04x03 - Tunnel from Tijuana

[bunniefuu]

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OFFICER: Sir, where
are you coming from?

TRAVELER: Uh, Paris.

OFFICER: Paris.
Anywhere before Paris?

TRAVELER: Uh, I went
to Italy, yes.

AXSON: You bring anything
back you didn't take with you?

Is that all you took?

TRAVELER: Yes.
AXSON: Okay.

Have a good one, man.

TRAVELER: Thank you.

CARRASQUILLO: There is a bag here
that caught Officer Axson's attention.

It's a brand new bag.

Let's see who's gonna pick it up.

Whenever we have a country of
interest, I look for unusual

pieces of luggage traveling.

A brand new one is, it will
definitely call your attention.

So we isolate those pieces of luggage

and we conduct further review.

Sometimes they get cold feet,
but in this case,

they picked it up already.

Sir, you mind doing me a favor?

Can you come have a seat for us, okay?

TRAVELER: All right.

CARRASQUILLO: Thank you.
Appreciate it.

OFFICER: What is this?

AXSON: He's got some
pills that we can't identify.

These pink pills?

OFFICER: Now this is
supposed to be allergy relief.

OFFICER: That's what
the bottle says.

HAWKINS: During the spring
break time period, you know,

a lot of people are partying,
having a good time, so a lot

of the party drugs are being used.

So we look for those drugs and
try to make sure that they're

not being allowed to come in the country.

AXSON: Still digging.
I found more.

AXSON: He's got brownies.

They got marijuana, some leaf on them.

Marijuana brownies,
we'll confirm that it is.

And then he's got some pills that
we can't identify that they have.

They just don't have markings
on them, so we really don't

know what they are.

So we're gonna test those
and make sure that they're not

controlled substances
or anything like that.

CARRASQUILLO: I have
a question for you.

TRAVELER: What's up?

CARRASQUILLO: What
are those pills?

The, the pink ones you have in there?

TRAVELER: The pink
ones are Adderall.

CARRASQUILLO: So you take Adderall but
then you have them in a Benadryl bottle?

TRAVELER: Benadryl?
CARRASQUILLO: Yes.

TRAVELER: Oh, no,
that's allergy pills.

CARRASQUILLO: Those
are allergy pills?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

CARRASQUILLO: Where're
you coming from today?

TRAVELER: Just
came from Amsterdam.

CARRASQUILLO: Okay.
How long did you stay there?

TRAVELER: I was
there for a couple days.

CARRASQUILLO: And what did
you do while you were there?

TRAVELER: Bike around.

CARRASQUILLO: The gentleman's
all dressed up in pink and

everything and his clothing,
his accessories are all pink,

and in this case, the pill is
also pink so it makes us think

that it's a party drug.

AXSON: Let's test
some of the pills.

It should be two lines.

Positive?

OFFICER: Yeah, It's positive.
AXSON: Yeah, alright.

It's positive for, uh Fentanyl.

OFFICER: That's
what it looks like.

HAWKINS: I'm just gonna hook
him up so we can take him back.

AXSON: All right, sir.

Place your hands behind your back.

HAWKINS: We wanted to detain
the subject so we can do some

further testing and talk to
him more about his trip and

what he's bringing to the country.

AXSON: We're gonna pat
him down and go from there.

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GUTIERREZ: Puerto Rico is
a United States territory.

In between here and the United
States Virgin Islands, we have

a run of about 50 nautical miles.

As beautiful as it is, it's a high
use corridor for maritime smuggling.

AGENT: Good afternoon. Customs.

Where are you going?

Are you fishing down there?

[speaking Spanish].

AGENT: Thank you.

FISHERMAN: Thanks to you.

Have a good day.

YARNALL: What makes Puerto Rico
so unique is that we have all

these small islands that are in
close proximity to each other,

where the smugglers can
just hop from island to island

in a relatively short amount
of time which makes it hard

for us to respond and interdict them.

AGENT: Customs, how are you?

Have you caught something?

FISHERMAN: A few lobsters.

AGENT: You're not
taking any conch, right?

TRAVELER: No.
AGENT: Okay.

AGENT: You're good.

AGENT: Yes, sir. We've made
contact with that target.

It was a local fisherman.

Everything's good to go.

GUTIERREZ: Our main focus here
is to try to identify vessels

that are involved in, in
transnational criminal

contraband smuggling coming
from Colombia or Venezuela

in these motherships that are
just floating out there,

waiting to load these local vessels
from Puerto Rico with cocaine.

AGENT: We got a couple
boats over here.

AGENT: They're smuggling
boats so let's stop them.

YARNALL: Hey, Captain.

The boat is new, right?

YARNALL: We had a boat coming
from the south side of Vieques.

YARNALL: Where are
you coming from?

MAN: From Punta Arena.

We're going for a spin.

YARNALL: Okay, from Punta Arena?

YARNALL: Okay.

That boat is, has a really low
profile design, it's hard to

detect it on radar because
it's so low to the water.

They also travel at a
very high rate of speed,

with two overpowered engines on there.

Those boats are hard
for us to catch up to.

It's very common for people
that are smuggling contraband

to transport large amounts of
cocaine or other types of drugs

on those boats.

That's why we're interested in these guys.

YARNALL: What was the purpose
of your trip to Punta Arena?

MAN: Putting hours
on the motors.

YARNALL: And you?

MAN: Same thing over here.

YARNALL: Are these your boats?

MAN: This is mine.

YARNALL: Can I see
your documents for the boat?

Okay, thank you.

AGENT: Keep an eye on him.
I'm gonna spin around.

Keep an eye on him.

Have him come to us.

YARNALL: We're just verifying
who the owner of the boat is

and seeing if, if he has any
wanted warrants, make sure

that we're clear here.

MAN: Here.

YARNALL: Thank you.

Ever arrested?

MAN: No.

YARNALL: Where
did you buy the boat?

MAN: In Cieba, Fejardo,
right in front of...

Across from Altimon.

YARNALL: Yes.

YARNALL: Today, they're
testing their new boats.

They got brand new engines on them.

They didn't have anything on
board, nothing suspicious.

MAN: We're good?

YARNALL: Yes.

Thank you.

MAN: Thanks to you.

MAN: Have a good day.

YARNALL: So, we could expect to
see these boats in the future,

but today they're good to go, clear.

[honking]

OFFICER: Sir, how you doing?
Where you going today?

TRAVELER: I'm going to work.

OFFICER: Work?

BLUE: Hi, how are you doing?

TRAVELER: Good.
How are you?

BLUE: Good, good. What city
are you going to right now?

TRAVELER: San Diego.
BLUE: Okay.

BLUE: Can you open the trunk for
me real quick, and the doors?

BLUE: Here at San Ysidro,
anybody could be smuggling

because the profile is, you
know, people that need money,

everybody needs money.

Are you from Texas?

TRAVELER: From Dallas.
BLUE: Dallas, Texas?

Okay. All right, thank
you for your time.

ELLSWORTH: What were you
doing in Mexico today?

TRAVELER: I live down there.

ELLSWORTH: How long you
been living in Mexico?

TRAVELER: For about 20 years.

[helicopter whirring]

CONNOR: San Diego is unique, in that,
we have basically all types of smuggling.

Obviously, we have the largest
port of entry in North America.

The drug trade organizations
can come in through land,

they can come in through water,
they can come in through air.

We're headed down to link up
with one of our A.S.A.C.'s, Tim,

to see a house that's associated
with a narcotics smuggling event,

and we're gonna brief
him on what we found.

TIM: How you doing, Connor?
What's going on?

I heard you guys hit some
narcotics from this house.

CONNOR: We landed a, a vehicle
here a couple weeks ago that

unloaded 20 keys of coke.

Through investigative efforts,
they identified some other

targets that may have been
associated with that person

and that car, and ultimately,
we seized just short of



All of these incidents in
themselves would have been

solid investigations, but
when we started tying them

together, it had led us to a
warehouse down by the border,

and we realized that this location

and that warehouse were not only linked

but were in concert with each other.

TIM: That must have been crazy
to handle that surveillance

in that high pressure moment.

CONNOR: It's a team effort.

We should go over and
check out the warehouse.

TIM: Anybody get
arrested at this site or.

CONNOR: No. The building
was found unoccupied.

TIM: Okay.

Let's check it out.

CONNOR: So, S.R.T.
secured the premises,

uh, made it safe and clear.

What this place was
supposed to be, I'm unsure of.

But it appears that they were
just using it as junk storage.

This was actually covered
earlier, there was a pallet over it.

TIM: Holy crap.

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CONNOR: The clutter, the junk,
that very well could be a

technique where it helps mask the tunnel.

Obviously, it's hard to
search areas like this.

The tunnel was not, uh,
exposed as it is now.

It had a concrete slab here.

They were able to remove the
concrete lid, there was an

iron ladder bolted to the wall.

We've got about a 19-foot drop,

and then there's a small corridor

that goes about, uh,


another 19, or so, 20-foot
drop with another ladder and a

pulley system that allowed them
to hoist things up and down.

TIM: All right, let's
get helmets and go down.

CONNOR: When a tunnel is
discovered like this, we have

specialized teams that will go
in and search and map out what

we think is the route.

This is a camera that
we've set up down in the hole.

It's just a safety and security measure.

Yeah, it's, it's fairly tight down here.

All right.

I'm good.

TIM: Wow.

CONNOR: Yeah.

TIM: This is a
tight tunnel, man.

CONNOR: Yeah, it is.

And then, this is the next drop.

TIM: Holy crap.

AGENT: Tim, what are
you seeing down there?

TIM: There's a rebar type
steel ladder straight down.

It's narrow.

AGENT: Any rail
system down there?

TIM: Down farther in,
there's a rail.

But it's not motorized though,
like the one in 2013, it's,

it's just a push cart.

It must have been not fun
to push through this tunnel.

I don't know how they got those
big bricks through this thing.

CONNOR: If you're talking
about 1500 pound bales,

just getting them from here
to there, even to here,

this is still a lot of work.

TIM: Holy crap.

God, imagine how long, it must
have taken forever, 'cause

they had to use just
jackhammers and picks and

shovels to build this thing.

CONNOR: We discovered that the
tunnel started at a house in

Tijuana, Mexico.

The smugglers dug north about


border fence.

Once inside the U.S.,

it was about another 300 feet to reach

this warehouse

in the commercial district.

We're coming up.

AGENT: Thoughts?

CONNOR: It's cramped.

I wouldn't want to work down there.

The stash house was most
likely the first stop coming

out of the tunnel and then
they must get broken up and

divvied up into smaller loads
and get spread wider through

the, the distribution network.

It's crazy to see that,
obviously it's right here and

then the border wall is right there.

I mean it, it makes sense
that they would want to go the

shortest distance possible
but it's kind of crazy.

And it's so important to shut
these down because we've got

veins of traffic, but
this is an artery, right?

TIM: Yeah.

CONNOR: This is, this is just,
they're able to just run a, as

much as they can through
at any given time, almost

completely undetected.

This is a big win for us
because we've shut down a

major channel for them to
get ill*gal narcotics into

the country and poison our streets.

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OFFICER: Set it right there.

By the chair right there.

Just right there.

Yeah, on it is fine.

Alright, go inside the cell there.

This one.

HAWKINS: As of right now, he
has some marijuana brownies

and also we have some pills
that are in question,

that are hitting on fentanyl.

Sometimes, based on the field
test, fentanyl can hit on

certain other type of prescription drugs.

So we have to break it down
further and we test it on the Gemini.

So we get what's really inside of the drug

and not a false positive.

CARRASQUILLO: We have
secured the fentanyl in this capsule area.

And we will test it to see if
it, in fact, is, uh, fentanyl.

Open the, the thing, with some gloves.

Uh, in this case, we can
utilize our Gemini machine,

it will give a, an actual
breakdown of the substance.

So, I'm gonna try to use one of the pills.

At least one is okay.

Trying to maintain decorum
handling something so,

uh, dangerous.

It's, uh, very potent and
anyone could get, uh, poisoned

just with a little bit of it,
if it's ingested, swallowed,

or even touched.

We will see.

Metalaxyl meliatic, calcium
hydrophosphate, dihydrate.

HAWKINS: The additional
testing that we did on the

medication, the prescription
drugs that we thought possibly

could have fentanyl, it came
back to be a false positive.

So today, we just gave the
person an administrative

penalty of $500 for having
marijuana in the brownies and

then we released them.

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TRAVELER: Good afternoon.

CUMMINGS: Good afternoon.

What are you doing in San Diego?

TRAVELER: Going shopping.

CUMMINGS: Thank you. Gracias.
TRAVELER: Gracias.

MENDOZA: What are
you planning to do?

TRAVELER: I'm only
going to the ATM.

MENDOZA: How much
do you have on you?

TRAVELER: I have $120.

MENDOZA: Here you go.
Good day.

TRAVELER: Same.

Thank you.

MENDOZA: You're welcome.

MENDOZA: Do you mind
rolling down your window?

There's two travelers there for overnight.

There was only one backpack.

K9 assist.

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PLAMONDON: Good boy.

Good boy.

Good job.

There they are.

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PLAMONDON: There they are.

Plastic wrapped packages
taped up to the trunk.

Now that we've discovered the
packages inside the vehicle,

the car's gonna go
back to our seizing area.

RAUK: So, right now, uh, we
have multiple packages located

here in the quarter panel,

so I'm gonna extract these packages.

Cellophane wrapped and soft substance.

It's not very hard, so
it's probably not meth.

It could be powder, it could be
cocaine, it could be fentanyl.

We'll have to do a test to see what it is.

HERNANDEZ: The substance is
dark brown and, uh, it's not

necessarily hard looking,
but it's very jelly-ish.

At this point, it's still
undefined of what it is.

So we're gonna go ahead and test it.

We have a Gemini device
here to scan the substance.

The laser will positively identify.

Molecular structures
through different substances.

So, there's no match.

Since we have no match found,
we want to properly identify it

by sending it to a lab and they
will let us know what it is.

What's gonna happen next
is we're gonna go ahead and

remove most of the packages
from the vehicle and we're

gonna be making a
package count at this time.

AGENT: Yeah, we
just left the bay.

We're heading towards
the west side of Vieques.

BENIQUEZ: This is a good
middle ground for trafficking

in the nighttime.

This is the easiest access
point of, of drug trafficking

before it goes into the United States.

They can get over to Culebra,
Vieques and then make it to

the mainland.

And then from there, it just
goes anywhere that it wants to.

AIRSHIP: We were
watching a small vessel...

...pulling up next to
a larger vessel.

The small vessel is actually
making way toward you guys.

It still doesn't have its nav lights on.

AGENT: Hold on.

You see that light, right?
Port bow, there's a light.

AGENT: That's the boat.

AGENT: Over. 10-4. Yeah, I think
we have a visual of that guy.

We'll go check him out,
see where he's headed.

AGENT: All right,
let's make contact.

BENIQUEZ: Good evening.

Customs.

Are you alone?

FISHERMAN: Yes.

BENIQUEZ: He's by himself.

BENIQUEZ: Do you speak English?

FISHERMAN: No.
Just a little.

BENIQUEZ: A little?

Where are you coming from, Captain?

Where are you coming from?

FISHERMAN: I'm from here.

What happened is that I'm
fishing from Punto Arena.

BENIQUEZ: When you
came from Punto Arena...

...were the
lights working or no?

FISHERMAN: The what?
The lights?

BENIQUEZ: Si.

FISHERMAN: Yes, what happens
is, I turn this one on...

...and when I shut it off, I
turn on the navigation lights.

BENIQUEZ: When you're fishing at
night, I need your lights on, on the boat.

FISHERMAN: Okay. Okay.

BENIQUEZ: Okay, thank you.

BENIQUEZ: Looks like
a local fisherman.

I guess from the distance,
that they thought it was a

lights out vessel.

It looks like he probably
launched his vessel and then

once he hit the water, he
turned his lights on,

so better to check it out and
make sure that, that it's safe

than sorry, so looks, looks good to us.

AIRSHIP: Be advised,
there's a second boat.

BENIQUEZ: All right, we have
another lights out vessel.

AIRSHIP: 3.5 nautical miles
from Punta Guayanes.

BENIQUEZ: Still in our A.O.R.
[Area Of Responsibility].

AGENT: Everybody strap in.

All right, guys, here we go.

Let's do it.

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OFFICER: Right this way, guys.

AXSON: You live
in Mainland China?

TRAVELER: Yes.
AXSON: Okay.

Did you bring anything from
China to the United States?

TRAVELER: No.
AXSON: You have a good day.

TRAVELER: Thank you.

LESLIE: How you doing? Good?

What was the purpose of your trip?

TRAVELER: Just for fun.

LESLIE: What'd
you do out there?

TRAVELER: Just to hang out.

LESLIE: You just hung out?

All right.

All right, just wait over there for me.

I noticed that he was very
blunt and I asked him why did

he go to the Dominican Republic,
which is a source country

for narcotics, and he just quickly said,

"I just wanted to have fun."

So I want to talk more to
him and, uh, engage more

in a conversation with him.

LESLIE: He's got two bags, so.
Got get 'em.

AXSON: Okay.

These both yours?

TRAVELER: Yes.

AXSON: Let's double check.

All right.

Follow us this way.

Appreciate you.

LESLIE: All right, so, sir, we
got a lot of questions for you.

First off, are all these
your bags in front of you?

TRAVELER: Yes.

LESLIE: When did
you pack your bags?

TRAVELER: Last night
or this morning.

This morning.

LESLIE: All right, and
you packed it by yourself?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

LESLIE: All right. Did anybody
give you anything to bring?

TRAVELER: No, that's all mine.

I mean, all this is my...

...my family sent me this.

AXSON: Okay.

Take a step back for me.

LESLIE: So, why did you go
to the Dominican Republic?

TRAVELER: I just
went to see a friend.

It was her birthday.

And we were just visiting...

...for the weekend there.

LESLIE: How many days?

TRAVELER: I would say...

...since Friday.

AXSON: This is a lot of stuff to
take for just four days or so.

Why all the cookware?

You bought this down there?

TRAVELER: No.

I just moved here...

...so my mom came
in the summer...

AXSON: Okay.

TRAVELER: ...and she realized that I don't
have that much stuff that I had before.

AXSON: So your mom gave this
to you in, uh, Santo Domingo?

TRAVELER: No, my mom gave it to
my friend to bring it to me.

AXSON: Oh, she gave it
to your friend, okay.

[tapping]

Something spilled.

Onion shampoo?

Is that for you?

TRAVELER: It was probably...

...it was probably here.
As I said, that...

...we get to Santo
Domingo and I...

...she had all the
stuff in her bag...

...and we just put
everything here.

AXSON: Do you
use this shampoo?

TRAVELER: I don't.

AXSON: You don't use it?
No? Okay.

TRAVELER: What's wrong
with the shampoo?

AXSON: Not too many people come
back with two bottles of shampoo.

When they go on a four-day trip.

LESLIE: It's a good
concealment method for

hiding narcotics, in shampoo bottles.

TRAVELER: I didn't know
about the shampoo.

LESLIE: They figure we're not
gonna get our hands dirty and

do a thorough check.

AXSON: Get the Gemini for me.

We'll do a test on it.

AXSON: Do me a favor.

While we're testing these, we
have to have you have a seat.

Once we're done, we'll
get you to pack up, okay?

This is advertised as onion shampoo.

They're filled all the way up.

LESLIE: Okay.

AXSON: That's why all
this got all over his stuff.

So we'll do a quick test on it.

LESLIE: This is really thick,
some sticky shampoo.

I ain't never, it kind of
look like cough syrup to me.

AXSON: First bottle
seems to be fine.

We'll, uh, take a look at the second.

LESLIE: Sometimes when they
have, like, several bottles,

uh, they'll have an indicator
on one bottle saying,

"This is the one that actually
has the stuff in it."

And the other one will display nothing.

They'll think if you search
one and it's clear,

that you won't search the other
one and they'll be free to go.

But no, we're gonna search this one too.

AXSON: Same.

All right, let him get
his stuff out of here.

LESLIE: They ended up being
ammonium sulfate, uh, the

stuff they use in shampoo, so
it turned out to be what it was.

AXSON: Thank you
for your time, okay?

TRAVELER: Thank you.
AXSON: Just go that way.

You have a good one, all right?

Sometimes you just need to
clear some things up and

everything's cool.

Uh, sometimes things get muddy
even more and you have to do a

complete inspection until you
get to a point where you feel

like you can let them go.

[honking]

RAUK: There may be packages
like this in one spot but in

other locations, we might find
different types of packages.

Here we have what looks like meth.

The other one was soft like Play-Doh.

This one's crunchy and hard.

This feels, this feels nice
and crunchy so it's, it's

meth, crystal meth.

We got one, two, three.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

You always got to practice,
uh, caution when you're, uh,

searching people's cars.

If it's fentanyl and you
accidentally cut the package,

you can get it on you and
pass out within minutes.

Looks like we got just three in the door.

We got more package right here.

So we got four packages right
here in the front right door.

And here we go, we got three more.

So we got six packages
in the firewall area.

There's gonna be like four or
five packages just inside there.

RAUK: When you tear the car apart, you're
required to rip up as much as you can...

...because you never
know where it's at.

You gotta look everywhere possible.

RAUK: There may be
narcotics in here.

I mean, it feels pretty heavy
and it doesn't bounce very well.

There's more packages inside the tire.

Probably 20 packages in
like this, inside here.

In the beginning, uh, I found
some black tar substance in

some packages.

The results at the beginning
were inconclusive, but upon

further testing, we found
it to be black tar heroin.

Upon retrieving all the
packages from the vehicle,

we found approximately 11
kilograms of black tar heroin.

2.24 kilograms of fentanyl.

In total, we have 104 packages.

It's a good amount for a small car.

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AIRSHIP: We lost sight of the
vessel just west of the pier.

BENIQUEZ: We just got a
callout for a lights out vessel.

So, it goes to show,
don't get too comfortable.

You never know when you're
gonna get the next call.

I'm gonna go to the back
and get the shotgun and.

Then prepare for disabling if possible.

AGENT: Right here, to
the right. I see it.

Right here.

To the right.
Do you see it?

AGENT: Yeah. You ready?

AGENT: I'm ready, brother.

AGENT: Can you light him
up with a flashlight, please?

AGENT: Good evening.

AGENT: I'm going to go
on his starboard side.

AGENT: Are you alone?

AGENT: I don't see
anybody on board.

AGENT: Yeah, keep
shining a light on it.

AGENT: Nobody is on board.

AGENT: Is it anchored?
It's not even anchored.

AGENT: Dead in the water.

What is this?

What is it, bro?

BENIQUEZ: There's gas
all over the place.

One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight, nine, ten,





There's over 20 barrels of
fuel on this one vessel.



They usually, typically,
put this much drums.

When they're coming in from Colombia.

Or Venezuela.

Most likely Venezuela.

This is definitely a smuggling vessel.

AGENT: Fuel
drums are all empty.

AGENT: So you
can't start the engines?

AGENT: No, no.

It's out of fuel, this guy.

YARNALL: It's an
abandoned boat.

Um, it's a lights out boat,
there's multiple gas cans,

which gives us suspicion to
believe it was involved in a

smuggling venture.

Usually, they don't abandon
them out at sea, usually they

beach them on the beach
and leave them there.

AGENT: I got two GPS's here.

BENIQUEZ: You've got a GPS?

AGENT: I got a GPS.

BENIQUEZ: You got
a satellite phone?

AGENT: I think so.

BENIQUEZ: We found some GPS's
and some phones typically

used, uh, by smugglers.

YARNALL: Anything
that's evidence.

Get it, get it on here
because when we tow it back.

I don't want to lose anything.

BENIQUEZ: We're gonna go
ahead and seize this vessel.

We're gonna have to tow
it back to Fajardo and

find out who the owner is.

AGENT: Is there a little hook
there I can tie the line on?

AGENT: Yeah, there's a hook.

AGENT: Yeah, just get
that looped through.

AGENT: You got it?

AGENT: Let it go.
There's slack.

Line's over.

AGENT: You got it.
You got it. Right there.

You got it. Right there.

Good. We're good.
All right. Go ahead.

AGENT: Going home.

AGENT: Go straight.

YARNALL: This boat, although it
seemed like it was abandoned at sea,

it more than likely was
actually beached on a beach.

More than likely the current
took it off the beach and it

drifted south to the
position where we found it.

BENIQUEZ: When we seize
a vessel, we run a K9.

In this case, we had a
K9 run on the outside.

It was too dangerous to
put a K9 on the inside.

The empty barrels of, of gas
and oil were all over the,

the bottom of the hull.

AGENT: Negative.

BENIQUEZ: But they got the
product off the boat before

we were able to get there.

In my experience, that type
of vessel probably came to

Puerto Rico with about $23
million worth of cocaine and

that's what we usually see here.

So if a product is worth more
than the boat, they cut their

losses with a $100,000 boat.

And we were able to seize that vessel.

A win is a win.

It's a half a win today.

Tomorrow's another day.

We can open up an investigation
and go from there.

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OFFICER: Coming
from Jamaica today?

Your passports, please?

[tapping]

LESLIE: All right, sir,
everything is good.

I appreciate your time here, all right?

CARRASQUILLO: I'm
curious about this guy here.

So what you have?

AXSON: He's coming from Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic.

It's a known area for
narcotics to come through.

He lost his passport down there.

He went down on Friday, his
friends came back on Sunday,

he's coming back today.

So right now, uh, I'm just
getting more of the story and

seeing through his stuff.

OFFICER: Some of
these shoes look weird.

AXSON: Uh-hmm.

OFFICER: Unless they
made them to look like some other brand...

...or something I don't know.

CARRASQUILLO: Shoes are
common ground for hideouts.

Uh, people will stick, uh,
drugs normally on the insole

around the shoe.

If you go through an x-ray,
you can actually identify it

as a more dense area.

Let's see.

Eh, it's a negative right here for shoes.

The shoes are good.

I'm just gonna x-ray this bag.

This is clear.

Is there anything else
you want me to check?

AXSON: Hang on. Hang on.

He's got some things here.

This says, uh, it's magnesium,
there's some pills in here but

he's also got, like, this
little white rock here.

So, we're gonna test
it and see what it is.

Cocaine.

Hook him up.

All right, sir, stand up.
Turn around.

Place your hands behind your back.

TRAVELER: Why?
AXSON: You have cocaine, sir.

TRAVELER: Where?
AXSON: Stand up.

TRAVELER: Where?
AXSON: Turn around.

Don't move, okay?

Just because we find a small
amount of narcotics in an

individual's property, it
doesn't mean that that's

all they have.

You don't stop at just the one thing.

You want to be sure that
they're not bringing in more,

just because you get hung
up on a small little thing.

CARRASQUILLO: His travel
history looks pretty sketchy.

Imma consult the supervisors.

AXSON: All right.

CARRASQUILLO: Quick question:
he had short travel history to

Barbados, he had a short
travel history to Montego Bay,

see if anything could be internal?

STYLES: We are gonna ask him
some additional questions just

to see if by chance he would
have swallowed narcotics and

will be carrying them
inside of his stomach.

So we're gonna see if we want
to move forward with possibly

taking him to a hospital
for a medical examination.

How are you?

TRAVELER: I'm not good at all.

TRAVELER: I don't
have nothing, y'all.

I don't do no cocaine so...

...I don't understand.

I'm lost.

STYLES: I mean, you
have the cocaine.

You do have it.

Currently, we have a subject
and during the baggage exam,

a small amount of, um,
cocaine was discovered.

So what was the purpose of your trip then?

TRAVELER: It was
my friend's birthday...

...and I went at
the last minute.

STYLES: Uh-hmm.

TRAVELER: I missed my flight,
I lost my passport.

I got a new passport this morning.

STYLES: You missed your
flight, why? Why did you miss your flight?

TRAVELER: Because they
wouldn't check my luggage...

...because we got
there kind of late.

STYLES: Who paid
for your ticket?

TRAVELER: I paid for my ticket.

STYLES: How'd you pay for it?

TRAVELER: What you mean?

STYLES: I don't know, you
had to think about it, so I'm asking you.

TRAVELER: I said, I said,
"What you mean?"

STYLES: So did you pay by credit
card? Did you pay by cash?

TRAVELER: No,
I just went online.

STYLES: How many
days in advance?

TRAVELER: I booked
it like two days before.

STYLES: Do you always
book your trips last minute?

TRAVELER: I'm more of a last
minute kind of, type of person.

STYLES: Why?

TRAVELER: It just happens
like that, no specific reason.

STYLES: Did anyone ask
you to bring anything back?

TRAVELER: No, ma'am, I don't
even speak their language.

STYLES: All right, I
want you to do me a favor.

TRAVELER: Yes, ma'am.

STYLES: Put your hands
on the thing for me.

TRAVELER: Yes, ma'am.

STYLES: I'm gonna, I'm
gonna touch you real quick.

Did anybody give you anything to swallow?

TRAVELER: No, ma'am.

I have diverticulitis.

It's kind of like Crohn's disease.

STYLES: Oh, you don't
got nothing in your stomach.

TRAVELER: Yeah, they took
out five feet of my intestines.

STYLES: Okay.

TRAVELER: I swear y'all.

Look in my eyes.

I don't got no drugs.

STYLES: Okay.

TRAVELER: I can't
believe this is happening.

STYLES: Listen, I
want you to hear me.

STYLES: It is
a very small amount.

Whatever we do right now...

...is going to be local, okay?

STYLES: And then we'll let
you know what our decision is.

TRAVELER: I don't
know what y'all talking about.

STYLES: So give me a minute
and I'll be back soon.

I'll come back and talk
to you in a minute, okay?

CARRASQUILLO: In this case,
we verified that the subject was honest.

STYLES: We are a zero
tolerance agency, so anytime

you bring something in, we do
act on the fact that it is a

controlled substance and
it is ill*gal to import

a controlled substance
into the United States.

We are going to seize the
narcotics and we issued

an administrative penalty of $500.

It is very important that you
know what is inside of your

luggage because you are
responsible for whatever

you do bring into the United States.

♪ ♪

AIRSHIP: 1-7-7 this is 2-0-8.

We just got scrambled out to...

...go check on a vessel.

YARNALL: You got
eyes on that boat?

AIRSHIP: We have eyes.

I'll let you know
where they're going but...

It's lights out.

YARNALL: So we have a radar
track of a boat coming in.

And we have guys, uh, looking out for it.

And they're reporting that the
boat doesn't have any lights on.

So we're gonna go and see if we
can intercept the boat by land.

AIRSHIP: I'm following
the trail.

At this time, he's
heading towards the beach.

YARNALL: 28-0-4,
you on the beach?

GROUND UNIT: 28-0-2, 28-0-3.

We're heading that way now.

YARNALL: If there's a boat,
you know, at this time of night,

is indicating they could be
up to something ill*gal

trying to smuggle something,

trying to go pick
something up or get some back.

Um, because it's just not typical weather.

It's not a good time to go
out for a recreational boater.

AIRSHIP: We've lost sight.

We've just lost it behind this mountain.

About three minutes from the shore.

The last location was
heading towards Arroyo.

There's a river mouth,
uh, west of Punta Figuras.

GROUND UNIT: Roger that. That's
good copy. Searching that area.

GROUND UNIT:
Somewhere in this area.

GROUND UNIT: We are on the east
side of the river. East side.

By the river mouth.

YARNALL: They just lost
it behind the mountain.

So if you look south, you
should, you should see it.

GROUND UNIT: We don't
have eyes on anything right now.

YARNALL: Nothing?

Maybe we spooked them and they pulled out.

AIRSHIP: All units, all units.

There's a vessel right there.

Oh, yup.
I have him in sight.

AGENT: Yeah, we've got
some gas cans...

...here on the beach.

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