04x04 - Dark Net Dragnet

[bunniefuu]

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OFFICER: Here.

Good boy.

Who's a good boy?

You're a good boy.

Officer Horn?

Um, my dog alerted in that
area, on the bottom right.

Can you grab, uh, a couple of those boxes?

Specifically the white one.

HORN: That looks like pills.
Let's see what we got here.

So...

Yeah.

The shapes is indicative to ecstasy.

But we're gonna have to
test it just to be sure.

We put a sample of the pills
that appear to be ecstasy

into the test kit.

And it's already turning purple,

so that's positive hit for ecstasy.

Now we just gotta alert K9
that this was a positive hit

and, uh, hopefully get that dog a reward.

OFFICER: Gonna take
it to detention room,

get a weight on it.

So, 252 grams of ecstasy.

OFFICER: Such a good job.
Good job.

[honking]

OFFICER: How you doing today?

TRAVELER: Good. You?

OFFICER: Doing well, sir.

MARTINEZ: Right now, we got
a lot of people coming in

for work right now.

Monday.

OFFICER: With the pandemic,
you would have thought that

things would have slowed
down but it seems like business as usual.

CLARK: Thank you.

CLARK: The only difference
that it's making is the people

that are coming into the
United States with the drugs,

they're American citizens or
people that are here in the

United States legally
that can go into Mexico

and come right back out.

HUERTA: Daily crossers,
you see 'em every day,

multiple times a day.

It's all about the money and right now,

when there's no jobs, this
is what they resort to.

GARCIA: All right,
whose bag is this?

TRAVELER: That's mine.

GARCIA: Yours? And then
this is your stuff, right?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

GARCIA: You got a
kid's lunchbox?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

Well, because...

...Christina went and sold her
purse because we were hungry.

GARCIA: Oh, got it.

TRAVELER: Yeah, it was Coach.

GARCIA: These are the multiple
daily crossers where they come

just multiple times a day
around this time and

in the morning, as well.

All right.
You guys are good to go.

TRAVELER: Alright, cool.

GARCIA: A lot of them
are pretty good to go,

they're just daily crossers,
they're responsible.

But anybody at any given time
could be smuggling anything,

so it's always important
to stay vigilant here.

GARCIA: And now
what are you bringing?

Nothing?

GARCIA: That one guy right here
was bringing in a trash can.

GARCIA: Why did you bring that?

TRAVELER: Because I
brought some bins.

But they were here.

GARCIA: Uh-huh.

TRAVELER: And I
was bringing it back.

GARCIA: Ay, Jose.

GARCIA: We've had a lot
of issues with him, prior.

He brings in random stuff.

Like medicine, which
he's not allowed to bring.

He started bringing cigarettes.

Sometimes, during the holidays,
he'll bring like an ornament.

Just one single ornament.

So, the second we give him
an inch, he'll take a mile.

GARCIA: Grab your things, Jose.

Grab your things.

Grab your...

TRAVELER: Why?

GARCIA: Because
you can't bring that in.

TRAVELER: I've brought
bins to the parking lot.

GARCIA: Go with her.

GARCIA: We just try to
keep it light with them

just 'cause they get
frustrated waiting in line.

So that's why, like, the
demeanor and the way

I talk to them is different than how

I talk to somebody that I don't know.

HUERTA: Okay, have a seat...

...and you'll exit from here.

GARCIA: Okay, Jose, you're not
carrying anything in your pockets?

Nothing?

Take out your...

[speaking Spanish]

GARCIA: All right.
You're good to go.

[laughing]

AGENT: This is that package
of, uh, MDMA in JFK.

DAVE: Yeah, this is consistent
with the packages we've been

seeing all over the United States,

specifically we've got three
here in Colorado right now.

ARRAN: I've been in touch
with other offices and they're

seeing exactly the same
packages of similar content,

shape, postage.

This definitely could be the
same vendor or organization,

shipping across the United
States that we're seeing here, guys.

Take a closer look at the print.

What do those look like, Dave?
Grenades?

DAVE: Pink grenades.

ARRAN: It's a brand that
is popular, so they're

immediately recognizable by the clientele.

But, really, they don't
understand that anyone could

be manufacturing this,
it's not like it has a,

an FDA certification.

What they don't realize is
that they're getting things

that are made in hotel rooms or trailers.

But they trust the shape, the
brand, the, the logo that's

on these tablets.

This could be a, a significant
organization here

that we're looking at.

We'll continue to ramp up
our investigative efforts to

identify possibly who is the
source of supply of these, uh, tablets.

And see where we can go from here.

TAQI: South Florida's the
gateway from the Caribbean

and from South America.

Really, in Miami, it used
to be the only international

airport here, but now that
we're getting other airports

like Fort Lauderdale, Orlando,
and Tampa, we're getting

a lot of flights daily.

KHAN: How are you doing, man?

Can I see your passport
for a second, please?

TRAVELER: Yeah, sure.

KHAN: How much money are
you bringing with you today?

TRAVELER: I have ten bucks.

OFFICER: Our job is to
facilitate legitimate trade and travel.

And one of the trends that
we're seeing now is currency.

OFFICER: And how
much cash do you have?

TRAVELER: Am I obligated
to answer that question?

Because I have never
been asked this before.

OFFICER: Come this way.

NIEVES: You can bring
money in and out of the

U.S. in any quantity.

If it's over $10,000,
you have to declare it.

TRAVELER: Here it is.

There's nothing else

LIGONS: If you're not
declaring your currency

and evading currency
reporting requirements,

that money could be drug money,

could be linked to firearms sales,

so we verify where the
money is from and make sure

the money's not going to any,
uh, illicit organizations.

OFFICER: Thank you.
Have a good day.

JONES: Hi. Can I see
your passport real fast?

Where you coming from?

TRAVELER: From, uh, Frankfurt.

JONES: Where are
you going now?

Frankfurt is known as a currency
transit from many countries.

Thank you.
Have a good day.

Currency can come in jewelry,
gold, or in actual money:

dollars, euros, whatever.

So we're just waiting on that
flight and see what we got.

KHAN: Hi. Can I see
your passport, please?

How are you doing?

TRAVELER: Why are
you stopping me, though?

KHAN: Thank you so much.
TRAVELER: You're welcome.

KHAN: Do you live
here in America?

TRAVELER: Yes.
KHAN: Where?

TRAVELER: In Boca.

KHAN: Do you have
family in Frankfurt? TRAVELER: Oh, no.

TRAVELER: I, uh, missed my
connection from Lagos, Nigeria.

KHAN: Oh, so you
went to Lagos?

TRAVELER: Yes.
KHAN: What do you do for work?

TRAVELER: I don't.

KHAN: You don't work?

Okay.

Come with me this way, please.

There's a lot of gold
smuggling from Africa and this

particular passenger had
a lot of gold jewelry.

JONES: Depending on what's
going on in the country,

they're melting the gold and
they're wearing it and they're

coming back with it so they
can re-melt it and put it back

in the bars and they can
sell it as a currency.

So we're just gonna look at
her bags, just make sure her

story checks out.

All these bags are yours?
You packed them yourself?

TRAVELER: Yes.

JONES: And you take full responsibility
for everything inside the bags?

TRAVELER: I hope so.

My bags were left...

...without me for...

...24 hours in...

...Frankfurt.

KHAN: A lot of
gold and diamonds.

JONES: Yeah.

KHAN: It's kind of odd
when you're unemployed.

Could be possible gold smuggling.

What do you think is the total
value of all the jewelry right here?

TRAVELER: Um... yeah.

Uh, a couple of million.

KHAN: A couple of million?

KHAN: A couple million
for all the jewelry?

TRAVELER: Yeah, but I
didn't buy them in one day.

I've been, I've been
buying jewelry all my life.

KHAN: When did you buy it?

TRAVELER: A long time ago.

KHAN: A long time ago?
TRAVELER: Yeah. KHAN: Yeah?

JONES: They'll go abroad
and they'll buy jewelry and

they'll put it on acting like
it's theirs, that they've had

it forever, and it's not.

And the jewelry you're wearing,
that's from home?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

JONES: Okay.

KHAN: Do you always take all your
jewelry with you every time you go?

TRAVELER: That's not all...

...but...

...I travel with
my jewelry, yes.

KHAN: And you're unemployed
so it's, it's kind of odd.

Did you ever work?

TRAVELER: Oh, yeah.
Of course I've worked. I'm a lawyer...

...but I haven't worked...

...because I've been
taking care of my kids.

JONES: Okay, you're
a stay-at-home mom?

TRAVELER: Yes.

JONES: So, who funds
your expenses then?

TRAVELER: My
ex-husband pays.

KHAN: Oh, your ex-husband?
What does he do?

TRAVELER: He makes fertilizer.

KHAN: Oh, fertilizer? Where?

TRAVELER: In Nigeria.

He's like a...

...major, major shareholder.

He has other investors.

JONES: Okay.

KHAN: It's pretty nice of your
ex-husband to be financing all of it.

TRAVELER: Well, some of it...

...he bought when
we were married.

Some are gifts from my mom.

JONES: Clearly, she had a
lot of jewelry but some of

the jewelry kind of looked worn,
especially the ones in the bag.

KHAN: On this first line,
you're gonna write down

how much you're bringing and on
the second line, your initials, okay?

TRAVELER: Okay.

TRAVELER: The value
of the items?

KHAN: Yup.

JONES: She was very receptive
in talking and questioning and

her behavior wasn't there,
so she was good to go.

Thank you, ma'am.

When you exit this way, you'll
exit to the left and you're good to go.

TRAVELER: That's it?

JONES: That's it.

TRAVELER: I didn't
do anything wrong?

JONES: You didn't
do anything wrong.

TRAVELER: Oh, my goodness.

JONES: Thank you. Hope
you have a great day.

TRAVELER: Thank you.

♪ ♪

DAVE: Well what we've identified
is a vendor shipping MDMA powder

and pills all over the U.S.

and we've been able to tie
multiple packages to 'em.

Our goal is to eventually
identify which vendor and

which market.

As you can see, I've
got multiple packages all over the U.S.

Right now, we have three
that have hit Colorado.

We're seeing with this
vendor all the packages are very similar.

The two pills that have
shown up in the area are

the pink grenade and the yellow skull.

We're looking to do a
knock-and-talk today in

Denver, we're looking to
do a controlled delivery in

Colorado Springs, and do
a search warrant down

in Colorado Springs.

GREG: So today, as he
said, we're gonna be doing

knock-and-talk on a home
in the Denver metropolitan area downtown.

It's a woman who, potentially,
is importing MDMA and

we're gonna get there and knock
on the door, see what she says.

So, any questions?

AGENT: Nope.

GREG: All right, thank you
again and we'll, uh,

we'll see you down there.

ARRAN: We've intercepted three
parcels, uh, so we're trying

and attempting to do
simultaneous interviews

at all the locations, uh,
just on the off chance that

these may be connected.

Uh, we wouldn't want one
person to phone the other one

and let them know that
law enforcement, uh,

has them on their radar.

If we can get an individual
here in our area to assist us

with the identification of the
person or the location that

they've purchased these
from, that will help our investigation.

♪ ♪

GREG: She didn't provide
much information on this.

She was very evasive about her answers.

AGENT: What did she say?

GREG: She was resistant.

Just said that, you know,
she doesn't wanna tell us

any information, pretty much and.

We would ask her questions,

"Are you receiving
packages in this name?"

She was like,
"Oh, I don't know."

ARRAN: They provided a
brief interview, but nothing

significant to help us
further in our investigation.

I'm hopeful that, uh, the
other teams, uh, especially

down in Colorado Springs
have more success than we did here today.

OFFICER: When was the
last time that you crossed?

OFFICER: When was the last
time you crossed through here?

TRAVELER: I think two weeks ago.

OFFICER: Two weeks ago?
TRAVELER: Yeah.

HUERTA: What are you bringing
back with you today?

TRAVELER: Um, I've just
got my backpack with my

laptop and my work supplies.

And then this is just to hold my passport.

HUERTA: All right. No,
not bringing anything from Mexico today?

TRAVELER: No, I'm not.

HUERTA: Fruits, vegetables,
nothing like that?

TRAVELER: No.
HUERTA: You have a good one.

TRAVELER: All right,
thank you very much.

HUERTA: Hello.
How's it going?

Where you headed to today?

BRETADO: The subject was fidgety
in line, couldn't stay still,

kind of looking around.

All those are indicators that
he's anxious about something.

HUERTA: Take one step back.

One step back.

All right, hold tight for me real quick.

OFFICER: The K9
alerted to his shoes.

HUERTA: Okay, I'm gonna
need you to follow me.

We're just gonna do secondary
checks and go from there.

We're gonna go right over here, okay?

I'm gonna go do a pat down.

BRETADO: Can you leave
your shoes out here, sir?

OFFICER: It's right there.

OFFICER: Found it?
OFFICER: Oh, yes.

OFFICER: Some
light blue pills.

OFFICER: You checked
all the pockets, right?

BRETADO: The officers found
two little baggies of

blue pills in his shoes.

HUERTA: So, the recent trend
is we've been getting a lot of

body carriers and what
they are bringing is pill-like substances.

And nine times out of ten,
they always test for fentanyl

because that is the hot
drug that is right now.

OFFICER: So you do
have something on you?

BRETADO: He admitted to
the officers that he was an

internal carrier, which means
he had a package inside of him.

Take him to the hospital.

OFFICER: 10-4.

They've gotta take you.

Because if it ruptures...

...it's gonna make you die.

Okay?

BRETADO: Right now, we're
headed to the local hospital.

OFFICER: Can you
get a knee up?

Try the other foot.

BRETADO: The subject did admit
that he had narcotics inside of him.

So at this point, it's pretty
urgent that we get him there.

♪ ♪

ARRAN: So, I just returned
from, uh, a, a knock-and-talk.

Our subject, uh, was not
cooperative, but the other team

that was down in Colorado Springs, uh,

they were able to sit down with
the recipient and they actually

opened up their computer and
showed us one of the various

dark net markets from which, uh,

they had purchased, uh, the MDMA.

DAVE: Here at HSI,
I'm a criminal analyst.

If I can connect the dots,
then we have a much larger

investigation and we can
take the network down.

I'm doing a lot of open
source research and

some financial research,
trying to I.D. any

Bitcoin wallets or anything
they're receiving money

for these pills.

ARRAN: The darknet is a
portion of the internet

developed to provide people anonymity.

Customers and, and users will
have to utilize a software

called "Tor" and then be able
to login to various markets

that sell different contraband or goods.

But with anything, you always
leave a footprint in cyberspace.

DAVE: We narrowed down maybe a
handful of vendors that were

selling the pink grenades, and
through other various sources,

we were able to narrow down
that it was a dark net vendor

from France that was selling
these specific pink grenades

to our, uh, buyers in Colorado.

ARRAN: This enables us
to engage, uh, our French

counterparts, uh, to see if
we can identify where these

parcels are, are ultimately coming from.

It's time to get this guy.

[siren]

BRETADO: You ready?

BRETADO: All right, knees.
Back where we came from.

While we were getting ready
for the x-ray, he stated that

he needed to use the
restroom to expel the package.

Ready?
Watch your step, okay?

I let a doctor know
and they watched him have a bowel movement

and, uh, that's
when the package was found.

OFFICER: You thirsty
or anything?

You good?

TRAVELER: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

BRETADO: We'll be
back for you, all right?

So, this is the package
that the subject expelled from his rectum.

We've been seeing a high
trend since the border closed.

I think the new trend right
now is males, males internal.

For a while, it was just
females in the vaginal cavity.

Now, it's turning into males.

We're gonna open this up
and we're gonna test it.

Right now, we're gonna
use a rapid response test.

So, our test result came back
positive for the properties of fentanyl.

RIVERA: We're gonna
put them all together.

And have it weighed.

BRETADO: Yeah.

RIVERA: It's
gonna be that one.

And the other two packages.

BRETADO: Uh-hmm.

The total weight of
the pills is 180 grams.

Definitely, it's a good stop.

We are keeping hundreds
of fentanyl pills out of the streets.

It's causing a lot of
overdoses and stuff like that,

so we're always proud to catch anything.

ARRAN: We just arrived,
uh, from Charles de Gaulle.

Today's the, uh, the operation
with our French partners,

the Gendarmerie.

We're just heading over
for the, the briefing.

AGENT: So this is the target.

Don't trust his appearance...

...because he's no
doubt changed it.

And if he makes a break for it...

...he'll be really difficult
to ever find again.

DAVE: So the main target, here
in France, has been identified

as an individual who has
already been convicted of

narcotics trafficking
on the dark net about

two to three years ago.

He was convicted,
he was sentenced, and then he skipped bail

and never appeared to serve his sentence.

So he's been a fugitive,
using multiple identities.

AGENT: There probably
won't be any MDMA...

...but what we
would really like...

...is to get our hands on
the computing equipment.

Good luck.

DAVE: Because the door is, uh,
reinforced, they can't just

breach it because
they're worried that the, uh,

electronics will be erased
while they're doing that.

So the plan seems to be to
have a delivery man to come

and knock and pretend he's
at the wrong door and then as

soon as that's happened,
they will make entry.

AGENT: All right.

NIEVES: Good morning.

The two of you traveling together?

WOMAN: Yes.
MAN: Yes.

NIEVES: Okay. And what's
the purpose of your travel?

WOMAN: Going to a wedding.
NIEVES: Aye, okay.

How much currency y'all
traveling with today?

WOMAN: I have $100.
NIEVES: Okay.

MAN: I have $300.

NIEVES: All right,
you guys are all set.

Yup.

Morning, sir.
U.S. Customs.

Can I see your passport?
Are you traveling alone today?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

NIEVES: Okay.
Step over this way.

Just got a couple questions, okay?

What's the purpose of
your travel to Haiti?

TRAVELER: To see my family.

NIEVES: Okay. How much money
you traveling with today?

TRAVELER: It's not the...

...ten thousand.

NIEVES: It's not 10,000?

TRAVELER: No, not exactly.

NIEVES: How much,
then how much is it?

TRAVELER: Like, uh, at least...

TRAVELER: Seven.

NIEVES: Okay. I'm gonna have
you fill out a form, okay?

TRAVELER: Okay.

NIEVES: Any money you're
carrying with you right now,

I need you to put it
right there on that paper.

TRAVELER: I'm not sure.

NIEVES: Why are you not sure?

TRAVELER: Because of...

NIEVES: It's not your.

TRAVELER: ...my friend...

NIEVES: Is it your money?

TRAVELER: It's mine.

NIEVES: If you're carrying
the currency, it's your responsibility

to know how much money you're
traveling with, right?

TRAVELER: Yeah, okay.
NIEVES: Okay.

So write down how much
you have on you right now.

TRAVELER: 14.
It might be more.

NIEVES: 14 what?

TRAVELER: $14,000.

NIEVES: Okay. So I'm gonna
count your money, okay?

TRAVELER: Okay.

NIEVES: There's different
envelopes from different banks.

Why?

He declared $14,000, however
my suspicions was raised that

he was bringing it for other people.

Be a little bit more forthcoming.

Be a little bit more honest.

You need to tell me.
Is it your money?

TRAVELER: I'm not sure.

♪ ♪

NIEVES: He declared 14 but,
uh, my concern is it's in

different envelopes, so.

OFFICER: Yeah.

NIEVES: Carrying
money for other people.

If you're gonna bring money
for other people, you have to

be a licensed money courier.

Licensed money couriers, they
know exactly where the money

came from and the people that it
came from are typically vetted.

All the money, no matter who
it's from, can be traced back

through a bank or legitimate
paperwork, which it's obvious

that this gentleman doesn't have.

I counted the money.

The total amount was $13,820.

OFFICER: How much of
this money is your money?

TRAVELER: Okay.

Six thousand is mine.

OFFICER: $6,000 is yours?
TRAVELER: Yeah. As of now.

TRAVELER: It's mine.

NIEVES: Okay. Now the other
envelopes, who gave you that,

who gave you those envelopes?

TRAVELER: Oh.

TRAVELER: My brother...

...and my friend.

NIEVES: The thing is, you're
carrying money for other

people so you're an
unlicensed money courier.

That, that, that becomes a problem, okay?

How many times have you done this before?

TRAVELER: Before? No.

NIEVES: How much are you getting
paid to transport this money?

TRAVELER: No, no,
no, no, no, no, no.

No money.

NIEVES: Okay.
TRAVELER: Just.

OFFICER: Do you, do you know
the people you're giving the money to?

TRAVELER: Oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.

OFFICER: How do you know them?

TRAVELER: My family.

NIEVES: Okay.

You said you declared


So it's about that amount.

So what's gonna happen
today is, I'm gonna give you

a warning, but you cannot do this anymore.

Do you understand?

TRAVELER: Yes.

NIEVES: The only reason why
I'm not seizing the money is

because he never had any
issues when it comes to

transporting money or declaring any money.

So I gave him a warning this
time, I gave him his money back.

So, now you learned
something new today, right?

You learned that if you're gonna
carry money for other people,

what are you gonna do?

You gotta be a, a courier, right?

That's all.

OFFICER: Thank you, sir.
All right, man, no problem.

NIEVES: You're all set, sir.
Go right ahead. Yup.

TRAVELER: Okay. Thank you.

NIEVES: Take care.

OFFICER: All right.
You have a great day, okay?

Have a good day at work.

OFFICER: Here, we get just as
much action in vehicle secondary

and vehicle primary lanes as
we do in the pedestrian lane.

OFFICER [over radio]: Got you.

OFFICER: Good boy.

OFFICER: It's Nogales, it
never sleeps.

Always open, man.
Always open for business.

OFFICER: Y'all take
anything back from Mexico?

TRAVELER: We have cheese.

OFFICER: Nice. The cheese.

Everybody brings the cheese,
it's a, is it, is it special?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

OFFICER: You have
a good one, guys.

TRAVELER: You too.

OFFICER: Dog alerted.

Alerting to the vehicle.

Between the doors on the driver's side.

OFFICER: You have
nothing with you?

OFFICER: Refer to secondary.

So driver, he denied having any type of

contraband in the vehicle.

So that's what we're
gonna verify right now.

K9 OFFICER: Right now, I'm
getting an alert behind the

dash center console area.

Who's a good boy?

Ooh-hoo-hoo. Who's a good boy?

He's a good boy.

OFFICER: We're gonna start
removing this part because

this part here, it looks
like it was removed before.

And then okay.

OFFICER 2: There you go.
OFFICER: There you go.

OFFICER 2: We got packages.

OFFICER: It looks like
packages wrapped in black tape.

DAVE: So, right now we're
in the small town where the

target lives and we're going with, uh,

following the gendarmerie here.

He's known for drug trafficking,
he had several weapons,

uh, when they last
arrested him. Pistols.

So, he is potential to be violent.

So, there's definitely gonna
be, uh, you know, a heightened

sense of, uh, awareness,
which is, of course,

why they're using
the, the S.W.A.T. team.

We're waiting with, uh,
Christophe, who is, uh,

the lead investigator for the gendarmerie.

CHRISTOPHE: We know we need
the information that there are

present on the computers, on the datas.

And we don't want him to
trash or harm or just, uh,

throw the computers and lock them.

So, we want to make, uh,
sure we have the best chances

to surprise him.

DAVE: Teams are gonna start
moving into place and, uh,

I believe the S.W.A.T. will then

send in the decoy, the delivery person.

Slow roll to the house.

Approaching the residence.

So the tactical team is getting ready.

There they are, up in the front there.

CHRISTOPHE: Good to go.

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AGENT: Are they in?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

ALIA: Looks like he's trying
to get out of the, of the roof.

ARRAN: Yeah, I see it.
There he is.

ALIA: Okay.

AGENT: They got him.

AGENT: Oh, they got him?
AGENT: Yeah.

ALIA: They're going to transport
him to the holding facility,

where for the next 96 hours
they are going to, um,

interview and try to go
through electronic evidence

with the target.

ARRAN: They apprehended
him and the electronics.

This is really where the next
piece of the investigation starts,

processing the evidence
where we'll get more leads

to follow in the case.

JONES: How long
are you staying in Cuba?

TRAVELER: Seven days.

JONES: Cuba is hot for
undeclared currency, so we're

just checking people just to
make sure that they know the

process of declaration.

Gracias.

Next person.

OFFICER: Sir, how are you?

Are you traveling together?

TRAVELER: Yes.

OFFICER: Come this way.

Let me see your passport.

Come through here, please.

JONES: When the gentleman was
asked, he said he had $5,000,

the wife said they
actually have 1,000 euros.

So they're not on the same
page of the actual currency

that they have together, so
we pulled them to the side to

count the money.

OFFICER: If you are traveling
with more than $10,000...

...you need to declare
them to the United States.

It can be in all types of currencies...

...dollars, euros, all
added up, per household.

TRAVELER: Do we have
to report it in Cuba as well?

OFFICER: No, sign here.

We don't have anything to do with them.

JONES: They went from $5,000.

To more like $9,000, 1,000 euros.

So we're just gonna count
the money just to verify that

that's the correct amount.

OFFICER: Now, at this moment,
please show us all the cash you have.

There has to be more or less the
same quantity you wrote here.

Is that all?

TRAVELER: Everything.

OFFICER: Good.
Now we can start counting it.

€1,000 euros.

OFFICER: 20 $50s.

OFFICER 2:20 $50s.

OFFICER: 22 $20s.

One $5.

Three $1s.

OFFICER: Please come here and let
me show you how much we just counted.

$12,537.86.

Is there any money in the bags?

If there is more money in the
bags, this is your last chance.

How much are these?

What's their price?

TRAVELER: $180.

OFFICER: They're fine.

OFFICER: We are gonna
make a correction here.

Please draw a line here, and over here.

JONES: So in total,
it was about $12,000.

So basically they have to
amend the declaration and

they're fine, they're good to go.

OFFICER: Now you know. Next time
you travel with more than $10,000...

...if you are both entering
or leaving the country...

...you have to report it to U.S.
Customs and Border Protection.

TRAVELER: Gracias, gracias.

OFFICER: Three. Six. Nine.

OFFICER: Nine?
There has to be one more, bro.

OFFICER: I know.
It's always even numbers.

CARRERO: So far, this
definitely looks like

contraband for us, so we're
gonna look for everything in

the car to see if
there's more somewhere else.

TROCHEZ: The subject is a
frequent crosser and since he

got some derogatory
information in his background,

he gets referred, uh, every
single time he crosses and

it's very rare to see someone
that gets referred every

single time cross with
narcotics but it does happen

and today wasn't his lucky day.

OFFICER: It's right there.

CARRERO: We found a crack
pipe hidden in, in the center console.

CARRERO: More marks
in here, man.

Do you see?

You see that? Look.

CARRERO: Right now, we're not
sure if there's more inside the

dash compartment.

But we found the same marks we
found on the center console.

So, now we're gonna take this part off.

To check on top of the dash,
if there is something.

OFFICER: Hold this.

OFFICER: Nope.

OFFICER: Nope.

OFFICER: Nothing loaded here.

TROCHEZ: So, we discovered, uh,
nine packages in the vehicle.

Um, they're different sizes.

Uh, normally, when they're
wrapped like this, it could

either be, uh, meth, it could
also be, uh, fentanyl pills

which has been really common
here at the port of Nogales.

Um, and we'll pack them up
right now and we'll get them

tested, find out what they are.

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TROCHEZ: So here at Nogales
at the, at the Nogales port of entry,

we've been seeing a lot
of fentanyl pills, a lot of

methamphetamine, also,
every once in a while,

we do get heroin and cocaine.

But right now, the way that
these packages are wrapped,

it looks like possible meth.

Okay, so now we're just gonna
open one of the first packages.

Um, depending what we see,
determines the test we're

gonna be using.

And then from the initial, it
looks like they're blue pills.

So these are, uh, possibly fentanyl pills.

This is our rapid
response test for fentanyl.

Um, I'm gonna extract a pill
from the package and then

swab it with the solution.

And then using the test strip,
it's gonna determine whether

it is fentanyl, if it's
positive for fentanyl or not.

It will give you one line if
it's positive, it will give

you two lines if it's negative.

It's a red line that's gonna come out.

So that red line right there.

The first package we just
popped open right now,

it's positive for fentanyl.

So the next step right now,
we'll open some packages,

make sure that they're the
same contents or different.

If it's different, we'll test it
with a different type of test.

CARRERO: So right now, in the
opening, you can see that

it looks exactly the same
like the first package,

so we can assume that is the
same, uh, kind of narcotic.

All the substances look the
same, they are all small pills.

Even if the packages look
different, they have the same,

uh, narcotic inside, concealed inside.

Now, we need to weigh
them to see how much narcotics we have.



TROCHEZ: It's a good day
whenever you're able to seize

any type of narcotic.

Um, the further it
leaves Nogales, the more pricier it gets.

So it's always a good day
when we take these narcotics

out of the streets.

Here in CBP, it's a team effort.

We used a lot of different
tools today, we had our

primary officers, we had
our K9s, we also had, uh,

different other methods of
search, and with the use of

all that, we were able to
secure some narcotics today.

CHRISTOPHE: These are all the
exhibits that we found, uh, at

the main target's house.

These are all of the fake documents.

With his face.

The ones he was using,
they're, they're pretty.

They're pretty good.

AGENT: Good quality, yeah?

AGENT: Yeah.

CHRISTOPHE: This envelope is
pretty similar to the one that

you found, uh, for your purchase.

AGENT: Oh, there's
a barcode on there.

CHRISTOPHE: Yeah, yeah.

AGENT: I wonder if we
can compare it to, uh.

ARRAN: Yeah, 'cause these are
very similar to the ones that

we received back in Denver.

AGENT: Yeah.
AGENT: Yeah, look.

CHRISTOPHE: Oh, yeah, so
this is exactly the same.

AGENT: It's the
exact same number.

ARRAN: Tying it back from what
you found on the scene,

back to what we're seeing.

CHRISTOPHE: Yeah, yeah.

ARRAN: In the United States,
I think that's great.

The envelopes that were
located match exactly the

envelopes that we had seized,
full of MDMA, back in Denver.

What this all means is that
we have a high likelihood,

we found the person that is
responsible for shipping all

these parcels into the United States.

What do you estimate as the
total number of kilograms of

drugs this organization shipped?

CHRISTOPHE: So, this branch,
for sure, up to 500 kilos,



The lowest estimation would be $8 million.

ARRAN: The subject is
currently meeting with his

lawyer and will be brought
forth in front of a judge, uh,

to go through the French judicial process.

Uh, we'll continue to work
with the gendarmerie going

through the evidence that
was collected, see if there's

additional leads, uh, that we
can follow, uh, going back to

the United States.

RYDER: This is great.

I mean, this just has all
the pieces that we need to

put it all together.

It's not, it's not
like we're missing much.

ARRAN: Working with our 86
HSI offices in 55 different

countries, really stretches
the reach of HSI to truly

affect transnational organized
crime and stem the flow of

this contraband coming
into the United States.