03x04 - Smorgasbord of Smack

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CONNOR: We received some
information of a silver SUV,

suspected to be loaded full of drugs,
that's already into the United States.

And my team has set up along the highway
and in various parts around the border.

We're trying to intercept it based on
the description that we have,

and then seize the narcotics.

[OFFICER SPEAKS OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: We were able to get an airship
overhead, which is a huge asset.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER SPEAKS OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: There he is.

That's gonna be our guy.

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

Here we go.

He is off, off, off 805 North.

Do you still have him?

[OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: 10-4.

Uh, after getting on one of the major
highways, he took the very first exit.

[SIGHS] He's either headed
for that gas station or a U-turn.

Or may be doing a heat run
and coming right back at us.

That's indicative behavior of...
Of the smugglers.

To try to see if someone
is following them.

So, we're gonna wait to
see what he does next.

[OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: U-turn.

He's probably gonna try to come right back
onto the highway.

[OFFICER SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

- CONNOR: Here he comes.
- [OFFICER SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: All right, I have the ground eye.

And we'll see where this goes.

LOU: Puerto Rico, as a US territory,
being an island

in between South America
and the continental US,

smugglers exploit that and they smuggle
contraband, drugs, to Puerto Rico,

and then, into the US.

So, this is the last
and first line of defense.

OFFICER: Here comes the ship.

We just got notified
of the arrival of that ferry

from the Dominican Republic.

Arrives here, uh, three times a week.
Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays.

The vessel holds approximately


[RIVERA SPEAKING SPANISH]

RIVERA: [IN ENGLISH] Good girl.

[RIVERA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[IN ENGLISH] With the inbound, we look

for contraband, money,
agriculture, everything.

[MAKING URGING NOISES]

RIVERA: Good girl.

Right now, we're doing inspections
on the passengers.

My K9, she's certified to detect
concealed humans and narcotics.

[MAKING URGING NOISES]

[RIVERA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKS SPANISH]

[RIVERA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKS SPANISH]

We had an alert to a bag of a passenger.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

My K9, she alert for, uh, narcotics.
So, let's see what happen.

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[IN ENGLISH] Okay.

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[SPEAKING ENGLISH]

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[RIVERA SPEAKING]

We had a non-productive alert.

So, it's when we don't found
any tangible substance.

So, we released the passenger
and he's good to go.

[BOTH SPEAK SPANISH]

ACEVEDO: Cut it open here.

My team, we do enforcement that's specific
to importing violative cultural property

artifacts into the United States.

Wow. That's a nice piece.

All my friends tease me
and say we're kinda like Indiana Jones.

Protecting other countries'
rich cultural histories.

This is a Phoenician gold mask.

I joined the Army at a ripe age of 18,
and I got to go travel

and see things around the world.

And I was in Iraq shortly
after Iraqi's national museum was looted.

Knowing how that impacted
the Iraqi people's sense of history,

that was my first sense of how important
cultural property enforcement is.

[CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS]

We're gonna take a look at this crate
that came in from Europe.

- LIFT DRIVER: Here?
- That's perfect, man.

Thanks, appreciate it.

The shipper that's responsible
for this shipment,

I won't name a name,
but let's just say a very high-end gallery

here in New York City,

they have a track record
for bringing in illicit artifacts.

All right.

That one.

All right. What do you know?

There were two pieces in
this shipment that we had an interest in,

because there was insufficient
documentation to prove proper provenance.

"Provenance" is just a fancy word
of just saying its previous history.

We need some sort of paper trail
to see that this artifact

was acquired legally,
it's not in violation of anything,

before we can let it
enter the commerce of the United States.

Oh, wow.

It appears to be Egyptian.

There's so many great
details on this artifact.

You'll see that even the toenails
are detailed on the foot.

And you can see his stomach muscles,
his chest.

If the documents that accompanied
this particular piece are accurate,

this piece is from the
middle kingdom period of ancient Egypt.

And if you wanna put that in perspective,
this piece is so old

that it actually predates Moses.

We don't have that much information
on this piece.

Usually, legal artifacts of this quality
would already have some sort of

body of academic work done on it.

So, we're gonna have an archeologist
take a look at these photographs,

give us a report on what exactly
this piece is and who it belongs to.

Back to being buried again.

So, we have this second box
that we pulled out.

It's beautiful.

We have a gilded wooden face.

It's gilded in gold.

Most likely obtained from a much larger
Egyptian sarcophagus lid

that was used to entomb a mummy.

The travesty is that no one's
gonna be able to study,

no one's gonna be able to tell

what the larger context of this must have
been because the remainder of this lid

is no longer in existence, it's gone.

What we have is just the face.

We jotted down measurements,
photographed it.

So, now the subject matter expert
will review this and give a final word

on what this piece is about.

And then we'll determine if we're gonna
seize this piece for having, uh,

entered the United States, uh, illegally.

[OVER RADIO]

BP just made the U-turn

and, uh, they're on 5-North with us now.

We're nearing the end of the northern part
of San Diego County

and the next area is really Orange County,
and then probably into Los Angeles.

We were hoping for it to land local,

and it just doesn't seem
like it's gonna go that way.

So, we're coordinating with the
Border Patrol marked unit

to get it stopped so we can confirm
that the vehicle is loaded.

If so, we'll just, we'll just
do the seizure right there.

OFFICER 1: [OVER RADIO] All right,
he's still in the number two lane.

[OFFICER 2 OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: Yep, they're lighting it up.

[POLICE SIREN WAILS]

[POLICE SIREN WAILS]

CONNOR: We've asked BP
for their assistance.

They're gonna make
contact with the driver.

They've called in
a narcotics sniffing dog,

and they're gonna run the interior
and exterior of the vehicle.

OFFICER: The dog's hitting.

CONNOR: The dog already alerted.

We'll get a better look
and do a much more thorough inspection.

Just based on the information
that we have so far,

we're confident that we'll
come up with some contraband.

Some of these SUV's can hold an upwards
of 55 to 60 kilograms of narcotics.

The narcotics could be stored
in a number of natural voids

where they don't have to
create a sophisticated trap.

It's in the quarter panels,
it's in the roof,

it's in the seats, it's in the gas tank,
it's in the spare tire.

Your imagination is the only limit to
where the drugs will be hidden.

[OFFICER 1 SPEAKING]

- [OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]
- [OFFICER 1 SPEAKING]

OFFICER 1: There you go, got them.

They confirmed the presence of packages
that we think to be narcotics.

And now they're gonna bring it in
to the garage

and start dismantling parts of the car

where we think more narcotics
could be concealed.

ACEVEDO: Just put that there for now.

All right, guys. So, we got a tipoff
that there was an additional object

in the crate of interest.

Let's go ahead and unpack it. Open it up.

Oh, wow. That's a nice piece.

- Wow.
- CHOPRA: It's heavy, right?

ACEVEDO:
It's got a little heft to it, yeah.

This is a bronze Roman arm from a statue.

There's a possibility this arm might've
been looted from an archeological site

that belonged to ancient Rome.

There's no way we can be
subject matter experts

in all the things that we encounter,

but some of us get to do
training at the Smithsonian.

When we're done with the training,
we're not experts,

but at least it gives us a good idea
of what we're dealing with

and how to manage the artifacts
as we detain and seize them.

Can you see the details?
You can see the veins,

tendons, right down to the fingernails.

[CHOPRA SPEAKING]

ACEVEDO:
We're gonna photograph it and then

get pictures to the subject matter expert.

Hopefully, the person who obtained
this piece found it like this.

'Cause it would really be sad to know
that someone found a beautiful, intact,

bronze statue and then chopped it up
piecemeal so they could smuggle it out

and sell it easier.

While I am not a fine art appraiser,

previous seizures
that we've had in the past,

arms similar in this shape and length,
go for anywhere

from $100,000 to $300,000.

We have subject matter experts that
are gonna look at this piece and determine

if this piece was either
illicitly obtained or legally obtained.

Then, we're waiting for the outcome to
determine whether we're seizing it or not.

[ACEVEDO SPEAKING SPANISH]

[PASSENGER SPEAKING SPANISH]

ACEVEDO: [IN ENGLISH] No? Okay.

I received a person coming from
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Referred because
he's bringing four big bags.

So, I'm gonna check the luggage and

do routine questions.

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[ACEVEDO SPEAKING ENGLISH]

ACEVEDO: We're gonna check if there's
something hidden, like drugs or something.

Let's go to X-rays.

[ACEVEDO SPEAKING SPANISH]

SIERRA: They're clear.

[ACEVEDO SPEAKING ENGLISH]

They have nothing inside.
It's all leather and rubber.

[ACEVEDO SPEAKING SPANISH]

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ACEVEDO: [IN ENGLISH] There's a difference
between personal belongings

and commercial merchandise.

The sandals are for his wife
and she want to sell it in Puerto Rico.

So, it's commercial merchandise.

So, he may pay for a freight, also duties.

[ACEVEDO SPEAKING SPANISH]

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ACEVEDO: [IN ENGLISH]
We see these two, three times a month.

People with merchandise without declaring.

In this case,
he had to pay $100 for a cheap freight.

In the end, he would pay more in fees
than the shoes are worth.

He ain't gonna be bringing no more
merchandise to Puerto Rico like that.

CONNOR: At this point, we've got one
in custody, we've got the vehicle seized,

the information was good.

We're at a Border Patrol
processing center.

The driver is being interviewed, uh,
by a couple agents.

So, Border Patrol is doing
their due diligence.

Checking all the natural voids in the car.

So far, they have confirmed
the presence of packages.

It's an arduous process.

As you can see,
it's hard work for these guys.

Very interested to see what this is.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

The shapes and the sizes
are indicative of different narcotics.

Meth is typically crunchy.

This one might be fentanyl pills,
maybe cocaine.

Of course, we won't know what any of it is
until we actually cut into it and test it.

So, this one is a clear,
crystalized substance.

We use a little bit of visual inspection

to determine which
presumptive narcotics kit to use.

So, he'll break these ampules,
it'll change color.

OFFICER: Positive for meth.

CONNOR: Once it flashes blue like that,
it's positive for meth.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

With this being a mixed load, uh,
it's not uncommon to see your cocaine,

your fentanyl, your heroin.
But we still have packages to test.

- [OFFICER SPEAKS]
- CONNOR: Pills?

[OFFICER SPEAKS]

CONNOR: These smaller
packages ended up with fake M30 pills,

which is gonna be a
combination of fentanyl

and potentially acetaminophen
or some cutting agent.

Due to the fact that we presume
that that's going to be fentanyl,

and the risk to the agent
out in the field, it won't be tested,

it's just gonna be presumed, that it
will allow that to be sent to the lab.

So, in this one,
you got a white powdery substance.

This test will tell us
if it's cocaine or not.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

I think we still have one more to test.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CONNOR: Heroin?
OFFICER: Yeah, it's heroin.

That would make it at this point,
we have four different substances.

One package of heroin,

these are all fentanyl or M30 pills,

this is, uh, cocaine, and methamphetamine.

We are talking about tens of thousands,

if not 100,000 dosage units
of various drug types.

When you see a mixed load with multiple,
uh, substances of the higher dollar value,

it would imply that this driver is more
trusted than, say, a brand new driver.

OFFICER: We're gonna
take it inside and weigh it.

CONNOR: Okay.

Now, they're gonna bring it in,
then they'll be sorted and weighed.

This load is seized,
and our information was good.

ACEVEDO: It says we're .8 miles out.

We're heading to New Jersey.

One of my colleagues from HSI called me up
to tell me that they're about to examine

a storage unit that contained
the cache of ancient mosaics.

They invited me to come on down
because it might be connected to someone

that I previously detained a mosaic from.

ROBERT: We're gonna open up the unit.

Get a look at it.

I'm a special agent with
Homeland Security Investigations

and I'm assigned to a
cultural property unit,

and we investigate stolen
and looted antiquities,

and we try to repatriate them
to their country of origin.

We received some information
about these mosaics

and the individual who owns
the storage unit and it led to here.

ACEVEDO: Oh, wow.

ROBERT: Beautiful.
ACEVEDO: That's amazing.

ROBERT: I'm guessing
somewhere around 20? Or more, maybe.

ACEVEDO: That's the most
I've seen in one place.

ROBERT: Yeah.

The owner of these antiquities is
an elderly gentleman of Lebanese descent.

He resided in the United States
for a period of time,

but he no longer resides
in the United States. He's overseas.

ACEVEDO: I have to tell you, Rob,
they look a little too pristine.

What's in the boxes?

That's not a good sign. It's pigments.

Just the shades of the pigments
that are in there

are all the shades of the tiles.

Ah, well, we have a bucket of tiles.

That's usually the
tell-tale sign of a forger.

It's very rare that mosaics this big
survive antiquity this intact.

We've been duped before where we've had
the mosaics that the tiles are real,

but the composition is a modern replica.

We have a subject matter expert
that's going to assist us and determine

the authenticity of the mosaics,
whether they're actual antiquities

or whether they're replicas.

Hopefully, the subject matter
expert's here shortly.

[RESTREPO SPEAKING SPANISH]

- [WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]
- [RESTREPO SPEAKING SPANISH]

Once we complete the inbound
process of these passengers arriving,

from the Dominican Republic,
we also process those passengers departing

from San Juan, Puerto Rico
to the Dominican Republic.

[RESTREPO SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[PASSENGERS LAUGHING]

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RESTREPO: [IN ENGLISH] With outbound
travelers, we're looking more for money.

A lot of people travel
with more than $10,000.

We have to make sure the source of the
money to avoid that money being laundered

to criminal organizations
outside of the United States.

If you don't declare it,
that money might be seized by us.

SIERRA: Señora.

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[WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

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SIERRA: [IN ENGLISH] Okay. The lady
was referred because she declares $7,500.

As per routine inspection, I'm just gonna
ask her a couple of questions

about where the money come from,
and we're gonna be checking their bags.

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[IN ENGLISH] Okay?

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- SIERRA: No.

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SIERRA: [IN ENGLISH] Okay.

The lady started getting nervous.

She's fidgeting, she's
avoiding eye contact.

[SIERRA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[IN ENGLISH] I know
that she is holding something back.

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SIERRA: [IN ENGLISH] She declared 7,500.

This the total amount she
has on her belongings.

Approximately, $11,000.

I don't believe that's criminal proceeds.

I believe she didn't know the law,
and she was scared.

So, we do a forced declaration.

She's good to go and board the ferry.

Señora...

[SIERRA SPEAKING SPANISH]

TRAVELER: [IN ENGLISH] Okay.
SIERRA: [IN ENGLISH] Okay?

[SIERRA SPEAKING SPANISH]

SIERRA: [IN ENGLISH] People get scared
when you try to declare money

because they think they're
gonna be paying taxes,

that the IRS are gonna investigate
and see where they get the money,

and that's why they don't wanna do it.

I was sure that that money was
legally earned, and with this experience,

I'm very comfortable saying
that she won't do it again.

[OFFICER SPEAKS]

OFFICER: Thirteen packages.

CONNOR: That's the first one.

Given the size of the scale,
they'd have to make multiple measurements.

OFFICER: Seven packages.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CONNOR: All right, this is the heroin.
One package.

Got 1.15.

- [OFFICER SPEAKING]
- CONNOR: Cocaine.

OFFICER: Twelve packages.

11.15 keys.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Eleven packages.

With this mixed load
and the amount that this is,

this would've gone to a stash house

and then distributed to
different dealers or different networks,

and then it just keeps going
deeper and deeper into the interior.

The driver is in custody and he's
being interviewed by a couple agents,

and they're gonna develop
any intel that they can.

All total, we seized about 27 kilograms
of a mixed variety of narcotics

and it's a success because we kept
these from getting out onto the street

and into our neighborhoods.

This is the mosaic of Gaea,
the personification of the earth.

It's been heavily restored,
you can see around the eyes,

some of these tesserae are modern.

But, this is genuine.

ROBERT: Okay.
BRIAN: It's ancient.

ROBERT: Let's take a look at this one.

BRIAN: So, Neptune and
Amphitrite riding in a four-horse chariot.

Although the horses are hippocamps,
they're half horse, half sea serpent.

There's an identical one in the Louvre.

It's been repaired, but it's genuine.

So surprisingly, they appear
to be antiquities, which is great.

No matter how much
you do to a modern mosaic,

you can't disguise it so much that it
looks completely like an ancient mosaic.

ROBERT: So, this is what
they're using to restore these?

BRIAN: Yeah, for sure.

- Often they are the ancient stones.
- ROBERT: Okay.

BRIAN: At any excavation that has mosaics,

you find these stones
just pushed to the side

and there are people who collect them
and sell them.

When the mosaics left
the country of origin,

I suspect a number of them were damaged

and they put in new tesserae

to make it look as if
they were in pristine condition,

which was intended to increase
the asking price on the art market.

Are you planning to unroll this one?

ROBERT: Yes. This is the one
that we're very interested in.

BRIAN: Okay.
ROBERT: And I'm hoping

that when we unroll it, it's okay.

[BOTH LAUGH]

- Fingers crossed.
- BRIAN: Me too.

ACEVEDO: One, two, three.

All right, slow, slow, take your time.

Yeah, right here, right here's good.

All right. I'm gonna cut
it this way, hold on.

ROBERT: Is this gonna be
all right being unrolled?

BRIAN: I've never done
anything like this before.

ROBERT: That makes...
That makes two of us.

BRIAN: If the tesserae seem too fragile...

Yeah, the tesserae are awfully loose.

I'd say it's potentially important enough
that you might not wanna unroll it

unless you have a conservator next to you.

- ROBERT: Absolutely.
- Who can do

emergency conservation as necessary.

ROBERT:
I... I think that's, uh, the way to go.

ACEVEDO: Yes.

I bet you it probably wasn't meant to be,
um, rolled up this long.

ROBERT: No, I'm sure it wasn't.

This is the earliest of all the mosaics
I've looked at today.

It's about 200 CE.

There's no question that this is genuine.

This is high quality work.

Beautifully preserved, filled
with inscriptions, and inscribed mosaics.

Those are not a dime a dozen.

This is the most valuable of
everything we've seen today.

ACEVEDO: The only places I've seen mosaics
this big have been in museums.

BRIAN: Mmm-hmm.
That's where they should be.

[ACEVEDO CHUCKLES]

We were able to determine that
all these pieces are in fact antiquities.

At this point, we're gonna go back

and determine whether
they were stolen or looted.

It's possible we could seize these items

and then attempt to return them
to their countries.

ACEVEDO: It was a good day, Rob.

Now I'm curious what is the value
of all this stuff.

We got a lot of money
sitting in this storage unit.

ROBERT: Yeah.

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[RESTREPO SPEAKS ENGLISH]

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[IN ENGLISH] Okay.

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RESTREPO: [IN ENGLISH] Okay.

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RESTREPO: [IN ENGLISH]
A man and his young daughter

came in for a primary inspection
before going to the ferry.

He declared $6,000.

[RESTREPO SPEAKING SPANISH]

RESTREPO: [IN ENGLISH] And meanwhile,
we found out that

in the vehicle inspection on the ferry,

the wife of the gentleman
has declared approximately 5,000 plus

and said that it belongs to him.

So, if that's being true,
that's gonna be a problem.

It's normal that couples
have money with them,

and it's pretty legal to have
more than $10,000 between them both.

All you have to do is declare it
with the FinCEN and you're good.

But they didn't, so that
could be smuggling money.

So, we're gonna find out with more
questioning and see what's going on.

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OFFICER: [IN ENGLISH] He's claiming
$6,000, which he does have here.

SIERRA: [IN ENGLISH] Okay.

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[IN ENGLISH] She gave me this story
the money was lent by my husband,

but when I confront that story
with the gentleman, he said,

"No, that's not right, she's lying."

[SIERRA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[IN ENGLISH] So, that's a sign
that this is a kind of cover up.

[WIFE SPEAKING SPANISH]

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SIERRA: No...

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- SIERRA: Pero...

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SIERRA: [IN ENGLISH]
The total amount is $11,644.

The husband is refusing
to sign a declaration.

At this time, we're gonna turn over

the interview and the case
to HSI agents on site.

They're gonna interview the couple

and they can go further
into that gentleman's history.

We have reached out
to subject matter experts

and the feedback is that the two artifacts
are most likely looted from Egypt

and most likely gonna be seized.

That's the seated Egyptian dignitary
that's made of stone.

Appraised with a value of $200,000.

And also the gold, wooden, gilded face.

Appraised at $16,000.

The third artifact, the bronze arm,
we're still waiting for verification

from foreign authorities.

I think at this point in time,
as we're wrapping up our detention

on artifacts here at JFK,

Rob is wrapping up his case
with the mosaics out in New Jersey.

ROBERT: That's a nice one.

After reviewing all of the pieces,
the subject matter expert confirmed

that these mosaics are
approximately 2,500 years old

and they were illegally exported
from their countries of origin.

Right now, we're in the process
of seizing these antiquities

and moving them to a secure storage unit
under our control.

The fun's just beginning
because the heavy stuff is yet to come.

OFFICER: Yeah.
ROBERT: Some of them weigh

around 600 pounds.

These pieces were purchased
in the '70s and '80s

when Syria controlled
Lebanon and the region.

The borders were open so these
moved freely from country to country,

and then were exported through Lebanon.

That's a big one.

[MAN SPEAKING]

ROBERT: Yeah. You guys are good.

We try to repatriate
things pretty quickly.

It'll be very rewarding
to return these to their countries.

Except, Syria has issues right now,
so that will slow down the process.

The most important piece in this unit,
it's the most valuable piece.

Valued at around 2 and a half
million dollars.

They're fast. I didn't know
they were gonna be so fast.

This is the final piece.

Twenty-one mosaics seized,

estimated at 4 and a half million
US dollars.

We will bring them to a better place

and return them
to their countries of origin,

and the individual could be indicted.