01x01 - Courier to Kingpin

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SILVA: Right now we
are waiting for a flight
from Cali, Colombia.

RIMOLA: This particular flight
has a passenger of interest

because he's frequently
traveling to Colombia.

We have a unit that analyzes
flights before they arrive.

They sent us a picture from his
passport application and that's

what we're gonna use to try
to pinpoint this individual

coming off this flight.

MATLIN: Passports out folks
and line up by an officer.

RIMOLA: Colombia's always been
at the top when it comes down
to cocaine distribution.

So, whenever we see passengers
traveling back and forth to

Colombia we like to talk
to them a little bit more

to verify why they're
going abroad so much.

MATLIN: Passports out, please.
Line up in front of any officer.

RIMOLA: How you doing?
Where are you going, ma'am?

PASSENGER: San Francisco.

RIMOLA: That's
this guy right here.

MATLIN: Which one is it?

RIMOLA: The guy
tattooed over there.

MATLIN: Everybody,
passports out.

RIMOLA: Passport please.

OFFICER: Step over
to the side please.

MATLIN: God, he doesn't
look like him at all.

Gold teeth and dyed his
hair and he doesn't look
like the surfer boy anymore.

So, the officer's have
located the person that
we were curious about.

RIMOLA: He won't know
we're specifically
looking into his trip

because we're gonna be
stopping multiple passengers
coming on the flight.

MATLIN: From here we're gonna
take them to passport control
then downstairs to baggage,

pick up any checked-in
luggage he may have.

OFFICER: This way please.

MATLIN: And then
begin the search.

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MUBARAK: How we doing, guys?

Mind if I take a
look at your passport?

PASSENGER: Yeah, of course.

MUBARAK: You have one too?

PASSENGER: Yeah, sure.

MUBARAK: Where are we headed?

PASSENGER: Las Vegas.

MUBARAK: Las Vegas?
How long we going out there for?

PASSENGER: For one week.

MUBARAK: All right.
Well you guys enjoy Vegas, yeah?

PASSENGER: Thank you very much.
Have a nice day. Bye.

PASSENGER: Bye.

MUBARAK: Our main goal is to
find out whether or not you're

admissible to the United States.

A person coming
to United States.

If they're not a citizen
of the United States or a
resident of the United States.

They're seeking
admission to the United States.

What brings you to the
United States today?

MUBARAK: To Honolulu? Hawaii?

MUBARAK: Once they
come to the border,

even though they may have
touched down it's not until we

grant them admission
that they've actually been
admitted to the United States.

Hi. Can I see your
passport real quick?

PASSENGER: Yes. Of course.

MUBARAK: Cool. What
brings you here today?

PASSENGER: Going
visit my friend.

He live in, uh, Seattle.

MUBARAK: Your
friend lives in Seattle?

PASSENGER: Yeah.

MUBARAK: Sometimes we go out
before the passengers have a

chance to meet up with
an immigration officer.

We look at passengers and
look for any inconsistencies.

How did you meet this friend?

PASSENGER: Um, uh, it's
a long story but yeah.

MUBARAK: Uh-hmm. You still
didn't answer my question.

Like, how you met?

PASSENGER: Uh, on internet.
MUBARAK: On the internet?

PASSENGER: Yeah.

MUBARAK: When a person's
trying to put up a front
or hold to a story

they make preparations
and prepare themselves.

A lot of times when
they're in line they
haven't gotten to the lie

that they're prepared to tell
once they get up to the officer.

How long do you intend to be
here in the United States?

PASSENGER: Uh, now I'm
gonna stay two weeks.

MUBARAK: Uh-hmm. I noticed
that you were here last month.

PASSENGER: Yeah.
MUBARAK: Yeah. All right.

MUBARAK: Who paid for your
ticket to come out this time?

PASSENGER: Uh, I got ticket.
It's a gift. Yeah.

MUBARAK: Okay. From who?

PASSENGER: From that guy.

MUBARAK: Oh, so he paid for
your ticket to come here?

PASSENGER: Uh, yes.
It's like a gift. So.

MUBARAK: All right.
Just go ahead step out with me.

We need to talk about a
few things about your trip.

Yeah? All right. Come on.

PASSENGER: Yeah, I didn't know
that you ask so many questions.

MUBARAK: Well, it's,
they're very basic questions.

PASSENGER: I'm not a criminal.
MUBARAK: No. No.

I did not accuse you
of being a criminal.

PASSENGER: Yeah.

NEEDHAM: This is the
international mail facility

where 60% of all mail
comes into the United States.

KHZAM: Every piece of
mail that comes off an
international flight

we have jurisdiction to search.

My dog's name is Argo.

He's a
five-year-old Belgian Malinois.

He's trained on narcotics,
human detection, and fentanyl.

Good boy.
Come on, buddy.

NEEDHAM: We're looking for
narcotics, fish and wildlife,

agriculture, or people ordering
stuff off of the dark web.

That's definitely powder.

If it's prohibited
we're gonna seize it.

We might destroy it.
It all depends on what it is.

This right here is
coming off as phenacetin,

a cutting agent for cocaine.

They'll use this with
cocaine so this little
amount go to this amount.

KHZAM: Come on, buddy.

Argo pretty much
puts in my hours.

Eight hours a day.
Many times longer.

Never complains.
Never talks back.

Ready? Come.

Here. Good boy.

Good boy!

We've got an alert on
the boxes in this area.

So, what we're gonna do is we're
gonna put them in a line and

we're gonna see exactly which
box contains his trained odor,

um, narcotics in other words.

Good boy. Come on. Come on.

Good boy. Okay.

So, definitely the
alert is on that box.

GROB: All righty.

Hopefully there's
something good.

Oh! Ecstasy!

KHZAM: Good boy, buddy.

GROB: This is fish food
but it's factory sealed.

Inside are pills of ecstasy.

As soon as I opened the
container there was a

sweet smell that comes
off the ecstasy.

All right.

Now, we're gonna take it
into our detention room,

process the seizure, get a
weight on it and go from there.

MATLIN: The team trains
constantly on techniques and

behavior and there's certain
signs and signals that people

give off that they're
definitely looking for.

RIMOLA: People tend to have
certain movements that they
do when they're nervous,

when they're trying
to hide something.

He has his head on a swivel.

Very, very attentive
to what's going on.

MATLIN: Yeah, he's fidgety.
Look at him.

OFFICER:
Gentlemen, let's go please.

RIMOLA: He's walking
a little bit weird.

Not a relaxed behavior.
Not a relaxed way of walking.

OFFICER: How long were
you in Colombia this time?

OFFICER: Yeah.

OFFICER: How long have you
been involved with your wife?

RIMOLA: His story's
not making much sense.

He's saying he went down to
Colombia to visit his wife for

three weeks but we
don't believe he's married.

SUSPECT: Yeah.

RIMOLA: People lie for
all sorts of reasons.

Maybe they don't want us to find
out the true reason for the trip

but it's our job to verify
the reason why they're lying

or what they're trying to hide.

HUMES: There are multiple
ways that smugglers get
drugs into the United States.

They have it
concealed in a luggage,

on their body, or
inside their body.

When we're talking about
inside their body that mean

they usually wrap it in
some type of condom,

they usually conceal it
in their rectal cavity.

He keeps crossing his leg.

He had his hand behind his
back, leaning on the table.

So, I've been doing this for 21
years and the body does not lie.

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GROB: An average seizure
here at JFK would probably be,

like, one of these containers.

Right now we're up to two,
four, six, eight, ten, 12.

KHZAM: We're gonna use
test kits to verify that
it is in fact ecstasy.

A very small
amount is all you need.

Positive result for
MDMA and/or ecstasy is
gonna be basically black

which is what we have here.

GROB: We have seen the
fish food containers before

but normally it's
not this quantity.

Smugglers use all different
kinds of concealment techniques.

If they think they
can get it by us,

they'll give it a try.

But, they can't beat our dogs.

So, we got six keys of ecstasy.

That's a lot of ecstasy.

KHZAM: Hopefully we get
some arrests out of it.

WALTER: Listen, I'm
reviewing that case folder,

on the opioid
investigation you got going on.

HSI is Homeland
Security Investigations.

We are the principle
investigative arm for the

Department of Homeland Security.

CBP and HSI is like
the one two punch.

OFFICER: So this was
partially a business trip?

WALTER: Customs and
Border Protection are
basically the uniform cops.

They are the ones that the
public usually deals with.

OFFICER: How are you today?

WALTER: So, when you look at
HSI we are the detectives.

KHZAM: Yeah.

WALTER: So, they turn
over the information,

the evidence, and we take
the lead at that point.

TOM: We had a package come
through our international
JFK mail branch of MDMA.

We're gonna attempt to
deliver that package.

WALTER: What's the location?

TOM: Location is
in lower Manhattan.

The financial district.

This also might be a couple
accepting these packages.

WALTER: Did you send out
the recon team this morning?

TOM: Yeah, they're on site.

WALTER: Okay. We're expecting
this one to go kind of smooth?

TOM: Hopefully.
WALTER: All right.

TOM: Um, obviously, you know,
just like any other controlled

delivery there's certain
things that can happen.

We'll prepare for it
and everybody is all on
the same page right now.

WALTER: Let's get out there.
TOM: Okay.

WALTER: We always hope for
everything to go according to

plan but you always got to
plan for the unexpected.

That's why when we
do these operations,

we go out in numbers.

'Cause if the bad guys
got more than you guys,

it's not a good day for us.

HERNANDEZ: Right now we're
gonna go meet up a flight.

Should be landing pretty soon.

Here in ATCET, the
Anti-Terrorism Contraband
Enforcement Team,

primarily what we look
for is any contraband

coming inbound and going
out of the United States

and cargo, as well as aircraft.

Get it done.

SILVA: They can open up the
belly then start the off load.

HERNANDEZ: All right.

SILVA: The manifest shows
to be bringing in fruits,

vegetables, and some flowers.

So do an aircraft search, make
sure that's all that's on there.

Costa Rica is
considered a transit country.

A transit country is used
just to transport narcotics.

They receive the narcotics
from a source country,
they'll then ship it

either to the U.S., Europe,
or overseas, anywhere else.

HERNANDEZ: It's flowers galore.
Coming off of this flight.

We don't know when
they're gonna send it.

They could be sending it today.

They could be
sending it tomorrow.

They have the advantage
because they have the
element of surprise.

So, we always have to make
sure that we're on our A game.

We got one pallet down.

Now we're onto the next one.

See what this one has.

Now, that they're here.
Poke some of these boxes.

As we're probing the flowers
it doesn't take a whole lot of

force to push it through.

So, if there was a
large mass in there,

like a brick of
cocaine, you'd feel it stop.

You wouldn't be able to actually
pierce it all the way through.

It's real easy to
be like "Oh, well,

we haven't caught
anything in a month,

chances are today we're
not gonna catch anything.

Why even try?"

Nothing?

SILVA: No.

HERNANDEZ: But that's where
you got to dig deep and I'm like

"You know what?
They're not gonna
get by me today."

OFFICER: Hi, excuse me.

Let me see your
passport, please.

OFFICER: Okay.

MATLIN: From the initial
time that we encountered
this particular individual,

he exhibited some
inconsistencies in his story.

Physical pat down is negative.

He doesn't have
anything on his body.

So, we're gonna talk about
the real reasons for his trip.

Try to get some more
information out of him to
either make sense of the story

or to push for a medical
examination at the hospital
for a possible internal.

MATLIN: This is kind of the real
true art form of what we do.

The officers are
very good at this.

And some of these will go
on for quite a long time

to the point that
they'll never tell you.

HUMES: The officer's pretty much
telling him that they suspect

that he had narcotics and
he denied it and denied it.

MATLIN: We have enough at this
point now to make us believe he

may be an internal smuggler of
narcotics and now we're gonna

take the subject
to the hospital.

The medical staff will perform
an x-ray to determine whether

the individual has something
inside of their body or in
one of their cavities.

MATLIN: Then let's take him.

MATLIN: You know, some people,
I guess they're hoping we'll
let our guard down

long enough for them
to just pass it out and

kick it under the
table kind of thing.

Obviously, this is
not our first day here.

The officers are very good
at what we do and they kept

a close eye on him
as we always do.

MATLIN: This is the ultimate
version of hide and go seek,

you know, with high stakes.

So, if he gets caught everybody
knows that narcotics are
ill*gal in this country.

They know the stance
that the United States
takes on smugglers.

It's a serious consequence
to bring cocaine, heroin,

whatever this may
be into the United States.

HUMES: As soon as
we got the x-ray,

they just tell us
all, what's going on.

MUBARAK: Everything inside
this bag belongs to you?

PASSENGER: Of course.

MUBARAK: She's
traveling by herself,

here to visit a boyfriend.

The worry is she would come
to United States and more than

likely find some work or
something that would allow her

to stay and spend more
time with her boyfriend here.

Are you bringing anything for
anyone else inside this bag?

MUBARAK: Okay.

People bring a lot of
information that tells you a lot

about why they're gonna
be here inside their bags.

Someone who's coming
here looking for a job,

they bring copies
of their resumes,

copies of their certificates,
and things like that.

When you go in the bag search
and you see those items it kind

of gives away their
whole entire purpose.

PASSENGER: I'm not a criminal.

MUBARAK: You keep
saying that it's gonna
make me believe you are.

All right.

Let's get your bags
and I'm gonna have you
sit outside for a bit.

All right.

Typically someone who's
traveling for tourism,

you don't see them coming
to the United States and then

coming back another
two weeks later.

That doesn't sound like tourism.

You may wanna spend a little bit
of time in your country before

you decide to come back here.

All right?

Uh, but I'm gonna allow
you to come and visit
your boyfriend this time.

Like they say a bag check can
either make or break a person.

Looking inside her bag you see
the items that you typically

find of a person who's coming
here for a two-week vacation.

Clothes, shoes, you
know, sunglasses.

I didn't find anything that
would indicate that she's

coming here possibly to
stay or anything like that.

So, I'm gonna let
her go on her way.

WALTER: Only thing that's
missing is the towers.
TOM: Yeah.

WALTER: 9/11, that's when
the, uh, you know,

all our agencies got put
together and created the,

uh, Department of
Homeland Security.

9/11, I was the duty
agent with the United States
Customs Service that morning.

So, I was sitting at my
desk and the first plane hit.

It shook our entire building.

I mean, I, it was like,
it was like an earthquake.

At that moment, you
know, I thought that,

uh, yeah, this is it.

In law enforcement, you know,
when you say good-bye to your

family that day
and you go to work,

you know, there's always that
feeling you might not come home.

Today might be that last day.

So, I try not to take
things for granted.

TOM: Looks like
we're coming up here.

So, uh, you can
drop me off wherever.

Here you go?

WALTER: Yeah.
TOM: All right.

WALTER: All units,
all units, be advised,

Tom is, uh, going to
the target location.

WALTER: Once that
parcel's been introduced,

it's a live set, and
then hopefully the target,

uh, it, uh, it, uh, shows up.

Right now, we have
every possible angle
covered on this location.

So far we have a cover
team on the perimeter
of the building outside.

We have a three-man team
inside the building covertly.

And also we have, uh, two
vehicles just in case if

everyone misses him and
he jumps on a vehicle,

they'll retrieve the
parcel and the subject.

WALTER: All units, be
advised, parcel's in play.

Parcel's in play.

WALTER: All right.
Roger that, 10-4.

Be advised, everyone.

WALTER: All in blue?

All units, be advised,
we might have a possible,
uh, target in there.

WALTER: Roger that.

Hopefully they'll
go for the package.

Both subjects that we
were interested in are
on the set right now.

So, yeah. The hearts are racing
'cause what we don't wanna do is

miss this and we don't
wanna spook the targets.

It's almost like the
cat and mouse game, right?

So, we gotta play
it cool enough,

but stay on top of them
with good eyes on them.

This might be going
down pretty quickly.

MUBARAK: Here at LAX, we're one
of the higher-volume airports.

So, we definitely receive
quite a few referrals in
the secondary.

Thomas?

Interviewing so many
people really does key me
into a lot of indicators.

Hey, how's it going?

MUBARAK: Within the first five
minutes I'm usually able to tell

whether or not this
person is gonna warrant
further inspections.

Okay, you were
here for one week?

MUBARAK: Okay, and
then after that one
week, where'd you go?

MUBARAK: Punta Cana? Okay.
And now you're coming back?

MUBARAK: And how long do
you intend to be here?

MUBARAK: One or two months?
Do you have a return ticket?

Okay.

So, I asked you how long
are you gonna be here,

you said one or two months.

But if you have a return ticket
then you know exactly how long

you're gonna be here, right?

MUBARAK: Go ahead
and show it to me.

25 of April.
Is that what that says?

MUBARAK: And you're
traveling on ESTA today?

MUBARAK: Thomas is traveling
under the visa waiver program.

It's an agreement the United
States has with a few countries

that allows them to waive
the visa requirement for
coming to the United States.

Who do you live with
in the United States?

MUBARAK: Okay.

And he's the one who paid
for your ticket to come here?

MUBARAK: What do
you do for a living?

MUBARAK: So, you haven't
been employed for a year?

In order to come to
the United States,

especially under the
visa waiver program,

you are required to be able
to support yourself for the

duration of the time you intend
to be in the United Sates.

So, Thomas is gonna
warrant further inspection.

What I'm handing you is
a copy of our inspection
notification sheet.

This lets you know
that the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection

has the authority to check your
electronics, search your bags,

and to search you
here at a port of entry.

You understand?
This is your copy.

You can go ahead and read that.

If I inspect the
contents of your phone,

am I gonna find anything in
there to show me that you've

been doing something
different than what you told me?

MUBARAK: Have you been
working while you're
in the United States?

MUBARAK: No?

Um, come with me to the back.

We're gonna search your phone.

HERNANDEZ: We can open this up.

While it's not easy to show up
to work and give the same effort

every single day in and day out.

It's important that we stay
focused on the mission and find

ways to keep ourselves motivated
because all it takes is just

that one misstep,
not paying attention,

or that one day where you're
just not feeling it and that

could have been the day that
you could have had not just a

seizure, but it could
have been a major seizure.

So this particular shipment is
coming from South America and

they have used fish
in the past to conceal
cocaine in particular.

Our intention is never to
damage the goods that are
coming into the United States,

but we have no other
choice because the narcos,

they do use legitimate shipments
to load narcotics into,

and it forces us to look
for deeper concealments.

SILVA: All right,
this one's good to go.

Pull this pallet down and
see what's inside those boxes.

Remember how it's packaged
because I haven't played
Tetris in a long time.

Here it is.

HERNANDEZ: That
vacuum-sealed bags?

SILVA: Yeah, these
are vacuum-sealed bags.

Oh, yeah.

This is something, for sure.

I am seeing at least,
at least seven packages
in this backpack alone.

HERNANDEZ: Yeah, I got about
another five or six in here.

This looks like it
might be, um, marijuana.

SILVA: I can smell it, too.

It's pretty strong
odor coming out of here.

All right.

HERNANDEZ: Every day, show up to
work and do the same thing over

and over again and, you
know, we don't hit every day,

but when we do hit, it makes
all the hard work worthwhile.

All right, that's it.

SILVA: Let's do it.

We'll take this
package back to the office.

We'll get confirmation with a
test kit and go from there.

HERNANDEZ: We got something.
SILVA: Boom.

HERNANDEZ: That
dry spell is over.

MUBARAK: Being in the United
States you have to be able
to support yourself.

When I asked him earlier can he
support himself he said "No."

So, that raised a
few alarms there.

The next thing I'm gonna do is
search his phone to see if he

has any kind of messages or
anything that shows that he may

or may not be involved in some
form of unlawful activity here

in the United States.

People will engage in unlawful
activity for some reason like to

share that
information with others.

A lot of the key things that I
look for are conversations that

they have about
work, unlawful drugs,

things that may be violations
of certain immigration laws.

The Customs and Border
Protection officers are granted

a border search authority,
which does authorize us to

check electronics, bags and
person at the port of entry.

Oh. He's talking quite
a bit about drug use.

One of the conditions of
traveling into the United Sates

under the visa waiver
program is that you
cannot be a drug ab*ser.

There are so many conversations
of different kinds of drugs.

Cocaine. Marijuana
and possibly ketamine.

I've seen enough.

When I did an
inspection of your electronics,

I see you have a lot of
conversations that talk
about your use of drugs.

Do you use marijuana?

MUBARAK: You, you have
conversations in your phone that

show you and your boyfriend
using drugs while you're
here in the United States.

You even purchased it
while you were here.

I also found the messages
that show that you use cocaine.

MUBARAK: It's a good idea
not to give me false or
misleading information.

When you're in Punta
Cana, did you use cocaine?

MUBARAK: Yeah.

So you used a little
bit because the friends
around you were using it?

PASSENGER: Yeah.
MUBARAK: What about ketamine?

MUBARAK: You used
ketamine in Paris before?

MUBARAK: Yeah.

Using ketamine in
Paris is against the
law, is that correct?

Okay. So, it's very likely
you're gonna go back to France.

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MUBARAK: Are you aware that
under United States federal law

it is ill*gal to use, sell, or
be in possession of marijuana,
cocaine, or ketamine?

MUBARAK: Some of the things that
I was seeing in Thomas's phone

was messages showing
that he used several
different forms of drugs.

The visa waiver program is
a very sensitive program.

If there any violations,
then it automatically makes
the ESTA null and void.

Due to your unlawful drug use,

you're gonna be processed
for a visa waiver refusal.

We'll make flight arrangements
for you so that we can get you

out on the next flight
that we have available.

PASSENGER: Can just I, can
I just never smoke again?

MUBARAK: Like I said,
you're inadmissible
to the United Sates.

Any airline that brings an
alien that's inadmissible
to the United States

is required to take that
alien back to wherever
they brought them from.

So, we're gonna get him booked
on the next flight and he is

going to have to
depart the country.

All right, go ahead
and come with me.

A vast majority of
people aren't bad people.

This wasn't, uh, a
judgment of his character.

The thing is we have a job
to do and we'll do that job.

We are law enforcement officers
and we will enforce the law

to the best of our ability.

MUBARAK: Someone like Thomas
can come to the United States,

use drugs, have a
clouded judgment,

and could harm
someone that's here.

We remove elements like that
from causing any harm to the

citizens to the United States.

HUMES: He just pooped it out.

MATLIN: You guys tested it?

All right. Perfect.
Positive for cocaine.

Okay, let us know when you're
clear to come back with the

doctors to get the
medical release and then
we'll get HSI on the way.

All right. Thank you.

So, they just informed me
that the doctor took an x-ray.

Was about to interpret
the x-ray with the radiologist

and then the subject
passed the object that we,

the, the doctor
felt it in there.

HUMES: Well, it appears that
it's wrapped up in a condom.

Okay, zero it out.

Pure cocaine
coming from Colombia.

Cut it three times,
it's about $28,000.

That's a lot of money for that
little small amount of cocaine.

And you're making a trip
every month, so that adds up.

The street value
on that is a lot.

MATLIN: Once he comes back,
we'll place the subject under

arrest and then
turn him over to HSI.

They'll conduct an interview and
they'll decide which charges and

sections of law they're going
to apply to this particular case

and then they'll book him into
the federal detention facility.

WALTER: Right now, the
surveillance scope team has
got eyes on both subjects.

So, we'll wait and see.

We'll wait and see if both
subjects pick up the parcel.

WALTER: Stand by.

WALTER: All right, roger that.
Keep me posted.

WALTER: We're going.
We're going.

OFFICER: Yeah, he took the
package. He went upstairs.

WALTER: Roger that.
Roger that. Be alert.

OFFICER: They're out the back?
OFFICER: Go, go, go, go!

WALTER: Go! Go!

OFFICER: Out of the way!
Out of the way! Out of
the way! Out of the way!

OFFICER: Out of the way!
Out of the way! Out of
the way! Out of the way!

OFFICER: Go, go, go, go!

WALTER: He's
dressed all in blue.

He's dressed all in blue.

OFFICER: Go, go.

OFFICER: All right.

WALTER: Our main target, we got
him trying to exit the building

into a van that was
waiting for him in the back,

in the entrance of the building.

The, uh, target's wife.
Anyone know where she's at?

WALTER: All right.
Roger that.

OFFICER: Yeah, put
him in (inaudible).

WALTER: Everyone's
been apprehended.

OFFICER: I haven't ran
that fast in a long time.

OFFICER: Nice job, man.

WALTER: Today, we helped
stop the flow of narcotics.

We disrupted this
network, saved lives,

and hopefully by the end of
the day we'll have a better

understanding of where this is
all coming from and stop that

flow from this one
supplier completely.

No one got hurt.

In my books, this goes down as
a successful operation today.

HERNANDEZ: And
there's our confirmation.

SILVA: Positive for marijuana.

HERNANDEZ: Yeah, Maui kush.

SILVA: Yeah. The sour OG.
HERNANDEZ: Original gangsta.

SILVA: Final weight.

HERNANDEZ: 6.9.

This is a pretty
decent seizure for us.

Now we'll get things
rolling and go find some more.

HUMES: Okay. So you'll be
here in probably, like,
three to five minutes?

MATLIN: The doctor
medically cleared the suspect.

Once he comes back we'll fill
out our paperwork as far as

turning over chain of
custody forms and evidence.

With his circumstances
he can certainly be in
jail for quite a few years.

HUMES: Even though he was
caught smuggling cocaine,

this guy seem like he has
some type of opioid addiction.

He stated to the officers
that he takes oxycodone
on a daily basis.

Can you sit up?
You have to sit up.

HUMES: What he's going through
now is the oxycodone withdrawal.

HUMES: When we encountered
him, he was walking and he was

coherent and he was
speaking normally.

Now, he's like, the
worst condition that
you could see a person.

I, you know, have empathy for
any person going through that.

But, as an officer,
it's our job to make
sure we enforce the laws.

You know, anyone that comes
into the United States who's

attempting to break the law by
smuggling is gonna get arrested.

MATLIN: For us, this
is what it's all about.

To catch people
who are smuggling
narcotics into the U.S.

is exactly why we sign up
to do this job on this team.

HUMES: Today is a good day
for us to get this off the
street, save a lot of lives.