03x05 - k*ller Ketamine

[bunniefuu]

OFFICER 1: Are you traveling with anyone?

OFFICER 2: The reason for your trip?

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- Honeymoon? All right, congratulations.

[MAN SPEAKING]

HAYNES: We're gonna go
right over here, all right?

Bring your bags up here.

Are you bringing any food?

- No.
- No food?

- No.
- Any alcohol?

[MAN SPEAKING]

- Alcohol and clothes and shoes.
- Yeah.

[HAYNES SPEAKING]

What are you planning to do?
Open up a store or something?

[MAN SPEAKING]

[HAYNES SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER: One bottle broke
in the whole box, and you mad?

- It's only one?
- Yeah.

[MAN SPEAKING]

HAYNES: So, these are all for you,
or they for somebody else?

[MAN SPEAKING]

- HAYNES: Oh, so for friends?
- [MAN SPEAKING]

- HAYNES: Yeah?
- [MAN SPEAKING]

PHILLIPS: The subject had over
a hundred bottles of tonic wine.

For us, that's a red flag because it's
also a method of concealment.

Within those hundred bottles, maybe five
or six could be loaded.

HAYNES: One of them I had to crack open
to make sure it's tonic wine.

HAYNES: Yeah, it's just tonic wine.
There's nothing there.

You gonna keep this
for yourself to drink it,

or whatever you want to do?

PHILLIPS: Just don't consume it right now.

- Not right now.
- HAYNES: No, no, not now.

PHILLIPS: We had to open up a few of them

to make sure they were good to go.

But everything checked out and was fine.

HAYNES: Man, you got some nice shoes.

[MAN SPEAKING]

PHILLIPS: What's this friend's name?

[MAN SPEAKING]

PHILLIPS: Short Man?

[MAN SPEAKING]

PHILLIPS: For several years,
but you only know him as Short Man.

[MAN SPEAKING]

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- So, those are his personal shoes?

[MAN SPEAKING]

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- So, did he give you money?

- Uh-uh.
- But you had to pay for an extra bag.

So, he's not giving you money for that?

Oh, he's gonna have to. [LAUGHS]

He's gonna have to now.

RAMOS: So, we just got to
make sure these sneakers

don't have anything inside
they're not supposed to have.

Especially when it's sneakers that you
don't know anything about them.

[HAYNES SPEAKING]

PHILLIPS: We just want to
make sure everything checks out.

OFFICER: So, we X-rayed the shoes,
and everything appears to be all right.

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

- [OFFICER SPEAKING]
- WOMAN: It's no good.

HAYNES: These are real?

[MAN SPEAKING]

You don't know if they're real?

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- It's copyright, man.

Christian Louboutin.

PHILLIPS: I don't think a friend asked him

to bring back the shoes.

I think he purchased the shoes

over there in Jamaica, knowing that
they weren't real,

with the intent to
just use them over here.

RAMOS: Listen, the thing is, is that you
can't bring knock-off stuff

into the United States, that's the issue.

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- Are these real? You don't know?

RAMOS: No, I'm like 99%t sure
they're not real.

But I don't want to bust your
chops because they look used.

MAN: Right, right.
RAMOS: And it's not like you're

bringing it in for commercial use
to resell.

[MAN SPEAKING]

RAMOS: Even if they are counterfeited,

he's bringing in a pair
that's his personal use.

We can't do anything with that
'cause they already bought it.

They bought it wherever they
bought it and they're using it.

- You can tell they've been used.
- [MAN SPEAKING]

The fact that the shoes look worn,
is what made us, uh, let it go.

All right, my friend, you're all set.

[MAN SPEAKING]

PHILLIPS: All right, man, have a good day.
The exit is right out that way.

[MAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Where are you coming from, sir?

MAN: Bogota.
OFFICER: How long were you over there?

MAN: Ten days.
OFFICER: Ten days?

- That's all you got in there?
- MAN: Ah, I have clothes there.

PACHECO: Recently in the past year or two,
we've been noticing a lot of

young travelers coming from Colombia,

bringing a lot of party drugs
other than just the cocaine.

Now a big drug that's becoming
popular is ketamine,

party drug, they call it Special K.

It's usually found in toiletry bottles.

[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

The Colombia flights, there's no

right or wrong person
to stop, unfortunately.

But, I like to stick to the single
traveler, with just a couple of bags.

Make sure we take out all the liquids,
any of the kind of products

that we feel need to be tested and make
sure we don't miss anything.

Okay.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

- [PACHECO SPEAKING SPANISH]
- [GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

Okay.

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[GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

[BOTH SPEAKING SPANISH]

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[GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

[GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

[OFFICER SPEAKING ENGLISH]

They've been hiding drugs in
liquid form in a lot of little perfume

bottles and shampoos.

So, that's why we were going through
all those small little bottles.

A little small bottle like this
can be worth a lot of money.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[GIRL SPEAKING SPANISH]

[PACHECO SPEAKING ENGLISH]

Just let it sit.

[SPEAKING ENGLISH]

I poured some out here on the table.

It's like an old-school trick of knowing
that something's not what it is.

[PACHECO SPEAKING ENGLISH]

A lot of times you'll see when we go to
grab something and it's loaded,

the passenger will be all over it,
or distance themselves really far from it.

She had no reaction at all,
so I was pretty comfortable

that there was nothing hidden in there.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

OFFICER: How are you doing, sir?
May I see your passport?

This year, dealing with COVID
has been pretty busy.

OFFICER: What are you doing with these?

BRITO: Here in cargo,
we're looking for contraband

or anything that can do any harm
to the general public.

We get a lot of bags, shoes,
belts from high-quality merchants.

BRITO: How about these boxes over here?

It usually comes from South Asia,
uh, it can come from, uh,

any other part of the world.

It looks like all these boxes
belongs to the same shipment.

OFFICER: Yeah, let's take
one of these down.

OFFICER: Whoa, they're N95 masks.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Mm-hmm.

BRITO: KN95 is produced in China,

and the N95 is supposed to be produced
here in the U.S.

OFFICER: Yep, and this shipment's imported
from China,

and the box says "made in the USA."

If it was made in the USA, it
wouldn't be coming from China.

They're not the real deal.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

The general public, I don't
think they know the difference

between the original and the counterfeit.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

Are those the same there, or no?

OFFICER: These are actually KN95.

See, these match the box on the outside.

They mixed in the good ones
with the bad ones

so if you check this one box,
it's covered.

OFFICER: Yep, deception.

RAMOS: Have to open up every single box,
so we can get an accurate count of

how many N95s we have and the KN95s.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

OFFICER: I'd say about 500.

We've got our work cut out for this.

BRITO: How much do you think
they sell this in the market?

OFFICER: 5 to 10 bucks.
Supply is short, they're desperate.

They will pay top dollar.

RAMOS: They're making tons
of money on this.

Their profits and their proceeds all go to
different criminal organizations.

It's terrible to think that people would
take advantage and do this to us.

OFFICER: Cool. Great job, guys.

This shipment
that we just finished counting,

had over 230,000 masks.

Next step, we will call our HSI agents
to let them know about

this counterfeit shipment.

We'll hold it as evidence,
and eventually it'll get destroyed.

BRITO: Okay, let's continue,
go into another warehouse.

OFFICER: All right, what city
are you going to right now?

[GIRL SPEAKING]

[MAN OVER SPEAKING]

CONNOR: Nope, not yet.

We are currently set up along the highway.

We got some information of a semi-tractor
trailer that is potentially loaded with

narcotics that's already
in the United States.

If we can locate it, uh,
based off the information

that we have, uh, we'll follow it where it
goes to find that distribution hub.

Because the people that are involved with
the next level of distribution

are a higher-tier target for us 'cause
they're deeper into the organization.

- [MAN OVER RADIO]
- CONNOR: Here we go.

[MAN OVER RADIO]

[CONNOR SPEAKING]

So, one of these tractor trailers.

[MAN OVER RADIO SPEAKING]

CONNOR: This is it.

It's got that red glow
in the front of the cab.

[MAN OVER RADIO SPEAKING]

[MAN OVER RADIO SPEAKING]

CONNOR: And now we just got to catch up.

It's important to not lose this vehicle.

We'll see where this goes.

CONNOR: That's our guy.

I have the ground eye.

Speed, 75 miles an hour.

[MAN OVER RADIO SPEAKING]

CONNOR: We're on one of the major highways

running north.

Unless it takes one of these next exits,

it looks like we might be headed
for Los Angeles County.

The Los Angeles area,
it's a massive distribution hub

and with the cargo-based smuggling,
the drug loads that can come through

can get anywhere from 500 kilos
up to 1,000.

Once they get to the LA area, uh, they can
be cut up and, uh, broken down into

smaller shipments and shipped anywhere.

[MAN OVER RADIO SPEAKING]

CONNOR: And we'll see where this goes.

[MAN OVER RADIO SPEAKING]

CONNOR: Yep, we're destined
for Los Angeles County.

It's imperative that we take it down
before it gets cut up into those

smaller loads and goes deeper into
the interior of the United States.

- OFFICER: Traveling alone today?
- [GIRL SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Where are you coming from?
Bogota?

[GIRL SPEAKING]

LESLIE: Today we have a flight
that we're interested in.

Bogota, Colombia.

LESLIE: All right, how much money
are you traveling with in cash today?

[MAN SPEAKING]

- LESLIE: A thousand dollars? U.S. dollars?
- [MAN SPEAKING]

LESLIE: We got some passengers we want to
take a look at and ask some questions.

What's their reasoning by going
on vacation to Bogota, Colombia,

being that it's a source
country for narcotics.

PACHECO: How long were you
in Colombia for?

WOMAN: 17 days.
PACHECO: 17 days?

What're you bringing back from Colombia?

WOMAN: Just clothes.
PACHECO: Mm-hmm.

We usually try to make as many
stops as we can while we're working

the higher risk flights to try and get as
many young travelers coming from Colombia.

We're gonna go through all the bags,
make sure we take out all the liquids.

Any other kind of products
that we feel need to be tested.

MALLORY: Bringing alcohol,
food, tobacco back?

- Anything like that?
- No.

PACHECO: If a flight comes with 150, we're
doing good if we did 20 people.

We're doing really good.

LESLIE: Where are you coming from, ma'am?

Well, I flew from here to Bogota, um,
and then from Bogota to Cali, Colombia.

LESLIE: Cali, Colombia?

So, we're just gonna do a baggage exam.

WHITE: Let's go this way.

WHITE: Did you learn any Spanish
while you were down there?

You're almost a citizen with always going.

[WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

LESLIE: Gotcha.

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

[WHITE SPEAKING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

- [OFFICER SPEAKING]
- For all this? Okay.

[WHITE SPEAKING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

[WHITE SPEAKING]

[WOMAN CHUCKLES]

LESLIE: So, you said you own your own spa?

WOMAN: Mm-hmm.

LESLIE: So, how long you been,
uh, in business?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

WHITE: What do you do at a spa?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

LESLIE: Boards for the stomach?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

LESLIE: She really went
shopping down there.

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

- LESLIE: Yep.
- [WOMAN SPEAKING]

WHITE: So, how much are you gonna charge?
A hundred dollars?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

WHITE: Now, let me ask you a question.

Why are you bringing Canada Dry back?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

LESLIE: It's ginger ale,
you could get ginger ale here.

WHITE: Anywhere.

LESLIE: Why would somebody buy

ginger ale in another country?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

LESLIE: We're just gonna, just test it.

[WHITE SPEAKING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

LESLIE: We just want to feel comfortable
about the Colombian, uh, ginger ale.

We got a little machine
that tells us everything.

Sugar. We got water, sugar.

WHITE: And some granulated
sugar, that's normal.

- [WOMAN SPEAKING]
- [OFFICER LAUGHING]

WHITE: Okay, we're good.
Pack everything up, we're ready to go.

LESLIE: All right.

Thank you, ma'am.

- [WOMAN SPEAKING]
- [LAUGHS]

OFFICER: Oh, wow.
OFFICER 2: What do you have?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

SALAMONE: White powder.
Beautiful, great job.

All right. How many, uh, boxes we have?

OFFICER: Looks like there's


SALAMONE: Those all jackets, too?

OFFICER: Yes.

SALAMONE: Loaded?
OFFICER: Yeah.

SALAMONE: We have two bags in each jacket.

There's got to be a couple
dozen jackets in each box.

First, we want to know
what the substance is.

SALAMONE: It's reading through
the plastic into the substance.

It's gonna tell us what type of narcotic,
if it's a narcotic at all.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

SALAMONE: All right, very good.

Seize the entire shipment,
let's pack it up

and we'll bring it back.

SALAMONE: We're gonna be going
back to our building,

we're gonna process everything,
see exactly how much we have.

SALAMONE: There's two
zipper pockets per jacket.

Both pockets have packages of ketamine.

Ketamine's a drug that's used for
anesthesia purposes on animals

and on humans.

But out on the street, it's a party drug

used by a lot of younger people.

By snorting, sh**ting, drinking,

and it causes hallucinations,
out-of-body experiences.

Uh, too much of it, uh,
overdose, causes death.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[FEMALE OFFICER SPEAKING]

SALAMONE: So 128 per jacket.

CONTINO: Three jackets is a pound.

SALAMONE: Yeah.

It's gonna be one great seizure.

What's the, uh, total weight that we have?

OFFICER: About 63 keys.

SALAMONE: That's approximately $6 million.
Off the street.

Great job. That's very good.

This was a very gutsy move to bring in


We called our HSI agents,
opening up an investigation.

We're gonna see where it was
going, who it's going to,

and I can foresee
a lot of people being arrested.

WHITE: All right. This is all your bags?
Everything?

WOMAN: Yes.
WHITE: And you said you went

to Colombia solamente? All right.

You didn't meet any friends
or family, anything down there?

WOMAN: I met a friend.
WHITE: Okay, and did your friend

give you anything to bring back for them?
Nothing like that?

All right.

So, where are you headed today?

WOMAN: Back home to Vermont.

WHITE: Vermont? All right.

WOMAN: Yeah.

WHITE: It's the Granite State?

WOMAN: The Granite State?

WHITE: I don't know, I-I thought...

WOMAN: The Green Mountain State.

WHITE: Green Mountain State! I knew it was
something up there that was,

had something to do with
mountains, montañas, all right.

WOMAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

WHITE: Brought a lot back with you, I see.

WOMAN: I guess so.

WHITE: So, what'd you do down there?

WOMAN: Just last minute vacation.

WHITE: Okay.
WOMAN: Yeah, one of my good friends

lives there, and I needed a break.

WHITE: What do you do?

WOMAN: I teach yoga.

WHITE: You need a break from...

I thought yoga was very nice,
relaxing, calming, soothing.

WOMAN: It is. I needed time.
WHITE: You needed it, okay.

WOMAN: Yeah.

CARRASQUILLO: You read these?

WOMAN: Oh, yeah.

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

CARRASQUILLO: Tarot cards.
WHITE: Oh, okay.

You have many talents!

So, how did you get to tarot reading?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

- WHITE: Oh, okay.
- [WOMAN SPEAKING]

You know what I see? Nothing.

- [WOMAN SPEAKING]
- WHITE: Let's get you going.

CARRASQUILLO:
Maybe she could read your tarot.

WHITE: Give me, give me a card.
Give me a card.

CARRASQUILLO: Give him a card.

See, he's curious, he's curious.

WOMAN: No, you have to pick it.
WHITE: All right.

WOMAN: Shuffle it.
WHITE: Shuffle it, all right.

- Shuffling and shuffling.
- WOMAN: Yeah.

And if you have, like, anything that's on
your mind, think about it.

WHITE: All right.
CARRASQUILLO: So, what's in your mind,

is it the next seizure?

WHITE: Yeah. The next seizure.
You know, I can see it.

CARRASQUILLO: There you go,
so, put it in your mind.

WHITE: Okay.
WOMAN: And then just flip the card

over however you'd like.

WHITE: All right.
This says, "The Universe."

CARRASQUILLO: All right,
so let's see from the reading.

WHITE: "It symbolizes the moment when

"the inner and the outer world
become a single entity.

"In some traditions, this state
is described as enlightenment

"and that we will dance and sway
along the flow of life."

CARRASQUILLO: Wow.

So, that means, flow.

I should co-mingle
with the rhythms of life.

And I have not seized any narcotics today
so I'm not actually complete,

and I'm not actually fulfilled.

Ms. Caitlin, you were a delightful person
to have to search.

WOMAN: Thank you, guys.

CARRASQUILLO: Good luck.
Thank you for your time.

WOMAN: Yeah, take care.
CARRASQUILLO: All righty.

Get that seizure flowing.

WHITE: I want a big one today.

[MAN OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: We've landed just south of
downtown LA in the produce district.

[MAN OVER RADIO]

[MAN OVER RADIO]

CONNOR: We've got our LA team out here.

They are now taking primary, and we're
just here in support of them.

[MAN OVER RADIO]

Our surveillance team is currently, uh,

with eyes on the vehicle that's
suspected to have the narcotics,

and we're currently just waiting.

[MAN OVER RADIO]

[MAN OVER RADIO]

[MAN OVER RADIO]

It looks like there are workers on
the dock that are moving, uh,

produce around, uh, on pallets.

[MAN OVER RADIO]

You know, these things could end
a million different ways,

so we just have to kind of roll with the
punches and make real time decisions.

It's dark. Traffic starts increasing
around here in the produce district.

Once it starts getting busy, we're just
gonna lose track of those pallets,

so it's just best that we just lock it
down, freeze the location.

[MAN OVER RADIO]

JEFF: we're gonna make our approach now.

[SIREN WAILING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

- AGENT: The dog's hitting.
- There you go.

CONNOR: Here we go.

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

- We're identifying this one.
- Okay.

GENT: So, these two are for sure,
that one is for sure,

and that other one are
the ones that are confirmed.

JEFF: Yeah.

All of that could be loaded.

AGENT: Yeah, we're gonna check them all.

AGENT: It's fresh garlic.

- What do you have?
- Yeah, there's nothing there.

So, right now they're, um,
they're emptying the, uh, garlic.

AGENT: Nothing.

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

AGENT: Oh, wow.
JEFF: Found it?

- Yeah, it's right there.
- Bingo.

OFFICER: So, just place your bags
on the counter, please.

I'm currently assigned
to passenger processing at terminal 4.

When we do immigration and customs,
we focus heavily on merchandise

and just making sure that, you know,
everybody's doing the right thing

as far as declaring goes.

CHOUDARY: And you're a resident, right?

Make sure you read
this question carefully.

Any merchandise you purchased outside the
U.S. that is coming back in today?

Or any gifts received that
are coming back in today?

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: So did you buy
anything outside the U.S.?

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: Then you have nothing
to declare, right?

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- Then you put a zero right there.

All right, you sign the bottom,
and that's it, sir.

We're gonna have a quick
bag check, all right?

Put all your bags up here.

So, you're saying no food,
no alcohol, no tobacco?

[MAN SPEAKING]

Anything you put in your mouth to eat.

[MAN SPEAKING]

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- Ah. All right. Let's check it out.

How long were you there? Senegal.

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- All right.

What were you doing there?

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: So, vacation?

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: All right.

What is this?

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: I found receipts.

Come over here, sir.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: Listen, I thought you
told me you didn't buy anything.

How much is this?

This is gold, right?

Is this fake?

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: But if this is real gold,

we're gonna have a problem.

How much is this?
How much is that in dollars?

Before I convert it myself.

Tell me, man.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: 18 karat.

[MAN SPEAKING]

- This right here.
- [MAN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: Then that's worth
more than 60 bucks.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: The date is for yesterday.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: It's clear cut right
in front of you.

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- CHOUDARY: How come you didn't declare it

when I asked you?

[MAN SPEAKING]

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- CHOUDARY: But you're supposed to.

- You're bringing somebody else's stuff in.
- [MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: That's all fine,
but you have to declare it.

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- CHOUDARY: Remember when I asked you that,

- like, three times?
- [MAN SPEAKING]

You get it? If you were to declare it,
it would've been much easier.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: Well, you told me gold
after I found it.

Right?

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: People need to declare
everything they purchased.

Sometimes they don't declare,
like this gentleman

didn't declare anything today.

But, we found some gold jewelry on him.

You know you have to pay duty
on this, right?

You got to pay the government their taxes.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: All right, let's convert this,
see what we got here.

Gold duty rate is 5.5%,
so we multiply that, and we're left with

only 95 bucks you got to pay today.

That's it.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: You pay right there,
they give you a receipt,

- and you're good to go, all right?
- [MAN SPEAKING]

CHOUDARY: I found receipts.

We gave him his exemptions
so that at the end of the day,

he paid the duty and walked out of here.

So, let that be a lesson learned to him.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Okay.

BRITO: Today we picked this warehouse.

We look for where the shipment is coming
from, the shipper, uh, what is going to

the destination, what of the shipment
has been packed.

The packaging, uh, tell us a lot.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

Look at this one here.

You see what is funny?

One box is bigger than the other.

OFFICER: Yeah.

BRITO: Coming from overseas.

OFFICER: Yeah.

BRITO: Let's open it.

Oh. Look at this here.

Louis Vuitton.

OFFICER: Wow.

BRITO: We got to check this.

OFFICER: It's heavy.

Oh, we have bags inside of bags.

YSL, Saint Laurent.

This is not YSL.
They don't package like this.

See how hard it is there?

BRITO: It's too bumpy.

OFFICER: It's very bumpy.

The stitching is horrible.

OFFICER: This is bad quality stuff.

We have a lot of branded items,
but I can feel the material.

It was like thin. Smelled like plastic.

OFFICER: It's definitely counterfeit.

BRITO: These criminals use the Internet

to sell the product.

Hey make a lot of money with this.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

When people go and search
for a product that they like,

they see the product, and it looks
original, and people buy it.

They see the brand, they say, "Oh, wow."

But they don't know exactly
what they paid for.

This entity, they take advantage of that,
and they imitate the product

and they make good money on those.

So, we're gonna detain this,

do an inventory of every single box

and turn it to the import specialists.

OFFICER: Absolutely.

BRITO: It looks like it's the same.

OFFICER: This is the same.

[BRITO SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[BRITO SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[FEMALE OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

It's crazy.

OFFICER: This imitation is almost exact.

BRITO: Well, if they're real, would you
wear something like that?

[LAUGHS]

So, how many we have here?

OFFICER: Ten boxes on one skid.

BRITO: Sending counterfeit products,
it's a federal offense.

What we're gonna do, we're gonna
put everything together,

and, uh, we'll just send it
to the import specialists.

And the product gets destroyed.

This is what we're here for,
and whenever I find something,

it's a good day for me.

FEMALE OFFICER:
All right. Good work, guys.

MALE OFFICER: Good job. Another day
in the life of customs.

PACHECO: Just put your bag up there, sir.

Both of these bags are yours?

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- PACHECO: Anybody give you

- anything to bring here?
- [MAN SPEAKING]

PACHECO: Okay.

This guy is by himself, a younger male,

coming from Colombia
with just a couple of bags.

When I stopped him, started
looking through his passport,

he had a lot of trips, so it became more
interesting to me.

How long were you in Colombia?

[MAN SPEAKING]

PACHECO: What's this for?

[MAN SPEAKING]

PACHECO: Where's the straw?

[MAN SPEAKING]

I pulled out a face wash,
and there was no straw in the pump.

Which raised suspicion as to we need
to test some of his liquids out.

Everything here is yours, right?

What's in here?

It's getting gritty.
It's starting to crystallize.

PACHECO: It was in this one, right here.

We're gonna get all the liquids out,

take him in the back, and start
testing all the liquids.

See? See the little granules on there?
All those little specks.

OFFICER: Yeah.

[PACHECO SPEAKING]

Colombia's a master of disguise
when it comes to concealments.

- That went through fast.
- Mm-hmm.

OFFICER: There you go.

PACHECO: Ketamine.

This is Special K.

Ketamine, the problem with it,
it's, uh, a tranquilizer.

You don't know what the concentration
of this ketamine is.

People are taking it,
they might take too much,

go down and never come back.

That one tested positive
for ketamine, too.

Let's go to the next one.

[FEMALE OFFICER]

PACHECO: Yeah. That's 'cause it has to be
airtight, otherwise.

[FEMALE OFFICER]

PACHECO: Yep.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

PACHECO: More ketamine.
So, it looks like we have four bottles.

1.68.

We're gonna detain him right now.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Take him to the back.

PACHECO: The ketamine,
the amount that we have here,

didn't meet the threshold
for a federal prosecution.

So, we contacted our state
and locals here in Georgia.

They're gonna come down,
and they'll hopefully try

and get more information from him.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

PACHECO: Some people smuggle because
they're in a bad situation.

Some people get coerced into doing
something they don't want to do.

Some people do it because they're
entrepreneurs and they think it's easy

to go there and get something for cheap,
bring it over here,

flip it, make a lot of money.

I don't know the full details of that,

but according to his past
where he has a few trips,

I can almost be certain that he's
probably done this a few more times.

AGENT: One, two, three, four, five, six.

AGENT 2: You got one more, right here.

AGENT: Take it out, keep going.

Oh, yeah.

Boom.

[LAUGHTER]

[AGENT SPEAKING]

Thank you.

CONNOR: Intel was good,
the pallets were loaded.

Just took us a while to,
kind of, get to this point.

JEFF: We still have two more pallets to
go, but it looks like pretty much

every box has contraband in it.

So, this pile's gonna get
a little bit bigger.

Produce loads are unfortunately used
as cover loads for narcotics.

Contraband loads like this are coming
through the border every day.

CONNOR: Is this a bad time to tell you
guys I'm allergic to garlic?

[LAUGHTER]

These packages here from what they feel,
feels like crystal,

so it's probably crystal meth.

CONNOR: See how this is shaped different?

AGENT: Yeah.
CONNOR: This may be coke.

This may be fentanyl.

I don't know if you ever saw me
do this before,

if you... thud, thud.

[CLANGING]

Yeah, the more that sounds
like a wood block,

the higher pitch, in my experience,
it's been fentanyl,

and then the thud is more of cocaine.

It's a mixed load,
but the predominance of this,

uh, cargo is gonna be meth.

The meth production in Mexico
has increased exponentially,

especially this year.

CONNOR: We're gonna run out of room.

They're using large loads
in large storage areas,

like this tractor trailer here,
in large quantities.

[MAN SPEAKING]

I think that's it.

It's a lot.

CONNOR: These are quite large
for meth packages.

A lot of times, we get them in,
uh, about the one pound.

These feel like they're about
one kilo each.

It's just over 500 kilograms of just meth.

And 13 packages of cocaine and fentanyl.

JEFF: Today is a success.

We took over 1,200 pounds of poison
off the streets of LA here,

and we're going to continue
the investigation and pursue the subjects

that were supposed to pick it up
and work the criminal network

that brought this all the way from Mexico
to L.A.

CONNOR: These semi-trucks are crossing
from Mexico into the United States

every day.

Just one of these getting through can have
a significant impact on the drug trade.

So, every seizure
is a significant seizure.