ACTING_SUPERVISORY_SPECIAL_AGENT_CONNOR AGENT OFFICER OFFICER_EBERTOWSKI OFFICER_GARCIA OFFICER_LIU OFFICER_MILLER OFFICER_MONDESIR OFFICER_OLIVER_BAEZ OFFICER_PARKER OFFICER_RODRIGUEZ OFFICER_ROJAS OFFICER_THOMAS OFFICER_VASQUEZ SPECIAL_AGENT_DAVID SUPERVISORY_OFFICER_ACEVEDO TRAVELER AGENT I have him. AGENT On 905. AGENT Standby. AGENT See if we can catch up to get a plate here. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR There's a report of a car that's already made it into the United States, that is potentially loaded full of narcotics. And so, we're flooding into that area, looking for a silver Honda Accord. AGENT Yeah, that's it. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Here we go. AGENT He's doing about 70. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR I'm gonna go in and get eyes on. One of our teammates located the vehicle. We're about a quarter mile back. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR That's him right there. I can see it. AGENT 10-4. AGENT I've gotta pass him. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR We're just gonna keep tabs on him and see where he wants to lead us. AGENT He gave me a pretty hard look when I drove by him. AGENT I don't know if I spooked him or not. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Perfect. It's possible he spotted us. AGENT He's got his turn signal. AGENT Off, off, off! AGENT I can't follow it. AGENT Driver is out of here. AGENT I've lost sight of him. AGENT Standby. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR They just ramped off. We weren't able to go with them. So, we'll ramp off, turn around, and come right back. Get back in the mix. AGENT I don't have eyes on him right now. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR We have two units ahead of it. AGENT 10-4. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR When we receive information, our agents and officers, we're all coming from different parts of town. Trying to converge all in the same area. AGENT I'm ahead of him. AGENT I'll have him if he comes up. AGENT Yeah, I got him. AGENT He made a left. AGENT Westbound. AGENT Going into. AGENT The shopping center. AGENT Looks like he's gonna be parking. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR He pulled into a commercial shopping center. We are currently getting set up to see if somebody comes and meets with him, uh, or if somebody comes and takes the car. Also, a common scenario is that they sit still for hours, seemingly doing nothing, but they're just, they're waiting for instructions. AGENT He just stepped out of the vehicle and he is. AGENT Going to open the hood of the vehicle. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Perfect. That makes it easy to find. AGENT Hood of vehicle is open. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR He's gotten out of his vehicle. He's put the hood of his car up. We've called in for an airship to help support in our surveillance. I don't know if he's actually broke down or if he's just using that to look busy. I mean, some of these cars are salvaged. And so, they're, they don't always run. We've had them break down before. Sometimes, being busy with your car can be a way to scan the lot and look for us. OFFICER PARKER We are in South Texas, on the border. Pharr, Texas. OFFICER VASQUEZ This part consists of two bridges. OFFICER VASQUEZ This bridge is the commercial bridge that is a Pharr cargo facility. The other bridge is for regular autos coming into the US. OFFICER PARKER Hello, sir. Anything to declare today, sir? TRAVELER Some food. OFFICER PARKER Just lunch? TRAVELER Yeah, just lunch. OFFICER PARKER [speaking Spanish] Good to go. Thanks. [speaking English] We get a lot of, uh, everyday travelers, US citizens, going to school, going to work. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ Most of the people we're getting is, uh, daily crossers. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ Those are the ones we really have to watch out. 'Cause since they travel a lot, they don't get nervous when they're talking to officers like us. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Where are you coming from today? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] From Reynosa. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Where are you going? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] To work. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Have a good day. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Thanks. Same to you. OFFICER PARKER Right now, we're dealing with a lot of, uh, deep concealment. They're loading all types of things now. You know, the fuel tanks, the engine, the transfer cases. Things that are hard for some of our tools to check. Thank you very much. It can be some of our daily crossers going to work. Sometimes, they try to get us because they think we're gonna be complacent and we're not gonna check 'em. That's when you gotta check a little deeper. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Where are you coming from? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I'm coming from Reynosa. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] To go and load a truck. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ Okay. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] You're a transporter? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Yes, sir. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ Okay. It's a strong smell, like gas. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Did you put gas in earlier today? TRAVELER No. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] What happened was. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I got bumped there, that's why the cap. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Stays open. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ Okay. It's kind of weird how it sticks out. Truck drivers, they cross every day. Since they know the drill and how we work, they'll try to cross something on their personal vehicles. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] You have to get inspected, sir. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Go to number three. [speaking English] Okay? TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Leave the car keys. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Only take with you your phone. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] And any money or things of value. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Everything else stays in the car. [speaking English] Okay? The last time he put gas in it, it was a couple of days ago. And the, the cap is off. Like, it doesn't stick. So, I'm gonna scope it to see if everything's good in the tank. No foreign objects. People try to smuggle stuff through the gas tank, that's one of the favorite methods, uh, specifically for truck drivers. 'Cause they feel like the dog is not able to comp, to discriminate between smells. Even though it's a strong smell of gas, it's, it's barely empty. But it doesn't, there's nothing physically that you can see here. I didn't saw anything with the scope. Uh, here, we're looking for tampering stuff, like loosened screws or hidden compartments. So, here we can see there's an extra cable. It's just work that the vehicle has. They put some LED lighting on it. Search issues. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ You good? OFFICER Yeah, I'm good here. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ [speaking Spanish] Have a good day. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Okay, thank you. OFFICER OLIVER BAEZ This one is a cleared vehicle, so we gave the documents back to the traveler and sent him back to his way. OFFICER LIU The TIER team is a Trade Intelligence Enforcement Response team. Illegal trades is coming in 24/7 every day, 365. OFFICER LIU And we'll deal with anything that's, uh, cargo-related. Whether it'd be antiques, Intellectual Property Rights. We're kind of a jack of all trades. OFFICER Good? The merchandise is good, so it's good to go. OFFICER LIU We will open up shipments, target cargo, but then on top of that, I also deal with antiquities. Cultural property stuff, antiques, from all over the world. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO New York City's a big gateway for smuggled artifacts from ancient Egyptian, Persian, Greco-Roman. Every major period of history that you could possibly witness comes through JFK Airport. All that checks. I need you to close the crate up. A lot of shipments are targeted because either the shipper, whether the recipient of the parcel is known to us, or they've been previous violators in the past. That's it. That's good. That's good enough. And so, we'll stop that shipment and examine it to make sure that there isn't any contraband within that shipment. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO We just got notified that a parcel, that the National Targeting Center targeted for us, is part of an ongoing criminal investigation, finally arrived. And we're gonna see hopefully what's inside this parcel. Let's x-ray this thing and see what we're dealing with. OFFICER Here we go. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO What's that look like to you? OFFICER It looks like metal, I can tell you that much. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Okay. Something metallic? OFFICER Yeah, it's round. Let me get another view of it here. At this view, it looks like metal discs of some sort. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO All right, well, let's, uh. OFFICER Open it up. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Let's open this parcel and see what we're dealing with. OFFICER They're packed inside a package. Package inside a package. Oh, we got gold. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Oh, wow. Oh, we got gold coins, all right. OFFICER There's a lot of money worth of gold coins. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO That's a homerun right there, my friend. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO That's a lot of gold right there. OFFICER Yeah. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Wow. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO I'm not an expert, but I would definitely say that's an ancient Roman coin right there. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO I couldn't tell you the date off hand. Uh, it definitely appears to be ancient. You can tell by the color. The gold is very yellow. So, it definitely, uh, it's got a high gold content. In ancient times, the gold purity was much higher than you see gold today. They weren't concerned about fourteen-carat and ten-carat back in ancient days. Ah, this is beautiful. This is something you don't get to see every day. OFFICER Should be in a museum somewhere. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Over the centuries, gold has gotten pilfered out of illegal digs. It's usually the first thing to go and disappear. Even archeologists don't get to see much in the way of gold anymore, so the fact that I'm holding a substantial amount of gold coins, I can't impress upon the fact that it's a rarity. This is probably worth a lot, a lot of money. We're gonna detain this shipment. So, uh, we'll go ahead and get this transported back to the office. And then, we may be seizing these coins. OFFICER Good get. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Thanks, man. OFFICER ROJAS Hi. What are you bringing back today? No plants, fruits, meats? Okay, have a good one. Goodbye. OFFICER MONDESIR How you doing? OFFICER MONDESIR [speaking Spanish] What are you bringing from Mexico? [speaking English] All right. OFFICER MONDESIR [speaking Spanish] Is the trunk open? [speaking English] Okay. OFFICER MONDESIR [speaking Spanish] You're gonna get a quick inspection. Just go to number two. [speaking English] Okay? OFFICER EBERTOWSKI [speaking Spanish] Hello. How are you? [speaking English] You speak English? What were you guys doing in Reynosa? TRAVELER Shutting my bar down. TRAVELER It's all bottles of liquor. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI Oh, okay. How many bottles of liquor did you pick up? TRAVELER Four or five bottles. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI Are they open? TRAVELER A couple of them are. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI If we could have both of you get out of the car. Pop the hood and the trunk. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI He was breaking down his bar in Mexico and he was transferring it here, to the US. We're gonna go check the vehicle thoroughly. Make sure we're not missing anything, uh, in the vehicle that may be hidden, contraband-wise, weapons, uh, ammunition, money. Anything like that. You're not allowed to bring half-open bottles of booze into the country. We don't know what it is. We can't make the determination as to it being alcohol or what it is. The alcohol that's opened, I'm gonna make them pour it out. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI What is that? OFFICER EBERTOWSKI Two capsules. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI In a plastic bag inside of another pill bottle. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI I want to know what that is. It's supposed to be a sleep aid, but inside it looks like that's the real stuff. So, I'm gonna go test them for either cocaine or meth. And, uh, see what we come up with. OFFICER GARCIA We're gonna use a, uh, test kit. And it should turn pink and blue. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI If it's positive. OFFICER GARCIA If it's cocaine. And then, uh, we'll do some meth. And then, that one should be, uh, purple-ish. Negative. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI Negative. The pills that we tested for, uh, cocaine and methamphetamine came, became negative. So, they're, uh, they will not be seized. I found this bottle with a plastic bag in it. We tested it for narcotics. But I'm not sure what this plastic bag is and what, what's inside of it. TRAVELER Yeah, it's, uh, magnesium pills. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI Oh, okay. TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI 'Cause you've got those two pills, and then you have a brown pill inside. TRAVELER That one is, uh, ashwagandha. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. TRAVELER So, that's what it is. TRAVELER Natural supplement. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI That's fine. You can have those back. They tested negative, so I'm not worried about that. TRAVELER Oh, sure. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI Um, the liquor bottles in the back. You're gonna have to pour it out. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER EBERTOWSKI All right. Let me just get one more thing. You guys can go to your vehicle. I'll be right out with you. We gave the pills back to him. When he exits secondary, they'll have to pour out the alcohol that's opened before they exit the final federal inspection area. All right, guys. As you drive out, show them what you have and pour it out. AGENT A smaller car just pulled next to him. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR There is another car. I'm not sure if they're related or not. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Yeah, they're talking to each other. They seem to know each other AGENT S2 is heading down into his trunk. AGENT Grabbing some unknown items out of there. AGENT Looks like maybe a tool of some sort. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Looks like they have jumper cables. So, maybe he really did have mechanical problems. AGENT S1 is back inside his car. AGENT Door's shut. AGENT S2 is back inside his car. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Okay. It looks like V1 is getting ready to move. Nope. AGENT Looks like he's backing up to be trunk to trunk. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR This could be the unload. This actually probably is the unload. AGENT All right, trunk of target vehicle is open. AGENT I can see him leaning in. AGENT If we have to take down here, go on the south side of them. AGENT Block them as much as possible. AGENT So, that they can't escape that way. AGENT It looks like he's taking packages out of the quarter panel. AGENT And putting them into the back. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR This is gonna be it. AGENT All right, move in. AGENT Bust, bust, bust. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR He's running. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] AGENT We got runners. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR He knows. AGENT Continuing southbound through lot. AGENT I have him. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR That's him right there. AGENT Police! Hands up! AGENT Both subjects detained. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Are you good? AGENT Yeah, I'm good. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR You're good? All right. SPECIAL AGENT DAVID The initial suspect got on the ground, he was cooperative. SPECIAL AGENT DAVID The second suspect took off running across the parking lot. And, uh, we took him into custody on the other side of the parking lot. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Let's keep S1 and S2 separated for now. The important thing now is we've frozen the scene. We're not gonna lose any dope. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR The two people are in custody. And obviously, this is a very busy shopping center, so nobody got hurt. So, now, we just figure out exactly what we have. Is it that bag, buddy? Well, let's see if you're right. OFFICER LIU So, I just got a call from one of the TIER guys to check out this package that was labeled as $10 vintage decoration. OFFICER LIU Could be arts and crafts, could be a two-thousand-year-old artifact. OFFICER LIU But once we open it up, we'll know for sure. I've been with CBP for seven years. Before joining the TIER team, I was in the terminals, sending people in, checking their bags. I've been on this team for, uh, two weeks now. And the best two weeks so far of my, uh, CBP career. Officer Miller has taken me under his wing and shown me the ropes. Showed me how to target. Basically, how to be a TIER officer. OFFICER MILLER Hey. You had a package for us? OFFICER Over there. OFFICER MILLER This is it right here? OFFICER Yup. OFFICER MILLER All right. OFFICER LIU All right, thank you. OFFICER MILLER It's coming from Istanbul. OFFICER LIU Yup, Turkiye. OFFICER MILLER They might've had some stuff on this guy before. He might've sent in other things that was mis-manifested, so we're gonna check and see. OFFICER LIU Let's see, uh, what it actually is. Definitely not a, uh, $10 vintage decoration. It looks like an ancient Egyptian artifact. OFFICER MILLER Could be Anubis. Anubis was an ancient Egyptian god that had a dog's head. But there were a couple of other ones too. OFFICER LIU Sometimes, when I'm holding a piece of cultural property in my hand, I wonder who was the last person to touch this. Was it a pharaoh? It could have been laying dormant somewhere for thousands of years, and then boom, it's in my hands. Looks like it was damaged here. Like, it was broken off of something else. You can see the, the drill holes. It was, uh, attached to something. The buyers and the shippers mis-manifest things so they don't have to pay any duties or any fees. Or if they don't have any proper paperwork, this is the only way for them to bring it in, is to mis-manifest it. We'll send these over to a subject matter expert for antiquities. He'll see whether this is a replica or a real artifact. We'll determine from there whether this is to be seized or to be released. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Good morning. OFFICER PARKER [speaking Spanish] Where are you going? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] To El Paso. OFFICER PARKER [speaking Spanish] Any fruits, vegetables, meat, chicken? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] No, nothing. OFFICER PARKER [speaking Spanish] Nothing? OFFICER PARKER [speaking Spanish] Good to go. Thanks. OFFICER PARKER Anything to declare, sir? These are some of my daily crossers here. OFFICER PARKER I see their faces every day. Sometimes, I go a little deep. I try not to do the same inspection all the time, 'cause people are watching you. They're trying to pick up your patterns. All right, man, if you don't mind, go ahead and pull into lane, uh, lane number four, please. OFFICER THOMAS I have a vehicle that was referred in secondary. OFFICER THOMAS The driver is crossing with a lot of stuff in the vehicle. Baggage, food. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ All these, right here, are blocks of cheese. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ Sometimes, they'll use cheese or food to try and distract the dogs. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ There's nothing in there. OFFICER THOMAS The vehicle's very clean on the inside and that's always a sign you should probably get K9 to run it. K9 to secondary. OFFICER Got an alert. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER THOMAS Do you see any tampering under there? OFFICER RODRIGUEZ Yeah. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ The drive shaft has been taken down. OFFICER THOMAS Hey, Vasquez. OFFICER VASQUEZ Yes. OFFICER THOMAS We got a positive alert K9 on the vehicle. OFFICER THOMAS And we want to see if we can take it over to gantry and get it scanned. OFFICER VASQUEZ Okay. I'll take it there. It's called a gantry scanning machine. This gantry is very high-powered. It shoots through thick metal, thick, uh, material. OFFICER VASQUEZ So, it's very accurate as far as, as finding anomalies. OFFICER We're focusing on the undercarriage. OFFICER And. OFFICER There we see some anomalies. OFFICER In the transfer case, where the 4x4 is. OFFICER And the transmission areas. OFFICER VASQUEZ I'm gonna take it to our lift and check the transmission area and the 4x4 transfer case. As I'm driving over there, I am gonna engage the 4x4, see if it works. If it doesn't work, then that's a red flag. Did you hear it? It did not engage. All I could hear was a loud grinding noise, which probably means that it's got something in there. OFFICER LIU So, let's check out this crate, see what it is. OFFICER MILLER What was it supposed to be? OFFICER LIU It was, uh, manifested as a, an antique. Let's open this up. OFFICER LIU The, uh, CBP employee, over in Washington, DC, specializes in antiquities. OFFICER LIU So, he targeted this specific shipment. OFFICER MILLER Is that good? OFFICER LIU Yup. OFFICER MILLER He usually targets past offenders. To see if they're still sending in antiquities. OFFICER LIU Okay. Got to be careful with this. 'Cause you don't know how old this thing is. There it is. So, to me, it looks like a gladiator helmet. OFFICER MILLER A Spartan-type helmet. This from that Corinthian Greek era. The Spartans were nasty. Those were some nasty dudes. OFFICER LIU There's some damage at the top right there. Like, it was broken off. You can see it was a fragment. OFFICER MILLER Crazy to think it came from that era. OFFICER LIU Yeah. OFFICER MILLER Where he could have been wounded in battle or something. Nice. OFFICER LIU We'll send it over to the subject matter expert for antiques. And he will get back to us as to what this is, the history behind it, and whether it needs to be, uh, detained. OFFICER MILLER Some things come up antiquities, some things come up as. OFFICER LIU As rep, replicas. OFFICER MILLER Replicas. That's very good. OFFICER LIU Yeah. OFFICER MILLER But this itself looks old. OFFICER LIU Three weeks ago, I was in the terminals, checking bags, stamping passports. Now, I'm here, holding a, uh, potentially real artifact. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of years old. Never thought I'd be doing this. It's amazing. So, I'm just gonna package it up carefully, as to not damage this. Let's put this on this side. Being part of the TIER team is kind of like, uh, Indiana Jones. Just holding the, this stuff. Living out the movie. Yeah. All right. OFFICER MILLER Carry on. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Looks like packages. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR There's two bags back here. And they each have packages in them. SPECIAL AGENT DAVID That's six. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR That would be seven. SPECIAL AGENT DAVID Five, six, seven. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Ooh. Seven. SPECIAL AGENT DAVID You think one's still in there? ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Could be. We don't typically end up with odd numbers. That's not my thing, that's just my experience. SPECIAL AGENT DAVID Might be one in the tire. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR It's weird. I don't know if they were done yet. Because if they were rear quarter panels, they wouldn't need a tool. They're just pop rivets. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR So, why would you bring a tool? Unless you needed a tool. AGENT Right. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR So, we're gonna get this back to the port, get it inspected, x-rayed, checked for additional packages or trap compartments. Make sure we got everything out of it. AGENT Hey, yo! AGENT Hey, we're off! AGENT We're moving. AGENT What is it? AGENT Looks like a storage complex. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Yeah. Boom. The intended destination. Based on the information that we have so far, uh, we've developed a link to a storage unit. So, we're gonna go over there and see if we can get inside of it, see if there's any drugs inside. All right, we're good to go. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR But we're gonna try to figure out which storage unit one of the drivers was connected to, and then see if we can find any more dope inside. Dog coming in. AGENT Dog coming in. Come in, come in. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Oh, boy. That's a good hit. Good boy. So, we had a positive dog hit on this unit. We're gonna see what we can see. Yeah, he's right underneath it. Just given the way that that bag is concealed, that's gonna be of interest. All right. Three kilos (6 pounds) of something. Good job. Yeah. Wow. Good job, buddy. We, we didn't know where they were. It's, it's, you solved the crime. AGENT The heck is that? Hey. AGENT You got one more, right here. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Three (6 pounds) more kilos. I'm assuming it's probably cocaine, it might be fentanyl. But we have six kilos (13 pounds) here, and then we have another seven (15 pounds) in, in the car. Nothing else there of, of interest to us, no identifying documents or anything else that could help us in our investigation. So, we locked it back up and, uh, we're gonna go consolidate these two, uh, loads, uh, back at the port for weighing and testing. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO When we're dealing with really old and delicate stuff, uh, we like to try to bring it back to a controlled environment. We don't like to look at it in a warehouse environment. You know, God forbid we drop something, so we'll bring it back to the office. OFFICER LIU There it is. This is a two-thousand-year-old Corinthian helmet. OFFICER LIU The Greek city of Corinth was a major travel route in eighth century BC. OFFICER LIU Through the centuries, Corinth defended against invaders until 146 BC. OFFICER LIU When the Roman Republic overtook the city during the battle of Corinth. When we sent the notice of detention to the shipper. OFFICER LIU He sent us back a provenance stating that his family dug it up in the 1960s from Italy. So, how this Greek helmet ended up in Italy? Could have been a battle, but, you know, I can only speculate. Because they never notified the Italian Ministry of Culture, this is considered clandestine excavation. OFFICER LIU So, they've imported it to the US illegally to a buyer here in the US for $150,000. So, the subject might be prosecuted or it'll be repatriated back to Italy. This is a wooden panel off of a canopic box. The ancient Egyptians would take all the organs out for the person to be mummified. They would place the organs in this box. And then, this along with the coffin would be buried. This is approximately from, uh, 300 BC, so about 2,300 years old. It's been through some hands, so it's been repaired, as you can see. And painted over again. Due to these rough repairs. OFFICER LIU This potentially priceless artifact is now worth $750. Either HSI can, uh, pursue the case and go after the buyer or this piece can be repatriated to Egypt and they can take it from there. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ACEVEDO Not everything that CBP detains, in relation to cultural property, is violative in nature. Some things we release after we determine it didn't break any importation or cultural property laws. That's a lot of gold right there. Wow. The gold coins were a collection of ancient Roman Greek coins. The artifacts in question are genuine. And valued by the appraisers at $30,000. CBP determined that the coins weren't in violation of any export or import laws, and so the shipment was released. OFFICER LIU CBP, we, we're not just about catching drugs. We also try to preserve history. Selling this on the black market, you're basically taking pieces away that could be appreciated by thousands of people. And this is a tragedy to have someone hold on to this without sharing it to the world. OFFICER VASQUEZ We'll lift it up and inspect those two anomalies. OFFICER VASQUEZ So, no tampering to the transmission. Uh, we move back here to the transfer case. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ Yeah. OFFICER VASQUEZ And yeah. There's, there's obviously a lot of tampering on these bolts here. A little bit of oil leakage there. Let's see. Let's see. Yeah. Oh, no oil. Well, look at that. It's loaded. You can see a package right there. There you go. OFFICER White powder. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER VASQUEZ It could be fentanyl. We'll start on the extraction. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ The cartel or any group that's trying to cross drugs through, they have all the technology to do all this stuff. They have mechanics, they have their scientists, you name it. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ They know how to fit certain things certain ways to make the vehicle still work. That should be enough. They leave their signs of how they did it, uh, through their tampering. So, we kind of go based off their method. OFFICER VASQUEZ Is that it? OFFICER RODRIGUEZ Yeah. All right. That's about six bundles that came out of there. These are probably about a key each. Only two halves. So, one, two, three, four keys maybe. It's a big return profit-wise. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ So, deep concealments are tough. Tomorrow, we'll probably be sore on our arms. But it's always worth it for other people that don't see what happens every day. It's a little taste of, of how smart the cartels can be on their, uh, concealment methods. OFFICER THOMAS We're gonna utilize the laser on the Gemini. OFFICER THOMAS It'll analyze the properties and it'll give us a reading back. It's gonna be positive for cocaine hydrochloride. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ Let's see what the final weight will be here. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ It looks like 4.68 kilograms (10 pounds) of cocaine. Usually, in a transfer case like that, it's around two or three keys, so, yeah, I'm a bit surprised. I didn't think they would fit that much in there. So, the subject's gonna be interviewed and investigated by HSI, which is the Homeland Security Investigators. So, those guys will take over the case. It's in their hands after that. OFFICER RODRIGUEZ It's a good day. Any time you find a seizure, especially with a hard narcotic, it's always good. This is happening every day. Some people bring in larger amounts, some people bring in smaller loads like this. But each time you catch one, it's always, uh, the same feeling. Uh, it's great. It never changes. OFFICER These are the two supervisors. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Okay. OFFICER He's a watch commander. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR Watch commander? Okay. OFFICER All right, there you go. It's positive for cocaine. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR So, the seven, uh, bricks that we pulled out of the first vehicle ended up being 8.08 kilos (17 pounds) of cocaine. Looks like these additional packages tested positive for cocaine as well. These are similar shapes, similar packaging, similar markings. So, it was likely going to be the same substances. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR So, it ended up being 6.48 kilograms (14 pounds) of the six additional bricks that we found in the storage unit. It was a successful operation for us. We seized 14.5 kilos (31 pounds) of cocaine. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR You know, we're talking about over 14,000 (14 kilograms), uh, gram level units that every street narcotic team in the country is trying to pick off. We had the opportunity to pick 'em all off while they're still together, while they're all in one spot. And we have two people in custody that were attempting to smuggle the drugs further into the United States. ACTING SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT CONNOR It seems like the arrests are where the investigation ends, but in a lot of cases, it's just the beginning. We want to get that next layer. We want to get that next person. Uh, we want to get that next load of drugs. In this case, that's exactly what we did. We know it was meant for the streets of America, and that's where it's not gonna go. It's gonna end up going into our vault and getting destroyed.