ACTING_AGENT_IN_CHARGE_TAEKUK AGENT CBP_OFFICER CHIEF_HADICK FLIGHT_ATTENDANT HSI_AGENT OFFICER OFFICER_BUSA OFFICER_CONTRERAS OFFICER_FLOWERS OFFICER_GOMBASH OFFICER_JOHNSON OFFICER_MACK OFFICER_NABHOLZ OFFICER_PEREZ OFFICER_SANCHEZ OFFICER_SANTIAGO PA_ANNOUNCER POLICE_OFFICER SPECIAL_AGENT_AARON SPECIAL_AGENT_JON SUPERVISORY_OFFICER_ADAMS SUPERVISORY_OFFICER_CICIO SUSPECT TRAVELER TRAVELERS PA ANNOUNCER Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure you have your boarding passes. I'll be right over the entrance as you board. Thank you very much. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO This is the guy. This is who we're gonna looking for. Today we're doing outbound currency examinations of all the travelers going to Punta Cana. We have a subject of interest who is possibly linked to a Colombian drug cartel. Hello. May I see your passports, please? Are you traveling with over $10,000 today? All right. Have a wonderful trip. We have no definitive answers on this but we'll be looking for drug money going out of the United States hidden on him and we'll see what we can find. OFFICER SANTIAGO What kind of work do you do? TRAVELER Military. OFFICER SANTIAGO So you're military? TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER SANTIAGO How long you been in it? TRAVELER Twenty-two years. OFFICER SANTIAGO You're almost out. TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER SANTIAGO That's good. All right. Well, thank you for your service, man. Enjoy your trip. You see the gentleman with the blue long sleeve. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO Checkers? OFFICER SANTIAGO Yeah. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO Do you have the paper? All right. OFFICER SANTIAGO Yeah, I think that's him. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO Possibly. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO Possible suspect is a couple travelers back. We're just ID-ing him from the photo but we're gonna stop him and take a look. Hey, how you doing? Can I see your passport, please? Thank you. What's the purpose of your travels? TRAVELER Twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO Oh, congratulations. The two of you traveling together? TRAVELER Yes. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO We're doing currency verifications and if anybody's traveling with over $10,000, they just have to declare it to the United States government. How much currency are you traveling with today? TRAVELER One thousand dollars. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO All right. How long will you be outside the United States? TRAVELER Seven days. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO All right. Have a good trip. TRAVELERS Thank you. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO You're welcome. Subject of interest was a false alarm. We let the subject go. It was not the person, the traveler that we're looking for. Sometimes when you're going by a photo, you're kind of rolling the dice with it. OFFICER SANTIAGO I'm gonna verify and see if he made it or not. Can you do a favor for me? Can you check if the passenger made this flight? FLIGHT ATTENDANT Sure. On board, One Charlie. OFFICER SANTIAGO Really? FLIGHT ATTENDANT On board, One Charlie. Yes. OFFICER SANTIAGO One Charlie, so he boarded at the beginning. The first ones to board. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO First one to board, we missed it. OFFICER SANTIAGO Riding in first class. SUPERVISORY OFFICER CICIO Whomp, whomp, whomp. OFFICER SANTIAGO It's all right. I'll grab him when he comes back. SPECIAL AGENT JON All right, afternoon, guys. SPECIAL AGENT JON This is your pre-op briefing for Arch Angel 2023. This is a human trafficking operation. We're gonna focus on rescuing victims of human trafficking today. ACTING AGENT IN CHARGE TAEKUK Homeland Security Investigations is the global leader when it comes to conducting human trafficking investigations. Throughout the world, 28 million men, women, and children are trafficked. Human smuggling is voluntary. Human trafficking on the other hand, they are involuntarily forced to commit some type of labor or sex act. They are held against their will. This is trafficking. SPECIAL AGENT JON We're gonna be set up at one of our local hotels. We're calling in these girls from known trafficking websites. As soon as we leave here, we're gonna have our undercovers go ahead and start texting them. We're gonna focus on the girls who are being trafficked through force or other coercion. ACTING AGENT IN CHARGE TAEKUK We see a lot of victims coming from Southeast Asia but it happens everywhere. Central South America, Africa, even Europe. So no one is immune from the scourge. SPECIAL AGENT JON Goal of this operation, we rescue the victims. We get them some help and then we go after the trafficker, either take him down in the parking lot or follow him away and take him down on the streets. So stay safe out there and appreciate everybody's help today. ACTING AGENT IN CHARGE TAEKUK Trained national criminal organizations will do whatever it takes to make a profit, so they focus on human smuggling, human trafficking, trafficking of weapons, trafficking of drugs. SPECIAL AGENT AARON There are true victims in these human trafficking operations. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Sometimes they need somebody to help them get the services and guidance they need to get out of the situation that they're in. So to be able to, to get somebody out of it, it's very rewarding. SPECIAL AGENT AARON I will be conducting surveillance from the parking lot as these targets arrive. It'll be our job to call out, you know, what vehicles they're in. If the target was dropped off or if the target, you know, maybe with the handler, a pimp, and the handler, you know, waiting in the parking lot for them to complete the date, so just giving any, any intel to the arrest team to make it a safer arrest. I'll sit in this spot over here. I've got both the main entry door and the side entry door covered. So if there's any kind of foot pursuit or anything like that where the pimp runs from the arrest team, we at least have two of the, two of the sides covered, so we'll be good there. We have a female en route. Says she's coming. She'll be here in about an hour. The investigators weren't able to get what vehicle, so we'll just wait. Tonight if we're able to rescue one victim and get them the service they need, that's a success. TRAVELER Can you see behind the glove box? Behind the radio? OFFICER GOMBASH Right now, we're doing a training with another agency for compartments, how to look for compartments, what to look for, and where cartels and narcos like to hide their narcotics at. So right now, I'm just looking in the seats. There's a pretty big factory void right there that they can use for a lot of things. Between the seat and the frame itself, there are many natural voids within the car and we're not the only ones that know this. The cartels know them. They'll utilize those spaces, so you really have to dig in and look. CBP OFFICER What we saw here was a non-factory compartment. That part should not be there. It runs all the way across. And the access point of this is through the driver side. All clear. OFFICER MU�IZ [speaking foreign language] What are you bringing today? TRAVELER No, nothing. OFFICER MU�IZ We only have like a few moments, seconds to determine, like, admissibility like if they're good to go. Okay. OFFICER MU�IZ [speaking foreign language] What were you doing in Juarez? OFFICER MU�IZ [speaking foreign language] You live in Juarez? Okay. OFFICER MU�IZ [speaking foreign language] Where are you going? If they're cool, calm, and collected for the most part, they're usually good to go. When I see something I like, I slow it down and I take a closer look at it. So I look for signs of nervousness, mostly they're shaking, they're, they're avoiding eye contact. I mean, they, they reveal themselves. CBP OFFICER Escort lane three. It's a white SUV. OFFICER MU�IZ Okay. OFFICER MU�IZ [speaking foreign language] We're going to go to number three. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Where are you coming from? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] From my house. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] From your house in Juarez. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] And where are you going? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] To El Paso. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] What are you going to do in El Paso? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] Shopping and dining, nothing else. OFFICER SANCHEZ Okay. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Whose vehicle is it? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] Mine. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Anything to declare? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] No, nothing. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Okay, open the trunk. Exit with any cash you have on you. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] OFFICER SANCHEZ I'm just looking for stuff that might be loose or, like, fingerprints but all this looks pretty dirty, so let's, it doesn't look like we gotta mess with too much. It's pretty odd too when sometimes you see stuff like this. It's like, "Why is this so easy to pull off?" So it just makes you look a little bit extra. Back here too, this was so easy to pull off. Like why? So you just try to look for secret compartments. Sometimes these panels are like easy to pull off. OFFICER SANCHEZ I don't know what this is. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER SANCHEZ That's interesting. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Who drove? OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] I'm going to ask you something. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] What is this? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] A light in the house went out. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] And where was it? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] In the house? OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Where was this just now? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] No, I don't know. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] How do you not know? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] I don't remember. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] I didn't know about it. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] You just told me it went out. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] The bulb went out but. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Why do you have it in your car? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] I don't know. I don't have anything. You can check. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] What was in here? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] Nothing. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Do you know where you had it? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] Where? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] No, I don't know. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] You looked there. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] No, I have no idea. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Yes, you looked. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] No, I didn't look. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] I opened here and there it was. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] It's your vehicle, right? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] Yes, but I didn't. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Why would you put it there? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] I never open that. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] You told me, this is from my home. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] It stopped working. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] You brought it in your vehicle. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] And it's hidden. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] What do you think we'll think? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] Yes, of course. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] It looks bad, right? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] It looks bad. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] I have probation. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] What do you have probation for? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] For drugs. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] For drugs. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Drugs? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] I got probation. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] For human trafficking. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] I call and I will get called in for a drug test. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] They check me. Every day they check me. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Yes, but you know this looks bad. It's pretty odd the way that it's broken. OFFICER SANCHEZ It didn't look like there was drugs inside of it but you never know. All right. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Get in your vehicle. Right now, I'm gonna x-ray so they can make sure that there's nothing else in that area because there's, that shouldn't have been there to begin with, so there might be other stuff that was there. Z Portal, next 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Nothing? CBP OFFICER [speaking foreign language] Nothing. OFFICER SANCHEZ Didn't find anything? CBP OFFICER The truck is very much clean. OFFICER SANCHEZ Clean? Yeah, sometimes you just find odd things in odd places, so. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Why is it so easy to remove the panels? TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] This is what I say every time I cross. TRAVELER They always remove the clips. TRAVELER And I tell them, "Why do you take my clips?" OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] But we have to do our job. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] So we need to check you. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] No, I know. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Okay, then. OFFICER SANCHEZ [speaking foreign language] Have a good one. OFFICER NABHOLZ Hey, can you keep an eye? I'm trying to find him. OFFICER NABHOLZ We have a referral coming back from the Philippines, a country known for sex tourism. I'm concerned to come in, if you're going to seek out sex tourism, is it legal in that country, number one. And number two is, if there's minors involved. You know, if the individual that they're engaging in those sexual acts with is a minor then we have issues. He came off of Doha, so he's probably getting his bags. It's on him with his black, his black shoes on? No? There we go. CBP OFFICER You got him? OFFICER NABHOLZ Yeah. CBP OFFICER He's at my six o'clock at the other end. OFFICER NABHOLZ Okay. CBP OFFICER He's got a chain on. Yeah, that's gotta be him. All right, come on. We'll see. OFFICER NABHOLZ How you doing, sir? Come on with me. Right through here. You got all your. TRAVELER All set. OFFICER NABHOLZ Yeah? TRAVELER Yeah, that's everything. OFFICER NABHOLZ All right. If you can just throw your bags up on this belt right here, okay? Where are you coming from today? TRAVELER Philippines. OFFICER NABHOLZ From the Philippines? TRAVELER Yup. OFFICER NABHOLZ How long were you there for? TRAVELER Twenty-seven days, I believe. OFFICER NABHOLZ All right. And what was the purpose of that trip? TRAVELER To see my wife. OFFICER NABHOLZ See your wife. And how long have you guys been married for? TRAVELER Since January 20, or not January, excuse me. July 23rd of 2022. OFFICER NABHOLZ Talking to him, he seemed to not be confident in his answers. Twenty-seven day trip. He says he has a wife in the Philippines. It could absolutely be a cover story or it could be that he does have a wife over there. But right now, I'm trying to see if I can make this story make sense. SPECIAL AGENT AARON So I received a text message about 10 minutes ago that we're waiting on a female target to get dropped off. It's a silver Nissan Altima, male driver should be arriving in the lot. Oh, he's right there. HSI AGENT I see them. SPECIAL AGENT AARON He just dropped somebody off, one girl. There's a female inside right now and he circled the lot. HSI AGENT That's her pimp. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Okay. Well, he's leaving the lot again now. HSI AGENT Go time. Go time. SPECIAL AGENT AARON He's gonna go westbound at the intersection. Got a fresh green right now, I'm headed that way. Got a uniform in the area that can stop him? HSI AGENT Yeah, confirmed. SPECIAL AGENT AARON We'll have the marked unit perform a traffic stop on it and investigate further to their involvement in this. Seems he's going in these apartments across the street to the west from the hotel. There's the silver Nissan that matches the description. Yeah, there's a marked unit right there. I think that's it. Is it occupied? POLICE OFFICER It's occupied. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Is it occupied? POLICE OFFICER Yeah. SPECIAL AGENT AARON All right. Let's, do you wanna get him? POLICE OFFICER Yeah. You're gonna back me up? SPECIAL AGENT AARON Yeah. Yup. We're gonna detain this subject right now and investigate further. HSI AGENT All right. We're moving up and stand by. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] SPECIAL AGENT AARON Step out of the car. HSI AGENT Just put your hands up here, okay? SUSPECT All right. HSI AGENT Put your hands behind your back real quick for me. HSI AGENT I'm just gonna detain you real quick, okay, boss? SUSPECT It's okay. I'm not, I'm not. SUSPECT I'm not struggling [bleep]. HSI AGENT All right, cool. SUSPECT I'm not gonna do that. SUSPECT What's going on, bro? HSI AGENT We'll tell you what's going on. SPECIAL AGENT AARON I'm a federal agent with Homeland Security Investigations. SUSPECT Okay. SPECIAL AGENT AARON All right? We're gonna detain you for now and we're gonna take you over here across the street and interview you. SUSPECT For? SPECIAL AGENT AARON I saw you make a couple of laps in that hotel over there. We got an op that we're running right now. SUSPECT Okay. SPECIAL AGENT AARON So we're just gonna take you over there and ask you a few questions. SUSPECT All right. SUSPECT I'm not trying to be argumentative. SPECIAL AGENT AARON I got you. I got you. SUSPECT I'm just asking. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Yeah. No, we'll fill you in, man. SUSPECT All right. SPECIAL AGENT AARON The team leader that's running this operation has reason to believe that this may be the victim's pimp. So right now, we're gonna detain the subject, interview him, and see if he has any involvement in our operation that we're running. HSI AGENT Over here. SPECIAL AGENT AARON What you got? HSI AGENT Condom pack. SPECIAL AGENT AARON There's at least three boxes of, of condoms over here. Looks like some personal use marijuana. So we're just gonna take some pictures of that stuff for evidentiary purposes in the event that, you know, in the interview or further investigation, we determine that this guy, you know, in being, be involved in the, in the trafficking, you know, that's evidence later on for court. HSI AGENT You got him? HSI AGENT I'll take him in. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Independence Police Department is gonna transport the suspect down to their station. They're gonna have one of their investigators as well as two Homeland Security investigators interview the suspect, and depending on the investigation and all possible charges and, and they'll go from there. We'll head back over there and we'll find out if they have any other, you know, targets on the hook, and we'll just wait for the next one. TRAVELER What is the purpose of taking all that information? OFFICER NABHOLZ Just doing my job. TRAVELER Oh. OFFICER NABHOLZ Yeah, that's all. That's all. OFFICER NABHOLZ I'm gonna take a quick peek in your bags. All this stuff belongs to you, sir? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER NABHOLZ Anything in your pockets? You can just put it up here. TRAVELER My phone. My passport. OFFICER NABHOLZ How old is your wife? TRAVELER Forty-one. OFFICER NABHOLZ Forty-one. TRAVELER I didn't, I know her a long time before I asked her to marry me. OFFICER NABHOLZ How did you guys meet? TRAVELER Originally? OFFICER NABHOLZ Yeah. TRAVELER Online. OFFICER NABHOLZ Online? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER NABHOLZ Do you travel to see her often? TRAVELER No. Well, it's my second time. OFFICER NABHOLZ Second time? TRAVELER Well, I mean, she's probably, like, about two to three months from coming over here but, you know, that long wait in the I-34. I mean, you kind of have to, to see her. Yeah. OFFICER NABHOLZ So you, you have petition for her to come over? TRAVELER Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. OFFICER NABHOLZ Okay. OFFICER NABHOLZ He said they are trying to get her visa settled so that she can come over here and live. So I just wanna make sure that she is indeed of age and that they are actually going through the process of filing the paperwork for her to come here. All right. So you can pack this one up. What's your wife's name? TRAVELER Elselma. OFFICER NABHOLZ Elselma. Did you get married over here or over there in the. TRAVELER No, in the Philippines. OFFICER NABHOLZ Did you? TRAVELER That's the last stage. Those papers she'll take to her interview. OFFICER NABHOLZ Sure. TRAVELER When they call for the interview. OFFICER NABHOLZ In his bag, he had the paperwork needed to set up the appointments that they need to do for the embassy to procure her visa to come here. His story is definitely starting to make more sense. It makes sense for him to travel to the Philippines for longer periods of time. All right, sir. You can pack this stuff up. It all checks out. He has made trips over there to visit her and there was nothing found in his bags that was unable to come into the United States. So at the end of the day, he is free to continue his travels. All right. TRAVELER All right. Thank you now. OFFICER NABHOLZ Yup. Take care. TRAVELER You have a great day. OFFICER NABHOLZ Safe travels. OFFICER JOHNSON Hello. TRAVELER [speaking foreign language] Good afternoon. OFFICER JOHNSON [speaking foreign language] Good afternoon. OFFICER JOHNSON Can I have an escort to lane three, please? Escort on lane three. Follow me over here into secondary, okay, sir? The white Ford F-150, he pulls up to my lane. I've seen him before come through. OFFICER JOHNSON You work here long enough, you kind of get those daily travelers or daily crossers. Other times before, I've never seen him get sent in, so I went to refer him to secondary. OFFICER MACK We're gonna call the K9 handler in right now to run the vehicle and see if it's loaded. OFFICER CONTRERAS Easy. Up. Easy. Come on. Sit. Sit. Woo. Woo-hoo. Woo. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo. Our K9 alerted to the back seat, where the back rest of the seat is. He was sniffing and rubbing his nose all the way. OFFICER CONTRERAS So that's, for me, that's, that's an alert right here. Good boy, Papas. OFFICER MACK What I'm initially looking for is a way to access this 'cause some, some trucks, like you can pull down the back seat and you can look straight at the back wall. I don't see that. I can kind of look in here but I'm not seeing any signs of tampering or any drugs. There's just not a whole lot, but this was, this is interesting right here because this material is very loose, almost like it's been off before. OFFICER CONTRERAS This one doesn't, doesn't, doesn't fold, no? OFFICER MACK No, it doesn't fold down at all. OFFICER CONTRERAS It's just, it's just this right here, no? OFFICER MACK Just the, just the bottom comes up. OFFICER CONTRERAS Let's check right here on the top. OFFICER MACK So. OFFICER CONTRERAS My dog alerted right here, so we can see what, right there. Yeah, it's there. I can see something there. Do you see it? OFFICER MACK I see it. It is loaded. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER MACK Perez. OFFICER PEREZ Yeah? OFFICER MACK Put their handcuffs on. OFFICER MACK Our next step now that our subject is in custody and we've identified that it's a load vehicle is that we're gonna run it through the x-ray here. And then they'll just scan everything and see if they can pick up the packages that we discovered or any additional packages that might be there that we missed. It's good to go through. I am super excited. I love this part of my job 'cause this is what's fun. It's like a, it's like an Easter egg hunt. OFFICER FLOWERS So the vehicle is what we would consider loaded. OFFICER FLOWERS They try to hide it underneath, like the tire wells. Sometimes they even put it in a bumper. But here, they tried to hide it so much it's in the headrest right on the back side of the vehicle. I can't tell exactly how much could possibly stuffed down in there, but you can tell that it is, it, it seems to be a nice little amount. OFFICER MACK As soon as we found the packages, I stopped looking at the rest of the vehicle. We call it tunnel vision. When you get excited and you find something, you tend to just tunnel in on that one thing and lose track of everything else that you're supposed to be doing. So we'll finish our seven-point back here in case we missed something. OFFICER [inaudible] nothing. OFFICER MACK A lot of times we peel this back but I don't really see anything or any tampering. It looks normal. OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER MACK Yeah, there's nothing. OFFICER That's the floor. OFFICER No. OFFICER MACK No. It's hollow. We're actually unable to figure out exactly how to access this compartment because we already know where the packages are and we already know that we're gonna be seizing this vehicle, and I'm just gonna cut the material so that I can get and pull the package, and we can test it and find out what we're looking at. And there it is. AGENT We had one about 10 minutes out. AGENT There's supposed to be two females showing up. AGENT One asked for the room number, so she ought to be here any minute. SPECIAL AGENT AARON One of the suspects claims to be in the area with a White female about 20 years of age. SPECIAL AGENT AARON And I guess the deal was, with the UC was $275 for an hour visit. We do not have a vehicle description, so we have our other units in the lot with their eyes out looking for the target. AGENT Hold on one second. We have two White females driving. AGENT '19 Chevy. AGENT Definitely has a smaller female in the passenger seat. AGENT I think this is it. SPECIAL AGENT AARON That might be them. AGENT If one gets dropped off, then the other one leaves the lot, just stay with it. SPECIAL AGENT AARON The passenger got out of that vehicle, White female in a bright orange hoodie. AGENT Did the female that got out, did she go inside already? AGENT Yeah, one female went inside. AGENT If that car moves, then yes, we want it stopped. SPECIAL AGENT AARON So there's a female inside right now. It looks like there's a driver as well that has not got out of the vehicle yet. So if this female is taken into custody, we'll look and see if that driver is involved in any sort of trafficking of this individual. AGENT Our target vehicle is now on the move. AGENT Are you able to see where they parked? AGENT Parking right in front of the doors. AGENT In the middle row of the parking lot. AGENT Got one female inside right now. SPECIAL AGENT AARON The girl that entered the hotel is in the room now with the undercover. So this person is involved, so we're gonna conduct a takedown in the parking lot. AGENT She's blocked in on all sides. AGENT Get ready to go. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We've received information that there's an individual that's gonna be going outbound of the United States. That individual has a warrant for their arrest for terroristic threats regarding abortion clinics. PA ANNOUNCER We're now gonna board [inaudible] for Flight 91. We still have to scan your boarding pass here at the counter. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We take these charges very seriously. We're gonna conduct surveillance of the waiting area that that flight's gonna be going out of. The individual's a young Caucasian male, blond hair, probably about five-nine, five-ten. We're gonna try and identify the subject and then wait for that individual to attempt to board the aircraft. CHIEF HADICK Our authority starts once they cross the threshold to board the international flight, so we wait for them to check in and board and cross into the jetway, and that's where then our rovers will take action. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We're assuming that this person is fleeing to avoid apprehension as his particular charges, his alleged crimes involve threats of violence. I have to hold him true to his word. I've instructed my officers to not only bring non-lethal devices, but to bring their individual first-aid kits, and to have a plan for anybody getting hurt. PA ANNOUNCER Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure you have your boarding passes. I'll be right over the entrance as you board. Thank you very much. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER Oh, he's right there. OFFICER You got him? OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER Get ready to go. OFFICER BUSA All right, come on. Hey, what's going on, man? I'm Officer Busa with US Customs. Can you just put down your backpack real quick? SUSPECT All right. OFFICER BUSA So here's the deal, we're gonna make this really quick. We got a possible warrant for your arrest, so I gotta put you in handcuffs, okay? SUSPECT All right. OFFICER BUSA You can just hang out here. Come on over here. Yeah, right over here. Can you put your hands behind your back with your knuckles together? All right. We're gonna take you upstairs and we're gonna verify this warrant, okay? SUSPECT Okay. OFFICER BUSA Let's get you outta here. CHIEF HADICK Right now, based on the information we have, he's a match. CHIEF HADICK But we, we do have to go through our process as far as getting hit confirmation or confirm whether the warrant's active and if they'll extradite, so. We still have to print him to make sure that it's an exact match. OFFICER BUSA And so the process is, like, just take your fingerprints, verify everything, if it's you, if it's not you, that's where we'll get that heads-up. We'll have the people, who want you, contacted and see if they wanna arrange a pickup for you, okay? SUSPECT Okay. OFFICER BUSA We brought him up into our secure area to confirm the hit on the warrant. OFFICER Come with me. OFFICER BUSA And then if it does come back as him, we will begin arranging extradition. I wasn't expecting that demeanor. OFFICER All right. OFFICER BUSA His demeanor is calm, cooperative. Based on intelligence we had, we weren'the expecting that. You can just leave your hands out in front of you. Just don't move anything crazy. All right, thanks, dude. It really just takes the fact that we are calm with him, being transparent, explaining everything, should show that it goes a long way. These are all your bags? SUSPECT Yes, sir. OFFICER BUSA And you packed the bags yourself? SUSPECT Yes, sir. OFFICER BUSA Everything in the bags belongs to you? SUSPECT Yes, sir. OFFICER BUSA Nothing for anyone else? SUSPECT No. OFFICER BUSA Anything sharp that I, that might accidentally poke me? SUSPECT No. OFFICER BUSA Anything heads-up? All right, thanks, man. OFFICER Good? OFFICER No issues. OFFICER BUSA We have a copy of the warrant, so we're gonna prepare to transport the individual over to the township that we're in. Their police is gonna hold him while we arrange the extradition. OFFICER Put your hands behind your head. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We take every warrant seriously. Those that have elements of violence in them, clearly we, we prepare for the worst and we hope for the best. And this is the best outcome that we could have anticipated. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We're gonna go take a short ride. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We're gonna take you to the local police department. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS And then they'll process you from there, okay? CHIEF HADICK Potential for domestic terrorism has been on the uprise recently and it's something that, as an agency, we always try to get involved in and get ahead of to identify any people that potentially have intent to cause harm to the general public. It's always worth it at the end. OFFICER This is gonna be the trap door right here. OFFICER MACK Oh, there's more. OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER MACK It's right there. OFFICER MACK Well, let's start pulling them out. OFFICER Oh, yeah, it's full. OFFICER Yeah. Yeah. OFFICER It's full. The whole thing. OFFICER MACK There's a lot. OFFICER There you go. OFFICER I'm gonna do the other side. OFFICER There's more. I told you. OFFICER MACK I know. OFFICER I told you. OFFICER MACK I know. OFFICER There's more. AGENT That's a go. Go, go, go. AGENT Rear passenger, step out of the car slowly. AGENT Keep your hands visible. AGENT Keep your hands up. Driver, exit the door. Exit the vehicle slowly. Keep your hands up. Exit the vehicle. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Spread your legs. SPECIAL AGENT AARON The vehicle that we thought was occupied at one time by the driver only, seemed to have multiple occupants in it. Both were taken into custody. The male and the female will be brought upstairs for questioning. We'll try to determine their relationship to the victim. You know, if they are involved with trafficking, how many times they've trafficked this person, and we'll continue the investigation from there. I've had multiple situations to where the mother was in the game, so they're able, you know, to groom, you know, as sad as it is, their children to the game. I don't know if that was the situation there but, I've experienced that in the past, so. AGENT You got one more, right here. AGENT Looks like he's coming out. AGENT Ten-four. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Sounds like we have a marked unit following another vehicle that pulled into the parking lot. They're getting ready to do a traffic stop on them, so we're gonna go over to that area and see if we can assist. AGENT It's pulling over. We'll be. AGENT At the parking lot here. SPECIAL AGENT AARON They have the vehicle stopped. Traffic stop right up here. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] AGENT Getting ready to pull the female out of the car here. AGENT There's a male driver. SPECIAL AGENT AARON The gentleman was in the driver seat, transporting the female over for the commercial sex date. Come on over here for me, guy. You gave him your ID, ma'am? AGENT I have it. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Okay. Who's your passenger? What's her name? SUSPECT That's my girlfriend. SPECIAL AGENT AARON It's your girl? Okay. SUSPECT Yeah. SPECIAL AGENT AARON All right. AGENT So here's the deal, okay? SUSPECT Uh-hmm. AGENT You're under arrest for aiding in the permission of a misdemeanor. Okay? There was a prostitution deal between her and somebody else at the hotel, and you drove her there. Okay? I'm not gonna make an argument with you about whether you're guilty or not, that'll be for the judge to deal with, okay? SUSPECT All right. AGENT All right. We're gonna take you to the back over here, and then he's gonna hang tight until another car gets here, okay? Let's go over here. SPECIAL AGENT AARON All the evidence was there. From what was reported to me, there was a deal made via the phone before this target actually arrived or got the hotel room and came up to the hotel room. Therefore, we had probable cause to make the arrest out here on the street. How much you got there in your pocket? SUSPECT I don't know. SPECIAL AGENT AARON If you had to guess. SUSPECT Thirteen hundred probably. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Both were taken into custody. The male's being transported right now. He'll be booked. AGENT The advocate's coming out to talk to her here. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Talk to her here? AGENT Okay. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Our victim associates are coming over right now to speak with our victim, interview her here and figure out their, the true relationship between these two. If she is a true victim of trafficking, our coordinators are gonna do what they can to get her services, the resources, the things she needs. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Anybody transporting, making somebody, encouraging somebody, you know, to, to be engaged in this commercial sex, those are the people that we're after and the ones that we're trying to, trying to get off the streets and in custody. SPECIAL AGENT AARON Sex trafficking is a global issue. Oftentimes, these investigations, we find out that these organizations reach across not only state lines, but also across our international borders. So it's important to us to combat it and do what we can to help the victim get services and disrupt and dismantle these criminal organizations. OFFICER Just make sure we don't miss anything. That's it. I don't see anything. OFFICER MACK We had six of the white rectangular bricks. OFFICER MACK And then five total of these. So I am expecting them to be something different just because they're packaged differently. But we'll test every single one of these individually. OFFICER JOHNSON It could be cocaine, it could be meth. But nowadays, a lot of people, they're mixing it with, like, fentanyl and other drugs, so it could be a mixture as well too. So it's cocaine hydrochloride. Narcotics. It tells us right there on the screen. OFFICER MACK We had two different types. One was kind of a longer rectangle and it was white, so right now she's testing the other type of package that we found. OFFICER JOHNSON This one has a different packaging. This one has, like, an aluminum foil or a duct tape. So it could possibly be the same or it could also be a different one. It seems to be a little bit thick, but it could possibly be mixed but I'm not sure. It's the same one. It's cocaine. OFFICER MACK So it turns out it is the same, same powdery substance. It's just labeled differently possibly for different people or for who knows what purpose. Hey, guys. Thanks. Okey-dokey. Holy cow. This is actually a lot. This is all the packages. OFFICER MACK That's gonna be 13.24 kilograms . I love my job. I came into this from the military and I've always loved serving my country. And for someone like me with no college degree, having gone straight into the army, having a job like this, it's a blessing. And kind of every day that I'm here, I'm grateful for what I do, so. And that's 13.24 or less kilograms of cocaine on the street now. I just need you to stand up and put your hands behind your back. OFFICER MACK All right.