CBP_OFFICER HSI_AGENT OFFICER_EARNHART OFFICER_WHITE OFFICER_WITTE PA_ANNOUNCER PRODUCER SPECIAL_AGENT_CONNOR SPECIAL_AGENT_DANIELLE SUPERVISORY_OFFICER_ACEVEDO SUPERVISORY_OFFICER_RAMOS SUPERVISORY_SPECIAL_AGENT_IAN TRAVELER HSI AGENT Does anyone have him? HSI AGENT Just leaving the port. HSI AGENT Copy. I'll take Delta. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE We were just notified that a, a target vehicle that we know to be involved in smuggling narcotics was located in the San Diego area. So we are headed to try to intercept that vehicle. We've got air support. The goal right now is just to locate the vehicle, get eyes on, and maintain surveillance to confirm, one way or another, that the vehicle is loaded. I think I have a visual on it right now. Number three lane. Off, off, off. HSI AGENT Copy. I'll take it from here. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Copy. These kind of situations where the vehicle is loaded and these are experienced drivers, they'll try to detect vehicle surveillance units. So when we have air it allows us that room to not be so easily detected. It's pulling into a parking lot just off the exit. HSI AGENT Anybody in the lot. HSI AGENT Have eyes on the vehicle? HSI AGENT In the parking lot, there's a, a charging station. HSI AGENT In the southeast corner. HSI AGENT So he would be in the row just north of that. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Right now, we're in a shopping center parking lot. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Our target vehicle pulled in and took a parking spot. So we're on one corner of the lot. We've got surveillance units staged in, in all directions and still have our air support keeping eyes on the vehicle, waiting to see if it, it changes hands. I think people have the misconception that these deals, whether it's drugs or money or anything illicit, are happening in like dark allies and, you know, just big cities. But we find that the cartels utilize more public areas, I would say, more often than not. That kind of chaos and busyness, I think, works to their advantage. But also we can utilize that to our advantage also. Our suspicion is that, that there's gonna be some counter-surveillance involved here. Sometimes there's handoffs, driver swaps, multiple stops. Some of that could be just them going about their, their regular business while they're killing time to meet the next individual. So we'll just have to wait and see what happens. OFFICER WHITE Today, we're gonna be conducting a special operation to see if we can find any people who may be in violation of the currency reporting regulations. We target various flights from South America, from India, from T�rkiye, and certain African countries. Those are the countries most likely to be involved in currency smuggling because of the economic situations in their country. OFFICER WHITE The flight that we are gonna concentrate on today is a, a Turkish air flight. OFFICER EARNHART We have teams inside the airport, teams on the ground. OFFICER EARNHART Management brought in this K9 that actually specializes in finding money to help us out because of the uptick we've been seeing. OFFICER WITTE I work a currency and firearms detection K9. His name is Buddy. He's almost nine years old. Been working him for about seven and a half years now. He's been out there a while. He's, he's real seasoned. Let's go. OFFICER WHITE Normally, our target is hiding or concealing currency out. But smuggling currency in may be used for buying narcotics or furthering a criminal enterprise here in the United States. CBP OFFICER Stay to the right. Stay to the right. Thank you. Just keep walking and stay to the right. OFFICER WITTE He's nice. He's got a good smile. OFFICER WITTE Sir, stop. OFFICER WITTE Put your backpack on the ground. TRAVELER Right here? OFFICER WITTE Put that backpack down. Good. In the passenger environment, everybody carries cash on them. We train the dogs with a threshold. So the dog is basically counting with his nose. CBP OFFICER Keep walking, sir. OFFICER WITTE Here. As he's sniffing, when he gets to a certain number of bills, then he alerts me. Thank you. OFFICER WITTE Sir, stop. OFFICER WITTE Put your bag on the ground. OFFICER WITTE Thank you. He's a passive response dog, so when he finds something, he'll sit or lay or stare at whatever it is, and that tells me I need to give it a look. Good boy. OFFICER WITTE Stop him. CBP OFFICER Sir. TRAVELER Yeah? CBP OFFICER I need your passport, please. CBP OFFICER Done. OFFICER WITTE Good. OFFICER WHITE So, sir, you have other bags? TRAVELER One checked bag. OFFICER WHITE One checked bag? Okay. I think we're gonna go down and get that. While we were conducting our current operation, our currency K9 had an alert to the baggage of this gentleman. And we're gonna bring him in and have a discussion with him and see if he is, in fact, carrying any currency over the declaration limit. You can step right over here where this officer is. I gotta talk to him real quick. TRAVELER All right. OFFICER WITTE So currency. Possible currency violation. All right, sir. We're gonna go and get your bag. Let's get, get and, it's probably waiting for you right now. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO You know, I've been doing this job for about 28 years right now. I can tell you that in the last ten years. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Customs has seen an uptick on the smuggling of cultural property artifacts. So on a regular basis, especially here at JFK, we examine shipments. During the Arab Spring Uprising, we saw a huge uptick in smuggled Egyptian artifacts. We've seen an uptick in smuggled Mesopotamian, ancient Sumerian objects. So Customs has taken a vested interest in enforcement of these type of cultural property shipments that are transiting through the United States. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO We're gonna examine a parcel that was identified by our National Targeting Center. There's a potential it may have some rare books in it. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Usually with a legitimate shipment of rare books and manuscripts, there's usually a decent amount of documentation to show, "Hey, this particular country is cognizant that these books have left its border." But we've seen no paperwork that tells us its origin, where it came from, who owned it previously. So we're gonna take a look at it and see if it may contain potential cultural property violative materials. CBP OFFICER This is it? SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO This is our box. Let's cut this thing open. Just be careful. CBP OFFICER Oh, look at this. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO All right. We just gotta be really careful on how we open this stuff because we don't wanna damage anything that's, could be irreplaceable. CBP OFFICER Oh, yeah. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Yup. That definitely looks kind of old. We should put some gloves on. You know, with some of the other cultural artifacts that are usually made of stone or metal, I mean, you know, you're supposed to have gloves, but if you touch that kind of stuff, you're not gonna do it any damage. But if you're dealing with an old manuscript, you don't wanna get oil on the pages from your skin, so, wow. This definitely looks old to me, so, the book appears to be written in Spanish. It looks like it's some sort of arithmetic book. And it appears to be that it might have been published in 1515. 1519, if my history is correct, Hernan Cortes conquered Mexico and the Aztecs. So this book predates that by four years. Just be really careful, 'cause now we already established we got one book that potentially might be from 1515. God knows what else we're looking at in this box. Wow. CBP OFFICER Whoa. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO This book feels older than the first one we looked at. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Every, every page, so far, that I have opened up, the type seems to be in Latin. And what's really fascinating about this book, there is literally handwriting on every page. So it appears that somebody used this book as some sort of study book and they were writing with a super fine stylus, probably a feather quill. You have to be a bit of a geek, you gotta be a little bit of a nerd to love stuff like this. We go through thousands of parcels throughout the year looking for narcotics, contraband, but every so often, we'll get something like this small book here and you can't help but recognize that I'm potentially holding a piece of history in my hands. I've learned that, especially in the rare book world, it's a very secretive world. There's no way that someone just mails a rare book to see if it sells. These books are way too valuable and too rare to take that kind of risk. So the fact that a rare bookstore boxed these books and shipped it to the States, I have enough concerns that we're gonna detain this shipment. Let's get one of our PhD friends to take a look at this stuff and figure out what exactly do we have. OFFICER WHITE The gentleman we have in question here, there was an alert by our currency K9 to currency in some type of bulk form. We haven't discussed anything with the gentleman but when we get him to the back, we're going to see if he has any undeclared currency over the declaring amount of $10,000. Did you bring any money from T�rkiye? TRAVELER I had some cash. I brought some of it back. TRAVELER I think about 1500, I think. OFFICER WHITE Oh, okay. So no other cash that you have in your bags or on your person? TRAVELER No. OFFICER WHITE Any money that we find now, since you declared only $1,500, is subject to forfeiture. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER WHITE If we find it in your bags, okay? TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER WHITE Oh, these are nice. TRAVELER So that's a. OFFICER WHITE No issues. TRAVELER Company we do business with sometimes. TRAVELER So I got some gifts packed. OFFICER WHITE Gifts? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER WHITE All right. See, I'mma have to unseal this. TRAVELER Yeah, that's fine. OFFICER WHITE Just this one. Yeah. Yeah. Everything's cool there. While we went through his bags, we could not find anything concealed. He only had a minimum amount of money, under the, the threshold amount of $10,000. So everything checked out. Now, our inspection is complete. Thank you for your cooperation. TRAVELER Thank you. All right, I appreciate it. OFFICER WHITE And here you are. TRAVELER Thank you. OFFICER WHITE Okay. Thank you. The dog alerts to currency that's in large amounts. So the gentleman has currency that is bundled that the dog alerted to. But we searched his bag, we didn't find anything. And so we consider that a successful operation. HSI AGENT I got a gray Honda with a green marker across the plates. HSI AGENT It's in the parking lot. HSI AGENT It's approaching target vehicle. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Copy. Thank you. We have a new vehicle. Unidentified at this time. HSI AGENT All right, parking. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE This is, is pretty typical. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Either a driver swap or the addition of another, another person involved in, in the transportation. So this is a good, good sign. HSI AGENT All right, getting out. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE If those narcotics get transferred into this other vehicle, we're all set up in positions for, for a takedown. HSI AGENT Target just popped the trunk. HSI AGENT Get ready to go. HSI AGENT All right, he put that package into the trunk. HSI AGENT Do it now. Go. Go, go, go. HSI AGENT Copy. HSI AGENT Police. Hands up. HSI AGENT On your knees! Get on your knees! HSI AGENT Don't move. Don't move! HSI AGENT [speaking Spanish] Stop, stop! HSI AGENT How many do you have detained? HSI AGENT We've got two. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE They apprehended the, the secondary driver and the original driver. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR He was partially unloaded. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE How many, how many packages were moved into the new vehicle? SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR This is everything. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE This is. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR This is everything as we found it. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Oh, that's a lot. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR He got, yeah. He got quite a bit out already. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE So this is all that was already transferred into, into the other vehicle from the original vehicle. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR I'm gonna keep those isolated till we have them documented, but then we're gonna consolidate them so they're all in one spot. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE So right now we're just getting a, a count on all the packages, make sure that we have a good accountability for what we've got. So that's 13 of that. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN Now, we're just, essentially, processing the scene. We're gonna try to interview everybody involved and see if they can make any statements about their involvement. And if they were. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Hey, yo! SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN Hold on one sec, guys. Actually, we're gonna move on. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Yeah, we. PRODUCER What's going on? SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR We think some more people are coming to retrieve this, so we're gonna get out of the area. HSI AGENT Go, go, go. HSI AGENT Our minutes are ticking away. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR We just need to be ready for whatever happens next. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR People are coming. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Oh, [bleep] SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE The pickup crew that's supposed to come and retrieve the, the vehicle and/or the packages in the vehicle is close by. HSI AGENT Go, go, go. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE So we're going to basically reset, set up surveillance, keep eyes on the vehicle like we weren't even here, and wait and identify the next crew. HSI AGENT Let's get set. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE I'm just going to reposition somewhere. Get out of the immediate vicinity. So we've left and we are now waiting for the pickup crew. HSI AGENT Copy. HSI AGENT Get your gear ready and stand by for a plan. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE We have intel that the, the crew that was involved with this portion of it is really just the staging crew. The initial driver was in charge of getting it to this location and then moving the narcotics from one vehicle to the next. And then that vehicle sits while the pickup crew arrives and, and comes to pick that up. So we're gonna wait it out and hope that the pickup crew still shows up. And once they approach the vehicle and attempt to access the narcotics from the trunk, we'll move in and, and make the bust. PA ANNOUNCER Now, we're gonna board all rows, all down for Flight 91. You still have to scan your boarding pass here at the counter. OFFICER EARNHART See your passport, sir? How are you doing? How much, how much cash are you traveling with, hmm? TRAVELER None. OFFICER EARNHART No cash? TRAVELER Maybe five dollars. OFFICER EARNHART All right. Have a good day. Nigeria has a lot of scams. OFFICER EARNHART We've all seen the phone scams, email scams. A lot of things with their banking systems going on right now, so people come here and they try to take money back into Nigeria. Maybe they failed to declare it. I mean, there's, there's all sorts of things that people try to hide money when they come out for. How are you doing? OFFICER WITTE Honestly, I, I don't pay attention to the people. I'm staring at him most of the time. OFFICER WITTE So I don't pay attention if it's a priest, a nun, an old lady. I mean, you'll see us sniff wheelchairs too. Just stay against this wall. Thank you. OFFICER WITTE Talk to him. OFFICER EARNHART Come over here with me real quick. OFFICER EARNHART Right in this room right here. How much cash are you traveling with today? TRAVELER Ten thousand. OFFICER EARNHART Ten thousand? Okay. So all the money you have, let's place it up right here for me. CBP OFFICER Any money in your wallet? TRAVELER Yeah, that's what I was about to bring out. TRAVELER That's it. OFFICER EARNHART So, basically, when I asked how much you were traveling with, you said 10,000. So we're gonna have you write how much. Initial right here. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER EARNHART We give them a chance to declare it. We lock them into a binding declaration. And then once we have that, we, we search their bags, see what else they have. And when we find lots more money, you know, you have to explain where did this come from, why you failed to declare it. Do you travel often in and outside the United States? TRAVELER I travel all over the world. TRAVELER But I don't know what the requirement is. OFFICER EARNHART It's 10,000. So you have to make sure that you declare it every time you enter or exit the United States. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER EARNHART Also for in the future, swing by the Customs before you leave 'cause you're required to report this. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER EARNHART Okay. That's all the money? He's declared ten thousand eight. We're just gonna verify it real quick. Ten-eight. All right, sir, I'm gonna have you fill this FinCEN out. And just so you know, if you're traveling with more than $10,000, there's nothing wrong with it. You just have to make sure to declare it. TRAVELER Yeah. Okay. OFFICER EARNHART He mistakenly didn't realize they were supposed to declare. He told us what he had. He just didn't know about the reporting requirements. We explained it to him. And in the future, he'll know it. He said he won't make the mistake again. He'll let other people know as well. TRAVELER Thank you. OFFICER EARNHART All right, sir. Have good travels. You know, there's a, a lot more flights than there is of us, so we try to get out there and hit them hard and go as fast as we can. And we use the dog as well as a, as a great tool and he can let us know when people have large amount of cash. And in this case, it went great. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO So, Doctor, you know, we sent you pictures of the books, initially. We have what appears to be some sort of Spanish arithmetic book. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Oh. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Probably from the time period of 1515. The other book is a book that we suspect belongs to the Dutch philosopher, Desiderius Erasmus, but, but we're not a hundred percent, so. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Okay. Oh, interesting. So this is the, the ex libris. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER This indicates who the, one of the prior owners was. In this case, it was Gusta, Gustav Walter Heinemann, okay? The former German president. So when I'm looking at the text, here you have the title and the author. So it's a collection of saints, of Erasmus of Rotterdam. It was printed in September 1524. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Oh, wow. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER The other thing that is interesting in, in this cover page is all the annotations that we can see, giving us a sense of who owned this book prior. So, here, we can keep track of the provenance. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO In this time period of the 1500s. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Yeah. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Who would have been the most likely owner of a book like this? DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER This is a scholar book. This is somebody that was either a student or a professor of the university or a lawyer or somebody that had a particular interest in Erasmus. And the reason why I mention that is it's annotated. There is something in every single page, both in the margins and under the text. It's a heavily used book. That makes it really, really valuable. Besides the value that it, it will have from a cultural standpoint, this is a rare book. There is two or three copies of this edition that we know of. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Oh, wow. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER There is one in Germany, one in the Czech Republic, and there is one that was in the National Library of Peru. And, unfortunately, it was stolen a number of years ago. So the question is is this it? DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER So the question is if this book is the one that was from Peru. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Yes. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Okay? And there are a few things that we can check. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER I checked the catalogue from the Library of Peru and one of the things that it says is that the book indicates that it was printed in Paris. This book doesn't have the place of print, unlike the books in Germany and in the Czech Republic, that they clearly say Paris. Not only it doesn't have the place of print but it also lacks the stamps that many libraries put just to, to prove ownership. This one doesn't have any seal anywhere. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO So, Doctor, are we potentially looking at a fourth unknown copy? DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Potentially, yes. This could be a copy that nobody knew about its existence. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO That's exciting. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER I have come across facsimiles. Some of them are extremely well done. So in order to identify a book, you have to first examine it. One of the things I like to do with old books is smell the book. If you've ever been in a library, you've seen that there is a particular smell of old books. This one has it. It's one of the most difficult things to, to fake, the paper itself. And besides smelling it, you can also hear. Being that it's old paper, it's a much, much more subtle sound than new paper. And the third thing that is interesting to do is just touch, because this paper, if it's authentic. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Uh-hmm. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER It's not made of cellulose. It's not wood pulp. It's made out of cloth. And this is why these books have lasted as long as they have because they don't have acid in, in the, in the paper so the paper doesn't degrade. I mean, this is a book that is 400 years old and is still pretty much like the day it was printed. There are some stains but that's it. I mean, there is no damage in the book. The preservation is really good and, and it's real paper. It's from the time. SUPERVISORY OFFICER RAMOS So, Doctor Gago, what is your conclusion on the book? DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Well, it's an authentic book, 1524. The book is valuable because not only it's potentially an unknown fourth copy but it's also a copy that is annotated. The other ones have no annotations. This one does. So it makes it a unique book. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Again, I think we have a very unique book in our hands. [START OF SNAP-IN] CBP OFFICER Please make sure you have your passport, U.S. passports open, so that you can [inaudible] OFFICER EARNHART All right, sir. Come on in. You said you had $1,500. Can you just lay it up here on the table for us? TRAVELER I said about. OFFICER EARNHART Just need you to place it up here on the table. TRAVELER I'm a pastor. OFFICER EARNHART All right. You're a pastor? Okay. If you have 10,000 or more you gotta declare. This is, this is all the money right here, right? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER EARNHART Okay. There's 2,000, 2,400. CBP OFFICER Anything in your pockets? CBP OFFICER Because you're already over the 1,500 you said you had. TRAVELER I said about. CBP OFFICER Okay. OFFICER EARNHART Twenty-five right here. TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER EARNHART All right. Do me a favor. Remove your jacket for me. Let me see your jacket. There you go. CBP OFFICER Do you have any money belts? TRAVELER No. CBP OFFICER Can you turn your shirt like this then? CBP OFFICER All right, that's fine. CBP OFFICER Just pull your pant legs up a little bit. CBP OFFICER The other side too. The other pant leg. Just, just pull your pant leg up. That's fine. All right. I'm good. OFFICER EARNHART Yeah. I don't see anything. All right, sir. I'mma have you sign right here. You'll get all your money back. OFFICER EARNHART Ninety-nine percent of the passengers are honest travelers. The battle is trying to find that one percent. Now, you know you actually have $2,500, $2,600. It's a daily operation. Basically, we just try to catch the guys that are doing stuff that they shouldn't be doing. Happy travels. TRAVELER Thank you. [END OF SNAP-IN] HSI AGENT You still have eyes on it? HSI AGENT 10-4. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Right now, we're eyes on both of the vehicles, awaiting, hopefully, the next pickup crew. HSI AGENT Older Nissan inbound. HSI AGENT He is off. HSI AGENT Your rear. HSI AGENT 10-4, I see him in the side mirror. HSI AGENT I got it. Turned away. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Since we don't know what kind of vehicle we're expecting, everybody, you know, in different parts of the, the parking lot is just kind of on the lookout for anything that, you know, looks out of the ordinary or anybody looking around, kind of calling out vehicles as they come just for everybody's wherewithal. HSI AGENT We've got a. HSI AGENT Corolla. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Looks like the driver of that black sedan is out. I don't know. Looking, messing with his door. HSI AGENT Looks like he's cleaning his car, he's wiping out the doors. HSI AGENT Unrelated. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE 10-4. With the volume of, of narcotics in this particular vehicle, we're talking thousands, if not millions, of dollars' worth of merchandise that's important to the, the drug trafficking organizations, the cartels. Firearms are often found with these narcotics and some of them are not, you know, not willing to go down easily. So the risks are, are very real. HSI AGENT Four-door Honda. HSI AGENT His eyes locked on in our corner. HSI AGENT He hasn't broken his gaze towards that corner yet. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE So we have a vehicle that just approached. HSI AGENT There's a male walking up towards this direction. HSI AGENT They're meeting up now. HSI AGENT Might be our guy. HSI AGENT Once we get the signal. HSI AGENT That S2 will open the trunk and everything. HSI AGENT That will be the signal to move in. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Copy. HSI AGENT He's trying to open the trunk. HSI AGENT Trunk of V2 is open. HSI AGENT We're gonna move in now. HSI AGENT Bust, bust, bust. HSI AGENT Put your car in park! HSI AGENT Open the door! HSI AGENT Get out of the car! HSI AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hands up! SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE I've got him over here from the front. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE [speaking Spanish] Hands up! HSI AGENT [speaking Spanish] Stop, stop, stop! HSI AGENT Hands. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN So this was a vehicle that met with one of our suspects from earlier in the day, essentially to pick up a load of narcotics. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE [speaking Spanish] Right now. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Calm yourself, okay? Okay? SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Everything is good. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Okay? SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Let's go over here. Finding who is coming to pick these drugs up is important to us. SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR It helps build that investigation, and then even further disrupt and dismantle the next level of the narcotics smuggling organization. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN Now, we're just, essentially, processing the scene. We're gonna try to interview everybody involved and see if they can make any statements about their involvement. At the end of the day, I think their greed is what pays off for us, 'cause they end up coming in for these drugs and we end up getting the arrest. HSI AGENT Come on. Let's go. HSI AGENT Come on this way, okay? Just right over here. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE We're taking the vehicle that was loaded with the narcotics and all the narcotics back to the port of entry where we will process the seizure and conclude with the interviews of the three people that we arrested today. SUPERVISORY OFFICER RAMOS Now, let's move on to the second book. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER The binding of this book is very different from the previous one. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER This is not paper. This is not cardboard. This is parchment, because we can still see the pores where the hair was growing out of the animal skin. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER One thing that really struck me was this annotation in pencil. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Yes. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Okay? It says, "Facsimile Edition Balencia 1977." SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Uh-hmm. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER And then looking at the book itself, looking at the way the pages lay, the use, this is not a facsimile. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO So that annotation, Doctor, you think somebody might have put that in there like a red herring to throw us off, to make us think it's a much later copy instead of maybe, potentially, an original copy? DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Yes. We are talking about, more than likely, an original, okay? SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Wow. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER So this is a really interesting book, because the book it says the title, translated into English, it says, "Brief summary of the practice of arithmetic in mercantilist changes." And then this is really interesting because it's teaching how you count with your hands. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO With your fingers. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER With your fingers. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Wow. I love this stuff. This is great. So this is essentially a mathematics book as it pertains to business and commerce. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER This is a textbook for accounting. SUPERVISORY OFFICER RAMOS Hmm, I see. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER What it is that you need to know to be an accountant in the 16th century. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Wow. SUPERVISORY OFFICER RAMOS Wow. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER There are two different versions. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Of this book? DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Yes. One of them is dedicated to a count and this one is dedicated to the bishop. So you see, it's the same book but it has a different. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Different coat of arms. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER Coat of arms. SUPERVISORY OFFICER RAMOS Wow. Interesting. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER I was able to find references to ten copies of this 1515 printing. The one dedicated to the bishop is the more rare of the two. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Wow. What a homerun that is. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER And that's what makes it really valuable. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Uh-hmm. DR. FRANCISCO GAGO-JOVER This is the real deal. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO The Spanish arithmetic book was valued by the appraisers at $40,000 in value. Well, Doctor, thank you very much. You filled the gaps on a lot of things that we really didn't know. A lot of people don't realize that CBP detains these things. And here we are, we're sitting on a book that has a lot of historical significance and a lot of countries want their cultural property back into their hands. So this kind of helps us figure out where this book needs to be returned to. So I appreciate all the insights you gave us. PA ANNOUNCER Now, we're gonna board all rows, all down for Flight 91. You still have to scan your boarding pass here at the counter. CBP OFFICER Currently, we are waiting for a target. Subject has an adoption agency and we believe that he might be using that as a cover to move money back and forth. So we're gonna wait for the target to come and show intention that he's actually leaving the United States with $10,000 or more. CBP OFFICER Oh, there he is, look. CBP OFFICER How much cash are you traveling with? TRAVELER I have $300. CBP OFFICER Any other currency? TRAVELER I have. CBP OFFICER Besides, besides dollars? TRAVELER Just like some random kwacha from Malawi. CBP OFFICER Right now, we're doing an inspection where we're stopping people. CBP OFFICER So you've been selected to do an additional inspection. CBP OFFICER Hello. How are you doing? We're conducting an outbound inspection today for people traveling outside the United States. TRAVELER Okay. CBP OFFICER So today how much money are you traveling with? TRAVELER There's, there's cash in here which I'll. TRAVELER I gotta get out and tell you how much is here. There's some in here. CBP OFFICER That's fine. TRAVELER This is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. TRAVELER 550, 650. TRAVELER 60, 70, 80, 90. TRAVELER 610, 630. TRAVELER $632 of my cash. CBP OFFICER Okay. And how much other cash do you have? TRAVELER And then I've got probably. TRAVELER I know I've got 50,000 plus. CBP OFFICER Wait. I'm, I'm sorry. What? CBP OFFICER I need to know how much cash you have. TRAVELER It's, it's. TRAVELER 2, 3, 4, 5. TRAVELER So it will be 50, 60, 70 minus 2. TRAVELER It'd be 68. CBP OFFICER Sixty-eight thousand dollars. TRAVELER Sixty-eight thousand even. CBP OFFICER Cash? TRAVELER Yes. CBP OFFICER Okay. CBP OFFICER He said that he had $632 that belonged to him. And right before he was gonna confirm, he paused and then he stated that he was also traveling with additional $60,000 that was not his. So I need you to sign right here, stating that you're declaring this much. CBP OFFICER All right. I'm gonna have a series of questions I'm gonna ask him regarding his trip and based on how he answers these questions, that amount could be seizable. Explain to me exactly what are you gonna do with the money? TRAVELER I have a NGO in Malawi. CBP OFFICER Right. TRAVELER And we have a construction project. CBP OFFICER Okay. TRAVELER And so I'm bringing cash over to start that project. CBP OFFICER Because it's such a large amount. TRAVELER Okay. CBP OFFICER We do have to verify it. TRAVELER Yeah, sure. CBP OFFICER So he's gonna go through your bags. We're gonna pull out all the cash. We're gonna leave it right here. TRAVELER Sure. CBP OFFICER When was the last time you went outside the country? TRAVELER Probably December. TRAVELER I probably went about 12 times last year, yeah. CBP OFFICER Last year? So out of the twelve times you did last year, not one time you traveled with more than ten thousand? TRAVELER No. CBP OFFICER Okay. So we are gonna verify the currency. TRAVELER Right. CBP OFFICER So when did you guys start this project? TRAVELER This project started last week. TRAVELER We just opened up a, basically an orphanage, as well. CBP OFFICER Okay. TRAVELER We just had the money, we just got the money donated. CBP OFFICER Sixty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-two. CBP OFFICER So it's all there? CBP OFFICER Yeah. That's the total, yeah. Do you have a receipt when you made the withdrawal? TRAVELER Yeah. Hundred percent. TRAVELER So let's see here. It would have been on, right there. CBP OFFICER Okay. Is this money gonna get deposited in a foreign bank account or it's gonna stay cash and liquid? TRAVELER No. It will, it will go into a, a standard bank account. CBP OFFICER Okay. Any time you're traveling outside of the United States or if you're coming in, if you have $10,000 or more. TRAVELER Okay. CBP OFFICER You have to declare it to the U.S. government. So, essentially, what you should have done is when you checked in and you checked your bags, you should have told the airline, "Hey, I need to go see Customs." TRAVELER Oh, okay. CBP OFFICER His story was checking out. The more he answered, the more proof he gave me. He filled out all the paperwork that he needed, so I had no reason to hold him. Do you have any questions for us? TRAVELER No, I don't think so. CBP OFFICER Okay. You are good to go. TRAVELER I appreciate you guys. CBP OFFICER All right. Thank you. CBP OFFICER See you later. TRAVELER Thank you, guys. OFFICER EARNHART We're here looking for bad guys. The people we caught today, all of them, they were just, mistakenly didn't realize they were supposed to declare. You know, it's a lot of hit or miss, a lot of searching bags, searching people, interacting with them. And you do as many as you can a day and, hopefully, at the end of the day, you, you catch somebody and if not, you live to see another day and you try harder the next day. CBP OFFICER Powder, pills. CBP OFFICER Yup. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE They're just doing a full search of the rest of the vehicle, just for protocol, make sure that there's no other packages that were left behind. CBP OFFICER He's got a. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE What's that? SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE While they were finishing the search of the car, they found a tracker that belongs to the drug trafficking organization. How is it powered on? CBP OFFICER It was connected right here, with wires. CBP OFFICER Right here. See how this. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Oh, okay. It's pretty common that, that we find them. But obviously this is a, a pretty substantial load for them and they wanna keep tabs on it. So we will seize that and see if there's anything that we can get useful off of this. CBP OFFICER Over here. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE So we found another tracker. Two trackers. Right now, we're separating all the different types of, of narcotics and then each of them will be tested based on the different packaging and types of suspected drugs. First, we'll test these pills. I'm very curious. Looks like they're positive for fentanyl. So with the size of the narcotics load that was in this vehicle, it's obviously, you know, this isn't the first time that this organization or this crew has, has done this. CBP OFFICER Cocaine. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE It appears to be a multi-drug load, which is also another sign that this is a, a pretty experienced organization or crew. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN Ended up with 27 packages of meth. 12.72 keys. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN Almost 15 keys of fentanyl pills. It's about a hundred and fifty-thousand pills. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN Over 10 kilograms of powdered fentanyl. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT IAN And about five packages of cocaine. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Overall, today was very successful. Not only did we end up with a pretty significant seizure of drugs, but our ability to identify multiple levels of the organization is critical. It's why we do our job. SPECIAL AGENT DANIELLE Seizing the drugs is obviously very important and not letting those drugs hit the streets, but being able to disrupt the organization and prevent them from transporting or smuggling future shipments is, is even more important for the long run.