02x10 - Lockdown Lockup

[bunniefuu]

When you're a baggage rover,
I consider it being a hunter.

You're always paying attention,
see who may look suspicious

or sometimes you wanna just
do a random pop.

So, let's do a random pop.

How you doing?

- May I see a passport please?
- Sure.

It's a volume game.

We search a lot of bags,
and a lot of times it's negative.

All right. Well, we're just gonna do
a quick bag check.

Okay.

But she was by herself
and she had a lot of bags,

so, we're just gonna look
and see what we find.

Okay, you have to turn this.

All right, good.

- This is for my aunty.
- From your uncle?

When my uncle come in,
somebody take everything.

- So, is this your bag or no?
- No.

When they say, "Oh, this is not my bag,"

then all of our alerts go way high
because we're wondering,

"What the heck is in that bag?"

- WOMAN: Everything for my uncle.
- [OFFICER SIGHS]

What's your uncle name?

- What's your uncle name?
- No, no, I don't...

- What is your uncle's name?
- I forgot.

You forgot?

My cousin, the wife, is my cousin.

- From your cousin's husband?
- Yeah.

- The wife is gonna come get the bag?
- No, the husband.

The husband?

All right. She gave you the bag.

Did you even open the bag
to see what's inside?

- I don't know, it's just...
- You don't...

This bag...
I don't know. It's somebody bag.

Why are you taking somebody else's bag?

If it's not your bag,
you shouldn't be taking it.

You don't know what's all this?

What is all this? So much stuff.

What's this? A melon?

WOMAN: I don't know.

Unidentified liquid.

What's this?
You don't even know what this is.

I know nothing.

You don't know nothing?

What's this?

What the hell.

What is that? Narcotics? Drugs?

- Do you know what it is?
- No.

You don't know what it is?

Because it looks like cocaine.

- You don't know?
- No, nah.

- Gonna have to test it.
- OFFICER 2: Definitely.

Let's see what the heck this stuff is.

So, now it's just analyzing.

Starch, baby powder,
and dextrin from corn.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- All right.
- All right. Yeah.

If it was cocaine,
it would have said that.

So, we tested it. It was negative.

But this lady has a lot of stuff.

All right. What else?

Put the next bag up there.

Put it up here.

Hands up! Hands up! Put your hands up!

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Yeah, this place is loaded.

We are currently on our way to a briefing

with the supervisor of
the HSI Miami Marine Smuggling Group.

His group at the seaport

and our group at the airport
work really closely together

to combat criminal activities

that are happening
throughout the Miami port system.

We are going to talk about a case
where his team seized a yacht

that was being used to smuggle
a significant amount of cocaine.

We have three vessels here that we seized.
This is the most recent.

South Florida is a boating community.
There's tons of boats everywhere.

So, very difficult
to regulate that traffic.

We have pretty decent amount of trade
with the Dominican Republic

and a lot of recreational vessel activity

between the Dominican Republic
and the United States.

You know, yachts,
sailing vessels that are transiting,

so that provides opportunities
for these organizations

to kind of mix in with that legitimate
travel and exploit it.

Initially encountered the vessel
coming out of the Dominican Republic

into Fort Lauderdale actually.

Did a customs search.

Immediately found five duffel bags
full of cocaine

right here in the salon area

and then additional cocaine down below.

It's all stacked up on this bunk here.

They basically used
the area behind this bunk.

MALE OFFICER: Okay.

Cocaine was back in here.



Found some more additional evidence
in here.

One of our principal defendants
was actually sleeping there on the trip.

- He had 40 something thousand in cash.
- Outstanding.

They do an at-sea transfer so cocaine goes
from the boat out of DR

onto this boat,
snaking their way through the Bahamas,

stopping for fuel,
and then into the, into the US.

And how many subjects were there?

Four were taken into custody.
Two were arrested.

The captain was on this boat
that night but we did release him

as we collected evidence.

The investigation took
a little bit of time.

But the plan tomorrow is to go out
and execute an arrest warrant for him.

We're gonna wait till
he comes out the residence,

and hopefully prevent a situation where
we have to try to track down somebody

who's trying to evade getting arrested.

- What is this?
- I forgot.

You forgot?
You don't know what you packed?

- Coffee.
- Coffee.

- What's this here?
- This is my medication.

- For what? Headache? Ibuprofen?
- Headache, yeah.

- Pain? For pain? Yeah.
- For headache.

All right. So it's good.
Put it back in here.

This has a lot of stuff. What is all this?

- What is this?
- Medication.

What, what do you have
all this medication for?

Your friend have a pharmacy?
Does your friend have like a store?

Is he a doctor, this guy,
or, what does he do?

A doctor.

More pills.

What is this? This is Dolostop?

Some kind of therapy liquid.

In her bag,
it was like a traveling pharmacy.

What do people use this for?

I don't even know.

You know what this is?

This Peptide-quada-quindola? What's that?

- She don't know nothing.
- She don't know nothing.

Yeah. She's playing dead.
So, it could be poison.

You don't know, what it is?

[SIGHS]

The main issue is that, one,
she didn't declare any of this.

It's not like one or two for personal use.
It's like 50 plus.

Two, she has no clue
what this stuff is and neither do we.

Look at these pills.
We don't know what that is.

I don't know what that is.

And we can't test it in such quantity.

So, all of this is gonna be turned over
to the FDA.

No. No. That's going with us.
So, this is all going.

This is all going. This is all going.

They'll determine
whether it's okay or not.

If not then it's seized
and destroyed more than likely.

It's a good stop. It was a good stop.
It was good examination.

We're trying to find contraband.

We're trying to find things
that aren't allowed into our country,

and she, she had a lot.

- So, we're going to release you, okay?
- Okay.

So, next time just be more careful
with what you take back, okay?

It's very important that people know,
don't bring anything here

that's not yours
or that you don't know what it is,

because it could be narcotics,
drugs, weapons.

Don't do it. It's not a good idea.

OFFICER: We're gonna be executing
an arrest warrant.

The individual was identified
as a part of an investigation

into a smuggling organization.

This guy actually was the captain
of a yacht that came into Miami

with 456 kilos of cocaine.

We obtained a warrant for his arrest,

and we're gonna be executing
that warrant this morning.

OFFICER 2: I'll have you guys staged
right here in the corner.

You got a direct eye to the house here.

And then he will be here
at the end of the street facing north.

Once the takedown signal comes out,

just come to the residence
and just provide extra cover.

- What are other prospects at the house?
- His son.

It looks like the wife was heading to work
when I drove by this morning.

And a gentleman that was there yesterday,
I don't know.

He kind of looked like
a visitor at the house.

If he does get into a vehicle, you know,

just try to keep containment
on that street. All right.

- So, we'll head over to the location.
- Good to go.

All right.

Arrest warrants are,
you know, inherently dangerous

just because we're going into an unknown.

In this case,
it's the subject's home, his residence.

Some pre-operation surveillance has shown

that he's departing the house pretty
regularly in the morning, mid-morning.

So we're just gonna wait till he leaves

to try and mitigate some of those risks

of going into his house and grabbing him.

All right.

So, we're on the street
of the subject's house.

Getting set up now.
Getting everybody into position.

We always wanna
try to dominate the situation,

so I think we have six officers
out here today.

We're dealing with traffickers

that smuggle
hundreds and hundreds of kilos of cocaine.

Anything can happen.

Be ready to go.

Yo.

Hey, how you doing, man?
Can I see your passport?

OFFICER PUPO: Finding narcotics
is very difficult nowadays.

You have anything in your pockets?

Back in the days, you opened a bag,
there's bricks of cocaine.

It's not like that anymore.
They're getting smart.

MALE OFFICER: Plaster.

You can probe it on the side.

OFFICER PUPO: There's no set way.

As we find it, they're looking
for ways to hide it better.

We're going to be working Trinidad now.

Sir, passport.

Trinidad is known for narcotics.
So, we like to hit this flight.

How you doing? Passport.

Are you traveling by yourself?

- Yeah.
- Okay.

- What's the purpose of the trip?
- [WOMAN SPEAKS INAUDIBLY]

- You have a company over there?
- Store.

- A store? What's the name of the store?
- [WOMAN INAUDIBLE]

You have any like,
little business cards or anything?

- Okay. How many bags are you bringing in?
- I'm bringing no bag.

- Just this?
- Yeah.

- How do you get your stuff?
- Suitcases.

When did you buy the ticket to come?

Yesterday.

- So, was it planned?
- Yeah.

- And when do you return?
- Friday.

- Can you talk to her a little bit?
- MALE OFFICER: Okay.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Okay. We're gonna go through immigration

and then we're gonna go through
a customs inspection, okay?

[CHATTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

We do have a lot of medication coming in.

A lot of people travel
to Mexico and Canada,

and they'll buy over the counter

or they'll pay somebody
to get scheduled medication.

These appear to be loaded syringes
of a yet to be determined pharmaceutical.

All of this medication coming
in that's not approved by the FDA,

it's a big problem.

It's in another language.

People not knowing exactly
what they're taking.

People self-medicating. People dying.

We have schedule II, schedule III
narcotics without a prescription.

These are the things the United States
right now is trying to stop.

Can you put a couple boxes up here,
please?

So everything that is here,
that I'm about to go through is yours.

You take full ownership
and responsibility of everything?

- Yes, sir.
- Now do you have any plants?

- No.
- Fruits?

- MAN: No. No.
- No.

- Currency of $10,000 or more?
- MAN: No.

Usually when we have families
arriving from Vietnam

they, on an average,
have about five boxes.

I'm gonna go through your bags.

What I need you to do is just stand behind

the yellow line right there
as I do a search.

Please make no sudden movements
towards me, okay?

We have about 14 boxes.

Looks like fish cakes. A lot of fish cake.

- What is this one?
- BOTH: Same thing.

Fish? Some cashews.

They love having their home food
like fish, squid.

They bring clothes and medication.

Let's not forget about those.

That's codeine. This is prohibited.

This is schedule II narcotics.

No, we bought
when we go out in the country,

and my husband really bad, like, coughing,
in my country it really cold.

And we buy them, that's it.

You get this stuff everywhere, don't you?

How many of those did you buy?
How many boxes?

Of what?

- The codeine.
- That's it.

That's it?

Everybody's coughing now.
Isn't that amazing?

So that's OTC. That's over the counter.
That's for dermatitis.

Yeah, these right here are the ones
I'm worried about right now.

I just want only one, the big one.

Big one and my... my sister,

- somebody buy for her.
- Okay.

Let me check these right here, okay?

It says neocodeine on it,
but we're gonna do the right thing

and find more information on it
that'll tell us what we got.

These are the 500 milligram.

My least favorite thing
is waking up early.

The plan was to wait till he came out
to make the arrest on this individual.

But since we have not seen
the subject go out of the residence

and his vehicle's parked up front,

we decided to go into the residence
to try and make the arrest.

So, we're just waiting for a helicopter
to help cover the rear of the house.

I've been doing this for,
I think, I'm on my 16th year now,

and I have an inkling
that something isn't right.

It's extremely easy to leave
if you wanted to,

you know, get on a boat
and go to the Bahamas.

We would not have any way of knowing.

[OFFICER ON RADIO SPEAKING]

We're just been set up,

give me a few and I'll let you know
when I got clear eyes on.

There we go.

We are gonna go ahead and try
and make contact with our subject here.

- OFFICER ON RADIO: Got eyes on.
- Good, copy, everybody.

All right.

[HELICOPTER HOVERING]

- Hello?
- MAN: Hello.

- How are you doing?
- We're the police.

- How you doing, man?
- Come on out. Come on out.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Where's he at?

I don't know,
he went out to the bank and...

[INAUDIBLE SPEECH]

Well, how many people are in the house?

My cousin, me and my uncle...
[SPEAKING INAUDIBLY]

- Okay.
- Yeah.

Can you call them out, please?

Leave the door open. Leave the door open.

Can you come over here, ma'am?

- Any weapons or anything inside the house?
- No.

- No firearms at all?
- No. No.

Nobody else inside, right?

Okay. We're gonna go in
and check the house, all right?

MAN: You guys have a warrant?

OFFICER: We do have a warrant, yeah.

Wendell's not home?

I'm not gonna find Wendell in there,
right?

- You don't seem too sure.
- [MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

No.

[CHATTERING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Where's your bedroom?

Okay.

Like my parent's bedroom is on,
like, on outside.

OFFICER: Upstairs, downstairs?

- [MAN SPEAKS INAUDIBLY]
- Okay.

- OFFICER: All right. Good?
- OFFICER 2: Yeah.

It's the police.

Careful. Nice and slow.

[DOGS BARKING]

OFFICER: Hey, hey, hey. Where you go?

[SIRENS WAILING]

Careful. Nice and slow.

OFFICER: Hey, hey, hey,
where you go.

OFFICER 2: Wait a minute, I got him.

[MEN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

OFFICER: You guys are secured.
Thanks... with us.

Thank you, guys.

Stay right there, okay?

The son answered.

We asked him if his father was home
he said no, obviously.

We said we were gonna check inside.

He said his dad definitely wasn't home,
that he left last night.

Went to the last bedroom

back of the house
and he was down crouched in the corner.

So, we were able to take him
into custody, no issues.

So, we're gonna transport him
over to the office.

The arrest was best-case scenario.

The subject was taken into custody.
Nobody was injured.

So, all in all, successful operation.

Down here in the marine
smuggling environment, we're still at it,

and we're gonna continue
to try and identify folks

who are supplying cocaine
and other vessels

and other individuals here in the US

who are facilitating, you know,
other smuggling ventures.

All right. Copy, bother. Thanks.

I just got a call that our g*ng unit
has a search warrant

as part of another investigation

that also involves cocaine being smuggled
aboard boats from the Caribbean.

So, we're heading to start preparing

for the larger takedown
that's gonna happen.

We tested it. It certainly is medication.

This, it's a neocodeine,

and it's a derivative of codeine

that's reported in the countries
of Lebanon and Vietnam.

Those are the two countries
that produce this.

Being a derivative of is sort of like
I guess, you would say,

hemp versus marijuana.

Is there some there?

Yeah. It's to the itty-bitty
minute percent,

so first time, pat on the hand,
don't do it again.

WOMAN: Me?

Do not bring this
into the United States again.

- Do you understand?
- Yes, sir.

Let me tell you, next time somebody
go over there, I'll tell don't bring it.

- Okay.
- Me, mumma, no more that one.

- Now I get it, you remember me, promise.
- Fist bump.

- Never, never.
- All right.

Put that stuff away. No more.

- Yeah. No more.
- Yes, sir. Thank you.

All right. You guys have a great day.

We're gonna release them
and there will be information

for the next time
they enter to look for these items.

If they have it, they've been warned,

and at that time
they'll be receiving a penalty

and a seizure on these items.

- WOMAN: Sorry about that.
- OFFICER: It's okay.

Some don't know,
and you can't hold that against them.

Some of them do know
and they've been doing it for a while

and they supply their store with it.

I tested stuff the other day
that came back as sulfuric acid.

So, think about that.

You're buying something outside
of the country,

you're bringing it in,
you're actually k*lling somebody.

We have to protect the United States.

It's what it's all about.
And I take that to heart.

- Thank you.
- OFFICER: Bye-bye.

All right. This is your bag?

- Everything inside is yours?
- Yes.

Let me get your jacket.

OFFICER PUPO: She's very disorganized,
so right now

it's just about having
a thorough interview

because we wanna be able
to catch them in a lie.

So you said you wanna buy
about how much clothes?

[SPEAKING INAUDIBLY]

But you got to pay for the hotel.

I spent like 22.

And that's after transportation.

- WOMAN: Hotel. Yeah.
- OFFICER PUPO: Food?

Okay.

How much money
are you bringing in in cash?



And you're 100% sure
that credit card has $2,000?

Yeah.

Now, if there isn't then
you're getting caught in a lie.

[SPEAKING INAUDIBLY]

- MALE OFFICER: Okay.
- OFFICER PUPO: I'll be right back.

We have a lot of passengers
who come here with the same story.

They come to shop in the United States
to resell it in their countries.

However, most of the time,
those passengers actually have a plan.

And she's only coming for one day.

Normally, when these people come,
they come for three or four days

because if you don't find something
that one day and you go back home,

what was the purpose of your trip?

So, we have to make sure
that she's authentic

because we have had incidents in the past
where we've had passengers come in

with the same story
who have swallowed cocaine.

[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

She says she has some money
in her credit card but...

You think this will work here?

- Well, it's like a debit card.
- Debit card basically.

Yeah.

What's your name?

Is that her name?

- No. What does it say?
- It's a different name.

- Karina?
- It says Karina.

It's not gonna let her use it.

Then there's something
she's not telling us or she's just lying.

- [INDECIPHERABLE SPEECH]
- Yeah.

Put your stuff away
and come follow me, okay?

I'm gonna put her in a private room
to speak to her a little bit more,

see if I can get the truth out of her,
and see where the story goes from here.

Take a seat right here.
I'm gonna search your body.

- What's your daughter's name?
- Karina.

- So, the debit card is hers, right?
- Yeah.

She's just, she's too calm.

She's been through this before, obviously.

She's been put in that room before.

She's been patted down before.

She said that she may saw students,
that...

Last time she staying with anyone
that was few Jordans,

that were dropping, like new Jordans,

that she was exporting
back home through here.

And that's why she stayed here.

Last-minute ticket, no income.

You know what, make phone calls?

Call her daughter, right?
See if the story makes sense.

It's it makes no sense,
if it's completely off,

then we write it up. That's it.

Give me your daughter's number.
I'm gonna give her a call.

Okay. Wait for me.

[CALL TRILLING]

She didn't answer.

- Let's check her phone. See what's there.
- Yeah.

She literally only has
three contacts on her.

I don't know. What do you wanna do?

I wanna see
if she actually leaves tomorrow.

We can have outbound check
if she's taking stock out.

She doesn't take anything out,
she came and she pass packets.

Or she's taking out cash.

I don't have enough evidence to keep her,

but every piece of information
that she gave me,

I couldn't verify anything.

Come this way.

So, I'm gonna make sure
that we have an inspection

on her way back to Trinidad,

make sure she's taking out merchandise.

I'm gonna be looking after you, okay?

I have to make sure you leave tomorrow.

If she's not
then she's lying about something.

We got Santiago.
Landed about a half hour ago.

Can I see your passport, sir?

Dominican Republic is one of the source
countries that we have.

What's up, buddy? How you doing?
You have any bags checked in?

You can't go by gender, race, age.

Could be a senior citizen
bringing it in a wheelchair.

All right. I'mma take a quick look
inside of your bag

and then you'll be on your way, all right?
Come this way.

Have you ever been inspected before? No?

I'm gonna open one of these, okay?
What is this? Oh, boy.

Yup.

Wow. All this stuff.

So one of the officers found boxes
and cases.

- These are antibiotics.
- Yeah.

There's a few thousand pills here, man.

This is Cialis.

Antiflu. Kind of like Tylenol.

He's got viagras over there.

All different types of viagras,

liquid version, pill version,

injectable version, massageable version.

All made and sold in Dominican Republic.

[OFFICER SPEAKS AUDIBLY]

Give me a pill.

So, then it fill with popup
in this right away every time so...

Wow! Comes up was nothing.

It says that, it's not found,
definitely counterfeit.

Taking counterfeit pills, you don't know,
what you're ingesting in your body.

It could have fentanyl,

and fentanyl is k*lling people
left and right nowadays.

Everything is not allowed by the FDA,

so now pretty much it's seizable.

I think she tried to use the wheelchair
as an excuse.

It throws you off a little bit

'cause you think little old grandma
is not gonna bring anything in.

Depending on your status,
you could actually be deported

and banned
from ever entering the United States.

We have information
that cocaine is being smuggled

from the Bahamas on vessels.

It's being sold from a trailer
here in the Miami area.

The trailer is what we call a trap house,
which means nobody actually lives there.

It's just used to sell narcotics.

So, we are currently on our way

to this place to execute
a narcotics search warrant.

The trap house is in the area
with a lot of g*ng activity

and the subjects
have a lengthy criminal history

involving violence.

We also have intelligence indicating

that the subjects
may be carrying firearms,

so we're utilizing
the HSI Miami Special Response Team.

We're here to enhance everybody's safety.

That's the only reason we exist.

OFFICER OVER RADIO: Stand by one.

Roger that. Keep assaulted.

- Is everybody set?
- Everybody is ready. So, come on.

Roger that.

Arriving at the location.

All right, set it down.

That's it, that's the... Let's go.

OFFICER OVER RADIO: Execute.

- Go, go, go!
- [SIRENS WAILING]

Police!

Push it. Push it. Three, two, one!

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

- Go, go, go, go!
- Police!

Execute!

- Go, go, go, go!
- Police!

Push it. Push it.
One, two, three.

Run to back.

Hands up! Hands up! Police!

He's caught over fence.

Let me see your hands. Come towards me.
Do it now.

Got him?

We got him, guys. We got him, we got him.

- Everybody secure inside?
- Yeah.

There was one guy manning the trap house,
the individual that ran away,

but he was caught right down the street.

AGENT: The operation went exactly
the way we wanted it to.

Almost textbook.

We were able to conduct a breach
of the fortified fence on the exterior.

There was no threats or anybody in the way
so we were able to do that safely.

We did have the primary subject
hop a fence.

We were able to call
that over on the radio.

So he was taken into custody.

We have search teams
that are going through the location now.

Looking for narcotics,
firearms, other evidence.

As far as I'm concerned, this operation
could not have gone better for us.

Good morning.

The day before, I stopped this female
coming from the Caribbean.

She told me she's coming
to purchase clothing.

She owns a store in Trinidad
and told me she's leaving today.

- Have you seen her?
- Not yet.

We have an inspection outgoing.

I wanna make sure she leaves

and I wanna make sure
she takes back merchandise.

If she doesn't leave
then we have a problem.

If she leaves with no merchandise,
we have an even bigger problem.

Maybe she came and she passed pellets.

- Blue shirt. It says "Love".
- I see her.

I got her.

Hello. Hi, miss.
Can I see your passport, please?

- How are you doing?
- I'm okay.

- Coming with family? No.
- No.

We'll check your luggage
and you'll be on your way.

WOMAN: You wanna go inside.
All right, carry on.

What was the purpose of the trip?

- Thought I'll come to buy some clothes.
- Oh, okay.

- When did you come in to the US?
- Yesterday.

So, yesterday? Just one day?

It's not enough time to shop.
It's too little.

And when you came in, how much money
you brought into the US cash money?

Like... I have 500.

Okay. Then how much money
are you taking back home?

Not a cent.

No cash?

- You made sure you spent it all?
- All, yeah.

Okay. Very good.

- This is your new stuff? Or...
- New stuff.

- New stuff. Yeah.
- Okay.

You have any receipt
of the stuff you bought?

- Do you have that?
- Yeah.

Okay. It's good.

After checking her bags,

we feel like the purpose
she initially told me is legitimate.

So, I'm gonna go ahead
and release the passenger right now.

We get a lot more negatives than positives

but I'm gonna keep looking.
We're gonna keep talking.

And who knows,
maybe we'll actually find something.

OFFICER: Thank you for your time.
Have a good flight.

What are you bringing back with you
from over there?

This suitcase.

- Anybody give you anything to bring?
- No.

- Traveling together?
- Yeah.

All right. Come with me.
Let me check your bags, all right?

- Anything to declare?
- No.

Why is it so heavy?

That's weird.

- You wear these?
- Yup.

Yeah, I'm gonna go to the X-ray.

Give me a second, all right?

Saavedra!

You can see how it's darker?

- On the bottom?
- Yeah.

It's like really like dense.

- Very dense and completely off the sole.
- Right.

Yup. They're loaded.

MALE OFFICER: Oh, definitely.

There you go. My party.

From the odor, I'm gonna say it's cocaine.

This is the sole of the shoe,

and that yellow packet is loaded.

Get a test kit.

Gosh, it's so thick.

- There you go.
- Blue.

Positive for cocaine.

So we're gonna take you to another area
and process you, all right?

- Your wife know about this?
- No.

This is not time to be lying to us.

Your wife know about this?

- She does.
- She does?

So why she acting like
she don't know about it?

MAN: I don't know.

The only thing that's loaded
is those shoes?

What else is there?

- Nothing else? All right.
- MAN: Nothing else.

We're gonna weigh both the shoes together.

OFFICER: They are big.
Look how wide the shoes are.

OFFICER PUPO: The smell is so strong.
Oh, my God.

It's like a weird mustard smell.

Yes.

This is what we do all the time.
It's like a cat and mouse game, you know?

One finds it. Everybody helps.
It's a team effort.

Put your thumb like that.

So much hard work.
We get a lot of negatives

but when we hit, it's a good feeling.

This way.

Lately, we've been seeing huge trends

of people ordering stuff off
of the dark web.

People have ordered fentanyl off
of the dark web.

Nowadays it's leaning
more towards prescription pills.

And we're just trying to catch everything
that shouldn't be coming into the country.

Okay. You can run it.

This is mail that came in late last night.

We're doing a routine scanning on it
to see if we can find anything.

- Good?
- Yeah.

Hold on.

OFFICER: Look at that one.

You can see the pills.
Looks like a book almost.

It's labeled protein supplements.

It did look like supplements.

But in a lot of cases,
it's not the right kind of supplements.

Definitely doesn't look right.

I believe it's alprazolam,
commonly sold as Xanax.

You can tell by the bar shape,
quite a lot here too.

You got probably 10,000
or 15,000 pills here.

If it was legitimate,
it would have some markings on it,

not just pills in an envelope.

We're getting these pretty regularly.

It's highly addictive,

and chances are these aren't
prescribed for someone.

They're doing this on their own.

You actually don't know
what you're getting.

I'm gonna get a quick weight
just to see how much it is.



This is a massive amount
with a high dollar value.

People don't get pounds of pills.

A normal person couldn't use
this in a year.

So we're gonna have
to contact our HSI agents,

and they take it from there
whether they would like to do

further investigation on it.

All right. So, what did we end up finding?

Approximately,
a little over a kilo of coke,

baggies, cash, scales.

- How much cash do we think we found?
- About $600 bucks.

- 600. We're still counting it.
- Yeah.

- That's crack too, right?
- Crack, marijuana.

How many baggies of crack we got?

- Five bags.
- Have we got loose?

And the subject is still not willing
to speak to us yet, is that correct?

- Not yet.
- Okay.

Well, this is good. With this kind of
weight in his possession,

maybe this will make him more amenable
to sharing what's going on with us.

For a neighborhood like this,

for them to be sitting on
$30,000 worth of, of narcotics

and just selling it willy-nilly
is pretty significant.

Our next steps on this are gonna be trying
to turn this into more of a federal case.

We're gonna be looking
to identify the broader network

that we wanna pursue for investigations
and potential prosecution.

- Outstanding work. Good job.
- Excellent.

The residents are gonna be able
to sleep peacefully tonight

knowing that these guys are not selling
this amount of dope

to the citizens of Miami.