03x06 - g*ns of New York

[bunniefuu]

[HORN HONKS]

- OFFICER: Hello.
- WOMAN: Good morning.

- OFFICER: Good morning. How are you?
- WOMAN: Good.

OFFICER: So, where
are you going so early?

GARCIA: So today,
we're processing on primary,

inspecting vehicles entering from Mexico.

ROCCO: Can you open the trunk?

GARCIA: And hope that
we can stop any contraband

from making their way into the country.

FUENTES: Buenos días, señor.

Uh, for the most part,
the people coming across,

they're coming for legitimate reasons.

GRILLEY: What brings you to Mexico?

- WOMAN: Doctor's appointment.
- GRILLEY: All right.

FUENTES: They're going to work
or they're going to school.

They're going to visit family.

But, that one person or group
of people that are trying

to bring dangerous drugs
across the border,

it's what we're trying to look for.

GARCIA: Have you been
to the X-ray here before? Yes? Okay.

GARCIA: Lane seven referral.

GARCIA: Go forward, please.

GARCIA: Hey!

[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]

- GARCIA: You have to go to inspection.
- WOMAN: Yes, I'm going to inspection.

GARCIA: Inspection is over there,
on the other side.

You were going where cars leave.

It gives us the impression
that you're avoiding inspection.

WOMAN: I'm sorry, I don't know.
No, no, no. See.

GARCIA: Do you have anything
to declare in your vehicle?

WOMAN: No, no. Nothing.
I have everything here.

I have an appointment at 11 a.m. Please.

GARCIA: Okay, what's gonna happen now,

you're going to follow the officer

there at the corner,
on the right-hand side.

She should have gone
right to secondary inspection,

instead she went straight.

When that happens, it's normally because
they're hiding something

that shouldn't be entering the country,
something prohibited or contraband.

Right now she's gonna be
escorted into vehicle secondary.

We're gonna inspect
the vehicle thoroughly,

and make sure there's nothing
that shouldn't be coming in.

- MARTINEZ: Hello. Do you speak English?
- WOMAN: No.

- MARTINEZ: Do you have your documents?
- WOMAN: Yes, of course.

Here.

MARTINEZ: When the officer said
he was sending you to inspection

what happened?

WOMAN: Since I'm worried
about this whole situation...

I could've sworn it was over there
and so I was headed there.

I never moved away from the entrance
there I swear. I never moved.

- Okay, this is your vehicle, ma'am?
- It's my vehicle.

I have all my documents.

Okay, well I'm going to check your vehicle

and from there I'll let you know
if you will or will not be able

to enter to the United States, okay?

- WOMAN: But I got confused.
- MARTINEZ: That's okay, ma'am.

Open up the hood, the trunk,
and I'll need you to step out, please.

MARTINEZ: I am satisfied with
the seven-point inspection of the vehicle.

So, I'm gonna go ahead
and release the person.

MARTINEZ: Ma'am...

the supervisor said you're good to enter
the country to do what you need to do.

You can close your hood.

It was just confusion,
sometimes it happens.

- Have a good one.
- WOMAN: Thanks.

- MARTINEZ: No problem.
- WOMAN: Thanks.

MARTINEZ: She's good to go North
and I'm gonna go ahead

and look for the next vehicle
that we need to inspect.

[MAN SPEAKING OVER PA]

Miami is the gateway to the United States

from the Caribbean and South America.

OFFICER: Hello, how are you, sir?
Where are you going?

MAN: Los Angeles and
from there, Las Vegas.

But now they're starting
picking up after this pandemic.

So we get smugglers from everywhere.

[WOMAN SPEAKING OVER PA]

OFFICER: What are
you guys bringing back?

WOMAN: Ourselves.

- OFFICER: Any gifts, any merchandise?
- WOMAN: No.

- OFFICER: That's it?
- MAN: Yeah.

- OFFICER: Welcome back, guys.
- MAN: Thank you.

Our flights have increased,

so the amount of interactions
we're having have increased.

MAN: [OVER PA] All passengers
should now be on board,

at Departure Room 69.

OFFICER: Why four months here?

- MAN: My sister is an American citizen.
- OFFICER: Okay.

TAQI: We're gonna focus on this flight
coming in from Lima, Peru today.

What we rely on
to make referrals is behavior.

The more people that we talk to,

the more we're gonna see
who's being nervous

and who's not being nervous,

what stories make sense,
what stories do not make sense.

RODRIGUEZ: Passport, please.

Reason for visiting the United States?

- WOMAN: Just visiting.
- RODRIGUEZ: Okay.

RODRIGUEZ: Is this the first time
coming to the U.S.?

- WOMAN: No.
- RODRIGUEZ: When was the last time?

WOMAN: For me, about 20 days.

- RODRIGUEZ: You were here 20 days ago?
- WOMAN: Mmm-hmm.

- RODRIGUEZ: So why so fast?
- WOMAN: 15 days.

- RODRIGUEZ: Why so fast?
- WOMAN: Because I came with a friend,

- and now I'm here with my sister.
- RODRIGUEZ: Okay. Okay.

When did you buy the tickets
to come today?

WOMAN: About a week ago.

One of them was here, like, 15 days ago.

She said she was supposedly
with a friend, vacationing.

Now, she's coming back
with her younger sister

to do some more vacationing.

There's enough there for me to be like,

"All right, let's do
a further inspection."

Okay. Let's go downstairs
and get your bags

- and I'm going to check your bags.
- Okay, let's go.

[WOMAN SPEAKING OVER PA]

RODRIGUEZ: How did you buy your tickets
to come to the United States?

WOMAN: My husband bought
them through a travel agency.

RODRIGUEZ: Okay, but
did you use a credit card?

- WOMAN: Cash.
- RODRIGUEZ: Cash? Okay.

We're waiting for their bags.
So, hopefully they come around.

- RODRIGUEZ: See it?
- WOMAN: No.

RODRIGUEZ: When you turned in your bags
they give you tickets.

So where are the tickets?

WOMAN: They didn't give them to me.

RODRIGUEZ: And you got
to the airport on time?

WOMAN: Yes, of course.
We got there early.

RODRIGUEZ: Try to figure
out where these bags are.

Sometimes they act like,
"Oh yeah, our bags aren't here."

And they might be on the carousel.

And they just don't wanna point 'em out
and claim 'em.

FLORES: We find a lot
of narcotics in the mail.

But it's always changing.

But right now we're seeing
a lot of weapon's parts.

NEEDHAM: This is
called a selector switch.

This will convert your
semi-automatic GL*CK handgun

into a fully-automatic
just by pressing that switch right there.

FLORES: This load was
manifested as tractor parts,

but looks like parts for
some sort of as*ault r*fle.

You don't know where
these g*ns are gonna end up,

t*rror1st groups or
general criminal activity.

NEEDHAM: These parts could really
do some damage to you

or could end up taking somebody's life
that you care about.

THOMAS: Good morning.
We're here for these two parcels.

They both came in from China.

They're manifested as
automobile oil filters,

but they're silencers for a, uh, r*fle.

This seems like a p*stol sil*ncer.

They're both going
to a subject in Manhattan

who has a criminal history,
convicted felon.

The intel that we gathered
is that this individual

has prior Irish-American
organized crime ties

and dealing with firearms.

The operation today is
gonna be a controlled delivery

of these two parcels
to the target in Manhattan.

Afterwards, we will do a, uh,
search warrant of his residence,

under the theory that
if you ordered a sil*ncer,

you likely own a weapon
that these silencers attach to.

If you forward towards the plan,
you'll see there's a photo of him.

Like we said,
it's firearms related offenses,

so he might be armed.

So, we'll be extra cautious as always.

AGENT 2: God-forbid there's
any shots fired or anything like that,

we'll try to assess the situation,

we'll attack and retreat
or isolate and contain.

THOMAS: All right, uh, any questions?

All right, thanks.

AGENT: [OVER RADIO]
Radio check, radio check.

- OFFICER: Referral, lane 8.
- FUENTES: You got a target, Betty?

- OFFICER: [OVER RADIO] 10-4, I may have...
- FUENTES: Anything good?

OFFICER: You have to go to inspection.

Go forward, please.

So, we have a target vehicle with, like,

two batteries in the backseat area.

This is abnormal to see these
old batteries just kind of thrown there.

I requested a K9 and he's gonna
come over to our vehicle

and we're gonna wait to see what happens.

OFFICER: The dog's hitting.

We have a positive
alert to the backseat area.

I'm gonna go ahead and take a look at it

and see if there's any kind of anomalies.

As you can see here,
something's already, uh, not normal.

I'm gonna go ahead and take
a look at 'em a little better.

This appears to be some kind of Bondo

that's possibly concealing
something inside.

They do a pretty professional
job of sealing it up.

CORTES: We have, uh, some
kind of foil placed on this.

We do have markings.

We have some kind of a,
looks like crystal, uh, substance in here.

We're gonna have
another commodity in here.

Some kind of a blue pill.

We're gonna test it.

Methamphetamine.

So, we're now gonna go test
the other commodity

of pills that we have also.

BLACKHALL:
And it is positive for fentanyl.

CORTES: After we've
seized the commodities,

the individual will be arrested.

He will be turned over to HSI
and we'll also impound his vehicle.

Our job here is to interject narcotics.

So, uh, we've done a great job.

[MAN SPEAKING OVER PA]

RODRIGUEZ: They
haven't brought them out yet?

This is the Lima flight.

WOMAN: I don't see the bags.

RODRIGUEZ: Hmm.

There's a lot of signs there.

So those bags gotta come through us
and we've seen this before.

They don't wanna claim their bag,
'cause they load 'em with narcotics.

All the bags are on the carousel.

Okay, let's go.

Let's go talk with the
people at American Airlines.

RODRIGUEZ: Your boarding pass.

ATTENDANT: They didn't send the bags.

WOMAN: They didn't send the bags?

ATTENDANT: They were left in Lima.

ATTENDANT: You guys are
staying in Miami, right?

WOMAN: Yes.
And they'll send them there?

ATTENDANT: Exactly, so
they can send them to you.

RODRIGUEZ: Okay, thank you.

RODRIGUEZ: So, bags didn't make it.

We're just gonna do the inspection
on what they brought, a carry-on.

RODRIGUEZ: Okay,
let's put the bags here.

RODRIGUEZ: How much money
are you carrying in cash?

WOMAN: Around $1,400.
She has credit cards.

RODRIGUEZ: All right.

We're gonna double check.
Make sure that the bags themselves,

nothing's concealed within the bags.

Hmm.

If you look at the screws,
they've been stripped,

so this thing's been
opened a couple times.

Sometimes they open 'em up
'cause they load 'em with narcotics.

So, we're gonna put it through the X-ray,
see what the X-ray tells us.

RODRIGUEZ: These are heavy.

Is this new?
With these big things?

RODRIGUEZ: Those are
heavy sneakers, big soles.

So, we're just gonna put 'em through X-ray
and see what's inside.

All right.

When we look in the X-ray,
it should be consistent.

The rubber and all that, you
have something solid in there,

like a narcotics or anything like that,
you're gonna see it within.

It looks good.

Okay.

Everything good, okay?

[LAUGHTER]

WOMAN: Thank you.

There was a lot of signs there.
And then the shoes, those thick shoes.

They're bringing them in their carry-ons,

why aren't they in their check bag.

But we didn't find anything,
so wish 'em luck, have fun, and move on.

THOMAS: The recipient of
the silencers is known to law enforcement

as an individual associated
with an organized crime family.

He's got a criminal history linked to, uh,
arms trafficking and ill*gal g*n sales.

New York City, if you're a convicted felon

there's, um, no legitimate reason
to wanna silence a handgun.

Unless, you're going to do harm to someone

or keep your activity
away from law enforcement.

All operations are dangerous,
this one in particular we are, uh,

extra cautious 'cause we
feel it's going to be likely

that he will have other firearms.

So, during the operation we will
call the recipient down to the lobby

to get him his package
and arrest the individual in a situation

where it's not likely
he's gonna have access to a firearm.

But anything could happen.

AGENT: All right, field teams be advised,
I just pulled up.

- I'm going to see what's going on.
- AGENT 2: 10-4.

We're about a couple minutes out.

THOMAS: All right, good, copy.
Arriving on scene.

We're right here, it's the next corner.

It's a residential building,
which is very busy.

- Okay, Geo, uh, we're in position.
- GEO: 10-4.

THOMAS: It's really just a waiting game.

LANDEROS: Where you
headed to right now, man?

- MAN: Brawley.
- Brawley? Is that where you live?

- MAN: Yeah.
- Yeah, where're you coming from right now?

- MAN: I just... I came to visit my mom.
- In Mexicali?

MAN: Yeah, she lives
down here in Mexicali now.

- LANDEROS: Yeah?
- MAN: Yeah.

LANDEROS: And you got nothing
to declare from Mexico today?

- MAN: No, nothing at all.
- Nothing at all?

- How long were you in Mexico for?
- MAN: Uh... Just overnight.

LANDEROS: You ever been
sent to secondary before?

MAN: Yeah. Yeah, they send me,
like, every time, man.

- LANDEROS: Yeah?
- OFFICER: [OVER RADIO] Referring.

LANDEROS: All right, I'm gonna send you
to secondary inspection, all right, man?

He had a bunch of junk on
the inside of the vehicle.

If there's too much junk.
I can't perform an inspection here,

like a full, it'll take too long.

All right, go ahead.

So, I'd rather just send it in and, um,

another officer can do a more detailed
and further inspection for that.

- GRILLEY: How you doing, sir?
- MAN: I've been better, I think.

I'm gonna go ahead
and conduct an inspection of the vehicle.

I'm just gonna need you
to step out of the vehicle.

Leave the doors unlocked, do me a favor,

open the hood and the trunk
all the way up.

You're gonna take a seat
right on the wooden area

and then I'll call you over
as soon as I'm done, okay?

I know you have your dog.
Do you have a leash for him?

- MAN: Yes, I have a leash for him.
- GRILLEY: Yeah? Good.

Go ahead, just go
ahead and take your time.

MAN: Thank you.

What we wanna do
is always have a visual on the subject.

You always wanna keep the
officer's safety a top priority,

you know, make sure
that they're not pulling out

any type of weapon on
you or one of your coworkers.

You always wanna take
that into consideration.

So, go ahead and take a seat and I'll
call you over when I'm done, okay?

[KNOCKING]

What's this?

GRILLEY: Oh, check it out.

GRILLEY: Garcia.

This is a grinder. That's a...

- GARCIA: Residue?
- GRILLEY: Yeah, some residue.

GARCIA: Okay.

All right, just put it aside.
Put it on the dashboard.

GRILLEY: So, I was looking at the, uh,
center console, I found a grinder.

It seems to have some
marijuana inside of it.

Sir, can you do me a favor?

Um, can you help me out with your dog?

We're gonna place him in a kennel
that we have right over there.

MAN: Come on.

GRILLEY: I gotta let you know the reason
why I'm taking you here into secondary

is because of the grinder in the car.

- MAN: Oh. Okay. Okay.
- You have a grinder there in the middle,

in the center console.

Uh, so, what we're gonna do right now
is we're gonna go inside,

do a little pat down on you.

MAN: I kind of was unaware.

Most of the travelers
when they cross here,

they're not pretty much aware of the fact

that even though marijuana is legal
here in California,

it is not legal to come across,
you know, from another country.

We were able to take the subject
into a secondary office

where a pat down was conducted
with negative findings.

The subject will be
facing a penalty of $500.

After the penalty will be issued,

then the subject and the, uh,
and his dog will be, uh,

good to travel back
North into United States.

[MAN SPEAKING OVER PA]

OFFICER: Come this way.

One of the officers on the team
stopped a lady coming from Peru.

GONZALEZ: Is this your bag?
Everything in here is yours?

You packed it and are responsible?

- WOMAN: Yes.
- LOPEZ: Okay.

The passenger was going to Seattle,
Washington, so it's a high demand area.

GONZALEZ: What are you bringing here?

LOPEZ: We found pills that
are Schedule IV narcotics,

basically like a Xanax.

But it's a brand from South America
and Central America.

GONZALEZ: Okay.
Come this way, please.

LOPEZ: Take a seat.
We have to process this.

After that, you can go.

You want to separate them?

Basically, you're
bringing these pills, right?

- But...
- WOMAN: I have a prescription.

LOPEZ: Okay.

LOPEZ: Can I see the prescription?

LOPEZ: That's
prescriptions for 162 pills.

LOPEZ: So the amount
that you are bringing, right?

It's a large amount.

WOMAN: The thing is,
they're not just for me.

I'm taking the opportunity to be able
to bring some to my friend's parents.

LOPEZ: You see,
that's not permitted.

In normal trends coming from Peru,

that they like to bring in these types
of items of items because they sell it.

These are a controlled substance

that here in the United States
the FDA controls.

You're required, or the person
that is going to obtain them

that is going to ingest them,

needs to have the prescription
under their name given by a doctor.

GONZALEZ: Total 910.

LOPEZ: 910. Okay.

The final count is 910 pills,
so it's a lot.

She knows that she
cannot bring in this quantity.

That's why she failed to declare this.

LOPEZ: We're going to have to seize it.

- WOMAN: You have to seize it?
- LOPEZ: Exactly.

- WOMAN: It all stays with you?
- LOPEZ: Yes.

We're not gonna give a penalty
to the passenger

because our agency has
a threshold for persecution.

It's a low amount for our threshold.

This is the first time that we
know that she's been inspected

and this has happened.

So, taking all of those factors
in consideration,

we're just gonna seize the pills,

and give her a warning,
and let her go in her way.

THOMAS:
The four units that went in earlier

to conduct surveillance
in the lobby covertly, in plain clothes.

They're gonna arrest the, uh,
recipient after he receives the package.

He's been known to sell firearms,
so he could very well be armed,

which is something we
consider while we're here.

All right, go for Tom.

AGENT: They're waiting on
you so whenever you're ready.

THOMAS: We good to go.
All right, you can just head right in.

AGENT: Roger that.

Please be advised, U.C.'s
got the green.

THOMAS: The undercover unit's going in now
for the actual delivery.

AGENT: Make sure that we have
constant eyes on the undercover.

Safety is paramount.

AGNET 2: I got my
eyes on the U.C. Standby.

THOMAS: All right, this will be good.

AGENT 2: All right, he's in convo.

THOMAS: All right, so the U.C. is having
a conversation with the front desk.

They're going to try and call
the recipient down from upstairs

to receive the packages in the lobby.

AGENT: All right, looks
like the guy's coming down.

Everybody standby.
Looks like he's coming down.

THOMAS: Okay, that's good, copy.

The undercover team, they're inside,
they'll be making the arrest.

AGENT: All right, he's in convo
and he's ready to sign.

Just standby for a second.

- All right, he signed for the package.
- AGENT 2: All right, we're gonna get out.

- THOMAS: That's gonna be us.
- AGENT: Move in. Move in.

- THOMAS: Go, go, go.
- AGENT: Go in. Go in.

THOMAS: Heads up, heads up, heads up.

You good?

- You got him?
- AGENT: We're good.

[SIRENS BLARING]

THOMAS: Can you take care of
this guy here and cuff him up?

JAVED: I saw our suspect
take possession of the item,

so we got to move in and detain him.

AGENT: We're gonna
escort you over there.

- Nice and slow.
- Any weapons on you?

MAN: No, I don't have nothing on me.

AGENT: Do you have
any weapons upstairs?

- MAN: No.
- All right.

AGENT: Is there
anybody else in your home?

- MAN: No.
- AGENT: Nothing that could hurt us, right?

- MAN: No.
- AGENT: All right.

He seemed cooperative, so we'll kind of
really be able to measure that

when we actually try to interview him,
ask him some questions.

We'll go ahead, make
sure the scene's safe,

everything is secure and then we'll move
into the next step of, uh,

today's operation which
is executing the search warrant.

THOMAS: I think today
was a great operation so far.

We're transporting him to our office.

Begin the interview
and the arrest process.

And now, his apartment is being searched.

It's a slow and methodical search.
Everything is logged.

There's photographs.
It's going to be an all-day process.

MAN: [OVER PA] All passengers
should now be onboard

at Departure Room 69.

We have a, uh,
flight coming from, uh, Bogotá.

Uh, we're gonna do a random inspection
for narcotic contraband.

Sir, let me see your passport.

NOUSSI: We're looking at the outfit,
the way they dress,

they're demeanor when they see
us coming out of the flight.

Especially when they're
coming from a source country.

- Where're you coming from?
- MAN: Uh... Bogotá.

NOUSSI: Why did you go to Bogotá?
You have family in Bogotá?

MAN: No.

Because I was in Cuba

and that was the only place
I could get out was to go to Bogotá.

NOUSSI: How long were you in Cuba?

MAN: Too long.
Four months? Five months?

NOUSSI: All right.
Wait over there for me, please.

You know, somebody that goes to a country
where they don't know anybody,

they don't have any affiliation,
any family, that's usually a red flag.

We wanna know why, we wanna get
into more inspection to find out

why they went there and
what they were doing exactly.

So, four months in Cuba,
one month in Colombia. Okay.

Why did you go to Cuba?

MAN: Because I couldn't go to Cambodia
or Thailand because of the Covid.

NOUSSI: Okay.

When's the last time you went to Cambodia?

MAN: Uh... two years ago.

NOUSSI: Two years ago.

- MAN: I stayed in Thailand last year.
- NOUSSI: Okay.

And how long were you in Thailand?

MAN: Four months.

- NOUSSI: Four months?
- MAN: I don't know.

MARTINEZ: Different countries
have different trends

and they're very common that individuals
of certain age groups or, um,

single travelers,
go to Cambodia and Thailand

and participate in different acts
of human trafficking

and child exploitation.

NOUSSI: Did you meet anybody in Cuba?

Girl, boys, friends, new friends?

Well, I met a few people
but nobody that I knew.

Okay. Sir, have you ever been
arrested before?

- MAN: Arrested?
- NOUSSI: Mmm-hmm.

MAN: Yup.

NOUSSI: What was the
reason for your arrest?

- MAN: I've got lots of arrests.
- NOUSSI: Okay.

When is the last time you got arrested?

MAN: Last year.

- NOUSSI: Last year?
- MAN: Mmm-hmm.

NOUSSI: Okay, I'm gonna ask
you to come with me, okay?

Bring your bags.

He's extremely nervous, very shaky.

So, I don't know what he's hiding,
but I'mma go through the phone.

- OFFICER: Okay. Mmm-hmm.
- NOUSSI: Yeah.

OFFICER: You alright, sir? You okay?

MAN: Yeah.

OFFICER: Any reason why
you're shaking like that?

- MAN: Oh, I always shake.
- OFFICER: You shake?

- MAN: Sometimes.
- OFFICER: Okay.

Give me your phone. All right.

MARTINEZ: A lot of the times,
the electronic devices

give us more information from
these individuals based off conversations,

pictures, emails, anything like that.

NOUSSI: This dude is into something else.

Two friends sent him pictures of girls
for him to pay.

OFFICER: Right now, it's all adults.

We found a lot of element indicating that

he went away from the country
for soliciting prostitution.

OFFICER: Can I see
the phone real quick?

NOUSSI: Traveling for sex tourism
is not necessarily ill*gal.

However, we wanna
take a closer look to make sure

there's no human trafficking
or child p*rn*graphy involved.

OFFICER: Whoa, whoa, I got it.

- She's young.
- NOUSSI: Yes.

OFFICER: Let's just talk to him quick.

We couldn't really
tell the age of the girls,

but we knew they looked young,
just from the pictures.

- Sir?
- MAN: Yeah?

NOUSSI: We found a lot of
naked pictures on your phone.

MAN: Uh... just buddies
sending me pictures, yeah.

NOUSSI: Hmm, so this girl, this one,
all right, how old do you think she is?

MAN: Don't know.

NOUSSI: You don't
wanna sell me that, sir.

You don't wanna sell me that.

I'm telling you, I just
went through your phone,

I saw the pictures
that your friend sent you.

She looks young.

To the best of
your knowledge and stop lying.

- MAN: I don't know, but...
- NOUSSI: How don't you know?

You have amnesia?

Stop lying, 'cause I got
all the messages here, on your phone.

JOHANNES: Good day, sir.
Where are you going?

This car is yours?

Do you know, like, some travelers that,
like, go, like,

- really out of the way not to look at you?
- AVERY: Yeah.

JOHANNES: Yeah, he was one of them.

OFFICER: This one's probably
gonna be a good one to look at.

JOHANNES: Put the car in park, please.

Open the trunk.

AVERY: Door.

Something's not right there.

JOHANNES: Let's inspect the vehicle.

AVERY: Quarter panels
are extremely hard.

When you tap it, it's completely solid.

In our experience usually this means
the vehicle is gonna be loaded.

So, we're gonna head over to the lift
and, uh, give it a good look.

OFFICER: Let's get busy.

AVERY: Yeah, they're
popping off pretty easy.

OFFICER: There we go.

AVERY: Yeah, they're in the doors.

AVERY: Here. Yeah.

And they're jam packed, too.

Go ahead and check the other door.

AVERY: There it is.

Normally when they do
load up these vehicles,

they're gonna utilize
all their open space, right?

[RADIO CHATTER]

TELLEZ: And we
got more packages.

They'll fill up the frame
in every which way.

- OFFICER: The rocker panels?
- TELLEZ: Rocker panels, sí.

- Yup, we got another package there.
- OFFICER: Yeah.

AVERY: Rear quarter panels,
non-factory compartments.

There we go.

Pretty much any way, shape,
or form, you'll find it.

OFFICER: The ingenuity.
Yup. There you go.

These people are very innovative,
they're very creative.

You can see that there's some uneven mud.

They just splattered
the mud here, but not here.

That's kind of unusual.

- [BANGING]
- OFFICER: Right there.

OFFICER: Sounds pretty solid.

JOHANNES: Yeah.

Well, it sounds like maybe the
tank's gonna be loaded as well.

[MAN SPEAKING OVER PA]

So far we have all the elements showing
that he's, uh, into sex tourism.

We have a lot of young girls on his phone,

and we have that conversation
about selling the girl

and the price, but we don't have ages.

And that's where it gets tricky

because there's no way
for us to really know.

Anything that has to do
with minors and sex

is strongly, strongly
prohibited in the U.S.

It's criminal, actually.

All right.

Sometimes people may
look younger than they actually are,

however, we wanna make sure
we're not dealing with underage victims.

MAN: We go to the bars, okay so...

NOUSSI: Every girl
that you met in Colombia,

- you met them at the bar?
- MAN: Yeah.

They're not minors.
I don't know, but...

- NOUSSI: Every single one of 'em?
- MAN: I think so, yeah.

MARTINEZ: Have you ever
encountered them another way?

Somebody introduce
you to them, somebody, um,

recommend them to you, never?

It's always been
strictly through the bars?

MAN: No, only at the bars.

NOUSSI: But when I checked your phone,

I saw the pictures that your friend
sent you before you got there.

MAN: Don't know.

NOUSSI: I'm trying to
understand this message,

"The exit for the girl is 250
and the girl's payment is 500."

So, somebody else is taking 250,

the girl is taking 500
and he's telling you,

"When you see her,
negotiate the weekend directly with her."

MARTINEZ: Sex trade
over in those countries,

you know, it may be legal over there,

but we have to establish
that it's not children,

it's not a ring of
sex trafficking trade going on.

You're talking about monetary payment
for some sort, and what is it for?

- MAN: To spend time with me.
- NOUSSI: To have sex with you, right?

Let's cut to, to the chase.

MAN: I don't know because I'm...

I'm drinking beer, I don't remember.

NOUSSI: You have amnesia?

MAN: Just when I'm drinking.

NOUSSI: Okay, how old do you think she is?

MAN: I honestly don't know.

- NOUSSI: You don't know?
- MAN: No.

- NOUSSI: You paid her 500.
- MAN: Possibly.

NOUSSI: Okay, now,
that's a simple question.

MAN: I'm drunk. I'm an alcoholic.

- NOUSSI: That's fine.
- So I can't remember here.

MARTINEZ: Until it makes sense to us,

you're not gonna be able to go anywhere,
you're gonna stay here.

However long that may be.

NOUSSI: How many girls did you
pay when you went to Catalina?

- MAN: Two or four.
- NOUSSI: Two or four?

How old was the youngest one?

To the best of your
knowledge and stop lying.

- MAN: Twenty-two.
- NOUSSI: That was the youngest one?

MAN: The other one was
a 28-eight-year-old

and those are the only two
that I remember.

NOUSSI: Do you have a group chat
with the other friend?

Does he sell girls in Cambodia?

MAN: No.

NOUSSI: All right, thank you.

So today, we don't have any evidence
that a crime was committed,

so we had to release the passenger,

but most importantly,
we have to remain vigilant.

- Right there.
- JAVED: There we are.

This is awesome, I didn't think we were
gonna find this in here, and it's great.

So, we just completed the
search warrant at this location.

We're still in the
evidence processing phase.

We pretty much, uh, recovered
everything we've been looking for.

There's some suppressors,
two firearms, ammunition,

but we've also found drugs.

And it's gonna be processed,
photographed, weighed, vouched for.

We're gonna gather all evidence
and move onto the next step.

So, uh, we'll go back
to process him and then.

Yeah, okay, good.
We'll try and do this interview.

AGENT: We're gonna go to our
Manhattan office for the processing.

We have a pretty good idea
of the evidence in the house.

The number of g*ns, the amount of drugs,

and with that information we're
going to interview the defendant

to see if he wants to tell us
where he's been receiving items,

where he's been sending them.
Any more details.

THOMAS: The interview is going
to be key to the investigation.

We hope to get a clear picture
of what was going on with the silencers.

We just gotta figure out what he was doing
with not just the silencers,

but the drugs, like, that's the question.

- They're all someone else's drugs.
- Passing the buck.

- Yeah, not his.
- Passing the bucket.

THOMAS: It's kind of hard though when
you lived in the apartment for 45 years

and to say it was someone else's drugs.

JAVED: The interview
was actually interesting.

He agreed to speak to us, but he took
no ownership of any of the items.

He kept coming up with some kind of excuse

as to why the different drugs
and the weapon related stuff,

why they were inside there.

So, we're gonna rely on the evidence,
the circumstances,

the things that we found
to carry through this case.

This is the configuration they were
all coming in. Like most of them.

So, it gets screwed on that
and you don't hear anything.

So, imagine someone
getting their hands on this,

maybe an active sh**ter or something,

you probably won't even know
where the rounds are coming from.

Through the search warrant we recovered
over 30 silencers, ammunition,

two handguns.

There was cocaine,
rock cocaine, Xanax, prescription pills.

So, it's a business, obviously.

He's got over $20,000,
the means to manufacture silencers,

distribute the silencers,
and distribute certain narcotics.

It's not what we thought
when we went up there this morning.

This is what happens when you take it
from the airport to the street.

The one parcel imported
through the JFK, leads to this.

Today was a good day.

OFFICER: Yup, yeah. We got a winner.

OFFICER 2: Oh.

OFFICER 2: And they're full of fuel.

- OFFICER: That's insane.
- OFFICER 2: Yup.

OFFICER: Substantial
amount of packages.

AVERY: Not sure what they all are,
they're all wrapped similar.

But once we're able to open
'em up and see what it is,

we'll be able to have a better
idea of what we're dealing with.

BLACKHALL: All right.

There you go.
Methamphetamine hydrochloride.

The first package was meth.

The second one, as you
can see, different properties,

it's a darker color.

The Gemini does not
work on dark substances,

so we're going to use a field test kit.

There we go.

Here we go. See the purple?

That is black tar heroin.

So, recently we've seen a
major uptake in mixed loads.

Be it heroin, cocaine, meth, fentanyl,
all mixed together in one load.

Uh, this is very valuable in the streets.

OFFICER: Grand total is gonna be...

methamphetamine, 59.9 keys,
and then 1.42 keys of heroin.

AVERY: This is a
substantial amount of narcotics.

People in this area are
highly addicted to this stuff.

A lot of people have family members
who have been affected by this poison.

So, just being able
to take a little bit off the street

might keep somebody
from getting high one night,

maybe save their life, who knows?

All we know is that today
that car didn't get through.

One down and then we'll go out,
go get the next one.