04x10 - It's Raining Meth

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♪ ♪

MENDOZA: All these
are from Europe?

OFFICER: Yup.

MENDOZA: All right, let's do it.
You can feed it.

I'll take a look at the screen.

We got thousands of packages
coming in from all of these

different countries.

Today we're gonna try to just
focus on getting the ones that

are coming from Europe.

European countries are big for ketamine.

I see an anomaly right here
in one of these packages.

The color is drawing my attention to it.

It looks it might be
some kind of synthetics.

CERVANTEZ: It's
coming from Spain.

MENDOZA: Spain?

But I see some kind of Asian names here.

That's unusual coming
from a Spanish country.

Oatmeal.

CERVANTEZ: We got
some Spanish soup.

And it's in Chinese packaging.

MENDOZA: A little weird to me.

Soup packages inside of a
Chinese oatmeal kind of bag.

Yeah, that doesn't look like noodles.

[theme music plays].

We're gonna bring all of these
packages back to our facility.

We'll test it and
it'll tell us what it is.

It's a good find.

Ready to go?

You wanna cut the stuff open?

Now we're gonna take everything apart.

Whenever we're cutting the
stuff up, you don't wanna just

slice it right down the middle
'cause then all of this stuff

will spill, and if it's
something there to cause us

harm, we just exposed everybody.

So, they cut all of these
packages right on the bottom.

They emptied out whatever
chicken noodle soup that was

in there, put the little bag
of narcotics, tried to pass it

off as a normal chicken noodle soup.

Now, we're gonna test every package.

The bag is clear, so it's gonna
give us a chance to use the laser.

That way we don't have to get
exposed to whatever it might be.

Ketamine chloride.

We have one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine,

ten packages.

We're gonna just double check to
make sure all of them are ketamine.

So that one's ketamine.

Ketamine is sometimes used
for horse tranquilizers.

It's popular in the night clubs.

Bada-bing-bada-boom.

They're all coming back
as ketamine hydrochloride.

Get a weight on there.



We're gonna contact HSI

and see if they want to
take this any further.

It feels good, you know?

This is the fruits of a good day's work.

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OFFICER: Hi, sir.
Anything to declare?

Like fruits, meats,
vegetables, or anything?

MAN: Nope.

Have a great day.

ADAMS: With LAX, we're
basically the main hub for

Asian flights and Australia,
New Zealand, Pacific Islands.

OFFICER: Where are
you guys coming from?

TRAVELER: From Karachi.
OFFICER: Okay.

Are you bringing
anything back from Pakistan?

TRAVELER: Sweets only.
OFFICER: Just sweets?

TRAVELER: Sweets.
OFFICER: Okay.

OFFICER: What're
you traveling with?

TRAVELER: A bike.

OFFICER: Is it
your personal bike?

Or is it something that you
purchased that you're bringing over?

TRAVELER: It's
my personal bike.

OFFICER: Okay.
Have a good one.

LAM: It's a total group effort.

Everyone working collectively
from the warehouse people,

who move the cargo for us, to
targeters, to all the officers

that are assisting.

It gives me satisfaction.

Totally rewarding.

MAN [over PA]: This is the
final boarding call...

OFFICER: All right, sir.
Sir, everything is good.

TRAVELER: Okay.
OFFICER: And welcome back home.

TRAVELER: Awesome. Thank you.

OFFICER: You're welcome, sir.

OFFICER: Focus on
the red suitcase.

OFFICER: The red suitcase?

Okay.

All right, sir, where are you coming from?

TRAVELER: Vietnam.

ANGELES: All right. Are you
bringing any fresh fruits today?

TRAVELER: Fresh fruits? No.

ANGELES: Any vegetables?

TRAVELER: No veggies.

ANGELES: Any meat products?

TRAVELER: No meat products. No.

ANGELES: Sausages?
Nothing like that?

All right.
We're gonna check, okay?

How long were you in Vietnam for?

TRAVELER: Three weeks.

ANGELES: Three weeks?
All righty.

You're really bringing
a lot of food today.

TRAVELER: That's not a lot.
I left behind a lot of food.

ANGELES: What's
this over here?

Bird's nest.

TRAVELER: I bought
it for my mom.

ANGELES: Bird's nest is, uh,
an animal product, usually

coming from the swallow birds.

That's prohibited entry
into the United States.

It's actually made out
of spit, uh, bird spit.

So, how many birds'
nests did you bring today?

TRAVELER: Just one.

ANGELES: Just one?

TRAVELER: It's too expensive.

ANGELES: Expensive, right?

A lot of times they'll farm it
in bird farms that they have,

uh, over in southeast Asian countries.

In more natural settings,
they'll actually chop it off

the cliff side rocks.

The more expensive versions
actually taste like shrimp and

brine because the swallows
actually dive into the ocean

and they eat the shrimp, so.

I've seen some of these go for
like a couple hundred dollars.

TRAVELER: So you
guys gonna keep it?

ANGELES: Yeah. They could be
carrying diseases that we don't

have here in the United States,
things like bird flu.

And I know this is expensive, but, um.

TRAVELER: Yeah,
that cost me like...

ANGELES: Animal products like
this, yeah, you can't bring it in, okay?

TRAVELER: Yeah.
I didn't know the rules.

Okay. It is what it is.

ANGELES: All right,
you wanna pack this up?

TRAVELER: Yes.

ANGELES: All right.

The bird's nest is
actually a more uncommon find.

I wanna say maybe in a week
we might find one or two,

so this was a good find for us.

This could have came from
a farm where the sanitary

conditions are very low.

Because of the many diseases
birds carry, we can't take any risks.

TRAVELER: All set?

ANGELES: Thank you.
You're all good.

TRAVELER: Thank you.

ANGELES: Thank you.

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ZELADA: I think it's
probably on that side.

We are CBP Agriculture
Specialists and we're gonna be

looking at some higher
risk shipments coming from

countries that are bringing
local handicrafts,

maybe fruits and vegetables.

And we're gonna just make sure
that none of these items could

potentially be bringing any
pests or diseases that could

be harmful to the
U.S. agriculture.

GARCIA: Nothing, nothing.

ZELADA: This is the colina
and that's the bitter melon.

It was manifested on the invoice.

OFFICER: Yeah.

ZELADA: We already know more
or less which shipments we're

gonna be looking for by the
manifests that are coming in.

We make sure that the
description actually is what

the contents are in the
package, and that they're

actually allowed and not
prohibited to come into the U.S.

And if everything is good to
go, then we're gonna release

it to its consignee.

All right.
We're good to go.

You got the food stuff there, huh?

GARCIA: Dates.

OFFICER: Open them up.

They're fresh.

Is this something?

I think so, right?

GARCIA: Yup.

OFFICER: Pest.

ZELADA: The bug that they
found, that's a coleopteran,

which is a little beetle.

So at this point, we'll place
the shipment on hold and

send it off to USDA.

And if everything comes back
not actionable, we'll release

it back to the, to the
owner of that shipment.

All right.

So the shipment we're
looking for is from Cameroon.

OFFICER: So, this is it?

ZELADA: Yeah, and
these are the handicrafts.

Um, so, let's ask somebody to
go ahead and bring it over to

the inspection site, just so we
can take a better look at it.

We're gonna be taking a look
at this shipment that's coming

from Cameroon and it says
that it's local handicrafts.

We look at handicrafts because
we gotta make sure that if

they're made out of some kind
of a wood, we're not bringing

in wood-boring pests that are
harmful to the U.S. agriculture.

OFFICER: How many pieces?

ZELADA: All right.
It says its six total.

Let's take a look.

Huh.

Wow.

Look at that.
It looks like a face.

This is definitely not wood.

GARCIA: Looks ancient.

ZELADA: They're
importing a sculpture.

We've got some dirt in here.

Look at that.
Is that some grass, too?

OFFICER: This was
underground for a long time.

You can tell with the soil that it has.

ZELADA: Yeah.
It's still full of dirt.

I wouldn't consider this a handicraft.

I would consider this something
completely out of that realm.

It's a sculpture.

They have the actual dirt
still falling off from there,

so you can tell that it was
somewhere for very, very, very

long time and it was dug
out right from the dirt.

If it came in legally
or not, we don't know.

We just wanna make sure what
it is first so we can make

that final assessment.

So, let's find the other pieces.

OFFICER: Another one.

ZELADA: This is an
even bigger piece.

But what do you think they're from?

Definitely we'll have to
call somebody on these things.

Lift this one up so we can get pictures.

OFFICER: Have you all
ever seen anything like this?

Looks from like from
an Indiana Jones movie.

OFFICER: Kind of, yeah.

ZELADA: The sculptures all
follow very similar pattern,

so it seems like one person
made this or the same group of

people made it.

Do they all look like
the same kind of rock?

OFFICER: Yeah, same material.
ZELADA: Mm-hmm.

OFFICER: I don't
know what kind of rock.

ZELADA: Neither do I.

Since it no longer has
any materials related to

agriculture, I have to refer
it off to the in-bond team to

see what further action might be needed.

FAJARDO: Hey, officers.
ZELADA: Hey, how are you?

FAJARDO: How are you?

ZELADA: So these are a couple...
FAJARDO: Oh, my.

ZELADA: Of the
sculptures that we found.

FAJARDO: This is awesome.

I'm with the in-bond enforcement team.

We're a specialized unit that
responds to either artwork,

artifacts, any type of
item that might have

cultural significance.

I suspect they're monoliths.

If it was new, the lines would
be sharper, we'd probably see

tool marks, but in this case,
there aren't any and the fact

that it's still covered in
soil, we're thinking they're

an authentic artifacts.

This seems like a misrepresentation.

They said they're $100 each.

Based on other items we've seen,
that's not an accurate price.

We can see the line where
it was buried in the soil.

MOTA: Can people bring
this into the country?

'Cause they sent it as
handicraft, you know, like.

FAJARDO: No.

This, the paperwork says it's a
certificate of origin from Cameroon.

We'd have to contact the
Cameroonian government,

see if this is legitimate and
make certain it's not falsified.

This could, possibly, be a blackmarket.

If it does belong to Cameroon,
the patrimony I would highly

doubt they would allow these
items to be taken out of the country.

And now we're gonna contact
the subject matter expert.

I got that funny feeling it
will be significant, but that,

that'll be yet to be determined.

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JOE: Today, CBP officers at the
JFK International Mail Facility

intercepted these two
parcels from Spain and

they found them to contain ketamine.

This box had a little over three kilos,

this one a little over two.

Today, we're gonna be
conducting back-to-back

controlled deliveries of
these parcels into Queens.

We're gonna utilize an
undercover law enforcement

officer to deliver both parcels.

These are gonna be live loads,
so lets's not lose a load.

But the safety of our
undercover is paramount.

We're gonna have a couple
guys ghosting our undercover.

If the deliveries are
successful, we're gonna take

all evidence and all detained
persons back to NYPD's


interviews and processing.

All right, let's do it.

OFFICER: Yeah.

JOE: Tack up quick,
then we're gonna roll out.

All right, we're good?

All right, let's go.

Ketamine comes in waves.

We'll have a dry spell, and
then the seizures of ketamine

will pick up.

We see a lot of it going into
the Asian community in Queens.

Both parcels are related to
the criminal organization that

we've been working for the past few weeks.

The goal is to gather further
intelligence to dismantle

these organizations
responsible for importing

these dangerous drugs.

This stuff is poison, it kills
people and the more drugs we

take off the street, the more
people we arrest, I do believe

we're making an impact.

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OFFICER: How are
you guys doing?

Bringing any food, alcohol,
tobacco back into the country?

TRAVELER: Uh, no. Not today. No.

OFFICER: Currency over $10,000?

TRAVELER: Yeah, we wish.
Yeah, no.

OFFICER: No? Okay. Okay.
Thank you very much, guys.

Have a great rest of your day.

TRAVELER: Thank you.

MOLINA: Hello.
TRAVELER: Spanish.

MOLINA: Oh, Español?

TRAVELER: Yes.

MOLINA: Okay.
Where are you coming from?

TRAVELER: From Costa Rica.

MOLINA: Okay. How much time are
you planning to spend here?

TRAVELER: One week.

MOLINA: With who?

TRAVELER: With friends.

It's my first trip here.

MOLINA: Friends?
How did you meet them?

TRAVELER: They are
family friends.

From years ago.

MOLINA: Okay. And your friends,
what do they do here?

TRAVELER: I mean,
I wouldn't know that.

I haven't asked them...

...since they are seniors now.
They are friends of my family.

GARZA: How many bags
do you have with you?

TRAVELER: Just one bag only.

And these other two.

MOLINA: And this bag is new.

Who bought it?

TRAVELER: Me. I bought it.

MOLINA: Yeah,
let's go check your bags.

MOLINA: This passenger
was coming from Costa Rica.

It's a very hot zone known for narcotics.

He was isolated from the
rest of the passengers.

It looked like he was nervous.

He was coming to visit his
friend that he has never met

and the luggage that he
was bringing was new.

These are facts that made
me want to see what we find.

MOLINA: So, okay.
Please take a step back...

And did you pack all of these bags?

TRAVELER: Yes.

MOLINA: Your friends,
the ones you're visiting...

...how long has
your family known him?

TRAVELER: Since I was little.

It's like, he is, more
friends with my mother...

...and my father, let's say.

MOLINA: But when was the
last time you spoke with them?

TRAVELER: I spoke to him not too long ago
to ask if I could stay here for a week.

Just to know the place
and have them host me.

MOLINA: Okay.

MOLINA: And did you speak
about plans you'd do here?

TRAVELER: They're going to
show me around some places here.

MOLINA: What places?

TRAVELER: The beach, I don't
know. The beach and go shopping.

MOLINA: Okay.

GARZA: Is this entire
bag filled with coffee?

TRAVELER: Yes. These are coffee
samples that were gifted to me...

so I brought them.

MOLINA: Okay.

GARZA: Is this coffee a present?

TRAVELER: All of it.
I brought it as a gift.

MOLINA: We found a lot
of coffee sample bags.

When we have a lot of, of the
same products that's a little strange.

Perhaps they're hiding
something or they're trying to

smuggle something in.

GARZA: Put it
through the X-ray.

MOLINA: Okay.

MOLINA: We're going
to take this to the X-ray.

GARZA: Okay. Let's go.

MOLINA: You're going this way.

OFFICER: Yeah, it looks strange.

MOLINA: It looks strange?

OFFICER: Yeah.

MOLINA: We'll open a couple.

Okay.

GARZA: Did somebody give this
to you so you would bring it?

TRAVELER: No, no. Also no.

TRAVELER: This is
to give out as gifts.

GARZA: How many friends
did you say you have here?

TRAVELER: It's a whole family.

GARZA: One family.

TRAVELER: The husband
is the one who is our friend.

My family's friend.

MOLINA: It's all coffee.

GARZA: Grab another one.

MOLINA: Okay.

MOLINA: So go have
some fun then.

TRAVELER: Thank you very much.

MOLINA: We opened a couple of
coffee bags and we didn't find anything.

But we consider that a good stop.

Any type of intel that we get
on trends, it's always good to

have that information.

So we let him go and he went
to go to the beach and

visit his friends.

MOLINA: Have a good day.
Thank you.

FAJARDO: Hey, Doc.

I'm one of the, uh, seizing officers.

When we saw these stones,
we knew something was up.

And on top of that we did
determine the export documents

from Cameroon were fraudulent and false.

Can you please tell us what
your, your findings were and

your analysis of, of
when you saw the stones?

AKIN: My immediate
reaction was joy.

And joy is that your
officers intercepted them...

...before they got
into the art market.

FAJARDO: Mm. Mm.

AKIN: These figures
are Akwanshi monoliths.

Based on archaeological estimates...

...we know that they were
being carved as early as 300 BC.

They were carved to
celebrate the ancestors.

FAJARDO: Mm.

AKIN: In fact, their name "Akwanshi"
means ancestors in the ground.

In times of crisis or during
the annual festivals,

...our people go
and make prayers.

Pictures tell stories that
will allow me to...

...pinpoint where they will
have come from.

Cameroon and Nigeria, they share a border.

But, as soon as I saw the objects,

...there was no doubt
where they came from.

The Cross River State in Nigeria.

These are not objects that
belong to an individual.

They belong to a community.

FAJARDO: Correct.

AKIN: Antiquities like
this do not leave the country.

When these kind of things are removed...

...it is not just the history of
that country that is being lost...

...but it is also depriving the
descendants of these people...

...the opportunity to
continue their way of life.

FAJARDO: Wow.
I just can't thank you enough.

I'm, uh, I'm almost getting
emotional here based on, on

the, the history and
the significance of them.

Hopefully, they'll end
up where they belong.

AKIN: Thank you.

FAJARDO: Doctor Ogindiran,
emphatically stated that these

items are not for sale,
they're not supposed to be

exported from Nigeria.

So there was no reason for
those items to have even

made it into the U.S.

Doctor Ogindiran did
confirm all of our suspicions.

They are authentic.

These items are, are ancient.

They are part of a Nigerian tribal, uh,

religious ceremonies.

We have something extremely significant.

MENES: Amazing to me
that they're in this good of condition.

FAJARDO: Akwanshi
are one of a kind.

MENES: Priceless.

And they are going to an
individual here, right?

FAJARDO: Yes. It s-seems to
be going to a private entity.

MENES: Okay.

The countries are gonna want these back.

We will start the seizure,
reach out to HSI.

Hopefully, we can get these home.

FAJARDO: We'll put the
package together, the photos.

MENES: Yeah.

FAJARDO: And we
will contact HSI.

My hope is that these items
will be returned to Nigeria.

Had our agriculture colleagues
not have inspected these

items, they would have gone
to the owner that illegally

purchased them and we would
not have seen them ever again.

I've been doing this work
with antiquities for at least



This definitely is the
highlight of my career.

The significance of them is
beyond, uh, exciting for me.

♪ ♪

JOE: The first location is gonna
be down the block to the right.

AGENT: Be advised, we've got a
white Lexus in the driveway...

...of the occupant's home.

JOE: The field team is
setting up our walk-ons.

Then they get out on foot to
get as close as possible

to our undercover.

Once they're in position,
we're going to give our

undercover the green
light to attempt delivery.

When the walk-ons are set,
we're good to go.

AGENT: Alright,
everyone's set up.

JOE: All right.

All right. That's one of our
walk-ons right there, across the street.

And there's our other walk-on right there.

Give the green light.

AGENT: Making
the turn onto the block.

If it's a positive, the undercover
is going to take his hat off.

JOE: Okay. 10-4.

All right, so here comes our undercover.

All right. The U.C. is
knocking on the door.

Our walk-ons are getting closer.

AGENT: Looks like a
negative on the front door.

He's gonna go to the side door.

JOE: 10-4.

♪ ♪

AGENT: So, the woman around the corner
says, uh, "second floor," but no answer.

Do you want me to try the phone number?

AGENT: Yeah.
Let's do the phone number.

AGENT: Okay.

JOE: A woman answered on
the side door and said,

"No, that belongs to
the guy upstairs."

So we're gonna have our
undercover call the number

that's on the box.

AGENT: Alright, be advised.
Phone call was made, went to voicemail.

Undercover is leaving a
package slip with a call back.

JOE: All right.
That's a good, copy.

Let's head over to the second location.

That was a negative on the phone call.

Our undercover left a delivery notice.

We're gonna head over
to the second location

and attempt a delivery there.

♪ ♪

MIRAMONTES: Up, up, up.

Up, up.

Hey, up.

Good dog.

LOPEZ: At the LAX
International Airport,

we get thousands of
inbound shipments a day.

And our targeting unit, they
target certain shipments and

they bring them here to
this centralized location

for further examination.

MIRAMONTES: Good dog.
Good boy.

They request a K9 presence,
so I show up with Aries and

screen some of the freight for narcotics.

Hey. Gee, where's gee?

Up, up.

Up, up.

LOPEZ: The way he sat
down, that's a signal that he

alerted to something.

MIRAMONTES: Get it.

Get it, boy.

Get it.

Woo, that's a good boy.

LOPEZ: It's a
piece of machinery.

Looks a little bit odd, I
would say just the way it's

put together.

So right now, we're just trying
to see what's inside of it.

OFFICER: X-ray the shipment.

OFFICER: We have a five inch
area right there that we can't

get in through.

Something in there.

OFFICER: We're gonna
drill the top of this.

OFFICER: Yeah.

OFFICER: Can you see
if it went through?

OFFICER: No, no.

OFFICER: We just got to
get this big old piece off.

OFFICER: What're you
guys traveling here for?

TRAVELER: Visiting a friend.

OFFICER: When's the last
time you guys crossed?

TRAVELER: I haven't been
to the States since I was 16.2000, 2001.

OFFICER: Oh, okay.

KERBY: Here in Detroit,
we are the largest

northern land border in the United States.

This port, in particular,
encompasses all modes of

transport: land, sea, air.

So there's a little
bit of everything here.

BURK: How're you doing, guys?

TRAVELER: Good.
How are you?

BURK: Not too bad.
Where are you guys off to?

TRAVELER: Going to Detroit for
Movement [Electronic Music Festival].

SMITH: This weekend, we've got
a big festival here in town

that hasn't been held in two
and a half years because of

the pandemic.

So, we're expecting a larger
than normal crowd to come to

the downtown area.

In years past, this specific
festival has yielded a lot of

seizures for our team.

BURK: You guys are just coming over for
the day or are you staying all three days?

TRAVELER: We're leaving
on Monday afternoon.

BURK: Traffic's a
little busier than normal.

Just being a little
extra vigilant with the

body language reading, questions
asked, what people are doing.

KRUCZEK: Any weapons?
Narcotics?

Currency over 10,000?

TRAVELER: No.

KRUCZEK: We'll find harder
narcotics, like ecstasy, molly.

Put it in park and pop
the trunk for me, okay?

Our biggest one is usually marijuana.

Sometimes we'll get some g*n seizures.

SMITH: Any g*ns, drugs,
currency over 10,000?

In outbound operations, you're
having people that are coming

from out of state, might not
be familiar with the area.

We're gonna see more wrong
turns than we normally do

coming to the border here and
maybe having something that

they shouldn't have.

SMITH: All right.
What I'm gonna have you do...

...is go through this
little gap right here...

...and we're going to go park.

KRUCZEK: Follow me.

RODNEY: We had this
black SUV make a wrong turn.

He didn't mean to go into Canada.

We still have to make sure
that the car is safe,

because he could be lying to us.

♪ ♪

OFFICER: There you go.
It's right there.

OFFICER: Bingo.

RODNEY: We checked the center
console to which we found

a loaded firearm in the car.

Since he didn't declare the loaded
firearm, we put him in handcuffs.

We wanna make sure
this guy was restrained.

He didn't have any other weapons on him.

OFFICER: We're gonna
do fingerprints real quick.

RODNEY: Once we got him in
custody, we did fingerprints.

Turns out this guy has
an active warrant here in

Michigan for burglary.

He is a convicted felon of
several different major crimes

and felons aren't allowed to
have firearms with them

in their possession.

He's claiming it's not his
firearm but the fact that it's

in his vehicle and he's the only one it,

it's his firearm today.

AGENT: How far are you?

AGENT: Two minutes out.

JOE: Okay. So, here we are
at the second location.

That's the target house.

There's a male sitting in the driveway,

he appears to be asleep.

I'm gonna square the
block and set up, okay?

AGENT: Copy.

JOE: Guy's in his
underwear, that's cool.

So we're just past those flags.

All right, I'm set.

How's our walk-ons?
Are they in the area?

AGENT: They're on
foot right now.

JOE: All right. So, send
them when you're ready.

AGENT: You've got the green,
UC [undercover].

AGENT: All right. I'm rolling.

AGENT: Copy.

JOE: Now our undercover
is making his way to

attempt this delivery.

If it is successful, we'll
move in, apprehend those

involved, and bring everybody
back to the precinct.

Our undercover is pulling up
to the location right now.

The male in the driveway got
up and is looking at the U.C.

This might be our guy.

AGENT: Hey.
How are you doing?

Alright, I just need you to sign for me.

JOE: That's gonna be a go.

AGENT: Sign here and here.

Okay. Thank you.
Here's your package.

JOE: That's a go.
That's a go.

[siren]

AGENT: Police. Get down.
Get down on the floor!

AGENT: Police. Hands up.

[siren]

AGENT: They got him.

AGENT: Step up. Come here.

You got anything on you?

SUSPECT: Just the cigarettes.

AGENT: Just cigarettes?

JOE: He came out
of this house?

Who was in there?
Who's in the house?

SUSPECT: Just by myself.
I'm living on the first floor.

AGENT: Just you?

SUSPECT: Yeah.

AGENT: Police. Anyone here?

AGENT: Where's your I.D.?

SUSPECT: I think I've
got one in the car.

JOE: The controlled
delivery was successful.

We detained an individual.

We're gonna bring him
back to the 109th precinct.

Back to the 109.

Yeah.

So, the plan now is to
interview this individual,

ideally to gain his cooperation, to see if

he's going to help us
further this investigation.

♪ ♪

OFFICER: Crowbar, crowbar?

OFFICER: There you go.

There you go.

OFFICER: Move it.
Slide it over.

OFFICER: Forklift.

OFFICER: Right there.

OFFICER: See those crystals?

OFFICER: Yup.

OFFICER: Test with the Gemini.

OFFICER: There we go.

Meth.

Positive for meth.

Crack it open. Let's see
how much we got in there.

OFFICER: Flip it over.
Flip it over.

OFFICER: Watch your fingers.

OFFICER: The moment of truth.

OFFICER: There you go.

OFFICER: There we go.

OFFICER: There it is.

OFFICER: Crystal
methamphetamine.

OFFICER: Completely loaded.

LOPEZ: It's a good amount,
especially coming through this

port of entry, LAX.

You don't really see this
as much as the land borders.

Bad day for them, good day for us.

Let's go get masks and bags,
and we'll start bagging this up.

OFFICER: Going to the concert?

TRAVELER: Yes, sir.

KRUCZEK: This
doesn't go to the concert.

This is going to Canada right now.

TRAVELER: Oh, I didn't know.

KRUCZEK: Since there's a
festival right next door,

we're gonna get a lot
more people thinking this is

parking, entrance to the festival.

They're so focused on their
GPS that they don't see all

the signs saying that they're
going to Canada, and then they

end up talking to us.

TRAVELER: I'm sorry. I
didn't mean to come this way.

I didn't know where I was going.

SMITH: You guys have your I.D.'s
with you? Let me see your I.D.'s.

TRAVELER: Yeah.

We're not even from here. We
just came to go to the festival.

SMITH: We get wrong turns
several times a day.

It's fairly common here.

But once they pass the line of
no return, you're here at the

border, and whatever we
find during the inspection is

subject to seizure.

SMITH: Any g*ns, drugs,
currency over ten thousand?

TRAVELER: No.

SMITH: No marijuana? Nothing?

TRAVELER: No.

SMITH: All right. So what
I'm gonna have you do is

I'm gonna have you guys
follow us over here

to our secondary area, and then
we'll go from there, okay?

All right.

RODNEY: A wrong turn
is a common thing.

We're not the only ones that
know that, criminals do, too.

So that's something they may
tell us just to escape our inspection.

We wanna make sure that doesn't happen.

KRUCZEK: Okay. Put it
in park. Shut it off.

Both of you are going to
come out after me, okay?

SMITH: You got
anything on your person?

TRAVELER: No.

SMITH: No?
No marijuana on your person?

No weapons?
No nothing?

TRAVELER: No.

SMITH: All right.
Can you take them in for me?

OFFICER: Good boy.

Come on. Come on.

OFFICER: There's our
K9 positive alert.

OFFICER: Good boy. Come on.
Come on, Maxy.

Good boy. Good boy.

OFFICER: Found it?

SMITH: Yeah.

There's two bags on the floor.

That was the center console.

Do you guys want to go pat them down?

I'll keep with the vehicle.

We conducted an inspection on the red car.

In our inspection, we located
marijuana, which is ill*gal to

have here at the border.

Hold on just a sec.

Oh, wow.

♪ ♪

OFFICER: You find
something else?

OFFICER: Yeah,
it's promethazine, that codeine syrup.

SMITH: Yeah.

We found promethazine syrup,
which you have to have a

prescription for and it is
also ill*gal here to

have at the border.

Next what we're gonna do is
we're gonna run checks on the

individuals, make sure they've
got no wants, warrants, and

seizing the items that we
found, that type of stuff.

Do you wanna combine all
of that into a bag for me?

SMITH: Testing for marijuana.

OFFICER: So that's positive.

SMITH: Normally it's not a
big deal, but yeah, it's still

ill*gal on federal property.

Even though marijuana is legal
on both sides of the border,

it's still ill*gal here at
the border and it's our job to

enforce the laws here at the border.



Promethazine syrup.

OFFICER: We're gonna use the
Gemini to identify exactly

what it is.

SMITH: Yeah, this is exactly
what it is and you need a

prescription for that.

They mixed this codeine syrup with
uh, Sprite or alcohol to get purple drank.

KRUCZEK: Do you have a
prescription for that syrup?

Did you get that one
from a doctor's office?

TRAVELER: I don't know,
I don't know.

KRUCZEK: No prescription.

Nope.

SMITH: 264 grams.

What's gonna happen is
everything we found,

we're just gonna take it,

and then we're gonna go from there, okay?

You're not in trouble,
you know, it-it happens.

Upon completing our
inspection, we found that

neither of them had any wants,
warrants, and we released them

and let them go back
into the United States.

KRUCZEK: If they had a certain
amount of marijuana that met

the threshold for the federal government,

they would probably get penalized.

Since it's such a small amount,
it doesn't meet that threshold,

so we just take it and seize it.

♪ ♪

OFFICER: Right now, we're
just cleaning all this up,

get as much as we can.

OFFICER: Let's get it all.

OFFICER: Yeah, so
this is good right now.

We'll run the K9 on the
top piece of this shipment.

OFFICER: Yeah.

LOPEZ: K9 alerted.

We'll drill a hole.

OFFICER: Oh, yeah.
It's crystal in there.

You can straight up feel it.
Crystal. See?

Yeah. There you go.

Take that entire bottom section.

OFFICER: Can it be
this right here?

OFFICER: Yeah. There's a
little panel right here.

OFFICER: We're gonna Gemini
test it and see what happens.

OFFICER: Same thing. Meth.

OFFICER: Got it?

OFFICER: Just let it drop.

There we go.
Boom, there's a second half.

Bag it up.

OFFICER: Good.

OFFICER: All right.
Let's see what we got.

Combined weight:


LOPEZ: It's hard to tell when
it's in the shipment but

once you get it into the bag
you get a real picture,

you're like, "Woah."

OFFICER: Yeah.

LOPEZ: This might be the
second largest crystal meth

shipment we've seized.

You don't see this type
of stuff at an airport.

You see it at a land border,
but airports, it's rare.

OFFICER: HSI's gonna come
out and we'll let them make a

decision, what they wanna do.

LOPEZ: Now we have a little
bit more intel on what to look

for, what type of industrial
equipment we can see,

how it can be concealed.

It's good for us, good for our
team, good for our agency,

and good for our country.