AGENT AGENT_ON_RADIO AGRICULTURE_SPECIALIST_JOSEPH OFFICER OFFICER_BALAT OFFICER_CAPUTO OFFICER_GOMBASH OFFICER_GUZMAN OFFICER_KEEFE OFFICER_KELLEHER OFFICER_NIDO OFFICER_ON_RADIO OFFICER_YBARRA SUPERVISORY_AGENT_ERIC SUPERVISORY_AGRICULTURE_SPECIALIST_KWIECIEN SUPERVISORY_OFFICER_VEGA SUPERVISORY_SPECIAL_AGENT_ERIC TASK_FORCE_OFFICER_RENE TASK_FORCE_OFFICER_STEVE TRAVELER OFFICER KELLEHER Those are clear. Most of the packages are legit. But we see more and more drugs coming through daily. Here you can see clothing articles, but it doesn't look right. See? The green, the color. Let's give a look at that one. The package contained a, a sweatshirt. Four of them. We've seen this before. In the past, we've had drugs hidden inside the corrugation of the cardboard. Want to open them up? OFFICER CAPUTO Yeah. OFFICER KELLEHER Yeah? And right there you can see it's filled with powder. OFFICER KELLEHER Look here. You can see how it was inside this blue panel and they just glued this on there to make it appear as though it was a regular cardboard box. OFFICER KELLEHER But it's just a laminate. We're gonna test the suspected narcotic. This should give me an answer on what this powder is. And it is ketamine hydrochloride. OFFICER CAPUTO This, we see, probably, weekly. Ketamine has been coming in more frequently. It's very popular with the kids. In particular, there's a club drug. We're gonna weigh it. OFFICER CAPUTO Fifty-eight seventy-eight grams (twelve pounds). We're gonna refer this to Homeland Security Investigations and they'll do a workup on the sender, the receiver. And they'll determine what steps we're gonna be taking in the future. It's either destroyed or picked up for a controlled delivery. I would say someone will be looking for this package. But the price of doing business for them. OFFICER BALAT Good morning. Bringing anything from Mexico today, sir? TRAVELER A few pesos, that's it. OFFICER BALAT Just pesos? Okay. Just give me one moment, all right? SUPERVISORY OFFICER VEGA We're gonna do some preprimary operation. My team is gonna be sweeping all the cars that are here. SUPERVISORY OFFICER VEGA We have several tools that we use. Density meter, we have a small handheld X-ray called Viken. So we will be checking the cars to see if we get, uh, lucky and get a load. OFFICER BALAT All right, sir. Have yourself a good day, okay? Thank you. Take care. SUPERVISORY OFFICER VEGA Uh, he's using the Viken that shows you the difference between the two surfaces. The plastic and then the metal. But if there had been a bundle behind there, it would have showed up as a solid white mass. OFFICER GOMBASH Hey, how are you doing, man? Where are you headed to? TRAVELER Uh, work. OFFICER GOMBASH Work? All right. You living in Juarez? TRAVELER Uh, I live, I live here. TRAVELER I just moved here. OFFICER GOMBASH Oh, you just moved here. What brought you out here, man? TRAVELER Something new. OFFICER GOMBASH Okay. Something new? All right. We'll just do a quick inspection, okay? He just moved here, so from, from another state. It didn't make sense that he would just move here, what he told me, for something new. The density meter reads the density of objects. OFFICER GOMBASH We have normal density reading, uh, for the tires, and if it's any higher than that, usually there's something in there that's not supposed to be in there. OFFICER Negative. OFFICER GOMBASH What'd you do in Juarez? TRAVELER I was visiting my parents. OFFICER GOMBASH Your parents? Okay, so your parents are from here? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER GOMBASH Okay, okay. All right, man. That makes a whole lot more sense. Okay. All right. Good to go. OFFICER NIDO Big truck. Hello. What's your citizenship, sir? American, okay. Anything to declare today? TRAVELER Hello. TRAVELER No, sir. OFFICER NIDO How much do you have in cash, sir? TRAVELER Two hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICER NIDO Two hundred and fifty? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER NIDO Yourself, ma'am? TRAVELER Fifty-five. OFFICER NIDO Fifty-five bucks? All righty. I know sometimes they hide substances even on the main frame of the vehicle. I know that's been a trend lately. Narcotics, currency. We've been seeing that. OFFICER NIDO Those are kind of the things that I've been looking for. OFFICER NIDO [speaking Spanish] We're going to go to number two. [speaking English] So I'm taking it in, uh, to number two. So, just for a further inspection of the passengers and the vehicle as well. So I kind of look for tampering and all that kind of stuff. But nothing on this one. OFFICER Should we run it through Z? OFFICER NIDO Z-portal, we're gonna run a Dodge Ram on the bus Z-portal. We're gonna use the bus one because it is a bigger truck. Usually, we use this for the vehicles, but this one is bigger. You can go ahead and park your vehicle, sir, again. OFFICER ON RADIO Ram is good to go. OFFICER NIDO All right. Here you go, sir. Here you go, man. Go ahead, ma'am. You can come in. TRAVELER Oh, my God. OFFICER They did just give the clear for the vehicle. Uh, they didn't find anything. He didn't, no indicators of, uh, deception at all, so, uh, he was good to go. OFFICER NIDO Have a good day. SUPERVISORY AGENT ERIC Thanks for coming out. Uh, today we received a, a parcel that came in from Spain. It has about four kilos (eight pounds) of ketamine that's going to this address in North Miami. We're gonna deliver the package, and then hopefully somebody picks up the package and then we can, uh, identify who's involved in this illegal scheme. SUPERVISORY AGENT ERIC We see this on a regular basis. SUPERVISORY AGENT ERIC Right now, ketamine's coming from, from everywhere. Spain is one, London is another one, South America, uh, Colombia is another one. It's just not one source, uh, country that's coming into the United States. Some of it stays here in, in the South Florida area, but a lot of it goes, uh, north to, uh, places like New York, uh, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. It's just a big thing right now because ketamine can make other illegal drugs. A lot of times they mix it with fentanyl, with meth, sometimes with cocaine, with heroin. And it makes it just that much more potent that, uh, people end up in the hospital and people end up dead. AGENT ON RADIO All right, I'm here. AGENT ON RADIO All right, guys. Go ahead and start just getting set up fore delivery. AGENT ON RADIO All right, Joe and I are set up for takeaway. AGENT ON RADIO If someone picks it up and tries to leave out of the main entrance and exit. AGENT ON RADIO I'm set up outside of the complex, on the south side. AGENT ON RADIO All right, entry team is good to go. SUPERVISORY AGENT ERIC We just arrived at the, uh, target location, the area. The team's already here. They're set up on the, uh, residence. We have, uh, law enforcement officers around the surrounding areas of the location. We have eyes on the address. Once that law enforcement agent tells us that somebody takes possession of the package, then we will start, uh, going forward. AGENT ON RADIO If everybody's set up, I'm gonna go ahead and start with the delivery. AGENT ON RADIO Ten-four. AGENT ON RADIO Package in front of the doorstep. SUPERVISORY AGENT ERIC Now we'll just, basically, sit and wait. And then see who takes possession of it. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] AGENT ON RADIO All quiet here. AGENT ON RADIO Got no movement whatsoever. No vehicle. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC If this package goes on the move, we're gonna follow the, the package to see where it goes to. AGENT ON RADIO Ten-four. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC A lot of times when we're dealing with this type of investigation, there is people in the neighborhood that's also involved. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC And we don't know who is who, so we, we try not to stay in the same spot. AGENT ON RADIO Vehicle starting to circle around is a, uh. AGENT ON RADIO Looks like a Toyota. AGENT ON RADIO A blue Toyota RAV4. AGENT ON RADIO It's, uh, coming around. AGENT ON RADIO Vehicle pulling in, vehicle pulling. AGENT ON RADIO That should be the vehicle. If we can verify the tags. AGENT ON RADIO Yeah, that's it. AGENT ON RADIO He went in the house. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC The target just showed up at the house in a Toyota, so we're waiting to see what happens now. AGENT ON RADIO Guys, stand by, he's got the package. AGENT ON RADIO Bringing the package into the vehicle. AGENT ON RADIO Copy. We're ready to go. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC It looks like he's going on the move. So we're gonna follow the vehicle, see where it goes to. AGENT ON RADIO We're heading south. AGENT ON RADIO Just turned left. AGENT ON RADIO He just left the complex. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC He's, uh, going about thirty-five, forty miles an hour (15, 17 meters per second). On lane number one. AGENT ON RADIO I have him. AGENT ON RADIO He did a fast one. AGENT ON RADIO Uh, it looks like he's going to the turning lane. AGENT ON RADIO I can't follow it. AGENT ON RADIO He made a left. AGENT ON RADIO Westbound. AGENT ON RADIO I've lost sight of him. AGENT ON RADIO Standby. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN This looks like a car bumper or something like that. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN Today we are at JFK's International Mail Facility. We have the largest volume of mail. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN We have also the largest number of agriculture, uh, related seizures in the country. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH Beer hops? SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN Oh, yeah. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN Cones from a hop plant. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN These are allowed. What we do is very different from looking for controlled substances, or narcotics, and, and so forth. We protect our food supply. We protect U.S. farmers. We protect U.S. agriculture, natural areas, from invasive pests, diseases. One fruit fly released in Florida can cause hundreds of millions in damages. This entire bin is from Benin in Western Africa, so we'd really like to see what's in the boxes. All right, let's open these four, see what they have. It's probably all the same stuff. So we're just comparing addresses on these boxes, and it looks like it's the same, uh, person shipping it. But the recipient address is, we think it's different. Oh, yeah. It's all the same. Where the, where is it going to? AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH Uh. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN This says Georgia. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH Georgia. This one is going to New York. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN So it looks like they're going all over the country. Oh, yeah. They're faulty, they have something. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Do you speak English or Spanish? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Spanish. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Where are you going? TRAVELER Artesia. OFFICER KEEFE Artesia? OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] What is your reason for going there? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Work. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Are you a resident or a citizen or what? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Work visa. OFFICER KEEFE One of the team members observed this car, observed the driver, and they like the chances that possibly he's transporting narcotics into the U.S. And just from looking at the car, it's a good chance. Anything that's cheap, easy to modify, the chances are higher. They're not gonna not necessarily use a high value car, but, um, the chances are just higher with a lower value car, because we'll seize the car if there is something in it. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Does the car have another driver or just you? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] My sister. OFFICER KEEFE Okay. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Where are you coming from today? OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Juarez, or�? Okay. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Your house or where? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Yes. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Your house? OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] And you're not bringing anything for anyone over here or over there? TRAVELER No. OFFICER KEEFE Okay. OFFICER KEEFE [speaking Spanish] Thank you, sir. He seems nervous. It's not really his car. It's his sister's, from what I understand. He's coming from, uh, a place that's not local. It fits all the things we kind of look for. It's definitely worth taking a, a, a longer, harder look at it. OFFICER KEEFE Can you run this Ford Focus? OFFICER GUZMAN What I got right here is a handheld X-ray that we use to, uh, to scan the doors, quarter panels. Try to find any anomalies within the compartments, anything like that. OFFICER BALAT We'll check it a lot better over there. OFFICER BALAT Where we got more tools. OFFICER BALAT Let's do that. OFFICER YBARRA [speaking Spanish] Go to the first one, young man. We're just gonna bring it in for the secondary inspection and X-ray. OFFICER YBARRA And give it a more in depth, uh, uh, seven point. OFFICER YBARRA [speaking Spanish] Young man, turn it off. OFFICER YBARRA [speaking Spanish] Pass me the keys. OFFICER YBARRA [speaking Spanish] Open everything, compartments and trunk. Take off the lock. OFFICER YBARRA [speaking Spanish] Bring your phone and wallet. OFFICER It's a positive alert. OFFICER Go over the floor. OFFICER YBARRA The floor? OFFICER The floor. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER YBARRA Our K-Nine said that the dog was alerting or showing interest to the floor. Uh, still searching. Um, so, so far nothing. OFFICER KEEFE We'll put it through Z-portal. OFFICER KEEFE Hopefully, we'll see something on there. If we don't, then he's good to go. OFFICER All clear. OFFICER GUZMAN The vehicle that we just finished inspecting, we used all the tools that we have available to us. In preprimary, we started checking it with our handheld X-ray. OFFICER GUZMAN We went ahead and brought it down just for a further, further inspection, a more intensive inspection. But we found nothing in the vehicle. OFFICER All right, you're all set. [speaking Spanish] TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] OFFICER GUZMAN At the end of the day, there was nothing there. Gotta go find the next one. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN It's all, uh, cow skin. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN So cow skins are a delicacy in Western Africa, countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Cameroon. They go by different names, but basically it makes this, kind of, gelatinous soup that's supposed to be a delicacy. So, I've never tried it, gotta admit it. But I heard it's delicious. You can see how thick it is. Foot and Mouth Disease is a disease of hoofed animals. It's very costly to eradicate. And once it gets in the population, it can get easily transmitted. So, ultimately, it's gonna be prohibited. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH This is infants' milk. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH But underneath it all is cow skin. At the bottom, there's some more cow skin. They just packed it, hiding it, I guess. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN Sometimes we find a storage pest. There's a handful of storage pests, such as khapra beetle, and a few others that also can be very destructive. So we'll put it in a vial with alcohol and send it for I.D. In a few days, we'll get the exact species. It may be a quarantine significant storage pest. This one's going to Ohio. This one's going to Michigan. So it looks like this whole bin may be cow skin. Well, just to make sure, we'll X-ray a couple more. Yeah, it all looks like, uh, cow skins. All the same stuff. Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. So it looks like about twenty shipments, yeah, in this one bin alone. So that's the haul. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN A hundred fifty-eight shipments of prohibited dried cow skins. It came to about three metric tons (3 tons). Well, this is probably the largest amount we've ever seized. It's quite a haul for us. We have a beef industry in the U.S. that's worth tens of billions of dollars. And the eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease is not easy. It's costly to, not only to our farmers, but ultimately to all of us. We're all taxpayers, we all eat, and tho, those of us who, uh, enjoy beef would be paying for it. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC Guys, where are we at? AGENT I don't have eyes on him right now. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC We are looking for the guy. Just lost sight of him. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC If we lose this guy, we lose the drugs. And that means the drugs end up on the streets and possibly people die. AGENT I'm ahead of him. AGENT And he's making a U-turn. AGENT Southbound. AGENT He's heading back to the intersection. AGENT Copy that. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC Here it is. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC The blue vehicle in front of us. He took possession of the package at the target location and right now we have more than a dozen law enforcement agents following this, uh, the subject. AGENT Just turned left. We're heading east. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC Headed towards the beach. AGENT It's possible he might be going to a Miami Beach address. AGENT That's associated to him. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC We're hoping that where we're going to right now, is where they actually manufacture the, uh, the illegal drugs. We're gonna be able to identify more people involved and hopefully find some more, uh, evidence in this case. AGENT He's got a green light. AGENT He made a left. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC Right now, traffic is, is bad. Uh, we're during rush hour traffic. Uh, a lot of people are getting out of work. And we're down in an area where there's a lot of people, a lot of congestion. Following somebody in rush hour traffic is like pulling teeth. AGENT He's making a right-hand turn. AGENT Going into. AGENT The south side of the apartment complex. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC Yeah, he might be giving it to, the packages to somebody else. AGENT Joe went on foot to see what he, what he's doing. AGENT Looks like he's gonna be parking. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC Oh, no, you're good. He's getting out the car right there. He's actually right next to him. Put the camera down, please. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] AGENT Where's the car? AGENT He's parked. AGENT All right, everybody start rolling. AGENT Hands up! AGENT Police! AGENT Hands! Put your hands up! AGENT Anybody else in the car? [speaking Spanish] AGENT All clear. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC We ended up taking the subject into custody. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC We're not sure if he was gonna hand off the package to somebody else. If the package was going to somebody in this, uh, apartment complex, and we wouldn't have been able to follow it. So we decided to take it down there. All right, guys, let's get him in a vehicle, let's secure this. All right, he's got the package, I saw. Anything else in the car that we found that he might have, no? AGENT Phone should be right there. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC That, is that his phone? AGENT That's his phone, yeah. He left it in there. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC All right. I'm sending some of my agents to the residence. The subject gave us consent to, uh, search his residence. We're taking the subject back to, uh, headquarters to process him. Usually, the person that picks it up is a low-level mule that takes it to another location. So we're, we're trying to find the people above him. Uh, w, we would call him, like, the middle management and then the managers of distributing these drugs into the, into the U.S. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH Let's go. Up. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN So recently, we've seen a large influx of smuggled, uh, snails and insects for pet trade. We've found multiple shipments from some African and European countries. And we think, uh, there may be more coming. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH Up. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN So we have with us one of our agriculture K-9 cargo teams, and we'll be working with him today. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH Good boy. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH That's a good alert. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN Let's break it down. Bryce just alerted on something in this cart in the lower portion, so we're gonna break it down and see if he can pinpoint exactly, uh, where the, where the target is. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH It's one of the back boxes. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN Okay. AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST JOSEPH He has a passive response, where he sits on the box. So he will go through 'em, one by one. And when he finds the right box, he will sit. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN Okay. So it looks like Bryce likes this box. Let's see what it is. Well, this package is from Czech Republic. We've seen these before, usually packaged like that in a peat moss. Okay, yeah, these are live snails. Highly invasive. OFFICER GUZMAN We've got some, I'm gonna call it tampering in the, in the rails of the, of the vehicle in the back. I don't see the drain holes. Hey, B. OFFICER BALAT What are you seeing, bro? OFFICER GUZMAN What do you think of the bottom, bro? Look at the rails. OFFICER BALAT I can't see through the holes, bro. OFFICER GUZMAN All right. OFFICER BALAT Yeah, I can't see. OFFICER GUZMAN Yeah, you know what? We should take it inside and do some further inspection down there. That way we're not holding the traffic up too much. OFFICER Escort lane 11. OFFICER GUZMAN When we got down here on the frame, it's missing hardware. And you can see the anomalies on both sides. So right here where we see are the screws, you can, you can notice how the rest of the frame is, is naturally dirty, the screws look they've been freshly removed. And the fact that there's no drain holes on the, the actual frame itself. That's something off for us too. I think the best thing to do right now is to drive it through the x-ray, see if they see any anomalies in that particular area. OFFICER You're gonna wanna check this area right here. OFFICER GUZMAN In the trunk, in the back? OFFICER Yeah, just look in the back. OFFICER GUZMAN All right, we're gonna go put it on the lift, see if we can see anything from the bottom. Going up. We're gonna see if we can check those anomalies from the bottom. Uh, what we've seen common on those compartments are narcotics. Uh, we've seen a lot of fentanyl, meth. We're gonna check the frame to make sure the density matches the rest of the vehicle just to make sure it's not, it wasn't involved in any accidents, it wasn't just repaired, like, in a very cheap way or anything like that. So this right here is our density meter. It's one of our newest, uh, tools that we have on the job. It'll basically shoot through the metal and give us the, the density scan of what we're looking for. Usually these compartments are empty, 'cause it's a hollow frame. The density reader, it's shooting up. There's something in that area. We're gonna bring it down, try to see if there's anything up there. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER GUZMAN Going down. OFFICER GUZMAN So what we're noticing up here with the same density reader, we're getting the same scanning from the top. So it's showing us that there's something there, we just need to find access to it. I think the next step, we're just gonna remove the bumper, see if maybe we can get access from the frame. There it is, bro. So right here, these screws, you can tell they're, they've been freshly removed. The, they don't match the rest of the car. They're not as dirty or anything, and they're hand-tight. OFFICER BALAT Those were hand-tight. OFFICER GUZMAN There it is. There's our trap door. See if we can get access. There it is. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN This little snail looks like a giant African snail. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN It's a juvenile. They grow really big, uh, sometimes in the wild up to twelve inches and the shell is up to seven inches (17 centimeters) long. It's the largest land snail in the world. This is one of the most common snails we see. People often, uh, keep them, uh, as pets. And, uh, they have the highest quarantine designation in U.S. They are hermaphroditic and they can produce up to 1,200 eggs per year. So that's a really explosive population growth. This can be a form of bioterrorism if they were released in the wrong spot and decimated our food supplies. So it looks like we have four different species of land snails over here. These are common garden snails from, uh, from Europe. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN They're not particularly invasive. SUPERVISORY AGRICULTURE SPECIALIST KWIECIEN But you can't bring them into the country without permits. All these species of snails, we would take one specimen and submit it to U.S.D.A. identifiers to get a positive I.D. Unfortunately, there's no way to send them back. Once they come without permit and they are prohibited, we, uh, will destroy them. These type of finds are what really our job is about. Finding the species that pose a real threat to our natural areas and make sure they don't destroy our food supply. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC After following the subject from the house in North Miami, we sent some people to his residence, where he was living at. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC The subject gave consent to go into his place. They found more boxes, so this, the seizure now is, is a lot bigger. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE I think there's a mix of twenties. AGENT Hundreds, fifties. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE We're starting to document everything that we seized from our suspect. AGENT They found approximately, like, $25,000 wrapped up. There was also two handguns, uh, recovered. Two, three, four, five, six. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC Also, we have a big bag of probably over 3,000 pills that we're gonna go over and see what they are. All these pills are gonna be weighed, tested. AGENT It's probably fentanyl, oxy pills. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE This is suspected fentanyl that we're dealing with here. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE And we definitely got to take, uh, precautions when it comes to dealing with fentanyl. It could be deadly. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE You see the, the red line? And then underneath that it's showing a partial red. That means that it's negative. AGENT Check it again. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Just as a precaution, um, because they are suspected to be fentanyl. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE We're doing an additional test here with the use of the Gemini machine. It takes the sample that we have and it matches the, the molecular structure of the content of what we're testing to a database that's inside the computer. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE No match found. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE These DTOs are so creative. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE On how they make things. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Especially all the synthetic stuff. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE They're always changing the chemistry of narcotics. So the next step, we'll actually take it over to the D.E.A. lab here in Miami. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE The D.E.A. lab has a more sophisticated laboratory. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE And their tests over there will be more conclusive. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE They're likely just, uh, fake pills. If you're selling a batch of 'em, you're just putting some of the fake ones in there, uh, and, you know, make more money that way. But as of right now, we're just, you know, we're just starting the process. This is a big party bag that, uh, we seized to, uh, to test out. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE It's actually different items. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE Uh-hmm. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE I haven't seen a bag like this. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Supposed to be like heroin? TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Brown tar heroin? TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE I have no idea what this is. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Right now, we're gonna test the brown stuff. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE It smells vinegary. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Like heroin. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE No match found. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE So I'm going back to old school techniques. I want to see if, um, if we can get a positive test result, um, for MDMA. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Yep. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Purple. It's positive for MDMA. I, I've never seen anything like this before. I guess this is just the new way that they've come up with to throw us off our game. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE We're moving in the right direction again. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Now we can move on to the next. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE Is this stuff ketamine, most likely? TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Yeah, K. TASK FORCE OFFICER RENE Yeah. TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE Here we go. Ketamine hydrochloride. AGENT So let's put this on the scale and see how much we have. AGENT All right, what's the next thing? TASK FORCE OFFICER STEVE MDMA. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC This started off with four kilograms (eight pounds) of ketamine. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC They came in in parcels here in South Florida. We ended up getting ecstasy, ketamine, two handguns, twenty-five thousand dollars. This ended up turning something that was small into something, uh, pretty big. We also got the lab report back on these 3,000 blue pills, and it was positive for nitazene. Nitazene is a, is a new thing in Miami, in South Florida. It's an opioid that is 10 times more potent than fentanyl or these other drugs that we're seeing. SUPERVISORY SPECIAL AGENT ERIC If this comes on the streets, a lot more people are gonna die. So that's, we're good that we got this off the streets today. What we want to do is disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations in the world that are trying to smuggle drugs into the United States, and basically ruin families' and people's lives here in the United States. So hopefully after this, we keep on taking pieces off the, the board uh, until there's no more pieces in this organization that are involved in this, uh, trafficking of, uh, illegal drugs into the United States. OFFICER GUZMAN It doesn't feel hard. We're hoping it's cocaine. Usually if it's crystal meth it has like a crunch to it. You can feel the rocks. OFFICER GUZMAN We're trying to be as careful as possible pulling everything out, trying not to expose ourselves with it. We've seen a lot of cars, natural voids, natural compartments, that you might think, "No, there's nothing they can fit in there," and you end up extracting five, six, seven bricks. It just surprises you what these organizations are gonna go through to try to get narcotics across into the country. All right, we're gonna see if we can test one, see what we got. OFFICER GUZMAN Positive result for cocaine. We've been seeing a lot of meth, a lot of fentanyl. Cocaine's become rare for us, just like marijuana. All right, we're gonna try to get a weight. OFFICER GUZMAN The total weight we got right now is 16.42 kilos (thirty-six pounds). We've gotta make some phone calls with HSI and let 'em know what we've got. That way they can come over here, gather reports, talk to the subject who's in the, in the, uh, holding cell and go from there. Basically, that ends it for us. Now it's just basically the report and trying to get an arrest out of it. OFFICER GUZMAN Every time we find compartments loaded with narcotics, it's quite exciting for us. That's basically all our team does. Try to hit the ports of entry, try to find compartments and narcotics. Just trying to get it off the streets.