04x07 - MDMA on the Move

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[loudspeaker chatter]

BONO: Passport.
You speak English?

TRAVELER: Very little.

BONO: All right, come over here.

We had intel on a person arriving off

the Dominican Republic

flight based on
some recent travel history.

So we are conducting a
more in-depth inspection.

OFFICER: All
this belongs to you?

TRAVELER: Yes.

BONO: How long
is he staying here?

OFFICER: How long
are you staying here?

BONO: He's got a lot of,
he's got a lot of stuff.

TRAVELER: 20 days.

BONO: This is ridiculous.
He's got 40 pairs of sneakers.

OFFICER: That's a lot of shoes.

BONO: Yeah, perfect
shoe to be loaded.

[theme music plays]

BONO: This is not somebody
that's coming here for 20 days.

No way, no how.

Anything and everything that
someone might look to smuggle

into the United States,
shoes and sneakers and boots,

are a good method of concealment.

TRAVELER: I like sneakers.
I buy a lot of sneakers.

BONO: All right, come on.

You hollow out the inside of sneakers and

you fill them with whatever it is,

pills, narcotics, powder.

TRAVELER: I have a hundred
or so sneakers. I like sneakers.

BONO: No, I'm not surprised
you like sneakers but, what,

are you gonna wear a pair of
sneakers every five minutes?

You're sweating. Look.

So how many different places is
he actually visiting in the 20 days?

OFFICER: How many different
places will you visit in these 20 days?

TRAVELER: I wouldn't
be able to tell you...

...but I would like to visit
most of my family and friends...

OFFICER: He's not necessarily sure, but he'd
like to visit as many people as possible.

BONO: How much
money is he carrying?

OFFICER: How much
cash are you carrying?

TRAVELER: Around $500.

OFFICER: 500.
BONO: That's nothing.

OFFICER: What's your occupation?

TRAVELER: I'm a lawyer.

BONO: I don't believe
most of your story.

But you're gonna have
to do a little better and

tell us exactly why you're here, okay?

OFFICER: All right,
where are you guys going?

TRAVELER: We're
going to go visit my mom.

OFFICER: How long do you
plan on staying in El Paso?

TRAVELER: Just for today.

OFFICER: Just for today.

NEVAREZ: Where are
you going today?

TRAVELER: My job.

NEVAREZ: Is there anything
prohibited or ill*gal in the vehicle?

TRAVELER: No.

NEVAREZ: No.

A lot of the smugglers are
using social media tactics

where they use Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok,

to try and recruit young adults.

I would say anywhere from
the range of 16 to 24, 25 years.

NEVAREZ: They deceive them by
telling them they're gonna win money.

And that's so unfortunate because once we

intercept them with narcotics,

now there's something
on their record and...

Basically they ruined their lives.

Here you go.

TRAVELER: Thank you.

NEVAREZ: You're welcome.
Have a good day.

OFFICER:
Bridge of the Americas,

you're gonna have vehicles and pedestrian.

OFFICER: You bringing
anything today, sir?

TRAVELER: No, sir.

OFFICER: Right now,
our operation is...

We're working with the K9 units...

Searching for ill*gal contraband.

GAVALDON: K9, K9 copy?

OFFICER [over radio]: Go ahead.

GAVALDON: Yes, sir.

Can you make your way
over to the public restroom

on the south side of the building?

OFFICER [over radio]: 10-4.

GAVALDON: We had someone
report a suspicious package

in the restroom.

Right over here, by
the toilet to the right.

OFFICER: Good girl.

GAVALDON: The K9 did alert.
We found it.

I see something on the floor
that's taped in cellophane tape.

The package was probably
strapped to somebody's body,

either their thigh or waist.

They saw our K9 conducting roving ops.

They must have been
thinking about the consequences

at that time.

And of course, that person
who dropped the package,

you know, they're afraid to go to jail.

So we're gonna take it over to
the secure area and then we're

gonna use the Gemini to
identify what it might be.

OFFICER: 10-4.
GAVALDON: All right?

[police sirens]

[air brake]

ALMANSOOB: We are the cargo
facility located on Fort Street

in Detroit, Michigan.

HUFFMAN: We're
looking for anything,

from trade violations to contraband,

being smuggled in.

HUFFMAN: Everything is
coming from somewhere in

Canada to the US.

KERBY: We go through some of
the detained merchandise overnight.

A lot of times with mixed loads...

There'll be a lot of violative products.

These are test kits for Covid-19.

But this is obviously, as you can see,

not a commercial packaging.

So it leads me to believe,
these could be counterfeit.

Most of the time,

you get the counterfeits
coming out of China,

and the COVID test kits right now,

there's a lot of money in these.

I'm gonna take it over to
FDA and see what they have

to say about it.

It's gonna fall under their
regulations because they

regulate anything that has
like a medical use to it.

I found, this doesn't
look commercially-packaged

obviously, but they're COVID test kits.

Looks like they're expired too.

PETTY: All right, we'll
take a look at it and verify

if it's registered and approved with FDA.

What I'm gonna do is verify
that the product is registered

and listed on the FDA Emergency
Use Authorization list.

If not, then we'll take proper procedures

and get it referred over to CBP.

Okay, so the manufacturer is not listed on

our Emergency Use Authorization list.

This test kit, it's different
from what I've commonly seen.

All the kind of test kits that
I've seen has a swab in it and

a container that has a solution in it.

This container, there's a
little bit of solution in there

but it's very minimal.

This is a lanced, basically
where you lance your finger to

pierce the skin and it takes blood.

I've never seen anything like this before.

The manufacturer is not
listed on the Emergency Use

Authorization list.

So they're not authorized
to come into the country.

KERBY: Okay.

PETTY: We reached out to the
importer to try to make contact

and no response from the importer.

So at that point, since
we did not get a response,

the product is considered
abandoned and will be turned

over to CBP for destruction.

BONO: This is crazy.

He's not coming here for 20 days.

While my partner was
talking to the passenger,

I was able to go through his sneakers.

They were not abnormally heavy.

All the stitching appeared
to be factory stitching.

So I came to the conclusion
that they all seem to be

sneakers that this
gentleman liked to wear.

But some of his story is
just not sitting right with me.

He said he's a lawyer?
Does he have a business card?

OFFICER: Do you
have a business card?

TRAVELER: The problem is,
I don't have it.

OFFICER: Can you have them call
you or send a picture of where you work?

TRAVELER: No.

OFFICER: Prove
that you're a lawyer.

TRAVELER: My brother,
it's my profession.

OFFICER: Let's just go in.

BONO: Yeah, tell him
to pack his stuff.

We're gonna take him to a private room,

we're gonna continue the interview.

We're gonna check his body.

OFFICER: Why's he
sweating so much?

BONO: Because we're
asking him direct questions.

Look at this.
This is not 20 days here.

OFFICER: Is he going to live
here? Or is he bringing something in?

BONO: Well, that's
what I'm trying to get at.

I don't know if he has anything.

Is he coming here to make money?

Probably.

OFFICER: Gather all your
things and follow me, please.

BONO: I find it hard to
believe that he's gonna come

here for 20 days,
visit multiple destinations.

His bags tell a different story.

OFFICER: For your safety
and ours, we are going to check your body.

BONO: So we are going to
question him a little bit more

and then we'll see where that goes.

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BONO: Pat down was negative.
He's sweating.

Can you get him a glass of water?

OFFICER: You're nervous.

TRAVELER: No.

OFFICER: And you're
sweating profusely.

TRAVELER: But I am not sweating.

OFFICER: You may not
want to admit it.

I'm looking at you.

BONO: Ah, mucho, huh?

It's quite noticeable that
he's working up a good sweat,

he's a little fidgety.

A passenger can attempt
to smuggle narcotics on

the body or in the body.

That'll be something we have to look into.

TRAVELER: And what
should I be nervous about?

OFFICER: I don't know.
That's why I'm asking you.

BONO: When you're nervous,
you drink water, you're fidgety.

TRAVELER: No.
They injected medicine.

OFFICER: They injected you?

TRAVELER: Sí.

TRAVELER: They injected me here.

They marked me here.

A medicine that takes away the fat.

I need to drink water.

BONO: What was that?

Ask him how he paid for his ticket.

OFFICER: When did
you buy your ticket?

TRAVELER: I believe
on Thursday.

OFFICER: And how
did you pay for it?

TRAVELER: My cousin, he paid for
it, and I gave him the money.

BONO: He's got
that smile to him, look.

OFFICER: Why do you
carry two cell phones?

TRAVELER: I have one for personal
use and the other is for business.

OFFICER: What is
the code for this phone?

TRAVELER: [bleep].

OFFICER: And what
is the code for this phone?

TRAVELER: The same.

OFFICER: I'm just going
through the most recent stuff.

BONO: Uh-hmm.

So 20 days in the Bronx, correct?

TRAVELER: Yes.

BONO: But nowhere else?
Just the Bronx?

TRAVELER: I may visit
my cousin in Yonkers.

I have a friend that lives in Long Island.

OFFICER: He has a friend
in Yonkers and Long Island.

BONO: Oh, so he's staying local?

Oh. What do you think?

OFFICER: Nothing in
the phone, so...

BONO: Nothing in the phone?

OFFICER: If he was hesitant of
letting us go through the phone then.

BONO: I agree.

There would be something giving it away.

I agree with that.

OFFICER: Other than that...

BONO: You don't think
he's an internal, right?

OFFICER: No.

I don't.

BONO: Is there anything else?
OFFICER: No.

OFFICER: Okay, sir,
please gather all your things.

BONO: We finished
our questioning.

I came to the conclusion
with my partner that he was

going to meet the people
he said he was gonna meet.

He supplied phone numbers
and he was on his way to

enjoy his 20 days
here in the United States.

OFFICER: You have
all your things, sir?

TRAVELER: Yes.

TRAVELER: Thank you.
BONO: Thank you.

His baggage did not make
any sense to me, but that's me.

I'm a simple guy.

I have only a few pairs of sneakers.

A running pair, then a pair I wear around.

So that would, that
would be how many would be

in my suitcase.

It would be two.

VERBETEN: The mission of
FDA is to promote and protect

the public health at the ports of entry.

We do that by looking to
make sure that the products

that are being imported
meet the requirements for the

Food and Drug Administration,

whether that's information
about the manufacturers or

the product itself.

WATSON: These haven't
been looked at yet?

PETTY: Nope.

WATSON: When we get
shipments that come in,

on our UPS label,

it does provide a
description of what the item

could potentially be.

And for this one,

it states that its infant formula.

So we're gonna check it and
make sure that it is indeed.

So, in the packaging,
it was the baby formula.

What's crazy about this,

they're paying $196 for two cans.

WATSON: We're experiencing a
shortage and its impacting many families

across the United States
of America currently.

There are many shelves
empty and families aren't able

to feed their children
formula due to this crisis.

We send heartfelt concerns to consumers,

so that's why we are
ensuring that these shipments

are getting to them promptly as possible.

PETTY: Look how much
they paid for two cans.

WATSON: 196 for two.

It shows the dire need that
people are having right now

for the formulas.

So, this is something we
definitely want to hurry up and

get out to the babies.

PETTYSo this one might be an
issue because it's not in English.

WATSON: With these products,
we wanna insure that it's able

to provide good directions on
how to use the products,

what the ingredients are.

And in this case, the
instructions aren't provided in

English for the customer.

VERBETEN: These are examples
of violative infant formulas.

So that's on import alert?

WATSON: Yeah, there are certain
products that we are sending

over to compliance due to them
already being on import alert.

It says misbranding and the
label is false or misleading.

Oh, so it states that it's
supposed to be six-plus months

but it's actually for infants and it doesn't
declare nutrients in accordance with the 21...

OFFICER: Requirements.

WATSON: Yeah, so...

VERBETEN: We regulate the
majority of food products sold

in the US.

We work very hard to
help facilitate the entry of

authorized products and we work
equally as hard to keep unknown

or unsafe products away from US consumers.

OFFICER: So we
probably do want to...

PETTY: Okay.

OFFICER: ...detain that one.

WATSON: So there's
roughly about 22 pounds.

We are gonna detain those items.

VERBETEN: The product either
has to be destroyed or it can

be exported out of the country
to keep those unauthorized

products out of the US.

GAVALDON: So the officer
is gonna test the possible

narcotic in this package here.

We suspect it to be either
crystal meth or fentanyl.

Those are highly dangerous drugs,

so we're gonna utilize
this box for his safety.

Now sometimes packages,
they're pressurized.

They have a little bit of air and if he
punctures the package in any way,

that air can spit a powder in
his face which, you know,

could be very dangerous, deadly, in fact.

Test it.

So we have interdicted
narcotics in the past in

this type, this shape, this form,

that have been fentanyl.

We've seen fentanyl on the
rise through the ports of entry

in this pill form.

Here at El Paso, we
have seen body carriers.

They can manipulate the
shape of the package to fit

under their clothing better.

And it is positive for the
properties of fentanyl.

The officer's gonna take it
into a secure area and he's

gonna process the fentanyl as abandoned.

OFFICER [over radio]:


GAVALDON: Another package?

OFFICER [over radio]:
Men's restroom.

GAVALDON: En route.

OFFICER [over radio]:
This one was in the men's.

[radio chatter]

GAVALDON: We found another
package in the men's restroom.

I'm gonna take it over to
the head house and secure

it as well.

OFFICER: They found more?

GAVALDON: Yeah, they found
some more in the other restroom.

Test it.

It's gonna be positive for marijuana.

We're gonna get a weight on these pills.

GAVALDON: It's uncommon to find two
packages within such a short timeframe.

GAVALDON: 4.9 grams.

GAVALDON: I believe that the
pedestrians were probably

traveling in tandem and, you know,

they both went in two
opposite restrooms, you know,

they got scared and dropped
their packages before

attempting to make entry into the US.

The evidence collection team
is gonna take it to another

site and gather their fingerprints.

So that way we can possibly
get a subject suspect from

this narcotic interdiction.

BONO: Hi, buddy.

What are you looking at me for, huh?

BONO: There are a lot of
different things you look for

when you watch passengers on the floor.

Do they look nervous?

Are they in a hurry?

Do they slow down once I
make eye contact with them?

It's all a matter of watching
behavior when you wanna stop

someone to give them a bag exam.

May I see your passport, sir?
Where you coming from?

TRAVELER: From Dakar.

BONO: Anything to declare?

TRAVELER: Tobacco, tobacco.

BONO: Just follow me, please.

It's all tobacco.

There's a passenger here,

in his possession there's chewing tobacco,

and pipe tobacco, and leaves.

What are you doing with all of this?

TRAVELER: Will give to
my mom and my grandma.

[winces and exclaims]

BONO: What is that?

TRAVELER: That's fish.

Dried fish.

[groans]

BONO: It's a very common occurrence
to see fish in passengers' bags.

You know, it's something
I've become accustomed to,

but at that very moment
when it hits you, you're like,

"Oh, man."

But I don't wanna make
too big of a scene because,

after all, it's his fish,

he plans on eating it
and I don't want to make

a disparaging remark about it,
but the aroma was very strong.

Let me see that.

TRAVELER: Some medicine.

BONO: Medicine?

TRAVELER: Penicillin, I guess.

BONO: You guess, you don't
know what medicine you pick up?

TRAVELER: It's an antibiotic,
like penicillin.

BONO: Here, take your medicine.

I don't know.
The tobacco, he's got a lot.

But the rule on bringing
in tobacco is two cartons.

But pipe tobacco and leaves...

As long as the leaves are
dry enough, then they're okay.

It was just a routine
inspection and off he went.

Thank you, sir.
You have a nice day.

OFFICER: Okay, send
the first parcel, please.



ERIC: What's up, brother?
What do you got for us today?

OFFICER: We got some pills here.

JOHN: Ecstasy pills.
Originating in the Netherlands.

OFFICER: Yes, sir.
JOHN: They're going to Glenview.

OFFICER: Uh-hmm.

JOHN: We got a
telephone call from the

Customs and Border Protection Mail Branch

at the O'Hare International Airport

that last evening they
intercepted a package that was

found to contain ecstasy pills,

going to an address
in our area in Glenview.

Yeah, we've seen this address before.

We had a couple of small seizures
going there within the last, since, like,

November, I think.

So, it was something that
we've been looking at already.

The drug dealers will say,

"Hey, I have the
Punisher skulls."

Or "I have the pink grenades."

It's a marketing ploy by
the people producing it.

For the customers, it's
to decipher what's good.

You can go onto, like,
ecstasy.org

where people put reviews on them after

they've done them.

But some of the people
producing this will counterfeit

the original person's pill
because it was a good seller.

ERIC: Smugglers
counterfeiting each other.

JOHN: Yeah, so now,
we're gonna take a piece,

we're gonna verify the contents.

It's getting there.
There we go.

MDMA.

MDMA is the chemical for ecstasy.

We got 163 grams, totaling 342 pills.

ERIC: Now we'll continue
our investigation and plan

for a controlled delivery
on the target address.

JOHN: The purpose of the
controlled delivery would

be to arrest the person who
placed the order and possibly

identify a vendor that was
selling it and try to work

our way back to Europe.

NEVAREZ: Hola, buenos dias.

NEVAREZ: The vehicle is yours?

And how long have you had it?

TRAVELER: Three months.

NEVAREZ: You've had
it three months?

NEVAREZ: Okay.

NEVAREZ: We have a gentleman
and our system showed me an

alert on the person's name.

So I ran a little bit more checks
on the vehicle and I noticed, like,

about four crossings ago,

he crossed through our other
port of entry here in El Paso, Texas

and he had been sent to secondary vehicle

inspection as well.

He didn't show any signs of nervousness.

The car looked clean,
the outside looked clean,

inside looked clean.

But the alert on the system
made me send it in to secondary

for further inspection.

OFFICER: He's
hitting right there.

NEVAREZ: K9 alerted to
the odor of narcotics.

OFFICER: Good dog.

OFFICER: Open it?

Open it.

♪ ♪

NEVAREZ: You guys got anything?

OFFICER: There's tampering here.

NEVAREZ: They found tampering,

so they're trying to
take off the center console

to see if there's anything there.

OFFICER: This is it, yeah.

OFFICER: That's it, told you.

OFFICER: This is fake,
you're right.

It's like plastic.

There's a compartment.

NEVAREZ: Two compartments?

OFFICER: Under the e-brake.

You can see it.

It's painted.

It looks like the metal,
but it's really thin.

It's either very thin
metal or it's plastic.

NEVAREZ: Plastic?
OFFICER: Yeah.

OFFICER: Oh, yeah.

A screw here.
There's a screw here.

NEVAREZ: They put the muffler
down and then they bent this...

...because the muffler, it actually
is supposed to be through there.

OFFICER: This is nice.

NEVAREZ: Inside?

OFFICER: Yes.

That's the bundle right there.

See it?

NEVAREZ: Yeah.

OFFICER: So it's
safe to assume...

...it's not factory-made.

♪ ♪

JOHN: All right, everybody,
thanks for coming out.

We're here today to brief
up an operation regarding

a seizure of approximately 342 pills of

ecstasy going to Glenview, Illinois.

The plan is to do a controlled
delivery of the package.

The package is going to get
delivered by an undercover to

the target address.

There is a warrant that has
been signed by a Cook County

judge which will be ex*cuted
upon the package opening.

If it goes mobile,

the warrant is gonna be
good for any place that the

package is at and any
person that's in possession

of the package at the time it opens.

Our target is a convicted
felon, he's got a drug history.

He's currently on probation.

We're unaware at this point
if he possessed any firearms

or if those firearms
were returned based on the felony arrest.

All right, thanks for coming
out and everybody be careful.

Generally what we see with
the ecstasy that comes into the

Chicago area out of Europe,

it's usually a dark
net marketplace purchase and

generally all the
purchases are cryptocurrency.

So we're always hoping
to get in, make an arrest.

If we can get into
somebody's Bitcoin wallet,

we'll generally try to
seize it to identify

co-conspirators overseas.

So we're approaching the target complex.

I have a couple of eyeballs
that are there to do the

visuals and then kind of put
everybody else in the outlying

area in case the package
starts going mobile.

Right over the fence here,
is the target building.

The undercover is gonna
be pulling in now to attempt

to get somebody to accept the package.

AGENT [over radio]: UC [undercover]
is on foot, heading to the door.

[knocking]

AGENT [over radio]:
Contact with the target.

Parcel was accepted by target.

I ended up delivering it
to the sliding glass door.

He took the package inside.
He's got no shirt on.

JOHN: 10-4.

The target accepted the package
and it's inside of the target location.

AGENT: I've got no
motion on our package.

JOHN: One of the other agents
is monitoring the package.

Now we wait to get the alert
that the package is opened and

that ultimately validates
our search warrant and

then we'll all move in.

BONO: Can I see
your passport, please?

TRAVELER: Yeah.

BONO: Are you carrying
an excess of $10,000?

[traveler laughs]

TRAVELER: No.
BONO: No? Why do you laugh?

TRAVELER: I wish.

BONO: You know what?

If somebody asked me that
question I would laugh too

because I wouldn't have
that kind of money either.

That is funny.
Have a nice day.

This flight is coming from
the Dominican Republic.

We like to target this flight.

We get a lot of good currency
inspections off of this flight,

sometimes narcotics seizures,

so we will stop some
individuals randomly and

see what their stories are.

Passport.
Where you coming from?

TRAVELER: Dominican Republic.

BONO: Traveling by
yourself, solo?

TRAVELER: What?

BONO: Solo?

[speaking in Spanish].

BONO: Oh, okay.
Anything to declare?

TRAVELER: No.

BONO: Okay.
I'm going to check your bags.

Come with me, okay?

This is hers?

OFFICER: Yeah, she has a lot
of travel back and forth.

BONO: She has that much travel?
OFFICER: Yeah, a whole lot.

BONO: Okay, how many
days in Dominican Republic?

TRAVELER: One week.

BONO: One week.

Where?

TRAVELER: Oh, in
El Mamey de Puerto Plata.

BONO: This your bag, right?

TRAVELER: That's mine, yes.

BONO: This too?

TRAVELER: Yes, mine.

BONO: All right, do you work,
what do you do?

TRAVELER: I work
in a beauty salon.

BONO: Can you get me a CBP
officer that speaks Spanish?

Ask her how much money she's carrying.

VAZQUEZ: How much
money do you have there?

TRAVELER: Count it.

VAZQUEZ: No, no, not to count.
Tell me how much you have.

Don't touch the money.

TRAVELER: There's about.

...$13,000.

VAZQUEZ: She says
she has about 13,000.

BONO: Oh, my God.
She's got undeclared 13?

She just declared it after I found it?

Cat's out of the bag with that one.

It could be subject to seizure.

VAZQUEZ: Yes.

BONO: Because she
has over $10,000,

she has to declare it.

Ask her why didn't she declare her money.

VAZQUEZ: He wants to know why
you didn't declare the money...

...when the officer
asked you over there.

TRAVELER: Oh,
I didn't understand.

VAZQUEZ: She says she
didn't understand.

TRAVELER: He
spoke to me in English.

BONO: If she didn't understand,

how does she know she was asked?

Tell her we're going to
take her to a private room and

we will continue the inspection in there.

Two female officers will
escort her to a private room

where her body will be checked.

She does have an excess of $10,000.

That currency needs to be verified.

Some more aspects of her story I
would like to get more information on,

fill in some of
the gaps in her story hopefully.

But we'll work on that right now.

Negative?

VAZQUEZ: Negative. She's good.

BONO: All right, we're going to
count her money right in front of her.

Tell her to pay attention
to what we're doing,

do not take her eyes off of her money.

TRAVELER: Count it,
because I just save it.

VAZQUEZ: So then,
how much is there?

TRAVELER: There's
about $14,000, around there.

BONO: All right, ask her where
she got all of that money from.

TRAVELER: Look, from my taxes...

...the pandemic money that
the government gave...

...that's there...

...and from my tips that
I have been saving.

BONO: Something that doesn't
make any sense to me,

she lives here, right?

TRAVELER: Yes.

BONO: Now, all of that
is accumulated here in

the United States.

So then why would she
take all of that money outside

the United States and
then bring it all back in?

TRAVELER: I was going
to buy something there...

...and it didn't go through...

...and I don't trust
anyone with my money.

VAZQUEZ: What were
you going to buy?

TRAVELER: An apartment.

VAZQUEZ: She said she
went to buy an apartment.

BONO: What bothers me,

if you're going to interact
with a real estate agency,

either you go down with a bank check or

you go down with a certified check.

Ask her if she knows the
address of the apartment that

she looked at or the name of
the person that actually showed

her the apartment.

VAZQUEZ: And the
name of the person...

...who was going to
sell you the apartment?

TRAVELER: I don't know it.

VAZQUEZ: You don't know
the name of the person...

...who was going to
sell you an apartment?

TRAVELER: I just went to see it.

VAZQUEZ: But then how
would you communicate with them?

TRAVELER: Through another lady.
I have her name in my phone.

Her name is Eva.

BONO: I'm gonna
verify her currency.

She has declared 14,000.

If it's a little over,
we're gonna give it to you,

but if it comes out to
be $16,000, $17,000,

there might be an issue, okay?

$15,369.

She only had maybe $1,000
more than she declared,

but all in all, after the
currency was verified,

there was nothing really
there to pursue after that.

She can collect her money and leave.

TRAVELER: Thank you.

BONO: This was not
a voluntary report,

so now the possibility exists that the
next time she travels internationally,

she probably will be
pulled for an inspection again.

VAZQUEZ: You need to understand
that you have to declare your money.

TRAVELER: Of course.

You're absolutely right.

BONO: Straight out there, okay?
Thank you. Muchos gracias.

AGENT [over radio]:
I've got motion on our package.

JOHN: It's moving around,
so that means he's at least

handling it right now.

AGENT [over radio]:
Subject just came out.

He had our envelope in his hands.

Walking to his vehicle now.

It's a white Honda Accord.

OFFICER 2: That's his
white Honda over there.

JOHN: Well, looks like
we're going for a ride.

AGENT [over radio]:
Eastbound.

JOHN: Oh, he's
gonna be right here.

We don't wanna see him.

AGENT: What's his vehicle?

JOHN: This white car right here.

JOHN: Yeah, we don't
wanna get too close.

AGENT [over radio]: He's continuing
north. I'm gonna pass off the eye.

JOHN: He could possibly
be heading towards the highway.

OFFICER 2: Is that him?
AGENT: Yep.

JOHN: Yup, there on the right.

We're probably gonna end up
sitting right next to this guy,

which I don't wanna do.

AGENT: Put your cameras down.
We're right behind him.

JOHN: Yup.

AGENT [over radio]: John, is
that you right in front of me?

JOHN: Yeah, after we turn,
I'll let you take over.

AGENT [over radio]:
Got the green arrow.

AGENT: Okay.
We're gonna pass him?

Put your cameras down.

AGENT [over radio]:
Indicating westbound at Willow.

And I just lost sight of him.

JOHN: Did anybody
make it with him?

AGENT [over radio]:
I'm on Willow, but...

...I lost sight of him.

JOHN: 10-4.

AGENT [over radio]:
All right, I think I've got him.

We're at the red light on Shermer Road.

Turning into this residential
area. Making a right turn.

[John groans]

AGENT [over radio]:
Stopping at a one-way street.

An individual is getting
into the car with him.

Package is open, guys.
Package is open.

Circling right at you there.
Stop them. Stop them. Stop them.

[police sirens]

[police sirens]

AGENT [over radio]:
There's a couple in custody.

AGENT: Do you have anything
on you? Any weapons?

ERIC: The other subject got in
the car with our main target

and they did a little bit
of talking and then ended up

exchanging the narcotics.

Now we've detained them and
we're now going through the car

and then talking to the subjectS.

AGENT: His phone's right here.
JOHN: Yup. Airplane mode.

The package is open,
it's on the floorboard of

the passenger side of the front seat.

Some of the contents were removed,

so we're trying to determine
if it was the driver or the

passenger that opened it up.

So we're gonna check for theft
detection powder and stuff like that.

AGENT: Open up your hand, bud.

I think he's the one.

JOHN: Yeah, we've got
two in custody right now.

We're gonna be transporting
them back to Cook County Sheriff's

police headquarters in Maybrook.

We'll probably do search
warrants on the cellphones,

which should yield information
as far as ordering the package

or communications with
people regarding the package.

The next step's kind of gonna
depend on how the interviews go.

We're gonna continue the
investigation from there to see

what charges made may
or might be filed on them.

OFFICER: See the bundle?

OFFICER: There you go.
OFFICER: All right, pull.

Go ahead and grab this so it doesn't fall.

OFFICER: No, it's stuck.

It's stuck in here.

OFFICER: Watch yourself.
Watch your eyes.

NEVAREZ: Good job.

OFFICER: It has.
Oh, it's got a string.

It has a string.

OFFICER 2: Yeah, you
can pull them out.

OFFICER: Dope on a rope.

OFFICER 2:
Dope on a rope, baby.

[overlapping chatter]

[overlapping chatter]

Yeah, that's the last one.

NEVAREZ: So this is the
man-made compartment they put

and they put the steel plate.

They actually, they tried
to put some cushion.

But this is the original compartment.

This muffler, this tailpipe,

is supposed to go all the way through.

So basically what they did is they dropped
it down and then put the compartment,

that way they could put
the bundles of narcotics.

The method of compartment
that they were using,

in this case,

was a little bit more
sophisticated because if you're

not really looking at it
and using our equipment,

you wouldn't be able
to determine it because

it was well-hidden.

This is the center console of the vehicle.

You could see that they
have to remove this in order

for the trap door to come out.

Of course we didn't know that but,

this is the original way that
they were gonna take it off.

That way, they could keep
the compartment intact and

they could reuse it,
and reuse it, and reuse it,

'til finally he gets busted.

We're gonna test the
narcotics that we pulled out

from the vehicle.

We presume it's cocaine
but the machine will tell us

definitely what it is.

The plastic box is for
safety of the officers.

We've been seeing a lot
of fentanyl crossing and

fentanyl is deadly even
in the smallest portion.

OFFICER: So it's
positive for cocaine?

NEVAREZ: Cocaine.
OFFICER: What's the weight?

NEVAREZ: The smugglers
recruit these young adults.

They train them and they do
different things to help them

cross into the United States.

It's so unfortunate 'cause
they're so young and their life

is barely starting but,
they're easily deceived.