03x12 - Drug Boat Bust

[bunniefuu]

Sometimes it's a bit
of a waiting game with the baggage.

So, we could people-watch.

See what they're doing.
See who they're talking to.

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

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

or sometimes you just want
to do a random pop.

So let's do a random pop.

How you doing?

- Can I see your passport please?
- WOMAN: Sure.

BRADDY: It's a volume game,
we search a lot of bags

and a lot of times it's negative.

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

WOMAN: Okay.

BRADDY: But she was by herself
and she had a lot of bags.

So we're just gonna look
and see what we find.

Okay.

[BRADDY SPEAKING]

All right, good.

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

BRADDY: From you uncle?

BRADDY: So, is this your bag or no?

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

then all of our alerts go way high

because we're wondering
what the heck is in that bag.

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

BRADDY: What's your uncle name?

What's your uncle name?

What is your uncle's name?

You forgot?

From your cousin's husband?

The wife is gonna come get the bag?

- The husband?
- WOMAN: Mmm-hmm.

BRADDY: All right.

She gave you the bag.

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

Why are you taking somebody else's bag?

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

You don't know what's all this.

What is all this?

So much stuff.

What's this, a melon?

Unidentified liquid.

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

You don't know nothing, huh?

What is this?

What the hell?

What is that?

Narcotics. Drugs. Do you know what it is?

You don't know what it is?

Because it looks like cocaine.

You don't know?

BRADDY: We'll have to test it.

OFFICER: Oh, definitely.

Let's see what the heck this stuff is.

So now it's just analyzing.

Starch, baby powder,
and dextrin from corn.

- OFFICER: Yeah.
- Okay.

- OFFICER: All right.
- All right, yeah.

If it was cocaine,
it would have said that.

So we tested it, it was negative,

but this lady has a lot of stuff.

All right, what else?

Put the next bag up there.

Put it up here.

[SIREN WAILING]

OFFICER: Hands up! Hands up!
Put your hands up!

[OFFICER SPEAKING SPANISH]

Yeah, this place is loaded.

We are currently on our way to a briefing

with the supervisor
of the HSI Miami Marine Smuggling group.

His group at the seaport
and our group at the airport

work really closely together
to combat criminal activities

that are happening
throughout the Miami port system.

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

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

We have three vessels here that we seized.

This is the most recent.

South Florida is a boating community.

There's tons of boats everywhere,

so very difficult
to regulate that traffic.

We have a pretty decent amount of trade
with the Dominican Republic,

and a lot of, uh,
recreational vessel activity

between the Dominican Republic
and the United States,

you know, yachts,
sailing vessels that are transiting,

so that provides opportunities
for these organizations

to kind of mix in
with that legitimate travel

and exploit it.

Initially encountered the vessel
coming out of the Dominican Republic

into Fort Lauderdale, actually.

Did a customs search, immediately found

five duffel bags full of cocaine
right here in this salon area

and then, additional cocaine down below.

It was all stacked up on this bunk here.

They basically used
the area behind this bunk.

BRODIE: Okay.

RAFAEL: Cocaine was back in here.

Four-hundred and fifty-six kilos
of cocaine.

Found some more
additional evidence in here.

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

He had 40-something thousand in cash.

BRODIE: Outstanding.

They do an at-sea transfer,

so cocaine goes from the boat
out of the DR onto this boat,

snaking their way through the Bahamas,
stopping for fuel,

and then into the... Into the US.

BRODIE: And how many subjects were there?

Four were taken into custody,
two were arrested.

The captain was on this boat that night,

but we did release him
as we collected evidence.

The investigation
took a little bit of time.

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

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

and hopefully prevent a situation

where we have to try
to track down somebody

who's trying to evade getting arrested.

BRADDY: What is this?

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

- Coffee.
- Coffee.

BRADDY: What is this here?

BRADDY: For what, headache? Ibuprofen?

- Pain. This is for pain. Yes.
- This is for...

Mmm-hmm. All right.
So it's good, put it back in here.

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

What is this?

What do you...
What do you have all this medication for?

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

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

More pills.

This is... This is Dolostop.

Some kind of therapy liquid.

In... In her bag,
it was like a traveling pharmacy.

What do people use this for, huh?

BRADDY: You know what this is?
This is Peptime.

[BRADDY SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE]

[IN ENGLISH] What's that?

OFFICER: She don't know nothing.
BRADDY: She don't know nothing, yeah.

She playing dead.

So it could be poison.
You don't know what it is?

[SIGHS]

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

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

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

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

We don't... I don't know what that is.

And we can't test it in such quantity.

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

No, no, that's... That's going with us.

This is all going,
this is all going, this is all going.

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

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

This was a good stop.

It was a good stop,
it was a good examination.

We're trying to find contraband,

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

and she... She had a lot.

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

- Okay.
- So next time just be more careful

with what you take back, okay?

Whoever her friend is
or her friend's husband,

the level of trust she has for them
made her feel comfortable enough

to carry that bag
not knowing what's inside the bag.

It's very important that people know.

Don't bring anything in here
that's not yours

or that you don't know what it is

because it could be narcotics,
drugs, weapons.

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

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

The individual was identified

as a part of an investigation
into a smuggling organization.

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

with 456 kilos of cocaine.

We obtained a warrant for his arrest,

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

JESUS: I'll have you guys staged
right here on the corner.

- RAFAEL: Okay.
- You got a direct eye to the house here.

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

Once the takedown seem to come out,

just come to the residence
and just provide extra cover.

[HSI OFFICER SPEAKING]

JESUS: Um, his son.

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

And a gentleman that was there yesterday,

I don't know, he kinda looked
like a visitor at the house.

If he does get into a vehicle,

you know, just try
to keep containment on that street.

All right.
So we'll head over to the location.

- JESUS: Good to go.
- All right.

Arrest warrants are,
you know, inherently dangerous

just because we're going into an unknown.

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

Some pre-operational surveillance
has shown that he's departing the house

pretty regularly in the morning,
mid-morning.

So we're just going to wait till he leaves

to try to mitigate some of those risks
of going into his house and grabbing him.

All right.

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

getting set up now,
getting everybody into position.

We always wanna try
to dominate the situation,

so I think we have six officers
out here today.

We're dealing with traffickers

that smuggle hundreds
and hundreds of kilos of cocaine.

Anything can happen.

OFFICER: Be ready to go.

AMADOR: We do have
a lot of medication coming in.

A lot of people travel
to Mexico and Canada,

and they'll buy over the counter

or they'll pay somebody
to get scheduled medication.

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

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

it's a big problem.

WHITE: It's in another language.

GRAHAM: People not knowing
exactly what they're taking.

People self-medicating. People dying.

We have Schedule II,
Schedule III narcotics

without a prescription.

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

Can you put
a couple of boxes up here, please?

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

You take full ownership
and responsibility of everything?

- [MAN SPEAKING]
- Now, do you have any plants?

GRAHAM: Fruits?

MAN: No.

Currencies of $10,000 or more?

[MAN SPEAKING]

GRAHAM: Usually, when we have families
arriving from Vietnam,

they, on average, have about five boxes.

I'm gonna go through your bags.

What I need you to do is just stand
behind the yellow line right there

as I do a search.

Please make no sudden movements
towards me, okay?

This is a family traveling
and they have two bags per person.

That's two, four, six, eight, ten,
twelve, fourteen.

We have about 14 boxes.

Looks like fish cakes,
uh, a lot of fish cake.

What is this one?

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

GRAHAM: Fish? Some cashews.

They love having their home food
like fish, squid.

They bring clothes and medications.

Let's not forget about those.

That's codeine.

This is prohibited.

It's a Schedule II narcotic.

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

[WHISPERS]

You got this stuff everywhere, don't you?

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

GRAHAM: The codeine.

GRAHAM: That's it?

[COUGHING]

[MAN COUGHING]

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

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

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

[WOMAN SPEAKING]

GRAHAM: Mmm-hmm.

Mmm-hmm.

Okay. Let me check these right here, okay?

It says Neo-Codion on it,

but if we're gonna do the right thing
and find more information on it,

that'll tell us what we got.

These are the 500 milligram.

We have information tonight
that there's gonna be a target coming in.

Paul's going to talk to you
about the origin of this case

and how it got started.

I'll just give you a quick basic, uh,
case overview.

For the past two years,

we've been tracking an internal conspiracy
of airline employees

smuggling drugs from Curaçao to New York.

We believe the drugs are being shipped
in suitcases,

then airline employees
pull off that luggage.

We really did an in-depth investigation,

and thus far, we're able
to seize 10 kilograms of cocaine

and made multiple arrests.

[OFFICERS SHOUTING]

OFFICER: On the ground.
KEVIN: Relax, relax. On the ground.

We've since received intel

that today a new load of drugs
will be shipped into JFK from Curaçao.

This organization is utilizing a passenger

that's gonna be associated
with that suitcase.

Our plan is to seize
the suitcase of narcotics

before the employee here at JFK
takes it away

and arrest the passenger for conspiring
to import a controlled substance.

We're gonna have CBP set team
X-ray the flight.

They will attempt to identify the bag,

and then we'll take it from there.

That's it.

KEVIN: This is a big piece
of the investigation.

When we get that person,

that'll give us enough evidence
to get the rest of the people in Curaçao.

Essentially taking down
the source of supply,

like cutting off the head.

We've already disrupted
this drug organization,

now we're going to dismantle it.

My least favorite thing
is waking up early. [LAUGHS]

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

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

and his vehicle's parked up front,

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

We're just waiting for a helicopter
to help cover the rear of the house.

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

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

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

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

We would not have any way of knowing.

[OVER RADIO]

RAFAEL: There we go.

We're going to go ahead

and try to make contact
with our subject here.

[OVER RADIO]

[RAFAEL SPEAKING]

All right.

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

[DOG BARKING]

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

[BANGING ON DOOR]

JESUS: Hello?
MAN: Hello. Hey.

JESUS: How you doing, man?

- OFFICER: How are you doing? Come on out.
- Come on out.

- [MAN SPEAKS SPANISH]
- OFFICER: Yeah.

- [MAN SPEAKING ENGLISH]
- OFFICER: Where's he at?

[MAN SPEAKING]

Who... How many people in the house?

Okay.

Can you call them out, please?

JESUS: Leave the door open.
Leave the door open.

RAFAEL: Can you come over here, ma'am?

[OFFICER SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

Any weapons or anything inside the house?

- [MAN SPEAKS]
- RAFAEL: No? No firearms at all?

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Okay. Everybody speak English?
Everybody speaks English?

- [WOMAN SPEAKS]
- RAFAEL: Okay.

JESUS: You don't speak English?

[WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

[JESUS SPEAKING SPANISH]

- RAFAEL: Nobody else inside, right?
- [MAN SPEAKS]

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

[MAN SPEAKS]

RAFAEL: We do have a warrant, yeah.

Wendell's not home?

JESUS: [IN ENGLISH] I'm not gonna find
Wendell in there, right?

You don't seem too sure.

- [OFFICER SPEAKS SPANISH]
- WOMAN: No.

- [OFFICER SPEAKS SPANISH]
- [WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH]

- [OFFICER SPEAKS SPANISH]
- [WOMAN SPEAKS SPANISH]

- [OFFICER SPEAKS SPANISH]
- [WOMAN SPEAKS SPANISH]

[MAN SPEAKING ENGLISH]

JESUS: Where's your bedroom?

[MAN SPEAKING]

RAFAEL: Okay.

[MAN SPEAKING]

[JESUS SPEAKING]

[MAN SPEAKING]

JESUS: Okay.

- All right, good?
- RAFAEL: Yeah.

JESUS: It's the police.

RAFAEL: Careful. Nice and slow.

[HSI AGENT SPEAKING]

RAFAEL: Careful. Nice and slow.

[HSI AGENT SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

[JESUS SPEAKING SPANISH]

[OFFICER SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

Thank you, guys.

Stay right there, okay?

The son answered.

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

We said we were gonna check inside.

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

Went to the last bedroom,
back of the house,

and he was down crouched in the corner.

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

So we're going to transport him
over to the office.

The arrest was best-case scenario.

The subject was taken into custody.
Nobody was injured.

So, all in all, successful operation.

Down here
in the marine smuggling environment,

we're still at it,

and we're gonna continue
to try to identify folks

who are supplying cocaine,

other vessels and other individuals
here in the US

who are facilitating, you know,
other smuggling ventures.

All right, copy, bother. Thanks.

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

as part of another investigation

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

So we're heading to start preparing for
the larger takedown that's gonna happen.

[PASSENGERS SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE]

GRAHAM: Okay. Tested.

Sinus medication. Tatatatata.

This is Neo-Codion,
and it's a derivative of codeine

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

Those are the two countries
that produce this.

Being a derivative of is sort of like,

I guess you would say
hemp versus marijuana.

Is there some there?

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

So first time, pat on the hand.

Don't do it again.

Do not bring this
into the United States again.

Do you understand?

- Okay.
- [WOMAN SPEAKING]

GRAHAM: Fist bump.

All right.

GRAHAM: Put that stuff away. No more.

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

GRAHAM: All right.
You guys have a great day.

We're gonna release them,
and there will be information

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

If they have it, they've been warned,

and at that time, they'll be receiving
a penalty and a seizure on these items.

WOMAN: Sorry about that.
GRAHAM: It's okay.

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

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

and they supply their store with it.

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

So think about that. You're buying
something outside the country.

You're bringing it in.

You're actually k*lling somebody.

We have to protect the United States.

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

WOMAN: Thank you.
GRAHAM: Bye-bye.

We're waiting to see if CBP can intercept

the suitcase with the narcotics
coming from Curaçao,

and then if we can identify
who the bag is associated with.

So we have a team out there on the ramp
looking at the bags coming off the plane.

JOHN: This is a pretty big operation.

There's approximately 20 guys out tonight
between HSI, CBP, and Port Authority.

KEVIN: Flight locked,
and passengers are getting off right now.

- OFFICER 1: How you doing?
- I am fine.

- All right. Thank you. Good night.
- Thank you.

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

JOHN: We're gonna be looking
for markings, identifiers on the bag,

whether it be duct tape or ribbon.

Typically, that's what
the organizations do,

so they know which bags
they are looking for.

OFFICER 2: How about the front?
Did we look at the front?

It's full? All right.

JOHN: Once we identify the suitcase,

if there's a bag label
with the passenger's name on it,

then we're gonna be able
to identify the passenger

and successfully make an arrest.

KEVIN: We've all worked
on this the last couple of years.

We have intercepted a lot of money.
We found out about a lot of drugs.

We've got small levels of narcotics.

We've made tons of arrests on it,

but if this all works out the way
that we... We've been planning it,

that'll give us enough information
to indict the source of supply in Curaçao.

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKS]

OFFICER 2: Got it?

Got it.

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING]

Bring it to the X-ray now.

[OFFICERS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]

[CELL PHONE CHIMES]

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKS]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKS]

OFFICER 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Bricks?
- Yeah, yeah.

OFFICER 2: Okay. All right.

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKS]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKS]

- Tag is on it?
- [FINN SPEAKS]

PAUL: That's even better for us.

Now, we know who she is.
It's a female passenger.

So we're hoping that CBP
can find that person with her passport.

[CELL PHONE CHIMES]

LEON: Everybody standby.

[CELL PHONE CHIMES]

Okay.

OFFICER: Put it on. Get it on. Yeah.
Go, go, go.

It's on, it's on. You're going to see it.

We're waiting to see
if this female passenger

goes to the baggage carousel,
picks up the bag with cocaine in it.

If she exits the customs area
without collecting the bag,

then, as we suspect, an airline employee
is supposed to be taking that luggage.

KEVIN: Everybody, standby.

KEVIN: All right. We'll take it down.

[MCCARTHY SPEAKING]

US Customs. Can I see your passport quick?

Do you have
any other bags or just this one?

Okay.

Follow me this way.

She skipped the carousel,
and she made a beeline to the exit.

She didn't admit
that she had any checked bags.

PAUL: Seeing her exit the terminal
without picking up her bag

pretty much confirms this organization
has airline employees

here at JFK to pull off bags.

MCCARTHY: You can have a seat.
Have a seat.

PAUL: CBP is gonna pat down the passenger,

and we're gonna reach out
to our colleagues in Curaçao

to see if we can find
any airport video surveillance.

BRODIE: We have information

that cocaine is being smuggled
from The Bahamas on vessels.

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

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

It's just used to sell narcotics.

So we are currently
on our way to this place

to execute a narcotics search warrant.

The trap-house is in an area
with a lot of g*ng activity,

and the subjects have a lengthy
criminal history involving violence.

We also have intelligence indicating that
the subjects may be carrying firearms.

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

AGENT 1: We're here
to enhance everybody's safety,

that's the only reason we exist.

[AGENT 2 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[AGENT 3 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER 1 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[AGENT 2 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[AGENT 3 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER 1 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 5 SPEAKING OVER RADIO]

OFFICER 6: Go, go, go.

[SIREN BLARING]

Police!

OFFICER 5: Push in. Push in. Push in.

[OFFICERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

[MAN SPEAKING]

OFFICER 2: Let's go. Let's go.
OFFICER 3: Police.

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

OFFICER 5: Execute!

OFFICER 2: Go, go, go.
OFFICER 4: Police!

OFFICER 6: Push in. Push in.

[OFFICERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

[MAN SPEAKING]

[OFFICER SPEAKING]

OFFICERS: Hands up, hands up. Police!

[OFFICER 2 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 3 SPEAKING]

[OFFICER 4 SPEAKING ON RADIO]

BRODIE: Everybody's clear inside?
OFFICER 3: Yeah.

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

But he was caught right down the street.

BRODIE: The operation went exactly
the way we wanted it to, almost textbook.

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

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

So we did have the primary subject
hop a fence.

We were able to call that over the radio.

So he was taken into custody.

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

Looking for narcotics, firearms,
other evidence.

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

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

NEEDHAM: Lately,
we've been seeing huge trends

of people ordering stuff
off of the dark web.

People have ordered fentanyl
off of the dark web.

Nowadays, it's leaning more
towards prescription pills.

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

Okay, you can run it.

This is mail that came in late last night.

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

Good?

Hold on.

[MAN SPEAKING]

CHIAPPETTA: You can see the pills,
looks like a book almost.

It's labeled protein supplements.

It did look like supplements,
but in a lot of cases,

it's not the right kind of supplements.

Definitely doesn't look right.

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

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

Probably 500 pills on each one of these.

You got probably ten or 15,000 pills here.

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

not just pills in an envelope.

We're getting these pretty regularly.

It's highly addictive,

and chances are
these aren't prescribed for someone.

They're doing this on their own.

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

They're having a major problem with it
in the medical field.

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



This is a massive amount
with a high-dollar value.

This is pounds of pills.
People don't get pounds of pills.

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

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

and they'll take it from there

whether they would like to do
a further investigation on it.

- [FINN SPEAKS]
- [McCARTHY SPEAKS]

[FINN SPEAKING]

We just spoke to
our law enforcement partners in Curaçao.

The surveillance footage shows

the passenger holding
the exact same black suitcase

CBP discovered the bricks in.

She's then seen walking
towards the check-in with the suitcase,

so she clearly knows
more than she's saying she does.

- McCARTHY: Okay.
- [PAUL SPEAKING]

FINN: All right.
MCCARTHY: All right.

When we brought it in there,
she was quiet,

but definitely looked like
she saw a ghost.

[McCARTHY SPEAKING]

When we brought in that bag,
she looked pretty freaked out.

She broke into tears,
and then we knew that she knew.

KEVIN: During the CBP examination
of the suitcase,

we found suspected cocaine,

but we need to make sure
that it's actually cocaine.

MCCARTHY: We have something here.

Bricks.

Now we're getting ready
to field test the bricks.

McCARTHY: We're taking
a sample from the brick

and we're putting it
in the narcotics test pouch,

and with each vial that you break,
it's supposed to turn a specific color.

First one's blue, second vial you break.

Top part is pink,
indicating positive results for cocaine.

KEVIN: We're looking
at seven and a half kilos here.

That's a transnational
criminal organization losing out,

so it's a big hit.

PAUL: You know, in situations like this,
this is a young girl, she's 21 years old.

She gets caught up in it in...
In the hopes of making some money.

It's a hard situation, but this
is what the organizations utilize.

Unfortunately, there's consequences.

KEVIN: We're getting
towards the final stages of this.

Now we want to find out
who actually gave it to her in Curaçao,

and if there's anybody else involved
that we're not aware of.

Once that happens, we're going to work
with our foreign law enforcement partners

to arrest and extradite
those individuals in Curaçao.

So, hopefully, she'll decide to cooperate

and she'll be able to give us some more
information about the organization.

BRODIE: All right,
so what did we end up finding?

OFFICER: Approximately
a little over a kilo of coke,

baggies, cash, scales.

How much cash do we think we found?

OFFICER: About 600 bucks.

- 600 and we're still counting it?
- OFFICER: Yeah.

BRODIE: That's crack too, right?

OFFICER: Crack. Marijuana.

BRODIE: How many baggies of crack we got?

[OFFICER 2 AND 3 SPEAKING]

And the subject is still,
uh, not willing to speak to us yet,

is that correct?

- OFFICER: Not yet.
- Okay.

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

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

In a neighborhood like this,

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

and just selling it willy-nilly,
it's pretty significant.

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

We're gonna be looking
to identify the broader network

that we want to pursue for investigations
and potential prosecution.

Outstanding work. Good job.

OFFICER: Excellent.

The residents are gonna
be able to sleep peacefully tonight,

knowing that these guys are not selling

this amount of dope
to the citizens of Miami.

PAUL: So far so good,
everything looks good.

- We're all set with KPC.
- KEVIN: Okay.

PAUL: We should go to the gate.

KEVIN: We've been investigating
this drug organization

based in Curaçao for the last two years,

and right now we have enough evidence

to get the rest of the people
supplying the narcotics.

So, today, we're going off to Curaçao

and we're gonna work
with the foreign law enforcement

to eventually arrest our targets

and, eventually, bring them back
to the US for a trial.

ANNOUNCER: [OVER PA]
Continue boarding flight

with nonstop service
to Curaçao departing from gate...

KEVIN: Nobody wants crime to be committed.

Nobody's good with,
you know, drug trafficking.

Nobody's okay with money laundering.

So when we're talking about homeland,

we're not just talking
about protecting it from within,

we're talking about protecting it
all around the world.

KEVIN: We're gonna completely take down
this organization from the top down.