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03x08 - Powdered Rims

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "To Catch a Smuggler". Aired: October 8, 2012 – present.*
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Documentary television series that depicts the work of U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations law enforcement officers at multiple United States airports.

03x08 - Powdered Rims

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TAQI: Here in Miami,
we see a lot of narcotics coming in.

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH] We're seeing
a lot of passengers that use methods

to avoid the reporting requirements,
which is excess of $10,000.

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[IN ENGLISH] People are taking flights
to Europe and then transiting

into the Caribbean,
which doesn't make sense to us.


[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

[IN ENGLISH] Normal person will travel
with the shortest point.

Why not just take it a direct flight
or something shorter?

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CRISSIEN: [IN ENGLISH]
He provided all his cash.

The count was accurate
to what he declared.

[CRISSIEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

CRISSIEN: [IN ENGLISH]
The story has to fit,

and his whole story fit

and we deemed him to be all right

and he was allowed to board
with no further issues.

[SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]

OFFICER: [IN ENGLISH] Good boy.

- Where are you going today?
- I'm going to work.

OFFICER: To work?

OFFICER: I remember you.

ROSE: Smuggling doesn't
really have a face.


But does it have a trend? It does.

Cocaine has an expiration date
and they weren't getting enough through.

RUEDA: Hey, good afternoon.
How are you, sir?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Doing well, how are you?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: What's your purpose
of travel into Mexico?

Oh, okay. What transpired?
What did you do down there?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Stayed at hotels?
You eat anything good? Party?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Are you bringing
back anything with you today?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Any fruits, vegetables,
any foods like that?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Any alcohol,
tobacco, firearm?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Can you lower
this window real quick?

RUEDA: Is this a watermelon?
What exactly is this, uh...

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: What is it?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Sour, soursop?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RUEDA: Okay.

You follow me, please.

GARCIA: The primary officer felt
the need to send this car to Z-portal


through our X-ray just in case,
to get that extra check.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

GARCIA: The X-ray operator
told me that there were some


anomalies in this vehicle.

So I'm gonna go ahead and just take
a look at those anomalies


and see if there's anything else
further that we need to check out.

This is the anomaly that
the X-ray operator saw.

Books.

So there is one time where I had
a female come in with a bag with paperwork

and books like this,
and she actually taped medication,

ill*gal medication,
inside those papers, loosely,

so just have to make sure.

Nice.

"Government,
The Biggest Scam in History Exposed."


[LAUGHS]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

GARCIA: Yeah.

All right, you can keep
those happy books with you.

[MAN SPEAKING]

GARCIA: He's not carrying anything
ill*gal or nothing that we could find,

but it was definitely a good stop,
just to get that second opinion

and make sure that there's nothing there.

RUEDA: What about that fruit he had?

GARCIA: They took it.

RUEDA: Oh, it was not enterable?

GARCIA: No, turned out to be nothing,
so he's good to go.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING ENGLISH]

[CORREA SPEAKING ENGLISH]

MARCO: [IN ENGLISH] Most of the time
when we encounter money couriers,

they don't declare the money.

'Cause they don't wanna create
a paper trail that law enforcement

could track down because
they are proceeds from the narcotics


coming in and they have to get it
back to the source or supplier.

Hey, man, what do you got?

LOWEN: We got two gentlemen and one lady.

They had bulk currency on them.

They did not report
or declare any of this money.

DAVID: CBP got three
individuals going outbound


and they failed to declare
a sizable amount of mixed currency,

both US dollars and euros.

This isn't just pocket change.

We've got some classic 500 euro notes
and a whole lot of $100 bills.

MARCO: We call this
a "Bulk Cash Smuggling Violation."

Normally, the monies goes
to cartels that were responsible


for smuggling contraband
into the United States.

Where was the final destination?
Where were they going?

[LOWEN SPEAKING]

MARCO: Oh.

Because of the certain embargoes
that the administration currently


has in place with the government of Cuba,

a lot of the organizations
that we investigate have resorted

to traveling through third countries
such as Panama, Colombia,


even some Middle East countries
to get this money in the hands

of these transnational
criminal organizations.

DAVID: It looks like our total
is gonna be...

$400,000 in mixed currency.

We're still trying to check
if we have any other co-travelers

or if we've had any travelers
that we may have missed

that we can advise
our foreign partners to interdict.

MARCO: HSI will initiate
a criminal investigation.


We will start trying to identify
the head of the organization,


who the lieutenants
of the organization are,


and ultimately at the bottom,
who the couriers are

that are involved in the smuggling
venture of bulk cash.

DAVID: All right, good work.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

We received some information
about a black Honda sedan.

It's a potential load vehicle
that's already on the north side,

in the United States.

DOMINIC: It's extremely common
that drugs cross the border

here in Southern California.

Methamphetamine, cocaine,

large amounts of heroin,
fentanyl make their way

all the way into the interior of the US.

If we can keep these potent drugs
off the streets, uh,

even if it's gonna save
one person or ten people,

then you really feel like
you're making a difference

and it's very rewarding for us.

I just located it. I've got the eye.

[DOMINIC READING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

CONNOR: Oh, boy.

If our information's correct,

we're hoping we'll be able
to follow this to a stash house

where we can then identify
and arrest other co-conspirators

and potentially seize more
narcotics, weapons, or cash.

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

We've traveled about 100 miles north
away from the border.

Some of our counterparts from the LA area,

they are just now
merging in with our team.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

There it is.

[AIRSHIP OFFICER SPEAKING]

DOMINIC: We're gonna wait,

just for a few moments
to see if anyone comes and goes.

But pretty soon here,
we're probably gonna have to, uh,

freeze the location
and detain anyone there.

Basically, we don't wanna lose
any of the drugs

that are presumably
going into that residence.

[CAR HORNS HONKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

GARCIA: [IN ENGLISH]
The trend now is vehicles,

'cause they weren't getting enough
through the body carriers.

[GARCIA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

GARCIA: [IN ENGLISH] A single person
can have half a pound only,

but one carload can
have 100 to 200 pounds.

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[GARCIA SPEAKING SPANISH]

GARCIA: [IN ENGLISH] The reason why
this vehicle was referred back

was for nervous behavior,
so we gotta search a little bit more.

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

GARCIA: [IN ENGLISH]
He says that he doesn't cross

in vehicle because he has tremors

and that he always
gets sent back every time,


so he usually crosses on foot.

[GARCIA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[GARCIA SPEAKING]

GARCIA: [IN ENGLISH] We look for anything
that stands out, that's different,

and that doesn't belong.

Like, in these areas right here,
if it looks like it's messed with,

or stripped or anything like that.

In the trunk, we look for, like,
tires, if there's even a tire.

We just look
for major things in this area.

Nothing.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

GARCIA: Good.

[GARCIA SPEAKING SPANISH]

GARCIA: [IN ENGLISH] Yeah. Mm-hm.

During the pandemic,

it's really important to stay vigilant
here at this land border


because the smugglers are trying
new tactics every single day.

They also had to adjust to the pandemic,
as well as we did,


so anybody at any given time
could be smuggling anything.

- Gracias.
- GARCIA: Mm-hm.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CORREA SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH] We were able
to get some information in regards

to two possible targets.

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH]
They may be part of a international

currency smuggling operation.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH]
We're trying to interview

these subjects and be able
to talk to them.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CORREA: Two separate reservations.

He indicated he's traveling alone.

We wanna establish
if they're traveling together or not,

then determine how much
cash they're carrying out

since we've noticed
recently a lot of currency


traveling from the US into Cuba.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH] Okay.

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

CORREA: Mm-hm.

[OFFICER SPEAKING IN ENGLISH]

CORREA: How many?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CORREA: One hundred 20s?

We're gonna get one now for the female.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CORREA SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING IN ENGLISH]

CORREA: They specified that
they weren't travel companions,


but at the same time,
they have the same amount in euros,

the same amount in dollars.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CORREA SPEAKING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

[CORREA SPEAKING]

[IN ENGLISH] Okay?

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[CORREA SPEAKING]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH] Hello?

[SUPERVISOR SPEAKING]

CORREA: The two subjects,
they are traveling basically together.

They're carrying a total
of about $10,000 combined.

Everything is the very same.

[SUPERVISOR SPEAKING]

CORREA: Just under.

[SUPERVISOR SPEAKING]

CORREA: Right.

[SUPERVISOR SPEAKING]

CORREA: You got it.

So unfortunately,
we don't have enough to establish

that they are traveling together
and they're declaring under $10,000.

So even though it seems suspicious,
we can't prove that they are attempting

to smuggle currency outside of the US,

so we're gonna let them go
and continue on their journey.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[OFFICER SPEAKING
IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]

OFFICER: [IN ENGLISH] Good boy.

OFFICER 2: Where are you going, ma'am?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER 2: Okay.
What'd you do in Mexico?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER 2: Do you come down here often?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER 2: For your nails?

OFFICER 2: Wow! Okay. Perfect.

OFFICER: You ever
crossed in this car before?

[MAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Are you bringing
back anything from Mexico?

[MAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Okay.

He must have got a whiff of something.

Hello. Just pull in over here.

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING]

KOSEC: This car was pulled
into secondary inspection.


It was a single female driver, um,

she said she went
to the, uh, dentist in Mexico.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

KOSEC: Uh, no prescriptions, no.

And that she did have
a follow up appointment too.

The K9 hit on the car and it gave us
a little more intel


to where to look on the car to see

if there were any packages
in the car or not.

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

KOSEC: [IN ENGLISH]
Just the insulation?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

OFFICER: [OVER RADIO]
103-97, not essential...

KOSEC: All right.

We're gonna search the rest of the car,

make sure there's nothing else in there.

You see that little slot right there?

There we go.

OFFICER: So, they're all right there.
KOSEC: Yeah.

OFFICER: It's both sides
or just this side?

KOSEC: There's access
points on both sides.

Packages were in the quarter panels
in the back of the car.


That's a popular spot
for people to put narcotics in.

I'm not sure how many
packages were there yet,


but we are searching the rest
of the car just to make sure


there's no other packages in the car,
no other narcotics in the car.


It is time-consuming
but it's worth it in the end.

CAMERON: Did you look
at her crossing history at all?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CAMERON: Okay.

So, the information I was given by CBP

was they had a single
female occupant of a vehicle.


They identified packages
what they believe to be narcotics

in the rocker panels of this, uh, vehicle.

Can you cuff her in the front?

We're gonna take you upstairs
and we'll talk upstairs, okay?

I'm gonna search her personal belongings
that she entered the US with


and then request to interview her

and speak with her
and get her side of the story.

KOSEC: I think that's all we got, yeah.

I'd say there's probably
about 40, 50 packages here.

That's a pretty significant amount.

EDWARDS: So, cutting
this package open here,

we have some large, rock-like crystals.

We can see what
the contents of this package are.

And it comes up as methamphetamine.

Twenty four, 26.

Thirty.

Thirty six.

Forty eight.

So, we have 48 packages
of methamphetamine,



It's a tough time for everybody and this
is one of the things that people use

as a coping mechanism.

This just doesn't affect one person,
this affects families.


We do consider it a huge success,
getting this amount off the street today.

HSI will conduct their interview
with the driver of this vehicle


and then we'll go from there.

CAMERON: Thank you very much.

All right.

Officer, can you, uh, put some restraints
on and then we'll head back downstairs?

So, from the interview,
what we gleaned was that


she was destined for Phoenix
with these narcotics.

We're gonna go this way.

It seems like the people we do encounter,
life is difficult for them.

They're being told,
you can make a lot of money really fast,


and we always wanna go
after the bigger fish.


We know that she's just the carrier,

that that was her job
in this organization.

So, there's other people that we want
to attempt to identify

that sent the narcotics and as well
as the people that are gonna receive it.

CURTIS: There's only
a few ways on this island,


so a lot of drugs come into
the island through mail parcels,

and then the money goes out.

So, the mail is a big thing.

[DOG BARKING]

CURTIS: That one's good.

Today, we're checking bags
and mail parcels going in and out

of the Aguadilla BNQ Airport.

The local police department's
got a K9 checking the scent


of any possible narcotics or contraband.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CURTIS: This one?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CURTIS: Dog alerted to two boxes.

They came express
consignment through the mail,


so we're gonna be running
them through the X-ray machine.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CURTIS: We got stuff
in there that looks suspect.

The shape of everything,
how it looks all packaged together,

it definitely stands out.

[JUSTINIANO SPEAKING]

CURTIS: Yeah, it's glued on this side too.

[JUSTINIANO SPEAKING]

CURTIS: You can
definitely smell marijuana.

It's very strong now.

These things say 100 grams each,
and we got several bags in here.

[JUSTINIANO SPEAKING]

CURTIS: Marijuana.

Marijuana is legal to grow
and distribute in 18 states,


but it is still ill*gal
at the federal level,


and cannot be moved across state lines.

Partial legalization seems
to have opened the floodgates


for organizations to illegally
distribute it to places

where restrictions are still in place.

20 packages, 10.39 kilograms.

We'll do some follow-up investigation
on the shipper and receiver,


but criminal organizations here use
marijuana as a means to sell

and make money to buy more lethal drugs,

cocaine, heroin, fentanyl,

and also to ship
and receive firearms as well.


So, taking these drugs off the street
takes a little money out of their pocket.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

CONNOR: We doing it?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[SIRENS BLARING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[SIRENS BLARING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CONNOR: Where is it from here?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

OFFICER 2: Right here.

CONNOR: I've got low,
I've got low straight.

[KNOCKING]

OFFICER: Police.

Come on out!

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING SPANISH]

OFFICER: [IN ENGLISH]
Search warrant. Police.

CONNOR: I got hands.

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING SPANISH]

CONNOR: [IN ENGLISH]
Do you speak English?

I got him.

So, we've detained the second driver
that came to pick it up.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CONNOR: We detained the original driver.

We have the cars secured,
the house has been secured.


What do you guys have over here?

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CONNOR: And now we're just
waiting to begin


a search of the location for the drugs.

JOAQUIN: Mm-hm.

We're gonna head over
to the airport right now.

We just got some information
that a shipping carrier

got several boxes that
have anomalies inside.

So, what we're gonna do is we're gonna
have a couple agents pick it up


from that shipping company,

take it over to the airport to the CBP
area so we can actually inspect


to see if there is drugs in there.

We've got approximately
six cases containing

what appear to be rims.

See if the K9 hits.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

JOAQUIN: So, we got a positive alert.

Make sure everybody has gloves,
we're gonna handle the boxes.

You guys have gloves?

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING SPANISH]

[OFFICER SPEAKING ENGLISH]

[JOAQUIN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Oh, yeah.

OFFICER: Have your passports out.

Are you by yourself?

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

LOWEN: [IN ENGLISH]
We're inspecting the flight

going from Miami to Panama.

TAQI: How you doing? Your passports?

LOWEN: Last week,
we had a large seizure of money

and so these flights have been hot.

Behind me, you got the blonde and the guy
she's with in the white-ish shirt.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

LOWEN: No, right here's good.

We're pulling two individuals
aside 'cause they may be linked

to a previous seizure from last week.

[LOWEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

LOWEN: [IN ENGLISH] Oh, okay.

[LOWEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[LOWEN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[LOWEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[LOWEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[LOWEN SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

LOWEN: [IN ENGLISH] He's kind of fidgety
and acting a little bit nervous,

so we're gonna inspect him at this moment.

[MORALES SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MORALES SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MORALES SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MORALES SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MORALES SPEAKING]

MORALES: [IN ENGLISH]
I got the feeling the passenger

was trying to hide something.

They're traveling together
and then he changed the story,


so we are going to look
a little further into this.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MORALES IN ENGLISH]

[MORALES SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MORALES SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

MORALES: [IN ENGLISH] Okay.

[MORALES SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MORALES SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[MORALES SPEAKING]

MORALES: [IN ENGLISH]
They're trying to avoid giving you details

because there are no details,
they're lying.

[MORALES SPEAKING SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING]

MORALES: [IN ENGLISH] Okay.

[LOWEN SPEAKING]

CORREA: We found a few inconsistencies
here that seem a little out of place

and it's very difficult to determine
if the person is smuggling money.


But we know that if we capture this money,

it's gonna impact their criminal
organization if it's related to that.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH]
One of my coworkers

is right now interviewing the male subject

and I interviewed the female subject,

where I was able to ask her questions
in regards to currency reporting.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

[WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[CORREA SPEAKING]

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

- [CORREA SPEAKING]
- [WOMAN SPEAKING]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH] Okay. Perfect.

She knowingly admitted
that the money wasn't hers

and she was indicating that
she was willing to cooperate


with the authorities
in this investigation.

[CORREA SPEAKING SPANISH]

CORREA: [IN ENGLISH]
After interviewing the subjects,

we were able to determine
that they were in fact

traveling together
and we were able to determine

that the currency was combined
between both passengers,


and not declaring
the currency was a violation.

We decided to seize
the currency of $19,800.


They were let go and they were allowed
to continue on their journey.

MARCO: Although the individuals
detained were not arrested,


useful information was obtained
to initiate an investigation

into who's running this organization.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

JOAQUIN: Right now, we're seeing several,
look like kilos, inside the rim.

They cut out the spokes of the rim

so they could get the maximum
amount of room

in there to stuff
the most kilos that they can

and what they sprayed it
with is a some kind of foam.

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Yes, it's fresh.
OFFICER 2: It's still fresh.

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

OFFICER: It should be easier now.

OFFICER 2: Yeah.

JOAQUIN: Now we're gonna test
it with the Gemini to get, uh,

to see what's inside.

OFFICER: All right, well,
we got positive for cocaine.

[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]

JOAQUIN: More than 50%
of the cocaine that the US gets


comes from Puerto Rico, through the mail.

OFFICER: Here we go.

OFFICER 2: Another ten.

JOAQUIN: The cocaine comes
from either Venezuela, Colombia,

the Dominican Republic.

And then from Puerto Rico,

since they're already coming over here,
it gets through customs,


when it ships from
here to the United States,


it doesn't have to go
through customs again,


so it doesn't get inspected again.

That's why they use Puerto Rico
as a hub to all over the United States.


[OFFICER SPEAKING]

JOAQUIN: Six boxes with about ten
brick-shaped packages in each one.


It's definitely the biggest
seizure we've gotten

at the airport since I've been here.

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING]

JOAQUIN: We just seized six boxes
from the shipping company


with about ten brick-shaped
packages in each one.

They're going to two different locations.

One's going to Philadelphia
and one's going to Harrisburg.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[JOAQUIN SPEAKING]

OFFICER: Like, um...
JOAQUIN: Nail polish.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

JOAQUIN: Yeah.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[JOAQUIN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[JOAQUIN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

JOAQUIN: 15.15?
OFFICER: Yes.

OFFICER 2: Okay, yeah.
JOAQUIN: So, that's it?

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[JOAQUIN SPEAKING]

I've been here for two years
and it's definitely the biggest seizure

we've gotten at the airport
since I've been here.

[JOAQUIN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

JOAQUIN: We got a total of 66.31 kilos.

OFFICER 2: Now there's a seizure for you.

JOAQUIN: This is very unique
because it's a very large amount


sent at one time
to two different locations.

[JOAQUIN SPEAKING]

It's very rare that we see that.

Normally, we see two kilos here,
three kilos there,

but to see 66, it's very unusual.

Philly and Harrisburg agents are gonna
handle their end over there.


They're gonna go and try to get
those people off the streets.


We're gonna focus on the people
that shipped it out of Puerto Rico.

We believe it's all
one cell and the ultimate goal


is to dismantle the transnational
criminal organizations.


It's not just Puerto Rico, it's worldwide.

[DOMINIC SPEAKING]

This was our target vehicle that
we first had the information about.

It led us here to this location.

Here you can see that
there's a void, right here.

That shouldn't be there,

there should be foam all the way there.

When we detained this car,
there was compartments for narcotic,

but there was no narcotics.

But the vehicle came into a garage here,
the garage door went down.

A short time later,
a car came back out, so obviously, uh,

the assumption is that those
narcotics went into the garage.

[CONNOR SPEAKING]

We're about to run the dog
and then we'll begin our search

depending on what the dog comes up with.

OFFICER: Oh, what's there, buddy?

Woo-hoo! Good boy.

Trunk of the Mustang.

There you go.

Definitely a weird shape.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

CONNOR: Meth?
OFFICER: Yeah.

IAN: We ended up finding
a mixed load of narcotics.

CONNOR: Oh, that's fentanyl, yeah.

IAN: We ended up
finding some bulk currency.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

IAN: And a nine-millimeter p*stol that
was ready with the ammunition,

so these are very dangerous situations.

OFFICER: I think that's it.

It's not uncommon for unload
spots to be also stash houses

or distribution hubs,
so obviously we're looking


for that next level of investigation.

We have agents right
now interviewing the driver


and then we'll develop
intelligence from that


and we'll go from there
and move on to the next.