02x11 - Fentanyl Within

[bunniefuu]

So where the big boss say we going,
that's where we got to go.

So we just received info
that we got a person of interest

traveling in from Doha.

Doha.

What is it, 8?

So right now, we're heading to the gate

where we're going to be looking
for a single traveling male,

roughly around his 30s.

We're going to see if we can identify him
and get in front of him.

Plane pulled in, just waiting
for the passengers to start coming down.

FINN: We've encountered smugglers,
you know, just using Doha as a transit

from places in Africa,
places in the Middle East.

So, you know, you never know
what you're going to find

on a flight coming from Doha.

Passports out, guys.

Folks, have your passports out and ready.

- What's the purpose of your travel, sir?
- It's about celebrating.

Okay. Have a good one.

What's the purpose of your travel, sir?

[INAUDIBLE]

Have a good night, all right, no problem.

Hey, this guy.

[INAUDIBLE]

Ready?

We got him.

So we identified the person of interest
so we will go down here to find him.

Where's this guy go?
Do you have eyes on him?

This guy right in front of you, number 13.

Yeah.

Okay, right now,
he's waiting to go through immigration.

One of my teammates upstairs by the gate
let me know that he was nervous,

so we're gonna stop him over here

after he picks up his bag
and see what he got in his bag.

He's coming out right now.

He asked the officer in the boot
where the restroom was.

You might be trying to dump stuff.

Joe, go into the bathroom with this guy.

Yeah, we got people over there
that are making sure

nothing goes down the toilet,
nothing goes in the trash.

Everything he went in with,
comes out with.

Yo, that guy is taking a long time, man.

Unless they got something in there
right now.

Yeah, we're gonna run all of these boxes.

- What were you doing in Colombia?
- I went to see my mom.

Miami International Airport
is a hotbed for smuggling of drugs

coming into the United States.

Start pulling up.

The trend has always been
because of our proximity

to the Caribbean and Central
and South America,

drugs come in, g*ns and money go out.

Times change, the concealments change,

but smuggling, whether it be narcotics,

currency, firearms,
those things don't change.

Right now,
we're up at a flight from Cali, Colombia.

Hi, can I see your passport, please?
How you doing today?

Colombia is the number one
producer of cocaine

that arrives into the United States.

Some days, I prefer working
in plain clothes.

I'll be a little bit more inconspicuous.

I'm looking for some sort
of nervous behavior

or something that'll make them
stand out of the crowd.

Hi. Can I see your passport, please?

- How are you today?
- Good.

- You traveling with anybody else?
- No.

- How long were you there?
- Two days.

- Two days. Why such a quick trip?
- Consultation.

- I'm sorry?
- Consultation.

- Consultation on what?
- Surgery.

- Okay, cool. Do you have bags to pick up?
- Luggage, yeah...

- Come on. I'll help you out.
- Thank you.

She was nervous, so there's no harm
in asking her a couple more questions.

So you bought your ticket
to come back today?

I changed my plane last minute.

Okay. What was the reason for the change?

- I wasn't happy with the facilities.
- Okay.

Once you get your bags, let me know.

- [SNIFFER DOG BARKING]
- I'll be right over here, all right?

There's your boy.

Doesn't look like he flushed anything
or threw anything out.

Everything looks good.

Yeah, I got him.
He's on the left side of the belt.

He's doing laps around this whole area.
He's nervous.

It's a waiting game, man.
This is the hardest part of the job, man.

While waiting on this guy,

I'm missing out
on talking to everybody else.

I hope it's worth it.

I think he's picking up bags now.

I'll pick him up right now.

How are you, brother? See your passport?

How's it going today?
You got all your bags?

Uh, yeah.

Take a look at me. Okay.

Come on.
We'll take a look inside the bags,

so step over here and go over here.

Right over there.

Anybody give you anything
to bring here today?

- What did they give you?
- Uh, there's some package in there.

- Package of what?
- Uh, sweets.

- Sweets?
- Yeah.

- Okay. Anything else?
- Medicine.

Medicine. All right.

You packed everything here yourself?
Besides those items.

This bag was basically, my cousin,

I was standing right there,
he help me pack my bag.

Okay. You're responsible for everything
you're bringing into the US, correct?

You checked the medicine package,
you checked the food items,

you checked the sweets,
you checked everything?

- Correct? Good.
- Yep.

- What was the purpose of the travel?
- Death in the family.

- Who passed away? Who passed away?
- My aunt.

Your auntie? Sorry to hear that, man.

- Any other family members travel?
- No.

Just you?

At the end, I'm gonna give you tape,
you can tape it up, all right?

That's fine. I'll give you garbage later,
you can throw it out.

Do me a favor, man,
stay on that side of the bench.

- Thank you. Stay on that side, thank you.
- Yeah.

[INAUDIBLE] ...duffle bag.

Oh, wow.

You all right, bro?

You are nervous.

Was there a different... on it?

- What does the name on the bottle say?
- I didn't see it.

We found some pills, one bottle,
a couple pills

looked a little different from each other,
so different markings on each pill,

but it was the same bottle,
so it's a little odd.

Hey, buddy,
just finish packing that one up.

So part of the inspection process

when you come into the States,
we check the bags,

now we're going to take you to the room
and we'll check you, all right?

We just found these pills in the bag,

so at this point in time,
we're going to go through the whole gamut

and make sure we pat him down,
there's nothing on the body.

And then we'll talk to him
and get into a little conversation.

You can follow me.

Okay. Can you place your bag up here?

Everything here belongs to you, right?
All right.

Did anybody ask you to bring
anything back for them?

No. Any souvenirs for your family?

The female passenger we took off the Cali,
Colombia flight

stated that she was there for three days.

She went down to have
some type of surgery.

Her bags are a little inconsistent

with the amount of time
that she was down in Colombia.

All the stuff that you're holding,

can you just place it there
on the table, please?

Thank you.

Were you supposed to come back today?

You were really packing
like you were going to stay.

Yeah. [INDECIPHERABLE]

- I was going to come back next week.
- Next week?

Yeah, I don't want to do it.

- So who recommended Colombia to you?
- My friends.

- All of your friends?
- Me and my friends.

Okay. And what type of surgery
were you looking for?

- Teeth.
- Teeth? Which doctor did you go to?

His name is Dr. MNS.

- Who?
- MNS.

So how come it didn't work out?

It wasn't happened
because I had a bad vibe.

- What were these for?
- For me.

Sanitary napkins
for after the dental work.

Yeah.

He does..
He does teeth, body...

So you were gonna get other stuff done?
Other than the teeth?

[SPEAKING INAUDIBLY]

- I never been there so...
- Yeah.

Based on the fact that she didn't fully
tell me the truth in the beginning,

to me, seems like she's trying
to hide something.

All those shampoos you bought down there?

All the shampoos, yeah.

We've had an influx out of Colombia

of narcotics coming inside
different concealments

as far as liquids and shampoos and stuff.


liquid coke and liquid heroin

coming back disguised as other products.

I'm gonna test to see
what actually is inside.

From Colombia, we have an influx
of a drug called 2CB, ketamine,

we also have liquid coke and liquid heroin
coming back disguised as other products.

Nothing.

Just hit the top of that.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Yeah, there's nothing there.

All right. Testing was negative
for any type of contraband.

After the bagging exam, we didn't find
anything ill*gal in her bags.

Thank you for your cooperation.
You're all done with us.

You have any questions for us? No? Okay.

She was deemed a legitimate passenger

and released without further incident.

OFFICER: Very good.

Anything you have in your pockets,
put it on top of that table for me.

To me, he seems a little nervous.

Got him in the private search room
and check his body,

make sure he's not carrying anything.

- [INAUDIBLE SPEECH]
- Yeah.

- Did you look at these?
- I don't know.

No?

So what do you call that?

One, two, three, four.

What is that? What are those pills for?
Sodium chloride, what's that?

I have no idea. But I think it's...
[SPEAKING INAUDIBLY]

Sodium chloride? I don't think that is.

[MALE PASSENGER SPEAKING INAUDIBLY]

I don't know, what is it?
You're bringing it.

You're bringing it,
you should be telling us what it is.

What do you, what is sodium chloride for?
What do you use it for?

[MUMBLING]

People like... they told me... It's like
basically for people with low iron.

OFFICER: Then what?
People just say something?

OFFICER 2: Or they make something
called iron pills.

My cousin gave it to me.

He showed me a bag that was...
I was just home and...

- Your cousin gave it to you?
- Yeah.

What's your cousin's name
that gave it to you?

- It's your cousin, what's his name?
- MALE PASSENGER: Huh?

- OFFICER: What's his name?
- OFFICER 2: What's his name?

- And who are you going to give it to?
- I'm going to give to one of his friend.

- Who?
- MALE PASSENGER: I don't know his name.

So your cousin just gave you
a bunch of pills and said,

"Hey, bring this to America
and give 'em to this guy?"

That sounds kosher to you.

Tell me why you on the pill?

[MALE PASSENGER SPEAKING INAUDIBLY]

I think there might be something mixed...

- Probably, legit?
- Yeah. For...

You know what,
now there are pill pressing machines

[INDECIPHERABLE SPEECH]

Let's go do our job.

- Yaba?
- Yaba?

- What's that?
- What's Yaba?

Want to look at some
of the outbound cargo?

Yeah. Sounds good.

In the Customs and Border Protection,
we look for contraband coming inbound

as well as going out of the United States.

Let's do a sweep
and see if something else came in.

Sure.

It's the same concept inbound or outbound.

You have to make sure
you're thorough in every inspection,

and cover all angles and bases.

Right here.

It's manifested as reupholstered chairs.

I think it's a little heavy for a chair
but...

You know, anything open to inspection
and considered,

you know,
an option for potential smuggling.

When you push down on it,
you can feel where the screw is.

[FEMALE OFFICER SPEAKS INAUDIBLY]

You guys.

That is... to Jamaica.

- Let's see what we got going on here.
- All right.

Oh.

Looks like we have GL*CK.

Looks like we have GL*CK.

It appears to be a GL*CK 19.
It appears to be brand new.

We're going to make sure
that they have an export license

to be able to take these firearms
out of the country.

Yeah.

A lot of times outbound,
we are concentrating on weapons going out

that's funding
some of the organizations overseas.

You open it up sometimes,
some things look very legitimate

and they turn out not to be.

So it's best practice to make sure
you do a thorough inspection always.

No reason not to.

All right. This one's good to go.

So we checked the system
and they did file the correct paperwork.

They reported everything in
the way they're supposed to.

Not today, but at least we checked.

It's a luck of the draw,
sometimes you find weapons

and sometimes it's seizable,
and sometimes it's not.

What's Yaba?

- I don't know.
- You don't know?

- You never heard of Yaba?
- I don't know what it is.

I didn't ask you if you know what it is,
I said if you've heard of it.

I heard that it's a drug
but I don't know exactly what it is.

Okay.

So right now we've got a pill called Yaba.
Half caffeine, half methamphetamine.

Controlled substance here in the US.

So Yaba is produced in Asian countries,
especially in Thailand.

They are actually referring to it
as crazy medicine

due to the stimulus that it gives these
people that are actually using them.

- Isn't that?
- Yeah.

'Cause now you know what you have,

even though you've never heard of it.

I know it's a drug but I never saw it.

It's a drug in your bag
that you claimed possession to.

- So...
- Just handcuff him.

Face the wall over here.

And start getting your hands
behind your back, one by one, all right?

There you go.

You're under arrest for the importation
of narcotics to the United States.

You understand?

Yaba has become a big problem
here in the United States,

especially in the Asian communities.

They're using it for raves
and other type of club parties.

You're good, brother.

It's a good day when, you know,
we take it off the street,

we don't let it go out.

We don't know whose hands it's going into.

We don't know who's going
to end up getting it.

So it's a big deal.

So we're going to go ahead
and just take a look

and see if we find anything
worth inspecting

and then take it from there.

Looks like handicrafts.

Look like a shipment of CACAC
going over here.

So that's not a normal wrap of drugs.

We'll go ahead, run it through the X-ray
and see if we can get a clear image.

If there's any type of anomalies,
we'll open it up

and see if there's any contraband
or firearms concealed within it.

Pull that off.

Awesome. Thank you.

The X-ray image looks consistent
with the product.

It's good for now.

- Is that a speaker?
- Yeah.

So here we have...
It looks like it might be a speaker.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Passenger flights normally,
when they do take cargo,

it could be maybe, you know,


or it might just be that
that particular flight

is only taking that one piece of cargo.

And that's why there's only one box there,

which it's kind of rare.

Pop this open.

There's one or two boxes,

definitely I'm opening them up
and checking them.

Looking like it's been manipulated before.

It looks like it might be
missing some screws, too.

Let me go to my tool bag,
we can try taking the screws out.

Yeah, this one isn't even
screwed all the way.

- Here we go. Got it?
- Yep.

It kind of have something.

- Wow.
- Pillow, huh?

I don't think a speaker
is supposed to have a pillow.

- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Yeah, see what's in there.

Whoa.

Several weapons.

We're going to have to take this
back to the office.

Yeah.

That box will not be going
to its final destination.

I appreciate you carrying the heavy stuff.

So when it comes to firearms
in particular,

we have to exert an extraordinary
amount of caution

when dealing with the firearms because
we do not know if they are loaded or not.

So as a rule of thumb, we always treat
all firearms as if they're loaded.

So we have a specific procedure
that we use in order to clear the weapon

to make sure that
there isn't any incidental discharges,

any accidents, nothing of the sort.

At least they're not loaded.

Couple of pistols.

These are 30-round mags for the GL*CK.

A lot of accessories, grips.

It appears to be mainly AK-47s.

This is a good seizure
considering all the violence

that's going on in Trinidad right now.

It's always good to take g*ns
off the street.

We don't really know
to whom it was going to.

A lot of times
they use fake names or aliases,

but this is a good catch.

It's most definitely a good seizure.

These were meant to cause bodily
harm and injury toward someone,

whether it be an innocent person
or another narco.

So the effort
that we put out there altogether,

it's worth it when you come
across something like this.

We definitely saved lives.

MALE REPORTER: The outbreak
of a mystery virus

that now
has the World Health Organization on edge.

OFFICER: The CDC has sent workers
to airports

to check passengers from infected regions.

Hey, guys. You all be here till mid-night.

We have direct flight from China.

Please have your passports out.
We're checking passports.

CDC is going to begin active surveillance.

Okay, take all the exist.

- Ma'am, come on.
- Hi. How are you?

CDC staff will conduct the symptom checks

on every traveler
from that visitor region.

Where are you coming from?

Customs and Border Protection.
Passport, please.

It's going to be a long day,
so ears up, eyes up.

Let CDC do their thing.

REPORTER: The rapidly spreading
coronavirus

is putting the US
and the world on high alert.

The President's travel ban preventing
entry from 26 European countries.

MALE REPORTER: The number of infections
and deaths keep rising.

REPORTER 2: Today,
the World Health Organization

declared the coronavirus outbreak
a global pandemic.

ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.: Due to
the COVID-19 pandemic,

everyone must wear face coverings

and maintain social distance
of six feet apart.

On any given day,

we would normally have upwards
of 38,000 passengers.

During the height of the pandemic,

our lowest day,
we processed maybe 138 passengers.

Smuggling has not stopped,
smuggling will never stop.

Maybe they changed their tactics,
but so have we.

We're gonna continue to evolve
and catch whatever comes our way,

whether it's in the airport
or any other type of environment.

Now with fewer passenger counts
here at the airport,

the busier port of entries will be seaport
and also our land borders.

How you doing?
What were you guys doing in Mexico?

- I live in Mexico.
- You live in Mexico? Okay.

The second you cross those yellow dots,
you have entered into the United States.

How are you?

- Thank you, sir.
- Pleasure.

The traffic never stops.

They get a couple thousand cars
on a daily basis.

Hello. Look at the camera.

OFFICER: The pedestrian border crossing,
that's where people come in

and get their documents checked
and we check if they have anything.

Anything in your pockets, sir?

Okay. Perfect. Perfect.

From there,
if there's any further discrepancies

that's how we do that take down
or whatever is needed.

- Is this your medicine?
- Yes.

Yeah, but who's Thomas?
Okay.

How much did they pay you
to bring it across.

MAN: Nobody paid me.

Nobody paid you,
so you're just doing it for free?

All right, buddy.
It was worth coming in today.

The Port of Nogales Cargo Facility
will see anywhere

from six to nine billion dollars
of cargo coming through yearly.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Upwards of 1,600 trucks daily.

Due to COVID,
we have seen an increase in seizures,

because entry has been restricted

to only US citizens
and permanent residents

but the drug traffickers' production
continues to increase,

so they're coming through cargo
to bring their load across.

So now it's our job to find it.

Let's go have some fun.

Good job.

K-9 sweeps becomes part of routine.

Good.

Hup. Good boy.
Here we go.

Where's...

Good boy.

Where's...

Where's...

Cheech.

Good boy. Good boy.

Good boy.

I got an alert and an indication
at the back of the trailer.

That's a boy! That's a boy!

The K-9 alerted.

The driver is transported
to a pat-down area.

And this truck was sent to the dock
for further inspection.

They're offloading it right now.

Good boy.

K-9 officer is gonna inspect
all the commodity,

and then we also track the interior
of the trailer.

Does it feel like it's narrower
than what I'm used to

or taller or shorter
than what I'm used to?

Because we've found them on the sides,

on the roof, in the taillights.

There's rust where there shouldn't be
on the floor.

The sides have been carved out.

Yes. There's something there,

and so we're gonna start digging further.

Okay, start working.
We can try and lift them up.

Raise your forks,
raise your forks, raise your forks.

Oh, there it is.

We got it.

There you go.

We got it.

Where's the engine stand?
Let's put it in there.

It's more for safety just in case
it comes down on somebody.

If it's anything like
prior loads that are similar,

it's the entire floor,
and this is a 53-foot trailer.

What were you doing in Mexico?

Can you just send and scan to the machine.

Okay.

- So what you got?
- [INAUDIBLE SPEECH]

[OFFICER SPEAKS INAUDIBLY]

The female was referred to me
in secondary,

through the computer-generated alert.

[CHATTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[CHATTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[CHATTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Bringing in medication for somebody else
is a big red flag for us.

Not only is it ill*gal for that person
to do so without a prescription,

but it also makes us wonder
what else is really going on.

These boxes are only supposed
to have 12 pills, each one has 18.

And this box is only supposed
to have 10, and she has 30.

She's doubling up, tripling up
on all the medicine and then she's...

And they are not even for her.

And then the bottle was on top of it all,
bunched up.

So she has all the medicine hidden.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

- Thank you. Good?
- All right. Come on.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

The load is not completely out yet.

What do you think,
should we cut down the middle

and then pull one at a time?

- Yep.
- Yeah. Let's do that.

One side first and then the other one.

[MEN GROAN]

All right. Time to get the jacks in there.

There's another jack. It's right here.

There it is. Start fishing out chorizos.

Because of the packaging,

we've started calling these chorizos,
which is a sausage.

So this is a truck full of chorizo

with additional energy benefits or poison.

[MEN GROANING]

Okay. We're clear.

I'll lay them down
if you want to straighten them out.

This is a substantial load,

and this is probably just a pin prick
in what's coming through.

Because Nogales is a crossroads,

this is the reason why the cartels

are bent on gaining control of this area

because from here, it's a spider web.

It'll spread from here,
all the way deeper into the country.

So we try to be very,
very enforcement-minded.

We do a lot of inspections

for this kind of result.

Two different size tubes were discovered.
A long one and a short one.

So now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna take a sample

of each one of them
and we're gonna test them.

So I'll meet you over there.

BRINGING UNIDENTIFIED MEDICATIONS
ACROSS THE BORDER FOR A FRIEND

OFFICER: We have a female who
has a bunch of medicine

that she did not declare.

And we're trying to figure out
what this medicine is

because she doesn't know what it is.

She's bringing it across
for somebody else.

Strange,
it's just an over-the-counter medicine.

What is it?

It's for warts and stuff,
like on your feet.

So I don't even know
why she had that hidden in there.

In fact, all the medicine that she had
with her today is legal medicine.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

MALE OFFICER: It's not ill*gal
except the way that you're doing it.

The boxes are loaded with more
than what's supposed to be in it.

None of it's ill*gal, but just...

- None of it's for her.
- Yeah. None of it's for her.

She's bringing for somebody in the US
who can't cross back and forth

'cause all they have is visa.

So sending her back to Mexico,
told her not to bring with her.

All right, go ahead and grab your stuff.

You can come back in with the medication,
okay?

I'm sending her back in line.

Here.

Can you test the short tube first, please?

If it's anything like similar loads,
this is likely methamphetamine.

All right, so we'll take our sample.

Cut this open.

Actually those...

Looks like it's pills.

OFFICER: So what we originally thought was
just a single load of one type of narcotic

turns out that there's possibly
two different kinds.

- Do we have the rapid response?
- Okay.

I'm just going to swab one of the pills,

and I'm gonna stick it in the solution.

And then, I'm gonna take my test strip.

The line is on the right side.

So this is positive for fentanyl.

So the smaller packages
are gonna be the fentanyl pills.

And right now,
we're gonna test the larger tubes.

I'm gonna do the same thing.
I'm gonna take just a sample.

MALE OFFICER: This one's powder.

FEMALE OFFICER: Analysis in progress.

Methamphetamine.

So we have two different types
of narcotics,

and one of them
tested positive for fentanyl

and the other one is methamphetamine.

Mexico is the number one producer of meth
used in America.

And roughly, 97% of total meth seizures

happen at the southern border.

These truck drivers, a lot of times
they don't know what they're carrying.

Gonna take a picture.

It looks like our final unofficial weight

is 800 pounds of methamphetamine

and nine pounds of fentanyl
with a value of $1.9 million.

This is the largest meth seizure
in port history.

From here we're gonna take it
over to the vault

where all this is stored

and the next time they get seen
is gonna be for destruction.

To us, this is the justification
of why we come to work.

That's poison that's not
gonna hit the streets,

not gonna harm anybody's child.
Makes you feel good.