AGENT DEPUTY_CHIEF_RACANATI OFFICER OFFICER_ALLEN OFFICER_ALVARADO OFFICER_DUNCAN OFFICER_ESPARZA OFFICER_GONZALEZ OFFICER_HENRY OFFICER_MELERO OFFICER_MONDAL OFFICER_MOORE OFFICER_MOSSER OFFICER_RAMIREZ OFFICER_SALCIDO OFFICER_SOLIZ OFFICER_VAN_BEVER OFFICER_VELEZ OFFICER_VILLESCES OFFICER_WHITTAKER SAC_TAEKUK SA_JONATHAN SA_JOSE SUSPECT TRAVELER OFFICER SOLIZ Hello. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Anything to declare? OFFICER SOLIZ I'm sorry? OFFICER SOLIZ Did we hear noises? All right. OFFICER SOLIZ Refer to secondary. OFFICER Did you see it? OFFICER There we go. OFFICER It's right down there. OFFICER ALVARADO Oh, I see it. Yes, I see that. I've been here for eight years and I've never seen this before. OFFICER We're gonna have to go in there and get it. OFFICER ALVARADO [speaking Spanish] Poor little guy. OFFICER ALVARADO He's tiny. OFFICER ALVARADO I'm guessing they-they took off from their house coming to El Pa, from Ju�rez to El Paso. They heard a cat meowing halfway up the bridge. When they came down, they told us it got stuck in here, inside of the engine. Maybe the mama cat put it in there, 'cause it's a, it's a tiny baby kitty. He survived all that time in the car, bro. He looks thirsty. He's been in the heat. He's a cutie. Want to give her a name? OFFICER Fenders. OFFICER ALVARADO Fenders. Fenders. He's gonna take it back, see if he can find the mother wherever he parked last night at his house. OFFICER ALVARADO [speaking Spanish] She's going to fall in love. You never know what you're gonna see here. Yeah, it's always something new. OFFICER Hey, yo. OFFICER Over here. OFFICER What you got? OFFICER The officer in primary found a bong. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Everything in the car belongs to you? TRAVELER No. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] It's my sister's. The truck's not mine. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] I understand, but you're crossing an international border. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] What if the vehicle has something. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] And you cross it and say, "It's not mine but I'm still crossing it"? OFFICER [speaking Spanish] So you're taking responsibility for everything in the vehicle now? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I have no choice. OFFICER Okay. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Open the hood and trunk and step out of the vehicle. OFFICER Hey. OFFICER Yes? OFFICER They have weed. OFFICER SOLIZ Here at the port, we do have a zero tolerance policy to try and deter people from coming over with any amount of narcotics. From the smallest amount, personal use, it will get processed and seized. OFFICER VELEZ Since the amount of marijuana is not a lot, they're gonna get a fine, around five hundred dollars. And they're gonna be released. TRAVELER Yeah, it won't happen again. It was, it was just a mistake, uh, young people make. OFFICER Look at that. OFFICER It's all clothes. And it's all name brand. OFFICER We have a combination of Louis Vuitton and Gucci. These companies will not commingle their merchandise and import them at the same time. OFFICER They're counterfeit. SAC TAEKUK The trafficking of counterfeit goods is one of the top four drivers for fueling transnational organized crime. OFFICER We have a Louis Vuitton. It's Burberry. Burberry and Louis Vuitton don't come from Asia. SA JONATHAN Transnational criminal organizations are using it to fund their operations. SA JONATHAN And they're finding that it's a lot easier to do counterfeit goods than to sell narcotics or smuggling human beings across the border. OFFICER The Jumpman logo is always solid. See the stitching coming undone? These are counterfeit. SAC TAEKUK We're not talking about just counterfeit jerseys, we're talking about counterfeit semiconductors that go into your vehicles, counterfeit chips in the military supply chain, counterfeit baby formula. This runs the gamut. SAC TAEKUK This could affect, potentially, public health and safety issues, as well as national security issues. And this is why HSI is focused on fighting counterfeit goods. SA JONATHAN This is the briefing for our IPR operations. We're gonna be working with local trademark representatives regarding a major event going on here in the area. We're going out, on foot, looking for individuals selling, uh, counterfeit goods in the area of the major event. So any questions on that? All right, thank you. We're trying to hit the people who make these in the pocketbook. So we tackle this throughout the United States, on the street. So that we can reduce the amount of counterfeit goods being sold in the U.S. The trademark company called, said they have a vendor that's selling counterfeit shoes. May be looking at approximately three, four hundred pairs. Let's head over and see what we find. Typically, we find individuals who have these counterfeit goods coming out to sell them in bulk when we have major events, such as what's going on right now. And shoes are typically a hot ticket item, because of their value, because of their resale value. There's a lot of market out there. This is probably the one we're looking at right here. I'm Special Agent Polner with Homeland Security Investigations. The white car is yours? SUSPECT Yes. SA JONATHAN What do you sell those shoes for? SUSPECT It goes from like, uh, fifty bucks to one-twenty-five. SA JONATHAN Fifty to one-twenty-five? SUSPECT Yes, sir. SA JONATHAN That's kind of a cool color. I haven't seen Jordans in that color in a while. SUSPECT Yeah. SA JONATHAN These are very high-dollar shoes. But some of these shoes are not in the original colors from Nike. All right, here's the deal. I got a report that you're selling stuff that's not legitimate. Do you have anything to show me that you purchased these things through Nike, uh, you know, Adidas? SUSPECT Um, these shoes are not counterfeits. SA JONATHAN Okay. Open up your truck, let's get all those shoes out, and then we'll go from there. Wow. Dude, your entire car is loaded. AGENT That's probably sixty thousand dollars. OFFICER MOORE Traveling alone? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER MOORE Where are you coming from? TRAVELER Colombia. OFFICER MOORE How was it? TRAVELER Good. OFFICER MOORE You live there or here? TRAVELER Here. DEPUTY CHIEF RACANATI Newark Airport is a hub to New York, to Philadelphia, to Connecticut. OFFICER MOORE What do you do for work? TRAVELER Truck driver. OFFICER MOORE Like a semi-truck? TRAVELER Yeah, like eighteen-wheelers. OFFICER MOORE Okay. Take care. DEPUTY CHIEF RACANATI It's a twenty-four-seven operation. We have twenty thousand passengers a day and you don't know what you're gonna confront. OFFICER Where are you arriving from today? TRAVELER Um, we're arriving from Portugal. OFFICER Portugal? TRAVELER Yes, ma'am. OFFICER You currently live in the United States? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER All right, have a nice day. TRAVELER You too. OFFICER Thank you, bye. DEPUTY CHIEF RACANATI Because of our large footprint, smuggling organizations use Newark as a hub to smuggle in narcotics, contraband, or even people to the tri-state area. And went even as far up as Boston. OFFICER HENRY Budapest? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER HENRY How long were you out of the country? TRAVELER Four weeks. OFFICER HENRY Four weeks? TRAVELER Five. TRAVELER Four and a half. OFFICER HENRY Four and a half weeks? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER MOORE At Newark Airport, we use a two-prong approach when screening for currency and, uh, narcotics. OFFICER HENRY You're in school? You work here? TRAVELER Um, I'm in school. OFFICER HENRY Awesome. All right, very good. TRAVELER Cool. Thank you. OFFICER HENRY Enjoy your day, ma'am. OFFICER MOORE Most of the time, passengers only see the primary inspections. But we have other departments, like A-TCET, which is the Anti-Terrorism Contraband Enforcement Team. OFFICER All right, guys. We're gonna hit a couple flights today. Starting off with Dominican Republic. We're gonna take the X-ray out, get some baggage. OFFICER MOORE They're tasked with meeting the aircraft at the gate, looking into traveler's bags to make sure that there's no contraband or any currency, or any, anything of interest. OFFICER DUNCAN We're kind of a support team. We work with the teams upstairs. We narrow it down to bags of interest. OFFICER DUNCAN When we find something of interest, we put it on the baggage belt and make sure the officers upstairs meet the passenger taking possession of the bag. You want to keep eyes on it 'cause you don't know who's out here. Sometimes if it's an internal conspiracy, anybody working around the aircraft in America, might be communicating with somebody from Dominican Republic. They might throw a bag full of, uh, drugs in on the other side. And ramp agents on this side might grab it real quick and take off. Let's check out that bag. OFFICER ALLEN Oh, found something. OFFICER Oh, wow. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER Oh, yeah. It's gonna be a lot. OFFICER It's a pretty substantial one. OFFICER DUNCAN This is an abundance of medication for personal use. OFFICER DUNCAN A lot of people go down to D.R. to get, like, pills and medications and bring it back. It's easier to collect them without getting a prescription down there. We'll follow this to the backroom. OFFICER ALLEN Sounds good. OFFICER DUNCAN One of us will go upstairs, make sure it's still in contact. And we'll let PIER know. They'll meet us, they'll take the passenger and do the examination, okay? OFFICER ALLEN Okay. OFFICER ALLEN We're gonna go follow the bag, get the traveler that the, the bag belongs to, and then we're gonna do an inspection. Get the story of why so much medication. OFFICER DUNCAN We want to make sure they're not trying to sell anything or get something that's not allowed in America through FDA regulations. This is the baggage carousels. This is where all the ramp agents bring the bags. They'll throw them on the belt and you can get them at baggage claim. OFFICER I'm gonna head upstairs now. OFFICER Just, uh, call me when you send the bag up. OFFICER And I'll meet you up there. OFFICER DUNCAN All right. Wait a couple minutes, make sure you're in the right position. OFFICER Okay. OFFICER I'm here now, you can send the bag. OFFICER Here you go. OFFICER It's right there. OFFICER You got him? OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER WHITTAKER Is that the bag right there? OFFICER All right, come on. OFFICER WHITTAKER All right. OFFICER WHITTAKER How are you? OFFICER WHITTAKER This is your bag? TRAVELER Yeah. TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER WHITTAKER Okay. Come with me. All right, this one. What's this? Oh, oh. A lot of pills. All right. OFFICER WHITTAKER A lot of pills. All right. SUSPECT That's probably, like, a hundred pairs or something like that. SA JONATHAN A hundred pairs of shoes? SUSPECT Yes. SUSPECT All my stuff is legitimate. SUSPECT I buy shoes from, like, Foot Locker or somewhere like that. SA JONATHAN Today, we have a couple of trademark representatives trained in what is and what is not counterfeit goods. And we use them as our, kind of our guidance. SUSPECT These shoes are not counterfeits. SA JONATHAN Okay. SA JONATHAN The trademark representative is looking at all the items. SA JONATHAN To determine the extent of what we have here. SUSPECT Yes, sir. SA JONATHAN We typically look for things such as stitching, country of manufacturers, the way a tag's laid out, those types of things. AGENT They're counterfeit. SUSPECT I bought this from the store. SA JONATHAN Okay, where's the tag? SUSPECT I didn't buy them from� SUSPECT I bought them from different people. SA JONATHAN You bought it online? SUSPECT Yes, sir. SA JONATHAN There's no markings on it. The packaging doesn't match how legit the packaging is. So you've got stuff that's not legitimate. We're gonna seize them based on the trademark representative's assertion that they are counterfeit. SUSPECT You're saying that you're about to take all of my shoes from me, man. SA JONATHAN At this point, I don't have a choice. You will have the right to petition to get those items back, if you can show me that you purchased them through legitimate means. All right? SUSPECT All right. SA JONATHAN We're going to seize what he has out here on display. SA JONATHAN He's decided he's going to abandon these products, which basically means he's giving up his legal rights to these products. Considering these shoes are higher end shoes, it's a significant seizure. We're gonna go back to our office. We're going to enter them into our seizure system. And see if he'll give us information regarding where he bought the shoes from. We have agents in several foreign countries to try to stop it at the source, so that we can reduce the amount of counterfeit goods being sold in the U.S. This is the last of it. Sometimes it's like playing Tetris. OFFICER MOSSER [speaking Spanish] Where are you headed? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Here, downtown. OFFICER MOSSER [speaking Spanish] What are you bringing? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I have $300 in cash. OFFICER MOSSER Okay, perfect. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] To do shopping. OFFICER MOSSER [speaking Spanish] Have a good day. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Thank you. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Good afternoon. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Spanish or English? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Spanish. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Spanish? Okay, very good. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] You live here? OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] What were you doing in Ju�rez? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I went to get dried meat and do my nails. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Very good. Just that package? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I have more in the trunk. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] It's for the entire month. OFFICER VILLESCES Okay. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] How many are you bringing? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Like 25. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Twenty-five. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I buy them here from a young guy. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] You buy them. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] And what do you use them for? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Personal consumption. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I eat them every day. It's my daily snack. OFFICER VILLESCES Okay. Let's inspect it and see what else we find. Because sometimes they declare some, but not everything. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Can you open the trunk, please? OFFICER VILLESCES Okay, so here we go. You think this is more than 25? I think it's more than 25. I think this is way more than 25. One, two, three, four, five, six, and I can count 25 in one bag. That's an automatic no, no. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER VILLESCES There is no way somebody can eat this every single day. She's got two trash bags full. I believe that this is a commercial quantity. We're gonna go ahead and send it in. OFFICER VILLESCES Can I have an escort? Lane eight. Escort lane eight. OFFICER VAN BEVER We're gonna have a look at your vehicle, okay? TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER VAN BEVER So just go and wait right over there. OFFICER VAN BEVER Facing that direction. OFFICER VILLESCES She did declare twenty-five. OFFICER VILLESCES We want to see how many bags she actually does have. Okay. So, you've got. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Four. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Five. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Six. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Seven, eight. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Eleven, twelve. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Nineteen, twenty. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Five. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Six. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Seven, eight. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Seventeen. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] So, you're bringing 37 bags. Thirty-seven. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Thirty-seven. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] You told me 20 to 25. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Twenty-five are mine. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Yes, but I asked you the total. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] How many bags in total? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Some are for my family. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Yes. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] They had already paid for them. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] And they just gave them to me. OFFICER VILLESCES Okay. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Remember, you are bringing them. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] You didn't tell me I'm bringing 20 to 25. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] And I have more for other family members. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] You didn't tell me that. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Have they talked to you about this before? TRAVELER No. OFFICER VILLESCES Okay. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] You can't bring in this quantity. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] There will be a penalty. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Of five hundred dollars or more. So. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] We're going to give you the opportunity to turn back again. [speaking English] It's a commercial quantity, but not an exaggerated commercial quantity. We usually give a second chance depending on, uh, how they act and-and their attitude. So, we're gonna give her the opportunity to return back to Mexico today. The story she gave us, that she eats two, three a day, uh, that was kind of, like, not believable. And our job is to, to make sure that they are bringing what they say they are bringing and the purpose of the merchandise. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Follow them. OFFICER VILLESCES [speaking Spanish] Put it in reverse and exit that way. OFFICER WHITTAKER So, you have to take all these medications? We have been noticing a lot of prescription drugs coming from source countries, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Guatemala. OFFICER WHITTAKER This is a thing where, you know, they, they bring the prescription drugs, they're often bringing it for other people, it's not even for themselves. So, it's our job to make sure that these prescriptions are actually for a clinical purpose, and not for resale. What kind of conditions do you have? TRAVELER My heart. TRAVELER He has a lot of heart conditions. TRAVELER I have a. OFFICER WHITTAKER Heart conditions. TRAVELER He has a pacemaker. OFFICER WHITTAKER Oh, a pacemaker. TRAVELER He had like a couple, three heart attacks. OFFICER WHITTAKER Oh, wow. TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER WHITTAKER Wow. And you're still alive. Wow. That's, that's a blessing. TRAVELER I'm still alive. OFFICER WHITTAKER He's Iron Man. TRAVELER And then my mom had back surgery. OFFICER WHITTAKER Back surgery as well? TRAVELER Arthritis and all that. OFFICER WHITTAKER Okay. All right. So, you have to take all these medications all at once or how does it work? TRAVELER Eleven pills in the morning. OFFICER WHITTAKER Eleven pills. TRAVELER Six in the night, for me. OFFICER WHITTAKER And it's all for, it's all for the heart attack? TRAVELER Yup. TRAVELER And blood. OFFICER WHITTAKER For the heart, heart condition? TRAVELER And blood pressure, cholesterol. OFFICER WHITTAKER So, it's all the other surrounding issues that you have. Now, these are from like a U.S. practitioner, correct? TRAVELER Yeah. TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER WHITTAKER A U.S. practitioner. All right. We, generally, see people come back with medication from the practitioners overseas. So, it's-it's kind of good that a lot of it is labeled with the, uh, the name, the doctor that he went to see in West New York. So it's all stuff, it's, it's all good for me. It's good on my end. Who's a police officer? TRAVELER You didn't tell him. You're police. OFFICER WHITTAKER You're police? TRAVELER They saw your badge. OFFICER WHITTAKER This is your badge? You have credentials? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER WHITTAKER Where are you a cop at? Do you have a gun? You do? You have a gun. Oh, lord. Where is your gun? Where is it? He said he has guns. This is just an example of our two-prong approach where, you know, A-TCET, they may find something and we'll conduct the inspection. Two teams working together as it should. Like a well-oiled machine. ATTACH� BRIAN The crimes in Colombia really touch the entire portfolio of HSI. And that ranges from drugs to money laundering. So, HSI's mission in Colombia is to support our domestic investigations back home that have a transnational nexus. To not only train and provide advice to our foreign partners, but to gather intelligence and information so that we can identify the criminal elements back home. And dismantle and disrupt those organizations operating in both countries. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Thank you again, gentlemen, for being here. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Thank you for your willingness to do this operation. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] You will be accompanied by the HSI agency. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] That house is the objective. We enter through here. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Look at the amount of business on the street. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] It is our experience that there is a high probability that. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] There could be a response from the people. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] That's why we want to get there early. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Any questions? OFFICER [speaking Spanish] God bless you. SA JOSE We're getting ready to start deploying to the site where a search warrant's about to take place, looking for counterfeit shoes. We have a S.W.A.T. team. They make the entries in high-risk places. We also have support from the regular police patrolmen. We also have the assistance of a drone that is flying the area, to make sure it's our perimeter secure. This is one of several organizations that are involved with counterfeit items in this part of the country. And at the end of the day, this affects the U.S. in several ways. They're using this and many other warehouses where they sell counterfeit items. You know, and all this goes back to money laundering. This is just profit that is, goes back and it's invested back to the narcotics side, over and over and over again. Be careful. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] National Police. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Police. Police. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] National Police! [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER We're clear. SA JOSE Ready to go. SA JOSE We're gonna start heading into the possible warehouses, looking for any evidence of counterfeit items. There might be shoes, there might be clothing items, or any other contraband. SA JOSE [speaking Spanish] Was there anything there? OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Yes. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Right here. SA JOSE There's a big chance all of this is gonna be counterfeit items. The room is full. Already shoes in here. SA JOSE Name brand, Adidas. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] And here you can find. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] More Adidas. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Puma. SA JOSE Another type of shoe. You can smell right away, cheap materials. Which is possibly very toxic glue and plastic that could potentially cause health issues for the people purchasing this item. These guys are selling this here, average, ten dollars. But they're still making profit out of ten dollars, because technically when they bring this item from China, they're only paying between two to three dollars. Here, we're looking at several thousands of pairs of shoes just between these two warehouses. This is profit that goes back to the narcotics side. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] This is information. This, too. This, too. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] The documents that. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] You can see here, are information for us. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] All this is part of the evidence. SA JOSE Okay. We have information here of where it came from, the companies being involved. So, it's not just seizing all this merchandise, but also this is what's gonna help us identify any connections in the United States and other parts of the world. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Good morning. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Can you open the window, please? OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Where are you going? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I'm going to Home Depot. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] To Home Depot. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] And what are you going to do at Home Depot? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] I'm going to buy glue. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Very good. OFFICER Referral, Lane 6. You're gonna go to secondary, okay? OFFICER ESPARZA We have a vehicle that we're gonna check out further. Um, it's, the driver's nervous and we suspect that there's something in there. I haven't noticed anything unusual, other than the windshield and the front bumpers not being as dirty as they should be. Considering he's traveling from Delicias, Chihuahua, which is a good time of travel. It looks a little cleaner than usual. OFFICER Check it out. OFFICER Look, he found a microphone. OFFICER ESPARZA There is? OFFICER ESPARZA Where's it at? OFFICER ESPARZA Oh, yeah. OFFICER ESPARZA It's got a tracker in it. OFFICER GONZALEZ We just got a call on our A-TCET unit, Newark Airport. OFFICER GONZALEZ Uh, basically our targeting unit targeted a passenger going to Greece. And we're gonna go find the bags now, pull those bags, have K-Nine run it. We gotta work quickly, 'cause we got a passenger over at the gate we gotta go interview. Hey, Frank. We got the bags. Frank, you want to run the dog? OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER GONZALEZ You want us to lay it like this? OFFICER Yeah, if you could, if you could lay it flat. OFFICER GONZALEZ Lay it flat? Yeah, no problem. See if they get a positive alert. It's positive on that one? All right. OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER GONZALEZ Pass it through the X-ray. So, there is, uh, brick shaped objects here in this area. We've gotten already, probably, like eight of these recently. One just yesterday. Same type of pattern. It's suspected that it is marijuana. We're gonna bring the bags upstairs, pull the passenger, and we're gonna interview the passenger. And basically they have to claim their bags and say that those are their bags, and then we'll open up the bags in front of them to see if it's suspected, uh, marijuana. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER GONZALEZ We're gonna try and get the passenger. The bag tags already have her name on it. So she can't say that they aren't her bags. OFFICER GONZALEZ And we'll see what-what's in the bags. OFFICER MONDAL Hey, how are you doing? Have your passport out. Next. OFFICER MONDAL That's her, right? How are you doing? TRAVELER How are you doing today? OFFICER MONDAL How many bags do you have? TRAVELER Two. OFFICER MONDAL Two? Come this way real quick. Right in here. Are these your bags? TRAVELER Sadly. OFFICER MONDAL Okay. You know what's in here? You packed it? TRAVELER No. OFFICER MONDAL No? Who packed it? Okay. Take a seat in here. Sit on your butt. TRAVELER I gotcha. OFFICER MONDAL Cross your feet. OFFICER That's a large quantity. OFFICER MONDAL Close that up. Stand up for me. Turn around. OFFICER GONZALEZ From the smell and from the texture of it, and basically the latest trend has been just outbound marijuana, so we're suspecting it is marijuana. But we will confirm it when we test it in the, uh, in the office. You guys are taking her to Terminal C? OFFICER Terminal B. OFFICER GONZALEZ Terminal B, okay. OFFICER Terminal B, okay. Terminal B. OFFICER Sweet Tea. We got Vanilla Frost. OFFICER Oh, we got White Truffle. OFFICER GONZALEZ This weed now is so potent and it's gotten so strong that now all these other countries want some of it basically, in a nutshell. This year alone, it had to be over, how many would you say? Passenger-wise, that we caught? OFFICER RAMIREZ About fourteen so far. OFFICER GONZALEZ About fourteen that we caught. All right, yeah, there you go. That's a nice purple. OFFICER That's the purple, yeah. OFFICER GONZALEZ All right, so that confirms it's marijuana. It turned purple. OFFICER MOORE All right, so we just finished adding up the contents of the gray bag. Uh, we're gonna start adding up the contents of the second bag. OFFICER RAMIREZ Uh-hmm. OFFICER GONZALEZ This lady actually had done two prior trips to this one day. And she probably gets anywhere between five and ten thousand dollars, just for bringing the load over to Europe. What happens next is, uh, we do contact HSI, HSI does come. They'll call and see if they'll take it federally, if not, it's gonna go state. OFFICER There we go. OFFICER GONZALEZ Today was a good productive day. We worked as a team. We got these drugs off the streets over there in Europe. That's what we live for. I mean, we love the, uh, the rush of it and every day's different, and that's what I love about this job. AGENT This is a ledger of, uh, sales and distribution. And it's going all the way back to twenty-twenty. So I'm sure they'll find some more ledgers dating back even further. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] You gonna start bringing them outside? OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Yes. SA JOSE Our counterparts here in Colombia, they're putting everything in-in containers and everything is to be transported from this back to the office. Uh, from there, they will document more specifically, more detail, as to how many shoes, colors, brand names. And then they kind of estimate the price. OFFICER Adidas? OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Yeah, yeah. Adidas over here. SA JOSE Eventually, part of it will be destroyed and part of it will be donated to the local charities. ATTACH� BRIAN It's amazing just how much merchandise can fit in two small apartments. ATTACH� BRIAN A lot of money. SA JOSE We're at, right now, the center of attention. People are getting together to do some kind of protest, fighting for their merchandise. So, it's time for us to depart. No Americans in the area. It helps them calm down the situation and it's also for our safety purposes. Better for us to take off. OFFICER The tracker could be, uh, like a GPS or I mean, wires like this could be a microphone. So we don't know yet. We have to follow the cable. Uh, obviously you can see the tape here. There's been some, some tampering. This is not normal in a vehicle. OFFICER ESPARZA We're good with the seven-point inspection. OFFICER ESPARZA And now we're gonna call Z-Portal. Z-Portal, we have a twenty-sixteen Fluence Renault. OFFICER SALCIDO We're looking at anomalies in the rear bumper area of the vehicle. Looks like a non-factory compartment. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER SALCIDO We're gonna go to Area Fifty-One. Area Fifty-One is an area where we take our vehicle to extract the anomalies that we noticed on the X-ray. OFFICER SALCIDO I'm gonna go ahead and drill the compartment. We got a white powdery substance. OFFICER All right, let's see what we can do. That's all Bondo right there. There they are. There we go. OFFICER SALCIDO They created a non-factory compartment. This is all Bondo, which made it pretty easy for us to tear apart without any heavy machinery. And we're most likely gonna have to dig a little bit more this way to extract these right here. OFFICER ESPARZA [speaking Spanish] That's it, right? OFFICER SALCIDO They get pretty advanced on these compartments. And it never ceases to amaze me how good of a job they do. From what it looks like, from the X-ray, that's pretty much just gonna be our primary area. OFFICER SALCIDO But, I mean, you'd rather be safe than sorry to make sure we extracted everything. OFFICER A good place to hide something. OFFICER Yeah, a good place. Yeah. OFFICER Clear. OFFICER Sometimes they load the. OFFICER The bottom. OFFICER You get all this in here full of packages. OFFICER All clear. OFFICER SALCIDO The Gemini will let us know what the powdery substance is gonna test positive for. Boom. Positive for the properties of cocaine. OFFICER ESPARZA Four point seventy-two kilos (ten pounds). So now we're just waiting on HSI to come in and talk to the individual. It's really up to them now. It's very significant to us that we were able to catch the cocaine here. And we kept it from making it to the streets. OFFICER ESPARZA You know, we don't know who it's going out to. We're keeping it from getting to, potentially, kids. Which are the biggest concern. So, I'm just proud that we were able to catch it and it didn't make it to where they intended to take it. SA JOSE Just to give you a quick update, out of this warehouse not only were they gonna send some of those items outside of the country, but it also appears that they are the ones that were providing for the other businesses in the area. SA JOSE Also, during the execution of the warrant, Colombian authorities were listening to some phone calls. SA JOSE And they were able to confirm that the target of the investigation was actually making some phone calls saying, "Hey. They're outside. They're looking at this." Blah, blah, blah. So Colombians are a hundred percent sure now it's another target. We still need to confirm whether it's in country or it's out of the country. ATTACH� BRIAN Well, good. It's a good hit, man. Thank you very much. SA JOSE Okay. ATTACH� BRIAN Let's make sure that we're coordinating with CBP, with HSI, back home. ATTACH� BRIAN We know if it's stopped in any of our ports and we get the Colombian National Police all the information that they can and that they need for the investigation here. SA JOSE Okay, sir. ATTACH� BRIAN Thank you. SA JONATHAN What we're trying to do with counterfeit goods is we want to disrupt the ability of these transnational criminal organizations to make money. SA JONATHAN I'll get them onto the table, get them all sorted into their various areas. Air Forces are where? SA JONATHAN Air Forces are where? AGENT I have a few Air Force over here. SA JONATHAN Okay. SA JONATHAN We want to dismantle all the suppliers and reduce the likelihood that those funds could be used against the U.S. government, its people. And try to stop people from getting hurt, both financially and physically. That's our end goal. [SNAP-IN] OFFICER MELERO Hello, ma'am. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] Who's truck is this? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] My husband's. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] Your husband's. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] One of the dogs was alerting to this vehicle. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] Anyone that drives this vehicle. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] Use drugs or anything like that? OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] Marijuana, cocaine, or anything similar? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] No, I don't. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] Are you sure? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Well, no. I have my. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] In my. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] In my belief, no one. OFFICER MELERO Okay. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] So, open everything, the hood. OFFICER MELERO [speaking Spanish] We're going to inspect it. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Ready? OFFICER MELERO Uh-hmm. OFFICER MELERO I asked her does anybody that drives this vehicle use any type of drugs, but she said no. Obviously, sometimes people just say things to throw us off, but we still gotta inspect the vehicle. There's nothing in here. On the surface level, it looks like nothing, but then we gotta X-ray it. And if the X-ray will pick it up then they'll let us know, like, "Hey. We got a positive." And then we'll actually, like, debone the entire truck and see what's underneath the surface level. OFFICER MELERO He's just double checking. OFFICER Clear. Good. All right. OFFICER MELERO All right. OFFICER Okay. OFFICER MELERO Okay. She didn't seem nervous at all, and we see a lot of nervous people that come through and we know they're probably up to something or they're hiding something. And you can see it in their body language. But she seemed fine, so if it has nothing, it doesn't have anything, it's good to go.