make you

as comfortable as we possibly can.

BRITO: I'm gonna release one hand, okay?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: Most people,
once they get caught, are upset.

Some are genuine, some are just trying
to make people feel bad.

Here's some tissues.

PASSENGER: Thank you.

BRITO: You have kids, right?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: I know it's hard
but you gotta just try and relax.

At this point,
you just help yourself, okay?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

Mistakes happen, now you fix them.

Who gave you the purse?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: How do you know him?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: Is he your boyfriend
or just a friend?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: He lives down there?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

- RAIO: What's his name?
- [BLEEP]

RAIO: What's his last name?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: You don't know his last name?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: But you've known him for years?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: Who were you supposed
to give this to?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

RAIO: All right, listen.
Listen.

An agent's going to come here, all right?

They're gonna ask you the same questions.

You gotta try real hard
to remember his last name.

It's up to you whether you want
to cooperate or not, okay?

We've contacted HSI, they'll do
some further questioning on her.

And we'll see if we can get
some other information

for anyone that might be connected.

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: All right. So, the gold 4Runner
pulled up next to our target.

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

THOMAS: All right.
He's, uh, in the truck right now.

DAVE: White male from the gold vehicle
got in the passenger seat

of our Dodge Ram and he's meeting
with our target right now.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: Did y'all see anything
in the driver's hand of the 4Runner?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: When you see an item
come from one vehicle and go

to the other vehicle,
most people would be able to

determine that that's possibly
a drug deal that just occurred.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: All right, copy.

We will focus on this gold 4Runner.

DAVID: All right.

The vehicle is headed towards the exit.

All right.
Here we go.

The driver of the 4Runner
threw something in his back

passenger seat
and we're following him north right now.

He's heading 75 southbound.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

Georgia State patrol guy is getting on
to help us with the traffic stop.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: All right.
Here we go.

[SIRENS]

And blue lights are on.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: GSP is deploying
the canine on the 4Runner.

They're doing a search
on the vehicle right now.

All right, here we go.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: Hey,
will you grab that bag?

I'm gonna take it to the back
and put it out on the back of the car.

There's the bag.

That's the same bag
that came out of the house.

This came from our guy.

The bag is loaded.
So we got meth.

There's a g*n, appears to be a GL*CK.

Probably a couple grand in cash.

He had a set of scales.

[PHONE RINGING]

Hello.

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

DAVE: It's possible that the gold 4Runner
got a text off to him saying,

"Hey, dude. I just got
pulled over by the police."

You need to go ahead
and secure him and the location.

If he's spooked that much,
there is a possibility

that he could start flushing everything
that's in that house.

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

DAVE: All right?
All right, bro. Bye-bye.

So we're close to 1,000
grams in just one bag,

so we're looking at two
kilos of methamphetamine.

We're looking at about 10 grand.

Let's throw this in the back of my van.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[THOMAS SPEAKING]

Copy.

Our guys just detained the guy
driving the black Dodge

that delivered the meth.

So, it's a great day so far,
but we just keep rolling.

Next, we're gonna try to move
in to getting a search warrant

from the house that we know it came from.

I would venture to say
that there's gonna be a lot more

meth in that address.

So, we're gonna continue
the investigation from here.

PATRICK: You brought in drugs
to the United States

that are worth a very good
amount of money.

Willingly or unwillingly
or no knowledge or knowledge,

it doesn't change anything.

Right now, we're gonna talk, okay?

The main focus right now is to see
if she's telling us

as much as she does know
because she obviously knows the main guy.

STEPHEN: I know your
birthday was yesterday.

You went down for a birthday trip or what?

PASSENGER: Yeah.

STEPHEN: What did you do
when you were down there?

PASSENGER:
You know, I went out to eat,

we went to some parties,
went to the beach.

[PATRICK SPEAKING]

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

STEPHEN: Did you have a hotel
or anything to stay

when you went down there?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

[STEPHEN SPEAKING]

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

[STEPHEN SPEAKING]

PASSENGER: Um, I felt that
he was trying court me again.

PATRICK: So, you went down there
with the purpose

of celebrating your birthday with him?

PASSENGER: Yes.

PATRICK: And you don't remember
his last name?

PASSENGER: No.

PATRICK: You dated this guy
for a good period of time.

That's like a first date thing,

"Hey, what's your name?"
"This is my name."

PASSENGER: Yes, that is true.

PATRICK: That's hard for us to believe.

Did he tell you what was in
the purse or what it was for?

PASSENGER: No, he never told me.

PATRICK: And you don't remember
what friend's mom?

PASSENGER: He did not, he never told me.

PATRICK: Like the friend's name
or anything?

PASSENGER: He never told me a name.

[PATRICK SPEAKING]

PASSENGER: I don't,
I don't know...

[PATRICK SPEAKING]

PASSENGER: No.

I was assuming that he was going
to tell me by the time I got back.

PATRICK: So everything
was based off of you assuming

that he was gonna give you
further instructions?

You don't even know his last name.

PATRICK: Let me explain,
kind of, how this, this is going, right.

Like, you're in a very bad situation.

You have a good job and you have a kid.

But he took advantage of you.

Whether he played on your love
or he played on your vulnerabilities,

he basically set you up,
because you took all the risk.

And right now, you're doing a lot
of protecting of him

because you don't wanna get him
in trouble.

But remember
who ultimately got you in trouble.

You have to start being honest with us.

Is there anything you wanna tell us
that you want to

change or, like,
"Hey, I remember his last name now."

Or anything like that?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

PATRICK: Is there anything
you wanna tell us, like,

"Hey, I remember
his last name now."

Or anything like that?

PASSENGER: I believe he told me maybe,

in the beginning but,
like, I can't say it.

PATRICK: So what did he tell you?

- I think it was...
- PATRICK: All right.

So, was he gonna pay you for this trip?

PASSENGER: No.
He never talked about money.

He never talked about anything?

Did he tell you what was in the purse
or what it was for?

PASSENGER: No, never told me.

PATRICK: You have to have some
knowledge because you have to know

what risk is involved.

PASSENGER: I mean, I don't.
I never even touched the bag.

I saw it.
Did I question it? No.

Should I have?
I, I guess, I don't know.

I don't...

PATRICK: Put you in that situation?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

[PATRICK SPEAKING]

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

PASSENGER: That, yeah, that's him.

PATRICK: Okay.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

PASSENGER: We can text him right now
and tell me what to tell him

so you can hear whatever you need to see.

I don't even care.

Like, I have nothing to do
with this, like.

PATRICK: I understand.

PATRICK: Just take a deep breath,
take a deep breath, okay? Just...

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

PATRICK: Typical passengers like this,

they're not told a lot.

She is cooperating with us and so
we're gonna go forward from there.

All right.

We're gonna call the prosecutors
and we're gonna finish our paperwork.

Do you have any questions real quick?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

PATRICK: Okay.
Come follow us.

As of now, we've got most
that we can get out of her.

We'll still process her
and we're gonna have a discussion

and make a final
decision whether we prosecute,

but different things
she told us and other leads

so we can follow down to further the case.

JEWELL [OVER TV]: The United States stands
ready particularly in the area

of law enforcement in the fight
against wildlife trafficking.

MAN: Trafficking says
we value trinkets more than we

value these magnificent
animals in the wild.

JEWELL [OVER TV]:
We will stop the poachers.

We will stop the profits to address
this transnational threat.

POWELL: We're on the way
to a air cargo warehouse in Miami.

We just got a call
from the Senior Wildlife Inspector

with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The shipment we're gonna go look
at is coming from South America

and is going to a country in Asia.

This is a common tripping route
for a lot of smuggled wildlife.

And the importers
had a previous violation,

so we just wanna go check
the shipment and see what it is.

- [FERNANDO SPEAKING]
- POWELL: Right here?

[FERNANDO SPEAKING]

GONZALEZ: We got an alert
of a possible shipment containing

ill*gal seafood products.

- POWELL: This is it.
- GONZALEZ: Yup.

We have a total of 18 boxes,
so we're gonna check

to make sure that everything
is in compliance,

uh, and let's see what we get.

Let's take a look.

Sea cucumbers, fish bladders.

In this case, the species
on the shipment we don't regulate it.

This box is good to go.

POWELL: You all wanna try
and open another box?

GONZALEZ: Yeah.
Let's open another one.

POWELL: Oh, wow. Wow.

GONZALEZ: We got shark fins.

I've been checking this type
of commodity for the past two

or three years, and in order
to trade shark fins between countries,

you need a special permit.

At a quick glance, we have three species,

two of them most likely in violation.

So let's see if they have
any documentation whatsoever.

Let's tape it up and then let's take it.

POWELL: All right.

GONZALEZ: This is a good catch, guys.

So, now we are going to transport
the boxes to the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service
Office of Law Enforcement

in Miami so that we can do a more
detailed examination

and also IDing the fins and making sure
that everything is documented.

It's a really big seizure.

We've gone through two boxes
so far out of 18.

This is just the beginning.

DAVE: All right.

I've got the search warrant
in hand and we are headed over there

to you guys.

Hopefully, this bulk load
of methamphetamine

is just sitting in this house,
but I don't know.

We'll just have to wait
and see once we get in there.

All right.
We have the main target detained.

That's one threat down.

So, we'll go ahead and knock on this door.

Hopefully, there's not another person
in there with weapons

of any kind.

And we'll start searching.

[OFFICER SHOUTING]

[OFFICER SHOUTING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[DAVE SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[DAVE SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: All right. Let me go
figure out what's going on.

They made entry.

There are no other people in there,

so we're gonna go ahead
and start the search process.

Anything through that back side,
nothing back there?

- [OFFICER SPEAKING]
- DAVE: Nothing?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: He's got dope somewhere, and
I'm sure once we start digging in here.

Oh, here it is.

Big box full of dope.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: Yeah, there's a bunch in there.

Bags filled with meth.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

DAVE: That's good.

During the search of the residence,

we found probably
about $40,000 or $50,000 in cash,

a loaded handgun,
and a cardboard box that has

multiple gallon bags filled with meth.

Very similar to those two
gallon-sized bags

that we just took off
the traffic stop earlier.

Now, we're in the process
of getting rooms labeled

and getting some pictures,
then we'll pick up all the evidence

from here and take it to our office
with the evidence

that we seized on the traffic stop.

This is like a big a*s bag of ice.

I don't know how much
meth it is right now.

We'll just have to wait
and see once we figure stuff out.

But it's a good haul.

We're getting a good chunk off
the street today.

POWELL: We brought the shark fins
back here to the warehouse

and we're just helping Fish and Wildlife

process and go through it.

GONZALEZ: Let's do this.
Let's start filling this way.

The shark fin trade
is a very lucrative market.

Approximately, 100 million sharks
are taken yearly

to make the famous shark fin soup.

Shark fin soup in Asia can go
from $100 to 400, $600 a bowl.

We have a mix of species,
some of them fall

into the Endangered Species Act
and they require permits to be exported.

So far, we have silky sharks,
great hammerhead.

This is a tiger shark.
This is a pectoral fin.

This shipment came in
with no permits and that's why

it makes the entire shipment ill*gal.

BAZER: So this box is done,
so now we can do, um, box.

GONZALEZ: Let's get a total number
on that one, box number one.

BAZER: Okay.

GONZALEZ: In this shipment, we have
an approximate total of 1,400 pounds.

It'll go for $500 a pound.

So, this shipment's worth,
approximately, $700,000.

POWELL: We're looking
at thousands of shark fins.

This is the largest seizure
I've ever been a part of,

of working for CBP now for 10 years.

GONZALEZ: It's a sad day for conservation
and for sharks in general.

There's hundreds of animals
that were illegally obtained

on this shipment.

However, it's a good day for us
because it directly affect

the revenue from ill*gal shark fin trade.

DAVE: So what we're doing
is testing this to see

if it tests positive for methamphetamine.

Put just a little sample in here.

This one should test blue.

Boom.

So that's a positive
test for methamphetamine.

The purchasers like big shards,

it makes them feel like
they're getting the best stuff

in the world.

But meth is meth,
so, they're each a kilo a piece.

There was 19 bags from the house
and then two that we seized

on a traffic stop.

All in all, we got approximately


worth approximately
$105,000 on the street.

Along with the drugs,
we made two arrests and we seized

two handguns
and approximately $67,000 in cash.

DAVE: I'm extremely happy.

Any time we can take
methamphetamine off the streets,

it's an incredible day
for law enforcement.