02x07 - Coke, Cakes and Cash

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The boxes departed the Virgin Islands,
destined for a Miami address.

We did some examinations on the packages,
and during the X-rays,

it determined some anomalies
that were inside.

So, it's sealed up.
Let's see if I can open it up.

Inside there's a cake and frosting,
and it smells like carrot cake.

Yup, appears to be cocaine.

They have their emblem to identify

which organization it belongs to,
where it's going.

So we'll do the next one.

It has the same narcotics inside.

The same emblem.

So it looks like it comes from
the same drug trafficking organization.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYS]

This is unique.

Since I have been here in Miami,

I have not seen anything smuggled in cake.

They're very inventive
when it comes to it.

Let me just weigh this.

That's four keys.

Each key approximately is
running about 28,000 to 30,000.

Today, an undercover officer will attempt
to deliver these packages.

Our ultimate goal is
to figure out who's gonna receive it,

and what their involvement is.

Did you make any purchases
that you're bringing back today?

Okay.

VINCENTZ: You didn't buy anything?

No gifts, souvenirs,
no postcards, nothing?

SMITH: Where are you
guys traveling from?

- ANGELA: Milan.
- Milan.

Milan. Did you guys make
any purchases of any kind?

ANGELA: Nope.

The most important thing
you wanna find is narcotics,

but this year, there's been
a very big focus on merchandise.

Currently, we have Milan on the floor.

That's a big flight for people
who purchase a lot of items abroad,

and don't declare it.

You bring anything back from your trip,
any purchases that you made abroad?

[MALE PASSENGER SPEAKING]

Total value, what do you think?

Perfect. Have a goodnight, guys.

When you spend a lot of money abroad,
you pay a higher amount of duty.

It's an import tax.

- Can I see your passport?
- PASSENGER: Yes.

SMITH: All right. Just follow me
for a minute, all right?

PASSENGER: Sure.

SMITH: So you spent $14,000.

PASSENGER: Yup. I spent 20.
So I'm just declaring.

SMITH: Okay.
Do you have all the receipts?

I put everything in here for you.

SMITH: Perfect.

PASSENGER: $460 is the bracelet,

$1,900, that's the leather suitcase,
that one.

Okay. So, leather luggage is 8%.

PASSENGER: So, it's an 8% tax?
I didn't realize it was so much.

SMITH: It all depends on what the item is,

and what it's made out of,

'cause in the purpose of duty
is to protect the economy.

So, if we have a big stake in something.

PASSENGER: Oh, I got it.

The tariff rate is gonna be higher because
we want you to buy in the United States.

PASSENGER: Yeah, I got it.
That makes sense.

$1,740 is the sweater.

SMITH: Sweater.

PASSENGER: I know it's an expensive
sweater, but it's a really nice sweater.

SMITH: Sometimes you
gotta treat yourself, right?

And so, you know what, it was,
it's sometimes good to just enjoy it.

Exactly, 'cause at the end of the day,
when our show is over,

you can't take any of it with you,

so you might as well enjoy it
while you're here.

SMITH: Exactly.

I'm gonna buy my sweater.
I like that sweater.

SMITH: I agree with that 100%.
My condolences.

Thank you.

SMITH: So when you add
up all of your duty...

PASSENGER: My grand total.

Is $915. Yeah.

Perfect. Thank you very much.

I really appreciate it.

No problem. You're all set.
And thank you for declaring, all right?

PASSENGER: Thank you. Uh-hmm.

SMITH: When we seepeople
doing the right thing,

it's kind of shocking 'cause
we're so used to people not declaring,

but you wanna get them out of
the inspection area as fast as possible,

so we can get back out to the floor,

to get to people
who aren't doing the right thing.

Get me a cart.

OFFICER: Let's see what else we have.

Right now, we're at an outside location
at Miami International Airport.

Let's flip it over.

MARRERO: We're gonna be inspecting
some in-transit mail.

In-transit mail is mail
that's entering the U.S.,

but it's not intended to stay here,

it's going somewhere else.

We pick a country,
and we target that country.

Today, we picked the Dominican Republic.

Dominican Republic, most likely,
we're looking for cocaine.

Let's do one bag at a time.

Let's not rush it.

I find it great, we don't, we let it go.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

MARRERO: Yeah, that one's good.

OFFICER: Okay. All right.
GARCIA: Good to go.

[GARCIA SPEAKING]

GARCIA: This is like an Easter egg hunt,
you know?

[MARRERO SPEAKING]

Hey, that last one.

GARCIA: Let's take a look.

MARRERO: It's some
type of mechanical part.

It looks like a...
Actuator or pump or something.

It looks weird.

It has, like, a thickness inside.

[MARRERO SPEAKING]

There's something about it.

It's got, like, a weird shade to it,
but I'm not sure.

I figured, why take a chance.

- GARCIA: Yeah. Let's look at it.
- Yeah.

GARCIA: Set it aside.
Let's see what else we have.

Hit it.

MARRERO: It's good.

What is that?

MARRERO: Yeah. Let me look at that.

It's a drum.
Some type of drum, musical instrument.

This one's going to Chile.

There's definitely something there.

I just don't know what it is.

There's something wrong there.

When you look at the image,

it looks like there's something
under this rim right here.

It could be glue, or it could be anything,
but it doesn't look right.

We're gonna take it back to the shop.

GARCIA: So we got two parcels.

We noticed some unusual densities,

so we're gonna take it back to our shop,

drill it, and see
if there's something in there.

DANIEL: Hi, guys.
Thank you for being here.

These two boxes right here,
they were intercepted by CBP,

and that's what we're delivering today.

The location, it's an apartment building
on the second floor.

Hopefully, someone's there
to take the package from us.

But if there's no one there,

they can leave the box
right outside the door,

and it'll be clearly visible
from the parking lot.

We're gonna set up surveillance,
monitoring the package.

If it moves,
we'll follow it wherever it goes,

and we'll go from there.

Inside the cake that's gonna be delivered,
there's no actual drugs in there.

We went out and we purchased sheet cake,
and recreated a cake by hand.

It was a little challenging 'cause
I've never made a cake in my life,

but I fought through it,
and we'll see if it works.

The goal is to interview the individual,

and see what information we can get
from them as far as the supplier.

Usually, there's bigger fish,

and what we get is
towards the bottom of the totem pole,

and we'll work our case up from there.

So there's our target location.

We're gonna set up
right in front of the apartment

to keep an eye on the packages
once it's delivered.

Best case scenario is
they go into the box,

and retrieve the bricks.

Worst case scenario,

the boxes are placed outside
with a return to sender.

Package just arrived at target location.

ROBERTO: Oh, Nelly.

DANIEL: The boxes are
dropped off at the front door.

It's like fishing,
you throw the line out there,

and then, all of a sudden, eeeh.

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

Target is a little over six feet,
he has a beard.

Here we go.

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

Male with a black T-shirt came out
of our target location.

ROBERTO: He's standing there.
He's looking at the boxes.

He has not taken them inside yet.

[OFFICER ON RADIO SPEAKING]

ROBERTO: One package is inside.

[OFFICER ON RADIO]

ROBERTO: He's picking up the second one,
second package is inside.

Oh, he's out.

He has both boxes with him.

Looks like he's locking his door.

He's walking down the stairs.

DANIEL: He's gonna load the boxes
up into his car,

and we'll follow him up.

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

DANIEL: He's headed out,
so we're gonna see where he leads us.

VINCENTZ: Good old France.

You bring anything back from your trip?
Did you make any purchases?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

Total value, what do you think?

All right. Have a goodnight, man.
Get home safe.

Hey, ma'am. May I see your passport?

Do you have anything to declare today?

Any purchases that
you might've made abroad?

Any gifts that you're bringing back?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

Nothing? All right.
Just follow me real quick.

All right.

- So these are all your bags, right?
- Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

- Everything in the bags belongs to you?
- Yes.

- And you have nothing to declare?
- Yes, everything's in here is mine.

- Okay. You made no purchases?
- Everything's mine.

VINCENTZ: All right.

How was your trip, good?

- We had a good time.
- That's good.

VINCENTZ: No kidding.
Yeah. That's good.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

[VINCENTZ SPEAKING]

These are all old bags or new bags?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

VINCENTZ: What does that mean, old or new?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

VINCENTZ: Okay.

So, listen.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

I asked you if you bought anything,
did I not?

- The answer is yes.
- Yes. Okay.

I also asked you about the Chanel,
and you said it's yours, right?

Do you wanna elaborate? Is it new? Yes?

VINCENTZ: Yes. It's new, right?

So how come when I asked you,
your response was no?

It's a big deal.

We're not talking about
a couple hundred dollars.

I found a receipt worth
$4,000 worth of stuff.

So the two bags I had in my hand
were the two bags that you bought?

Technically, what's supposed to happen is

about $1,000 in penalty
for not declaring this stuff.

Do you understand?

Do I look like I'm joking?

VINCENTZ: You spent $4,000
that you did not declare.

Listen, listen, listen, listen,
stop talking. Let me...

- Look, that has nothing to do with it.
- I know, but, like, I...

Listen to me. Stop talking. Relax.

What's supposed to happen is,
you're supposed to pay that fine.

But I'm not doing it.

If you wanna sit here and argue with me.

I'll be more than happy
for you to pay the penalty.

Sir, I'm absolutely not arguing.
I'm just, like, I'm just upset.

Okay. But I need you,
but you should be upset

at yourself for not doing it
the right way.

I gave you plenty of opportunities
to say that you did buy something.

You flat out lied to me,

and I'm still giving you an opportunity
to amend your declaration.

Listen. It is what it is.

I'm using my discretion 'cause
I looked at the big picture.

I looked at their travel history,
and there's not much travel,

so what I'm gonna choose to do
is just charge her the duty.

It's $235.

Hopefully, she learned her lesson today,
but we'll see.

If you do this again, I can't help you.

Do you understand?

I'm not telling you you can't buy stuff,

but you need to declare the stuff
that you bring in, you understand?

Yes. Yes, sir.

All right. You're all set.
You're free to go.

- Oh, thank you.
- VINCENTZ: All right.

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

VINCENTZ: No worries. It happens.

GARCIA: Let's see
what we got on the X-ray today.

We're gonna inspect both pieces now
that we found suspect on the airfield.

MARRERO: It's a drum going to Chile.

Nothing surprises anymore.

Speakers, radios, hard drives,
electronic equipment,

TVs, you name it, we've seen it loaded.

We keep seeing a little bit of
uneven thickness right here.

I'm gonna make a small drill hole,

see if I can get
a sample of what's in there.

GARCIA: Let's see what we have.

MARRERO: Huh?

Now why is white powder
coming out of that one?

I don't know if it's just
the material that I drilled,

or if it's a narcotic.

So I'm gonna test it, see what happens.

It's a computerized drug test kit.

It has a built-in library of all
the known narcotics, thousands of files.

You can see the laser.

No, no match.
This one was a negative.

It looks like it's resin.
It smells like plastic.

It's all we look for, is anomalies,
anything that looks strange.

Sometimes it pans out,
sometimes it doesn't,

but we keep trying.

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

DANIEL: Yup, right there.

He's east on 16,
about to go north on 102 Ave.

[DANIEL SPEAKING]

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING ON RADIO]

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

[DANIEL SPEAKING]

Oh.

[ROBERTO SPEAKING]

DANIEL: Oh.

OFFICER: He went into the post office.

DANIEL: Worst case scenario,

he could be dropping off the boxes
at the post office,

and just simply say it was dropped
off at his house, and it's not his.

So I'm gonna go into the post office,

and see if I can figure out what he's
trying to do with those boxes.

[LINE RINGING]

DANIEL: So, we are at the post office.

I was inside with the subject.

He's dropping it off,
sending the package through priority mail.

ROBERTO: All right.
Target is out of the post office,

empty handed, we are not gonna follow him.

The subject is just
one of the middle people

that's part for this organization.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKS]

DANIEL: We'll just hold off
until we get as high as possible,

and then, we'll try to encounter him again
at a later date.

Yes, sir, okay.

So, we were able to recover the package,

and saw it was headed
to an address in Georgia.

Now that we know
thepackage is going to Georgia,

we'll reach out to our
counterparts in Atlanta.

It's like an onion, bunch of layers,
and you just start peeling it.

Hopefully, we can reach to
whoever is up on the top of this.

SMITH: Do you have any foreign currency,
or just U.S. dollars?

VINCENTZ: How much cash
are you traveling with today?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

VINCENTZ: All right, good stuff.

Any currency over $10,000?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

SMITH: Okay.

The law is you report currency
over $10,000.

How long are you gonna be here?

Three weeks?
All right, nothing over $10,000?

SMITH: When you fail
to declare that money,

nine times out of ten,
it's someone's personal money,

and they just were afraid.

But what we're looking for
is any nefarious purposes.

OFFICER: Your wife, is she
carrying money as well or no?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

Are you laundering money?

Are you smuggling money?

Is the money drug-related,
is it related to human trafficking?

So, our job is to find it and seize it.

[MARTINEZ SPEAKING]

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

MARTINEZ:
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PASSENGER:
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MARTINEZ:
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

MARTINEZ: He's coming
from a source country for narcotics,

so we definitely wanna do an
inspection on the passenger.

MARTINEZ:
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PASSENGER:
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PASSENGER:
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MARTINEZ:
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PASSENGER:
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PASSENGER:
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PASSENGER:
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MARTINEZ:
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No.

MARTINEZ:
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PASSENGER:
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MARTINEZ:
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MARTINEZ:
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MARTINEZ: The fact that this
wasn't his first time bringing

large amount of money
into the United States,

we're gonna talk to him a little bit more.

PASSENGER:
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

I wanted to verify
why he has that money on him,

and where that money was coming from.

The backstory is,
these two packages were sent from the

U.S. Virgin Islands, and they
were intercepted in Miami.

There was approximately


cakes on top with a bunch of frosting,
it's pretty crazy.

So, today, we're doing
a controlled delivery.

I feel confident that this is
probably gonna be the final

destination, but we're gonna deliver it,

and see where we go from there.

All right, break.

Our best case for today would be,

we make the delivery, the
packages go inside the house,

and we go ahead
and search the residents, hopefully,

find either proceeds or more
narcotics inside the house.

We wanna figure out how
that drug trafficking operation runs.

We got our target house, there are
actually some windows open up top,

and we have a vehicle at home.

All right.
A Mercedes is in the driveway now.

Go time, so, hopefully,
everything goes as planned.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

Copy.

So I can see our undercover
actually walking up to the

house with one of the packages right now.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

Secondpackage in the door.

Second package just went in too.

Both packages were delivered to a young...

Oop, he's coming out with the boxes.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

We gotta move.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

Came right out of the house,

put them in the car, and is on the move.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

[DAVE SPEAKING]

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

He ran the stop sign there,
but we'll get behind him.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

I don't know if he's detected anything,

or if he's just driving crazy.

Let's see where he goes,
but he's driving like a maniac.

MARTINEZ:
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

So the subject was traveling
with about $8,400.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

MARTINEZ: They are allowed to
bring up to $10,000

without actually declaring it.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

But in this case,
we wanted to verify where that

money was coming from.

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PASSENGER:
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PASSENGER:
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MARTINEZ: Okay.

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PASSENGER:
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PASSENGER:
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Okay, okay.

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We had just make sure
that his story had made sense.

And the fact that his behavior
was consistent and calm,

and based on the fact
that he did say that they did file

a police report
on the items that were stolen,

that to me seemed very legitimate.

So, he was let go.

MARRERO: Dominican
Republic to Brussels.

When we checked it
in the field on the mobile X-ray machine,

it looks like it had some density inside
this tube right here.

I have no clue what this is, you know,

but we do know a little bit
about mechanics and stuff like that.

And we look for things
that don't add up to us,

and anytime we see a hollow cylinder,

that doesn't look good to us,
'cause that's where you're

gonna hide stuff, you know.

I'm gonna run it through this X-ray now.

So we're gonna try to find
out if that's something that's

supposed to be there, or if it's not.

It's got some weird density,
you can see little gaps.

This looks like something that
would be going in and out,

but when you look at it,
the rod doesn't go all the way through.

It's like a fake tip.

Now comes the fun part,
we gotta figure out how to take it apart.

Whew.

MARRERO: But this is not, this is hollow.
GARCIA: Right, this is hollow.

MARRERO: Okay.
We can cut the cap off.

[GARCIA SPEAKING]

GARCIA: Here we go.

[GARCIA SPEAKING]

Here we go.

MARRERO: It's packed to the rim.

GARCIA: Here we go,
right there.

MARRERO:
I think we got coke, bro.

GARCIA: That's not supposed to be
inside a metal cylinder.

MARRERO: Take a sample.

Cocaine hydrochloride.

Okay.

We're like little kids, we're happy.

We play a game of hide
and seek all day long,

it's fun when we find something.

We're gonna try now to
take the narcotics out,

to try to get an accurate weight.

[MARRERO SPEAKING]

[GARCIA AND MARRERO SPEAK]

The reason we were having
a hard time with the X-ray is

they were smart.

It's an aluminum tube.

We should be able to see
an aluminum tube pretty good.

But they were smart,
they lined it with lead.

GARCIA: What protects you from X-rays?

Pure lead, so they decided
to basically line the b*llet aluminum

with this lead piece to try to,

like, make it seem like if
it's just a regular piece

of aluminum,
to prevent us from looking inside.

But my friend over here is smarter
than the average bear.

He's been doing this for a while,

so, hey, and we went fishing,
we got a fish today.

MARRERO: They're good at what they do.

Today, we were better.

The price of cocaine,
getting it to Europe,

it's about triple the
price of what it is in Miami.

So, that just makes the
seizure so much more relevant

just because we know we made
a dent today into their profits.

But the important thing is,
it's not getting on the streets,

so it's all that matters.

MARTINEZ: How much?

- 8,500?
- Yeah, yeah.

[SMITH SPEAKING]

SMITH: How you doing?
Any currency over $10,000?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

SMITH: Can you step
down here for me?

All right, so I'm gonna
just take a look at your carry-on.

Any checks, traveler's checks?

SMITH: I stopped the passenger off
the South Korea flight from Seoul,

which is a source flight
for undeclared currency.

I asked how much he was traveling with,

and he declared $350.

All right, I'm just gonna take a quick
look at some of your bags, all right?

What are these?
Are they a traveler's check?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

SMITH: Yeah, what is it?

SMITH: Cashier's check?

The eight cashier's checks
total 160 million Korean won.

Which when you convert it to US dollars,

it's $136,082.

So that's a big discrepancy
from the $350 declared to me initially.

VINCENTZ:
When it comes to undeclared currency,

you're talking about money laundering,

and possibly, tax evasion.

SMITH: Okay.

So you didn't tell me about them
'cause you forgot about them?

SMITH: It wasn't that you didn't.

SMITH: It's hard to believe
that an amount of money

of that level,
you don't know it's in your pocket.

METOYER: What are you gonna do
with this?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

METOYER: So you're gonna take
this directly to the bank,

and put it in a bank deposit?

SMITH: When you get here,
you're gonna do it here?

[PASSENGER SPEAKING]

METOYER: So how long
have you had this?

VINCENTZ: So you just have 150,000 dollars
in your wallet, at all times?

SMITH: You fail to declare
over 100,000,

there's something up about it.

All right, let's go do a pat down,

real quick, take this with you.

We're gonna go into the room.

Have a seat for a minute.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

I don't know if he's detected anything
or if he's just driving crazy.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

[MAN OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

[MAN OVER RADIO]

Yeah. So, he did a maneuver,
which we call a heat check.

He pulled into this apartment complex,

and abruptly started flying down the road,

which is a maneuver trying
to detect law enforcement.

Y'all can roll up this way.

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

DAVE: Yeah.

I have a feeling
he's gonna bail out and run.

Feel comfortable to pull it now?

[OFFICER OVER RADIO]

DAVE: The boxes are out
of the car right now,

and it looks like he's taking
them towards another house.

[SIRENS]

[SIRENS]

[DAVE SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

Okay.

DAVE: He's in custody right now.

Our guys all did a great job
in stopping him from getting

out on the main roads.

We're just doing an inventory of the car.

The cake is sitting here, so, obviously,

he got into it, and saw what was in here.

Hey, can I get somebody to run a handgun?

He did have a loaded g*n,
it's a GL*CK 17 9mm.

That was another threat to us,
so it's good that we went

ahead and took him down when we did.

It's still a work in motion,
now we're gonna go back

and search the residence.

Come on.

We did a pat down,
the pat down was negative.

Who did you say is coming?

[VINCENTZ SPEAKING]

Oh, okay, okay.

[DREW SPEAKING]

[KIM SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

SMITH: We have an officer
who is of Korean descent,

and she's currently interviewing
the subject to understand

why he didn't declare the money,

purpose of the money,
and whether he's telling the truth or not.

[SPEAKING ENGLISH]

[SMITH SPEAKING]

You said that you forgot it was in there?

I don't know how true that is,
but being that you failed

to declare the money
when you came into the country,

you violated the law.

It's over $100,000,
it's a lot for us to overlook,

so we're gonna seize the money today,

but you'll have the opportunity
to get the money

back at a later date.

You have to prove where
the money comes from,

what account the money is in,

and there was no nefarious purposes.

You can get all of it back,
or you may not get any of it back,

it depends on
how you plead your case, okay?

You understand?

[PASSENGER SPEAKS]

So, it's saying that a total
of $136,082 in cashier's checks

was found today.

The small amount that you declared to me,

that all stays with you.

It's just the checks we're taking, okay?

This currency seizure is one of, if not,

the biggest currency seizures inbound
that we've had this year.

There was no info that we had
prior about this individual,

it was a complete cold stop,
so it was a great,

great job by the team as a whole.

And it makes us more motivated
to go out the next day

to keep working hard.

SMITH: Okay.

Just make sure next time
you declare your money, okay?

All right.

DAVE: We found some electronics,

and some paperwork, and then,

found a large quantity of U.S. currency.

I think there were four of them
that were labeled 5K for $5,000.

This was very successful.

Had a lot of working parts
where the team worked well together.

With all the evidence we gathered here,

we're gonna be in contact
with Miami HSI to see

what connection there is between
this guy and the guy

that actually picked up
the package in Miami.

Even though it may seem small
that we just took down one target,

it's really huge
in a large scope of dealing

with drug trafficking organizations.