04x09 - Guac and Coke

[bunniefuu]

♪ ♪

ORTIZ: What do you think?
You see something?

Today we identified
containers that were coming

from the Dominican Republic.

These were manifested as avocados.

BERMEO: All right. And so, then
you picked it up from what yard?

ORTIZ: When we brought
them through the x-ray,

we were able to identify that
they weren't full containers.

We identified an area that
looked like it was freshly caulked.

OFFICER: Start from there, yeah.

OFFICER: We've gotta drill
those ones, I think, still.

OFFICER 2: All right.
Let's do it.

OFFICER: Let me, let me hit it.

OFFICER 2: Just be
careful how deep you go in.

Stay on the outside of that.

OFFICER: There you go.
There you go.

OFFICER 2: Nice.
OFFICER: That should be good.

OFFICER 2: There you go.

Try to hit it with the crowbar.

OFFICER: All right.

OFFICER 2: There we go.
There we go.

[drill whirring]

I see. I see bricks.

OFFICER: You it, you see them?

OFFICER 2: Yes!
It's loaded. Loaded.

OFFICER: Yeah!

[theme music playing].

OFFICER: Yeah!
Look at it all, bro.

Look at it all.

OFFICER 2: There it is.
That's it.

Get the bin, guys.

OFFICER 3: Make
sure you have gloves on.

Make sure you have masks on.

[overlapping chatter]

Eight. Nine.

ORTIZ: These commodities,
we don't know what they are

and they could be deadly.

It could be fentanyl.

A small gram of fentanyl could k*ll you,

so that's why we use safety precautions,

masks and gloves, to protect our guys.

OFFICER: 65...

...66...

MOPPS: The job gets
tedious sometimes, you know?

You get down, you get dirty,
you crawl through ships.

And you keep looking and looking.

And, you know, after
a while it starts to think,

"Why am I doing this?"

OFFICER: There's more!

[laughs]

MOPPS: And then
when you finally hit it,

you get the load, it's like,
it's all worth it now, you know?

OFFICER: That's the last one.

OFFICER 2:140?

OFFICER: Yeah.
OFFICER 2: Yeah, bro! Yeah!

[overlapping chatter]

BERMEO: What we do now is we put
it into one of our test kits

to verify what kind of substance it is.

Whether it's an ill*gal substance,

like cocaine, fentanyl.

OFFICER: Positive for cocaine.

OFFICER 2: All right,


OFFICER 3: We've still
got another container.

BERMEO: We just pulled in
another container that might be

loaded as well, because
they are linked together.

The search never stops and
neither do the traffickers.

OFFICER: Hup! Hup!
Good boy, bubba.

OFFICER 2: Can you open your
trunk for me and turn your vehicle off?

NEVAREZ: As you can see, we
have various types of vehicles,

various types of travelers.

Everybody's trying to
get to the United States.

NEVAREZ: Here you go.

RUIZ: From my
experience on the eight years

working here with, uh, the CBP.

RUIZ: We see a
lot of alien smuggling.

OFFICER: Good boy.

FRANCISCO: Some of these
undocumented foreign nationals

are looking to better their lives.

We totally understand that.

The problem is, these human
smuggling organizations are

transnational criminal
organizations that are

exploiting these individuals.

It's a money-making machine for them.

They're putting lives at jeopardy.

OFFICER: Anybody need water?

FRANCISCO: The criminal
organizations have no care

for human life, human safety.

OFFICER: Can you stand up?

Come on. You're okay.

OFFICER: It's okay. It's okay.

FRANCISCO: It is important
for us to stop this because

we're gonna continue to see lives lost.

We're literally right
on the Mexican border.

The ability for these
undocumented foreign nationals

to circumvent the fence
line and get across and

then get into the
community is really quick.

RUIZ: There's stash houses here
where they're holding big groups

and then they start moving them
through San Antonio to Albuquerque.

If they're going all the way to the north.

Let's say like New York, uh, Detroit.

They may pay up $15,000 per one person.

OFFICER: Lane five,
can you guys run the...

...semi under
the canopy, please?

FORZIATI: We have a semi-truck that's
coming down the wrong way.

Down the bridge, and we
have to have K9 go sweep it.

In order for it to make
entry into the United States.

We just have to do a
secondary inspection on it.

PANTELAKOS: There could
be anything from contraband,

narcotics, to people, human trafficking.

They opened up a truck just
like that not too long ago and

that's where all those dead bodies were.

Can we open the doors?

There's a lot of space in
there to hide a lot of things.

It could be false sides,

they could have loaded up the baseboard.

There's many places to hide stuff there.

OFFICER: Put the dog on it.

OFFICER: Stand by for K9.

PANTELAKOS: Initial
hands-on inspection,

nothing really pokes
out at us at the moment,

but we're, we always
run K9 on it just in case.

Negative inspection.

This truck here, more than likely is, um,

legitimate travel.

But unfortunately, people have
suffocated in the back of trucks

like that, so it's very, very
important that we check those

trucks thoroughly for contraband
and for safety of people.

[tires screeching]

OFFICER: Hello, guys. Where
are you guys coming from today?

MAN: From Colombia.

OFFICER 2: Where were you today?

WOMAN: Dubai.

OFFICER 2: Did you do a
little shopping out there?

WOMAN: Yeah.

OFFICER 2: Just come
with me real quick.

PHILLIPS: There's no
quick reference guide to

the way people conceal items.

BONO: I look for
passenger behavior,

their interactions with other passengers.

Are they on the phone a lot?

Are they texting?

All of those things that passengers do,

most of them have a meaning.

After you do this enough,
you can actually tell.

Where's your passport, sir?
How are you today?

MAN: Fine.

BONO: Where you coming from?

MAN: Ghana.

BONO: Would you come with me?

The reason I stopped him
is because when he opened

his passport, he had
$100 bills just falling out.

What's your reason for travel today, sir?

MAN: I'm with a
cultural exchange program.

BONO: Okay. Where is the, uh,
the money that was in your passport?

MAN: The money?

BONO: Show it to me.

Why would you keep money in your passport?

MAN: It, it, it...

BONO: Take it out.

All right. Make sure you
have all your money, all right?

Put your money away.
Put your bag up here.

How long is your program for, sir?

MAN: June to September.

BONO: And it's called?

MAN: The Green
Heart Exchange Program.

BONO: Green Heart Exchange.
What, what kind of work?

MAN: Housekeeper.

BONO: Where?
Do you know where you're going?

MAN: Tennessee.

BONO: You're going to Tennessee?

MAN: Yes, sir.

BONO: How are you
getting there from here?

MAN: I booked a flight.

BONO: Show me. Let me see.

[phone chimes]

Who is the person
that just Snapchatted you?

MAN: My cousin.

BONO: Is that person here?

MAN: Yes.

BONO: Where?

MAN: He's in New York.

[phone ringing]

BONO: Don't answer that.
Who is that anyway? Same person?

MAN: Yeah.

BONO: Don't. Don't answer it.

Is he meeting you here?

MAN: He's taking me to the...

...the Delta office, so
I can travel to Tennessee.

BONO: I don't understand that.

Delta Airlines is in
this terminal. Why do you...

MAN: He has a credit card.

So, he's going to show them this...

...his credit card that...

...he booked it for me.

BONO: Before I open this bag,

I want to ask you another question.

Are you bringing
anything into the United States

with you for anyone else?

MAN: No, please.

BONO: You didn't
bring anything for him?

MAN: No. Everything is mine.

[phone ringing]

BONO: This guy is an
awful rush to talk to you.

The way I think is, "Hey.
I'll buy you the ticket.

Bring this into the
United States for me, or..."

OFFICER: Yeah. Right, right.
BONO: "Or do this for me."

I don't know. But that's
just the way I look at things.

[phone ringing]

Your flight is in 40 minutes and yet

you're gonna have time
to go see this person?

MAN: No, he's taking me there.

BONO: But you're here.

MAN: Yeah.

[phone ringing]

BONO: That
doesn't make any sense.

And this guy doesn't stop.

OFFICER: Got the knife?
You have to cut it.

[overlapping chatter]

OFFICER: You want the glove?

BERMEO: We were looking at
different containers coming from

incoming countries that were of high risk.

OFFICER: Woo!

ORTIZ: Get the other bin.
We've gotta get the other bin.

MOPPS: The people
that smuggle the drugs,

they put so much
effort into concealing it.

They welded and riveted a
new piece of metal in front.

It looked all normal.

Back in the day, they used to

just put pallets over it on there,

but not no more, man.

It's really concealed deep now.

OFFICER: One.

OFFICER 2:101.102.



OFFICER: Anything up top?

OFFICER 2: You got
the fiber optic scope?

There's more. There's more.

We're good?

How many?

ORTIZ: 140, in
the other container 127.

BERMEO: It's been
several years since

we've found a load this large in one day.

This is a cold hit.

We never know what shipment we're getting.

Guys worked really
hard day in and day out.

This is a big payoff for us.

We're very excited.

OFFICER: So another 45 pieces?
OFFICER 2: Another 45 pieces.

OFFICER: And then we
just gotta weigh these.

BERMEO: We're contacting HSI.

And they're gonna take
the investigation further and

search for where these
drugs were intending to go

to in the first place.

So we got about 142 keys total.

About 73, 72 between each.

They're getting it all set up and loaded.

Once we send it all to
you guys, it's on you whatever

you guys need us to
do from there on, okay?

ROBERTS: Cool. Thank you, bro.

[phone ringing]

BONO: As I was inspecting him,

his phone started to ring off the hook.

It musta rang six times.

And the fact that it just
kept ringing off the hook,

didn't make any sense to me.

OFFICER: Why are
they calling so much?

That's the thing,
though. I don't get it.

BONO: I don't get it either.

OFFICER: Who's calling you?
Who is that?

MAN: He is my cousin.

OFFICER: Who is that? Who?

MAN: My cousin.

MAN: Yeah.

He booked it for me.

[phone ringing]

BONO: And he didn't ask
you to bring anything into

the United States for him at all?

MAN: No, no.

BONO: Are you carrying anything
on your body for anyone else?

MAN: No.

[phone ringing]

BONO: This, this bothers me
because how do we know that

they didn't coerce this
guy into coming here and

he might not be going anywhere, right?

[phone ringing]

He looks, I don't want
to use the word, "Vulnerable."

But, you know.

He looks like he doesn't know any better.

OFFICER: That's fine.

BONO: Nothing?

OFFICER: Nothing.

[phone ringing]

BONO: Who's that?

MAN: It's my mom.

BONO: Okay.

MAN: So I think he...

...he called her, and he's telling
her that I'm not taking this call...

...so she's calling me.

BONO: Okay.

After a little while, the caller
that appeared on the phone was

his mom, so that brought
things a little more clarity.

Maybe because he wasn't
picking up that guy's calls,

the guy might've worried
and called his mom and said,

"Look, your son's not answering the phone.

Why don't you try?"

And that sort of
brought the inspection down.

All right. Here.

You're all set.

Once I was satisfied that
there was nothing wrong there,

I just handed him back his
passport and I let him go.

Be careful out there, all right?

All right. I don't know.

OFFICER: It is
what it is, you know?

OFFICER: You do what
you gotta do. I mean...

...it's a good look.
It's a good search, you know?

BONO: Yeah. Yeah.

OFFICER: Hello, good morning.

Anything to declare?

WOMAN: No.

BOCAILLE: So the primary
focus with CBP officers is the,

here at the port of entry.

OFFICER: Very good,
thank you. Have a good day.

BOCAILLE: But however, we do
have travelers that try to come

in where it's not the
port of entry where we,

as CBP officers, cannot be.

Our job here is limited,
but along the border,

you have Border Patrol that is
protecting the border itself.

CARRANZA: Border patrol,
our counterparts, will actually

monitor the land
in between the port of entry.

That land in between the
port of entry is usually used

to circumvent entering
the country legally.

And AMO also assists by
monitoring via helicopter or

any other method that they're able to use.

PILOT [over radio]: Go
ahead and shut secured doors

come off [inaudible].

CARDIEL: The El Paso Air Branch

covers approximately


PILOT [over radio]: All right,
[inaudible] on my good side, left.

AGENT [over radio]:
They look secure on the ground.

CARDIEL: On a day-to-day
basic operation for us,

we will go out, we'll support
Border Patrol from the air.

The pilot and the
enforcement agent that's sitting

in the opposite seat from him,

if they come across a group of migrants

they have the capability
of reaching out via radio to

the ground components of the
Border Patrol and help them make

whatever arrests need to
be made in those situations.

PILOT [over radio]: That's good,
make your box out by 68.

Good start on the inside.

CARDIEL: Unfortunately,
these migrants, uh,

they come with a big dream.

They're not told or they
are misled as to the dangers

they're gonna be facing.

And a lot of these cartels or a lot of
these human trafficking organizations

don't really care about the people that

they're pushing across the border.

PILOT [over radio]: It's a business
and they're only getting better and

better at the business
so they're finding new ways

to always throw us for a loop or

throw someone else through a loop.

AGENT [over radio]: There's some
amount of people right here.

AGENT: Probably waiting.

AGENT [over radio] There's,
like, at least three or four.

There's another two on our
left-hand side, a little further down.

They already are in the United States.

They're already in.

PILOT: Are you up
on comms with the ground?

AGENT [over radio]: Yep.

PILOT: This sounds like
a job for horse patrol.

The bush that the one in the grey shirt...

...is walking towards.

There's another five in there.

PILOT [over radio]:
One, two, three, four, five,

six, seven, eight.

And then the other bush to the right,

there's about four in there.

AGENT: Horse patrol coming in.

PILOT: He's
running from the agent.

He just caught that single.

PILOT [over radio]: Those
smuggling organizations, well,

sometimes they'll send five or
six groups and other times it'll

be maybe just one or two
at a time and space it out.

So they're, they're pretty
good about not being consistent.

Just when you think you have, like,

it figured out,
they'll throw a curve ball.

AGENT [over radio]: Right now,
they'll all be searched.

And then they'll be put
into that transport van.

And they'll be taken to the station.

Once everything, the
situation becomes calm,

just making sure everybody's good,

they're in good health, they'll
do a interview and get intel;

the direction that
they're gonna be traveling and

on the smuggling organization as well.

♪ ♪

BERMEO: HSI comes in and what
they usually do with us is that

we trade off some of the cocaine,

so that they can try to track
it to the original source of

where it was intending to go.

ROBERTS: All right, guys,
thanks for coming out today.

Our CBP partners got
approximately 150 kilos.

This is associated to a large-scale
drug trafficking organization.

So we're gonna attempt a
controlled delivery down

in the Miami area.

These guys could be armed.

So once we make entry into the location,

get everybody safe and secured
on the ground, do your searches.

Hopefully we can get some arrests today.

Let's go do this.

This operation, it could take
anywhere between two hours,

it could take two or three days.

We're not on our schedule,
we're on the bad guys' schedule.

We have multiple units on the ground and

we're gonna deliver the container.

[radio beeps]

AGENT: Heading westbound...

...should be jumping on 595.

ROBERTS: The location of
where we drop off the container,

the individuals that
are there will maybe try to

attempt to extract the narcotics.

We also have to focus
on who we're dealing with,

violent drug trafficking organizations.

So, yeah, for sure, we
always have to be on high alert

and just move forward and,
you know, try to catch them.

AGENT: Container did
make the left-hand turn.

AGENT 2: Yeah, I'm
gonna go ahead and set up...

...down that street.

[radio beeps]

AGENT: Truck at our location.

[radio beeps]

AGENT 2: They're backing it
all the way to the loading bay.

AGENT: Alright.

ROBERTS: We arrived at
the final destination.

We are currently awaiting any
activity as far as if somebody

comes and accepts the container
from the person delivering it.

So we're in a waiting game.

We've got a long night ahead of us.

♪ ♪

ROBERTS: It's not uncommon for
the individuals to wait when

there's nobody around anymore,
all the businesses have closed.

And they wait for,
you know, darkness to fall

so they can start, you know,

taking stuff out when
nobody's really around.

[radio beeps]

AGENT: Targets look
like they're walking in.

ROBERTS: There we go.

AGENT: Don't get close to them.
They're gonna be looking for heat.

ROBERTS: I'm here, but
I'm like, two blocks away.

AGENT: They're in the container.

You got one walking with
a duffel bag to the front.

They are definitely spooked.

You got a target crouching
down on his hands and knees.

Male.

Bleached blond hair.

Somebody's outside.

[radio beeping]

AGENT 2: SUV?

AGENT: They're walking
towards that vehicle.

Alright, looks like they're leaving.

AGENT 3:10-4.

AGENT: Let it go.

ROBERTS: The doors were closed.

I, I'm thinking that
they were kind of just, like,

sizing it up and see if anyone showed up.

But they definitely.

They didn't even attempt to
open that [bleep] with tools.

AGENT [over radio]: Yeah.

AGENT: Alright,
you guys can roll out.

ROBERTS: Okay, brother.

So the two targets that were at
the location, um, departed, um,

in a, in a vehicle
that came to pick them up.

Some units followed them away.

The target container's
still at the location and

we will maintain eyes
on the container, um,

all through the night until morning.

BONO: Passport, please.

How long were you
outside the United States?

WOMAN: Seven days.

BONO: What was
your reason for travel?

WOMAN: Birthday.

BONO: You have a
nice day, all right?

WOMAN: Thank you.
BONO: Thank you.

PHILLIPS: How you doing, sir?
Can I see your passport, please?

Where you coming from today?

MAN: Haiti.

PHILLIPS: Haiti.

All right, just come real quick.

I'm just gonna take a
quick look in your bags.

Just place your bags up here for me.

What was the purpose of your trip?

MAN: To see my family.

PHILLIPS: How
long were you there?

MAN: Like, a month.

PHILLIPS: A month?

Are these gifts?

MAN: These are gifts for family.

PHILLIPS: Okay.

Definitely feels like
Christmas morning when

you gotta unwrap everything.

But I don't see my name
on any of these gifts,

so I guess I must have
been a bad boy this year.

Ginger?

MAN: Oh, yeah, ginger.

PHILLIPS: If it's not dried,
then it might not be allowed.

PHILLIPS: PQ!

OFFICER: Ginger
is usually okay, but it's got to be clean.

Something like this, you know.

If it's contaminated
with soil, it's not allowed.

MAN: So, take those out?

OFFICER: No, these
are okay, these are okay.

MAN: All right, good.

PHILLIPS: What is this?

It's a portrait of the
passenger I was inspecting.

It is really heavy.

Give me one second, all right?

I'm taking a look at the picture.

Just based on recent trends,

folks have been using picture
frames as a concealment method.

And so when I saw it
and I felt the weight,

my suspicion level
went from here to there and

I had to take a, a closer look
to see what was inside of it.

Whoa.

OFFICER: Yeah, it's heavy.

Let's check the lining on the back.

PHILLIPS: And I try to be
delicate while still, you know,

being able to do my job
and inspect the portrait to see

what's inside of there.

This is dry plywood.

I'm satisfied with that.

The material used to create
the portrait was what caused

it to be so heavy.

Have a good day. Thank you.

TONY: A Border Patrol
agent received information

on a possible human smuggling stash house.

We regularly get about
two to three leads a week.

We're about to go see if this
information we got is any good.

So, a lot of our, our traffic
will initiate in El Paso.

And if they're successful
with their smuggle attempt,

a pickup driver will
usually pick them up here and

take them to a stash house.

Sometimes we'll run into a stash
house and find four smuggled humans,

sometimes you find 20,
sometimes you find 60.

We'll find firearms, we'll find narcotics.

Sometimes they're g*ng-related,

that's where some of
the violence can come in.

They can have, uh, weapons
holding them against their will,

asking for higher
smuggling fees from the family

and just holding them there.

Sometimes the caretakers
can go even further and

sexually as*ault them,
physically as*ault them.

So it's important to
go to all these houses.

Not just because there's
a crime being committed,

but also because there's
possibly crimes being committed

against the smuggled humans.

[knocking]

One thing I don't like
about doing knock-and-talks is

sometimes you go knock and you
hear people moving around the house.

Hopefully, they're just
trying to hide and avoid you,

but they could be
setting you up for an ambush,

ready to retaliate against you.

The more time they go without answering,

the more nerve-wracking it gets.

AGENT: Police! Police!

[knocking]

AGENT: Police!

AGENT: Can you step out
for a minute and talk to us?

Stand over here, bro.

Do you have any weapons on you?

MAN: Nah.
AGENT: All right, bro.

AGENT: Is there
anyone else in here?

MAN: No.

AGENT: We got
reports that there's a...

...a lot of people being
held here against their will.

MAN: What?

AGENT: Lift up your shirt, bro.

Clear.

Mind if we take a look?

TONY: He let us in.

AGENT: We can?
TONY: Yeah.

AGENT 2: The
dude's high as [bleep].

TONY: Since we're
suspecting he's under

the influence of some kind of narcotic,

we decide to search the,
the house for anything,

any contraband, firearms, drugs,

anything indicative of
human smuggling, ledgers, money,

the type of food that they feed them.

TONY: Anything?

AGENT: No.

TONY: We didn't find any
smuggled humans in the house,

but from what we know in the
investigation and what we see

in there is he allegedly
smuggled humans in the past.

He has self-admitted to
being g*ng-affiliated and

we're running some checks, doing
a little more investigating,

see what's gonna happen with him.

While we're here, we
received information on

another possible
human smuggling stash house.

So we're gonna head
on from here to there and

see if we find anything there.

[tires screeching]

RAMOS: Every officer's assigned
a personal radiation device.

This'll let us know if anything within our
vicinity has radiation.

So as I was making my
rounds with the device,

the signal was strong
as I got to the passenger.

RAMOS: This girl.

VARSAMAS: Hello, ma'am.

VARSAMAS: Passport?

What do you have?

WOMAN: Clothes. Cheese.

RAMOS: You know, radiation,
it could be dangerous,

it could be used as weapons.

VARSAMAS: All right.

RAMOS: So we have to
make sure that it's,

it's not a, a instrument of terror that

somebody's trying to bring in
to do harm into this country.

VARSAMAS: So, how long were
you in the Dominican Republic?

VARSAMAS: How long?

WOMAN: About
two months and 12 days.

I went for an operation.

VARSAMAS: Okay.

VARSAMAS: What happened?

WOMAN: I had a
thyroid treatment done.

VARSAMAS: Okay.

RAMOS: Miss, are you
visiting or do you live here?

VARSAMAS: Yes, she
had thyroid, um...

WOMAN: I live here.

VARSAMAS: She
had thyroid surgery.

RAMOS: You had treatment done?

WOMAN: Yes.

RAMOS: Do you have paperwork?

WOMAN: Yes.

I have it all here in my luggage.

RAMOS: What I've
encountered at the airport when

a passenger's being treated
with radiation is sometimes they,

they put this dye in the person, so

then when they do a CT scan the
image can read a little better.

So if the person has
ingested that dye, it'll,

it'll trigger this.

And she supplied the
proper medical paperwork and

it shows the actual
chemicals she was treated with.

Oh, I-131. Okay.

I-131. Okay, yeah.

Okay. So she's free to go.

VARSAMAS: Thank you.

WOMAN: Thank you too, my love.

ROBERTS: Billy, you got a pretty
good eye out there, right?

BILLY: We've got eyes on them.

ROBERTS: We're
back again for day two,

the overnight surveillance teams.

We're still sitting on a container.

Multiple people have come and gone.

Every once in a while,
they'll enter the container,

go to where the narcotics
are concealed and look around,

come back out, walk around.

Once they make entry
or access the compartment

where the narcotics are,
we will make entry.

But as of right now, we're
just, uh, in a holding pattern.

AGENT: We're at
the target location.

A blue Honda SUV pulling in now...

...headed southbound through
the lot from the north entrance.

ROBERTS: One of the
targets, uh, came back and

has been inspecting the
interior of the container.

One of the, uh, ground
units saw them with a drill,

so there's a chance that, um,
now that it's daylight,

they could be taking
the opportunity to access

the container, um, hidden compartment.

AGENT: We've got a guy
who just walked our way...

...with it looks like,
light-colored hair.

AGENT 2: Looks like
they accessed the truck.

They pulled one or two bricks out.

ROBERTS: They get
their hand in there? Okay.

AGENT: Alright, guys,
heads up, heads up...

...bleached-haired guy...

...is standing on the sidewalk
looking at the business now.

AGENT [over radio]: Walks.

ROBERTS: All units
move in and grab that guy.

[sirens wailing]

ROBERTS: Where's the location?

Which is the location?

AGENT: It's right here.

AGENT: Hey, cover! Let's go!

Everything's closed up.
There's nobody in there.

ROBERTS: Once we
apprehended the subject,

we cleared the area to
make sure, uh, there wasn't

any threats for law enforcement.

So we, uh, cleared
the container, of course.

We also cleared the building
that the individual was to

make sure there wasn't
any suspects in there and,

of course, the surrounding parking lot.

We've got him in custody.

He's probably on the lower end here
of, uh, the drug trafficking organization,

so we try to work our way up
to the next individuals that

are here in South Florida
and then from that point that

we work our way to Caribbean
or South Central America.

AGENT: Clear out the car.
ROBETS: Okay.

Clear out.

♪ ♪

TONY: We're going to a house
in Sunland Park, New Mexico.

We're gonna be looking for smuggled
humans inside this house.

And if we do find them, then
we'll look to question probably

somebody who lives there and
see if they're the caretaker or

involved in any way and try to get as

much information from the investigation

to hopefully do an
arrest based on probable cause.

[dogs barking]

[phone ringing]

You got one? All right.

We're on our way over there.

[whistling]

AGENT: Someone popped
their head out of the trailer.

TONY: Out of this one?
Or the silver one?

AGENT: I think it's the silver
one out there in the back.

TONY: Yeah, they said that they
saw one run in as soon as they saw us.

♪ ♪

OFFICER: Let's go. Let's go.

Good boy.

VARSAMAS: So right now those
bags over here are from the

Dominican Republic and
we're just waiting for

the passengers to come and claim them,

because in the last couple of months,

it's been a very
successful flight to search.

VARSAMAS: What country?

WOMAN: Mexico.

VARSAMAS: Mexico.
Okay, thank you.

OFFICER: May I
see your passport?

Just follow them.

VARSAMAS: I know
a little bit of Spanish.

Not much.

VARSAMAS: Okay.

VARSAMAS: I need
to check the pills.

VARSAMAS: Okay?

The guy's coming from
the Dominican Republic

which was a flight that we were
targeting for narcotics smuggling.

And when I went through his luggage,

I found pills that were
removed from their packaging

and placed into some
other kind of wrapping,

stuck in sneakers, which made
it appear like he was trying to

be deceptive in
having them hidden from us.

He says there are 1,500 Viagra pills.

So the guy has enough
of them to get arrested.

VARSAMAS: Okay, come.

VARSAMAS: It's the
generic brand of Viagra,

which is very
expensive in this country and

where he's coming from
it's not that expensive.

Here, you need a prescription.

Over there, you don't, I guess.

We're gonna go to the pat-down room,

make sure he's not
hiding anything and wait for instructions.

[speaking in native language]

VARSAMAS: We have
to check your body, okay?

[speaking in native language].

VARSAMAS: Do you have any more?

VARSAMAS: All right.

VARSAMAS: Who's the pills for?

OFFICER: Who are the pills for?

MAN: I was going to sell them.

OFFICER: Who were
you going to sell them to?

MAN: Somebody I know.

I sell them and buy my flight.

VARSAMAS: And he's
supposed to sell them to who?

MAN: I just know
him as "Papolo".

OFFICER: So you
have his phone number?

MAN: No, no, no. No, señor.

OFFICER: How were you
going to set up a meeting?

MAN: Because when I come to
New York, we figure out how to meet.

VARSAMAS: For how much?

OFFICER: How much was he
going to give you for the pills?

MAN: How much was
he going to give me?

He was going to give me $1,000.



MAN: And that's the truth.

VARSAMAS: How much
did he buy them for?

OFFICER: How much
did the pills cost you?

MAN: 20,000
Dominican pesos [$374].

OFFICER: 20,000 Dominican pesos.

VARSAMAS: He says
there are 1,500?

OFFICER: You have 1,500?

MAN: 1,500 give or take.

OFFICER: Yeah.

VARSAMAS: Most likely,
they're gonna get seized.

Okay, here's 300.

It's the generic brand of Viagra.

And we counted 2,019 pills

and they're sold on the street

for ten to $20 a pill.

This product was made
in another country and

we don't know what kind of
quality control they have.

Can potentially be harmful.

These are prohibited.

OFFICER: Mr. Ramos,
we're going to immigration.

And they will give
you instructions on how this will proceed.

VARSAMAS: Put your
hands behind your back.

[overlapping chatter]

VARSAMAS: Prosecution
was declined and he's gonna be

sent back to the immigration side.

Because he's a tourist,
he's gonna be sent back to

his country and his visa's
gonna be cancelled because

he said that he's going
to sell them for $1,000.

Which is a violation
on the terms of his visa,

unauthorized employment.

And he's gonna be put on
a plane eventually after

they take a statement and
do an extradited removal.

[dogs barking]

TONY: What happened?

AGENT: So, there's
a group in there.

AGENT: She said the driver that
dropped her off ten days ago is in there.

TONY: Okay.

AGENT: I don't know if
there's anybody else in there.

AGENT: Is anyone
else in this trailer?

MAN: Yes.

TONY: And when did
you get here, today?

MAN: Yes, just now.

AGENT: What's the name
of the guy who helped you?

MAN: It's just that,
I just met him.

AGENT: What does he look like?

Describe him to me.

MAN: He's kind of white.

He's around 85 years old.

AGENT: About how many people
are there here right now?

MAN: I only saw the guy.
The American.

TONY: Are there
people in this one?

MAN: I don't know.

TONY: We need to get in.

They've talked to two
smuggled humans already and

they said there's probably more inside and

the driver that dropped off the female

that was out here,
earlier is, is still here.

So now they'll knock
and hopefully get consent.

AGENT: Police. Come out.

[knocking]

Come out.

Door open.

Is there anyone else here?

Apart from you.

Where are the other people?

Inside this house?

MAN: Yes.

AGENT: I need
you to call them out.

Stay there, yell at them.
Call them out.

MAN: Guys, come outside.

AGENT: Guys, come on out.

TONY: Ask for consent.

AGENT: Let me go in
and get them all out?

MAN: Sure.

AGENT: Come out.
Police. Come out.

Hey.

Hey. Come on.

Hands up.

And you.

Let's go. Come outside.

TONY: We continued
the investigation,

got consent to go in and we found a
total of 16 smuggled humans inside.

TONY: Stand here with
your hands on your head.

TONY: Of those 16, I
believe eight were from Mexico

and eight were from Guatemala.

We found almost, we found, like,

half the group inside the,
the main dwelling right here.

And they were just scattered
throughout in different rooms,

hidden behind televisions,
hidden in closets.

And then the other ones were inside this

aluminum trailer right here.

The conditions, as you can see,

are not anything that most
of us are used to living in.

That trailer doesn't
have any air conditioning,

that's where they're staying.

Considering the temperatures,

how hot it's been getting
these past couple weeks,

I think today we're reaching
temperatures above 100.

One of them could have a heatstroke and

who knows where it goes from there.

You know what?

They might not think it right now,

but I think, you know,
we did help them out today.