AGENT OFFICER OFFICER_CASTILLO OFFICER_DURON OFFICER_HIOTIS OFFICER_LAZO OFFICER_MACIAS OFFICER_PEGO OFFICER_ZUBIA SUPERVISORY_AGENT_TODD TRAVELER TRAVELER No. TRAVELER No. OFFICER Escort. Escort lane eleven. After I inspected the trunk, um, I did notice some things in the back. So, we're gonna have our secondary officers check it out. OFFICER He's hitting on this. OFFICER ZUBIA Can I get a secondary officer to escort this vehicle through Z-portal? We have a K-Nine alert on the rear quarters. OFFICER There we go. OFFICER Rear quarter panels right here. OFFICER I see the bundles clear as day. OFFICER ZUBIA There you go. It could be hard narcotics. A lot of packages. Both quarter panels are pretty well-packed. OFFICER ZUBIA One of the bundles, usually from what we've seen in the past, are a lot larger in size. On the cocaine, there's usually a solid feeling. This feels pretty solid, so more than likely I'm gonna say that this one's gonna be cocaine. Even though we find narcotics located in one area, that doesn't mean that the rest of the vehicle is not loaded. Yes, we found the anomalies in the trunk area, but we're gonna clear the entire vehicle to make sure there's no more concealed. OFFICER All clear. OFFICER Otero, as we pull them out, count the bundles, okay? OFFICER ZUBIA After you conduct several hundreds of inspections a day, you kind of learn what the norms are. It just comes with time and experience. OFFICER Five right here. Cool. So, there's nothing else in here? Feels nice and hollow? Okay. We're ready. So, ten total. OFFICER Ten? OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER ZUBIA We'll get a test, find out what we're dealing with and go from there. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Come on, buddy. He's like, "Who is that?" Come on. Ice, my K-Nine, he's a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. We've been a team for about three and a half years. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Border Patrol, we have several different functions, uh, that we do here. In Gulfport, Mississippi, one of the things is international waters. We're just a few miles off the coastline. And there's also, I-Ten is a thoroughfare coming directly from the southwest border. The thing that my team focuses on is transnational criminal organizations. Whether it be alien smuggling or drugs, or whatever type of contraband that they're, uh, trying to smuggle on the interstate. Come on. Kennel. Good boy. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD M-Eleven to Jackson. I'm ten-eight. Good morning. And we're gonna see if we can't find some smugglers. Narcotics is one of the biggest industries in the United States. And the industry's gonna use the interstate. I-Ten is probably the largest corridor for drug trafficking and illegal alien smuggling in the United States. The flow of the contraband normally is drugs and people going east and then the proceeds from that contraband and weapons going back west. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Yeah, some of these people are going a little fast. Looks like he's slowing up now. I might as well go ahead and pull him over. You could tell he was looking for us to come out behind him. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD And he's showing a ton of driver action. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD So they're hiding something. Whoa. How y'all doing? TRAVELER All right. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD I'm a Border Patrol agent assigned to the county taskforce, looking for smugglers. You got your driver's license with you? TRAVELER It's in my bag in the trunk. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Okay. Yeah, just step out and get it, man. This a rental car? TRAVELER Yeah. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD You got that rental paperwork with yous? TRAVELER Uh, it's hers. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD I'll talk to her in a second. Can you just give me your license right quick? Where are y'all heading to, man? TRAVELER We're going to a concert. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Oh, okay. Wait right here. I'm gonna run your license and we'll get you guys out of here. TRAVELER To be honest with you, it's suspended. TRAVELER It's suspended because I had. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Is that why you're kind of nervous? I'm not worried about that. TRAVELER Yes, sir. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD I was just. TRAVELER I just don't want to go to jail. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD You're not gonna go to jail over a suspended, bruh. I'm just gonna make sure you ain't got no warrants and then I'm gonna get you out of here, okay? TRAVELER I'm pretty sure I have one because of a ticket. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Nah, that's a misdemeanor. I'm talking about felony ones. He's got two felony warrants. So, definitely, we'll go back to Louisiana, uh, for the warrant. Do me a favor. Now, don't, don't run, okay? Put your hands right here. TRAVELER I'm not running. I'm not running. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Put your hands right there. TRAVELER Can I just. TRAVELER Can I give her my wallet first? SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Nah, nah, nah. We're gonna go and turn just a second. Hey. TRAVELER Okay. TRAVELER No. I'm just gonna give her my, okay. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD No, no. Chill out. I'll. TRAVELER No, can I, look. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD I'll let you give it to her. TRAVELER Ok. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD I'll let you give it to her. Just put your hands on the thing up there. No, no, no. TRAVELER I am. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Now put your hands behind your back. TRAVELER I am. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Ah, don't. TRAVELER No, I'm not running. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD No. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. TRAVELER I'm not running. TRAVELER I'm not running. TRAVELER I'm not running. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Stop. TRAVELER I'm not running. I'm not running. TRAVELER I'm not running. I'm not running. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD We got one running. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Full extradition warrant. OFFICER HIOTIS A lot of travelers think that Customs is just coming into the United States. But it's anything coming in or out of the United States. OFFICER How are you doing today? TRAVELER Uh, fine. Thank you. OFFICER What's the purpose of your trip today? TRAVELER Uh, it's a business trip. OFFICER How much cash are you traveling with today out of the United States? TRAVELER How much cash? OFFICER Uh-hmm. TRAVELER Uh, 500 euros, I think, sir. OFFICER HIOTIS Once you're at the jetway, that is our jurisdiction. Once you cross that threshold, you've now made the intent that you're going outbound. OFFICER Nothing else? Just five hundred euros? No checks? Anything like that? TRAVELER No. OFFICER Okay. You're all set. TRAVELER Thank you. OFFICER Have a good night. TRAVELER Thank you. OFFICER Thank you. OFFICER HIOTIS Approximately how much cash are you guys taking out of the United States right now, estimate? TRAVELER About $900. OFFICER HIOTIS Okay. Have a nice flight, guys. If you're carrying more than ten thousand dollars, which you're legally allowed to do, the money must be declared to Customs. If somebody under declares, or we see that they're hiding money, then what happens is, at that point, you were untruthful to the U.S. government and now that money is subject to be seized. OFFICER HIOTIS Hi. May I see your passports? TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER HIOTIS How are you guys doing? TRAVELER Doing well. OFFICER HIOTIS All right, husband and wife? TRAVELER Yes. TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER HIOTIS Okay. Right now, between you and your wife together, approximately, how much currency are you guys taking out of the United States right now? TRAVELER I have $10,000. OFFICER HIOTIS Okay. This is just a currency reporting form. Just write down how much money you declared to me. You sign there and the wife signs there for me, okay? There's no taxes, no fees, no penalties or anything like that. Okay. All right. Do me a favor, guys. Just come with me for a quick minute. Can you just come in here for me, all right? It's just a random bag exam. I'm gonna need you guys to take out the monies, put it down on the ground. I'm gonna count it and give it back to you, okay? All right, just put it right down on the floor as is. Do you have a wallet, sir? TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER HIOTIS Okay. Yeah, just put it down as is for me. Just, uh, watch me, please, 'cause I am gonna count your money. Ten, five, six, seven, eight, twenty. You told me ten thousand dollars, okay? It's double what you told me. Well, stay right there for a second. Hey, uh, boss. Can you just keep an eye on them? OFFICER HIOTIS We got a seizure. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER HIOTIS This was the cash that was presented. TRAVELER Trust me, I thought I had ten. I promise you. OFFICER HIOTIS Okay. This is going into this bag. OFFICER HIOTIS Okay. Here's where it pays to be honest. TRAVELER No. OFFICER HIOTIS I stopped you randomly. TRAVELER No. OFFICER HIOTIS I asked you how much money you have. You told me ten thousand dollars, okay? TRAVELER I am right. OFFICER HIOTIS Okay, but, sir, sir. Let me, I'll give you a chance to speak, okay? TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER HIOTIS Unfortunately, because it's double what you told me, unfortunately right now, the money's gonna get seized. You guys can come right outside. Just wait for me right over here, okay? I only need one person to stay behind for the seizure. So, he's gonna come with us, and you can take the bags and everything. You go outside. We're gonna take him to secondary and we're gonna do the seizure. The wife is going to wait for him. OFFICER HIOTIS And once we go into the office, we'll separate all the currencies and we do an actual count, we'll get the final count. Here we go. All right, sir, just have a seat for a second, okay? All right. I'm gonna start with the hundreds first, okay? Grand total of the seizure is twenty thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars. Had he told me, "I have about twenty thousand," I would have given him the FinCEN one-zero-five, he would have completed it, and he would have been on his way. But unfortunately, we had to seize the currency. You're going to get re-booked on another flight, okay? The FinCEN one-zero-five is designed to combat organized crime, drug trafficking. Let's go straight up this way, all right? Within thirty days, he's gonna get a letter from Finance Penalties and Forfeitures, that's the part of Customs that handles this part from this day forward. They're gonna want his side of the story, why he didn't declare the money. If he can't prove where the money came from, then the seizure becomes a forfeiture, but most of the times, they keep a percentage as a penalty and then give the rest back. OFFICER ZUBIA I'm gonna test the narcotics that were found in the vehicle. OFFICER ZUBIA The reason why we do it with all these precautions is, with the uptick in fentanyl, we don't want to get exposed. So, we do this the safest way possible to identify what we're dealing with. I'm cutting through the several layers of packaging that they utilize to throw off the dogs. They'll pack it real airtight. Looks like there is a white powder. It does have the consistency of cocaine, but it also could be fentanyl. There it is. We have a positive test for cocaine hydrochloride. Once we get a good solid weight on the cocaine, we'll know, more or less, how much it's valued here at the border. The value of the narcotics here at the port of entry is gonna be different than it is within the interior. As the narcotics travel within the interior, the value of the narcotic goes up. OFFICER MACIAS Let's get them all lined up right here and we'll make sure to count them as you hand them out. OFFICER One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. OFFICER MACIAS Ten. OFFICER MACIAS Total weight is 11.16 kilograms (24 pounds). OFFICER MACIAS The money that gets produced through the purchasing of these narcotics will typically go back to the, uh, drug traffickers, back into Mexico and back into their pockets. Aside from the narcotics being taken off the street and potentially harming, uh, U.S. citizens or any other legal immigrants, we're also basically disrupting the drug trafficking organization system and how it funds itself. And we continue to hit them where it hurts, and that's the, the wallet. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD He went in right here. AGENT Sheriff's Department with a canine. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD It sounded like he went over that way. AGENT There's deer, there's bobcats out here, there's. AGENT There's footprints from the game and wildlife. AGENT Let's go back to the fence and track the other way. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Yeah. We're eastbound on I-Ten. We had a wanted subject went out running from the stop. We got a local canine track going. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD The dog's going all over the place with fresh sign. So, we're probably gonna have to track it by eye, if we can. But he's gotta be somewhere, uh, close to here, 'cause he wasn't in the best shape, but he got a head start on me. AGENT Can you give a description? SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Yeah. He's a black male, approximately thirty years old. Wearing a blue jean jacket and blue jeans and tennis shoes. And he's got tattoos, uh, from what I saw, on his arm. And, uh, he's got a active felony warrant. AGENT Ten-four. AGENT Hey, Todd. AGENT He's still going northwest. AGENT He just tracked to a, uh. AGENT A little shoot house back here in the woods. AGENT I'm gonna clear it real quick. AGENT There should be a huge pond when you get on the way to me. AGENT If you could, just check around the bank of it. AGENT Make sure he didn't double back. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Ten-four. I'll check this, uh, area by this pond. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD That's a foot sign. AGENT Twenty-one to all units up here on the interstate. AGENT I got him back here. AGENT He's going eastbound toward fifty-seven, in the woods. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Ten-four. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD He's on the north side of the interstate, running, uh, eastbound towards 57. AGENT Saw him jump out of the woodline. AGENT Twenty-one Jackson. I'm out with. AGENT The individual. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD That's why you can't outrun the radio. I just saw his jacket in there somewhere. So, we're gonna bring his jacket just to prove it was him. This got stuck. AGENT He's in custody. AGENT He's perfectly fine. AGENT Uh, he's still got the keys to the car. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Oh, okay. AGENT So we're gonna get him back down here. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Yeah. Come on, boy. Come on. All right. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD He's alerting. Good boy. I'm not seeing anything. AGENT Nothing yet. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD I smell weed coming from this bag. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Man, they probably threw out whatever they had. AGENT Let me check that green bag. AGENT That's the last one. TRAVELER We just need the keys from him. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD All right. TRAVELER To get to the concert. TRAVELER 'Cause we're still going to that concert. TRAVELER Thank you. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD It took a lot of effort and, uh, good teamwork. And what's gonna happen now is, uh, they confirmed the warrant, so he's gonna go back to Louisiana, uh, for the warrant and we're gonna go back to work. It's pointless to run. You're gonna get caught. OFFICER Hello. OFFICER K9, can you make your way over? OFFICER That's a good alert. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Open your trunk, please. OFFICER Oh, wow. OFFICER There it is. OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Step out of the vehicle. OFFICER ZUBIA So the females, they were a little overly friendly, very talkative. OFFICER ZUBIA Giving me all those indicators that it's just, it's, it's a little bit more than what there is. I noticed that there was some vacuum-sealed packages and then went ahead and started extracting the females from the vehicle so we can go in and find out what's in the trunk. Right now, we're gonna start processing the load. You can hear it. You can hear it. It's at the bottom. OFFICER DURON Packages inside. OFFICER DURON Packages moving inside. So these nails that are, are, are put right here are just kept to hold it. And if you see down here, you could see the bundles all across the back right here. OFFICER ZUBIA Oh, wow. OFFICER There it is. OFFICER LAZO We're heading to this flight that's headed to London. OFFICER LAZO One of our K-Nine dogs, um, hit on a bag for narcotics. So, I'm gonna go meet my team. They already pulled the bags. We're gonna verify the contents and make sure that we intercept the passenger before they board this flight. OFFICER LAZO There we go. OFFICER LAZO That's the one. Yup. OFFICER LAZO Do you have your passport? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER LAZO Any baggage you got with you? TRAVELER Just my purse. OFFICER LAZO Anything checked in? TRAVELER Just my luggage on the plane. OFFICER LAZO You got a checked in luggage? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER LAZO All right, gotcha. You're headed to London right now? What's the purpose of your travel? TRAVELER Yeah. TRAVELER Uh, traveling, visiting friends, family. OFFICER LAZO Okay. Gotcha. All right. And you said you have a checked in luggage? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER LAZO All right. So we're gonna head to that right now, all right? Um, how does your luggage look? TRAVELER Uh, it's black. OFFICER LAZO Black? All right. Come. So come to the side here. Just wanna make sure, this right here is your luggage? This one right here, right? TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER LAZO All right. Everything inside is yours, belongs to you and only you, right? TRAVELER Yes, ma'am. OFFICER LAZO All right. So I do need you though to, um, turn around. I'm gonna put you in handcuffs at the moment, okay? Do you have anything on you that could hurt me or anything? On you? TRAVELER No. TRAVELER No, ma'am. OFFICER LAZO All right. TRAVELER Can you explain to me what's happening? OFFICER LAZO The dog hit on your bag. TRAVELER Oh. OFFICER LAZO All right? TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER LAZO So we gotta take you with us. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER LAZO All right. So you're gonna follow me, all right? All right. Calm down. OFFICER You're gonna chill out and we're gonna take you out of the handcuffs. TRAVELER Is that cool with you? TRAVELER Oh, yeah. That's fine, yeah. OFFICER There's a lot of us, no need to run. OFFICER We just wanna treat you like a human being, okay? TRAVELER Okay, yeah. OFFICER LAZO So we're gonna have the dog just run it again, real quick. OFFICER Good girl. OFFICER LAZO So I'm just gonna, again, just ask you again, this bag is yours? TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER LAZO Everything inside belongs to you? TRAVELER Yes, ma'am. Yes. OFFICER LAZO Um, you're not carrying anything for anybody else? TRAVELER No, ma'am. OFFICER LAZO All right. So I'm gonna open it now, okay? TRAVELER Okay, yeah. TRAVELER Where's the clothes? [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER LAZO Are you aware of the contents of the bag? TRAVELER This one is not my bag. TRAVELER My bag has clothes. TRAVELER I just checked it in, literally. OFFICER LAZO Yeah? TRAVELER Yeah. When I, yeah. OFFICER LAZO Okay. All right. We're gonna take a test of it. It's looking like the obvious, you know? OFFICER LAZO Marijuana. But, it's definitely positive. So all the stuff you have here is looking like marijuana. Right now, we're gonna have to take this and then we're gonna have some officers come and talk to you, okay? Now, we're gonna call HSI. They're just gonna take it from here. It's 33 packages. OFFICER LAZO Total of 17.48 kilograms (38 pounds). OFFICER Hey. OFFICER We got one more. OFFICER LAZO Oh, my God. Another one? We actually just got some intel that she has someone that she knows boarding another flight right now. So another team is gonna go and get that now. On to the next. OFFICER ZUBIA You see the tampering here? OFFICER ZUBIA I think the anomalies were behind the door panels as well. OFFICER DURON I'm still training here as a new officer. I'm partnered up with FTO Zubia, who's known for catching all the loads. I've been learning so much from him. He's, he definitely knows what to catch. OFFICER ZUBIA I do take the field training officer position very serious. OFFICER ZUBIA I do wanna pass on a lot of knowledge. I wanna make this job fun for them. Don't be afraid to get in. I try to give them as many tools as I can to be successful. And I want them to have that feeling that they're gonna go out there and have what they need to be successful. The front one is clean. Let's check the rear one. So you can see the tampering. Uh, looks like maybe five each. They wanna make it look as normal as possible, so they're utilizing people's personal vehicles to load them, just to make it less conspicuous, so you'll see all that personalization. OFFICER DURON Three, four, five. Two, three. It's awesome that, that I've only been here for what, going on two months, and it's the biggest load that I've seen so far. OFFICER ZUBIA Sixty-eight, sixty-nine. OFFICER DURON It just gives you more enthusiasm to keep going, to keep looking, to keep searching all vehicles. OFFICER ZUBIA Eighty-three, eighty-four, eighty-five. Looks like we might've gotten it all. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD So I just saw a camper trailer go by and it don't have any lights going on, on its whole trailer. Travel trailers right now are real popular as far as people using them 'cause there's lots of places that you can hide contraband. Man, you ain't got no lights on this thing. TRAVELER Really? SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD On the back. Yeah, it's not working. TRAVELER It's not out. TRAVELER It's my, it's my partner's and he's in Florida right now. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Hey, listen. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Just leave your stuff in the car and step outside, okay? It smells like marijuana in the car, so we're gonna check it out right quick. Come here. Look, is there anything in the camper you wanna tell me about? TRAVELER There are like pipes and stuff like that. TRAVELER He has a medical marijuana card in Florida. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Open that. Open that up. And they've got empty drawers all over the place. I'm just making sure that they don't have any like, uh, felony distribution level type drugs in here. So far, all I've found is like personal use marijuana. Not the kind of things that we're interested in. Y'all can keep this stuff and I'll take you to jail or you can get rid of it. TRAVELER I don't need to keep it. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD All right. Pour it on the ground. TRAVELER Like what do I do with this? SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Stomp it out. TRAVELER Okay. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Okay. Go ahead and try to fix your lights though 'cause you can't keep going. TRAVELER Yeah. No, okay. We figured it out. We thought it was plugged in and it was not. So the lights should work. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Okay. TRAVELER I've been traveling for like ten years. TRAVELER We homeschool our kids. We got a little community, so. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Like a hippie community or a. TRAVELER That's the goal. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD All right. They're working now. Y'all are free to go, okay? TRAVELER All right. Thank you. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD All right. Have a good evening. Those people were a little bit different, you know, but to each their own. We're here to, to enforce trafficking level amounts. Sometimes it's something small, but you gotta check everything out. AGENT M-11? SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Go ahead. AGENT Looks like a 2011 Chevy passenger truck. AGENT Silver in color. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD So we just got an alert about a car that is a known human smuggler, and it's on its way back westbound. So we're gonna make contact with the people here in a minute. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD There it is. It is coasting. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD What you'll see and what we're concentrating on with westbound operations is them actually pick up currency for all, the payment for all the people that they've dropped off. The normal price range is probably somewhere from $25,000 and $10,000. If we talk to them and that's something that they've done, then we'll seize their currency. How you doing, bud? TRAVELER No, no. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD No? TRAVELER No, no. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Okay. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Do you have a driver's license on you? SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Oh. El Salvador. TRAVELER No, no, no. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Okay. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD [speaking Spanish] Wait here for a minute. He just admitted to me that he's transporting people for money. And he says he has $5,000 in there, so we're gonna see if that's true. Well, he said one person, but there's evidence that he smuggled way more than one person. He's got a pretty big vehicle. There's other trash and stuff that's in it. That ain't gonna be just from one person. Oh, yeah. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD That ain't $5,000. OFFICER ZUBIA We're gonna go ahead and cut into a couple of packages. Looks like, uh, marijuana, smells like marijuana. So this should confirm that it is marijuana. OFFICER DURON So we're gonna test them. OFFICER ZUBIA Get it into our kit. So when we first get the first samples going, it'll change to a solid purple. Then once we get going, it'll change into the double colors. So you'll see the darker on the bottom, the lighter on the top. There we go. Positive test for the properties of marijuana. OFFICER ZUBIA We were able to confirm the narcotics and we'll start doing paperwork and start processing this load. We'll get everything on the scale. We'll get weights. And then we'll allow the HSI investigators that responded today to start doing their magic on their end. OFFICER DURON Twenty-seven, twenty-eight. I didn't think it was gonna be so soon into my training, right? OFFICER DURON To find some, something this big, right, of this magnitude. Something like this definitely is, is a good start to kick off my career. Zubia knows what to look for. Things that seem awkward to him, weird, he picks up on all that. Eighty-three, eighty-four, eighty-five. OFFICER ZUBIA Eighty-five. OFFICER ZUBIA Eighty-five bundles. 43.12 kilos (95 pounds). OFFICER DURON Oh, yeah. This is the biggest load I've seen. I'm pretty excited about it. It's marijuana. It's still federally illegal. OFFICER ZUBIA I just try to work as hard as I can and as best as I can. I'm here to make my name shine, make my family proud, and then also I want the agency to know that out here, if I put on this uniform, I'm gonna represent it in the way that it's supposed to be represented. OFFICER PEGO Terminal C 136. The flight leaves in literally 45 minutes, so we're trying to get there as fast as possible. OFFICER PEGO We arrested someone earlier in the day. Through that, we got intel that a second person tonight is gonna go outbound to London, possibly carrying the same amount of drugs. This is where the bags are and they're gonna run the bags. OFFICER That's a good alert. Good boy. Good boy. OFFICER PEGO K-9 just hit on one of the bags. OFFICER PEGO So now we're gonna go inside and figure out who's responsible for the bag. OFFICER CASTILLO She's group five, so she's gonna board last. OFFICER PEGO Most of these, they're always gonna be a mad dash, 'cause they'll book an hour, two hours, three hours before the flight or even a day. And sometimes it takes people a lot of time. OFFICER CASTILLO Yo! OFFICER PEGO So just come over here for me. Is this your luggage? TRAVELER No, that's not my luggage. OFFICER PEGO That's not your luggage? TRAVELER No. OFFICER PEGO You didn't pack it, but on the. TRAVELER No, I didn't. OFFICER PEGO So on the tag, it says your name. Everything matches. Did you check in the bag? TRAVELER No, I didn't. OFFICER PEGO She appears very nervous. It could be her first time dealing with something like this. The dog outside was running the bags and it sat at your bag. We're gonna go to a different terminal and then we're gonna open the bag and just see what's inside. For officer safety, I'm gonna handcuff you. So just turn around, face the wall. All right. So we're gonna go this way. OFFICER PEGO So basically what's gonna happen, we're gonna open the bag right here in front of you. So just stand right here. Right here. OFFICER PEGO All right. Right here. You're good. The luggage is almost identical to the first seizure. Black sealed bags with sharpie. I'm guessing different strands and different types of marijuana. OFFICER CASTILLO This stuff comes all the time. OFFICER CASTILLO Almost on a daily occurrence. So it's not, you're not the first person, you're not gonna be the last person. We obviously know what it is. It's marijuana. But we're gonna. TRAVELER No, I know that. OFFICER CASTILLO We're gonna test it anyways just to, you know, verify exactly what it is, right? OFFICER PEGO So, obviously, it tested positive for marijuana. OFFICER CASTILLO All right. So basically the next step we're gonna do, we're gonna bring you into a room right here. We're gonna have a conversation with you. Then another agency is gonna come and they're gonna talk to you also. TRAVELER I understand. OFFICER CASTILLO So let's just take a walk. OFFICER PEGO So right now, HSI is gonna go talk to the person. OFFICER PEGO Because she was also linked to the first seizure of the day. Total is gonna be 32 packages. OFFICER PEGO Weighing 16.86 (37 pounds) keys. Today was a good day. We had two seizures within two hours. They had the same destination. And even when we opened their bags, their, their luggages were almost identical. It really seems like both subjects are a part of a bigger organization. Stopping these individuals who are bringing marijuana outbound is very important because we're stopping drug trafficking organizations overseas. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Okay. It's all hundreds. OFFICER Oh. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD And 50s, like he just got paid for it. He's got three cellphones too. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Having that many cellphones, it usually shows for activity or criminal activity, 'cause they have one for like their personal stuff and they'll have one for like their work stuff. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD [speaking Spanish] Sir, do you have documents to be in the United States legally? TRAVELER No, no. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD All right. So, uh. Okay? SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD The final count is gonna be $6,182. We'll do the paperwork on the vehicle and we're gonna process him. SUPERVISORY AGENT TODD Tonight was very productive. Taking the currency is a big deal because you're hitting them where it hurts. I mean, they can replenish people, they can replenish narcotics. However, time is money. So they've lost all that time and it's very important and you can never get that back. For every step we take, it makes them have to take another step to try to figure out how to beat us.