AGENT CBP_FEDERAL_AGENT CBP_OFFICER FLIGHT_ADVISORY MARINE_INTERDICTION_AGENT_BRIGHT MARINE_INTERDICTION_AGENT_JAMES MARINE_INTERDICTION_AGENT_LEBRON MARINE_INTERDICTION_AGENT_RIVERA OFFICER OFFICER_ARCHUT OFFICER_BLUE OFFICER_BUSA OFFICER_CUMMINGS OFFICER_FRANCO OFFICER_FRENCH OFFICER_GOMEZ OFFICER_HICKS OFFICER_MCDONALD OFFICER_RAY OFFICER_SAJIB OFFICER_SANTIAGO OFFICER_SCHIANO OFFICER_WELLE SUPERVISORY_OFFICER_ADAMS SUSPECT TRAVELER CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Police! CBP FEDERAL AGENT Can you go to neutral please? CBP FEDERAL AGENT We're gonna hop aboard here. CBP FEDERAL AGENT Doesn't look right. CBP FEDERAL AGENT If you see something that looks like what could be a hidden compartment, we need to get a K9, investigate a little further, right? MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT BRIGHT We were out on a routine patrol on the west side of Culebra. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT BRIGHT K9's here. And we saw a boat that appeared to cross the border, and it was just kind of suspicious. So we brought him here to do a border search. CBP FEDERAL AGENT The dog is tracing odor. All right. We'll see. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] We have to loosen this one. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Go ahead. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Take that out. One, two. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Good, good, good. CBP FEDERAL AGENT Oh, yeah. CBP FEDERAL AGENT It's a pretty big load. CBP FEDERAL AGENT I've got two right here. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hey, it's heavy, you hear me? CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Yes. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT BRIGHT They found two duffle bags. CBP FEDERAL AGENT Oh, wow. It's a significant seizure. CBP FEDERAL AGENT We're clear. CBP FEDERAL AGENT Seven. CBP FEDERAL AGENT Let me get a test kit right now. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT BRIGHT Right now, we're just testing the drugs because that's important for us to pass the case on for prosecution. Now, it's turning pink. So that's definitely a good reaction. Positive for the characteristics of cocaine. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT BRIGHT Depending on the circumstances, we'll determine who we turn it over to. In this instance, it's going to D.E.A. It's always a good hit. Any time you get any kind of drugs on a boat, it's a good hit, you know? We've seized the boat. We've got the guys. We can get more information off of this and get more seizures and more arrests. So any time that you can take drugs off the street and you can put guys in handcuffs, it's a good day. FLIGHT ADVISORY Now, we're gonna board all [inaudible] for Flight 91. You still have to scan your boarding pass here in the counter. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Here in Philadelphia, we see everything. We're seeing trends of hard currency coming into and out of the country. OFFICER BUSA May I see your passport? What we're doing today is we're doing outbound currency verifications. Ball park, how much cash are you traveling with? TRAVELER A thousand dollars. OFFICER BUSA Have a good trip. Thank you for your time. TRAVELER Thank you so much, sir. OFFICER BUSA You can travel with as much money as you want, but any traveler, whether they're transiting through the U.S., coming into the U.S., or out of the U.S., it's required by law to declare any currency in excess of $10,000. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS How much are you carrying in cash? TRAVELER I have $200. TRAVELER I think I've got like four or five. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS All right. Good luck. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Drugs will bounce off of a source country to the United States and currency goes outbound. Can I see your passport please? TRAVELER Yeah. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Are you traveling with any currency today? TRAVELER No. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS None at all? TRAVELER None. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Thanks, ma'am. TRAVELER No problem. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Straight back that way. Having a business that's not on the right side of the law, you build up a stockpile of currency. Currency turns around and goes out of the United States to source countries. That's where the money has gotta go for them to buy their product and bring it back to the United States. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We're catching currency in large sums on people's bodies, attached to them. We found it in their children's bags, their children's toys. They're built into baggage, electronic equipment, and it's definitely not declared. What's your final destination today? TRAVELER Uh, Montego Bay. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS You guys are traveling together. How much currency are you traveling with? TRAVELER Uh, I got $500. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS That's good. Have a nice trip, all right? TRAVELER Thank you. TRAVELER All right. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Enjoy yourselves. OFFICER BUSA Grey hoodie, orange print. About 10 o'clock. In line. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS I see him. How are you doing, sir? Can I see your passport? How are you today, sir? TRAVELER I'm good, man. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS You going home? TRAVELER Yes, sir. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS And what were you doing here in the United States? TRAVELER Well, I live here. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Business, permanent resident? TRAVELER I'm a citizen of the United States. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Oh, you're just, oh, you're a citizen? TRAVELER Yes. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS You just, you travel on this passport? TRAVELER I'm going to Jamaica. I have dual citizenship. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Okay. TRAVELER I'm from Jamaica, you understand? I'm not gonna use a U.S. passport. OFFICER BUSA He presented himself as a Jamaican citizen, presented a Jamaican passport. Turns out, he's a naturalized U.S. citizen. He's traveling by himself, so he was kind of an exception in the group of, uh, family vacation. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS How much currency are you traveling with? TRAVELER Uh, like $9,400. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna have these two officers right here, they're gonna go back. They're just gonna count it real quick, okay? TRAVELER You got it. OFFICER BUSA So this is your only carry-on bag, correct? TRAVELER Yes, sir. OFFICER BUSA I'll take a quick peek in. We'll count the money real quick and get you on your way. So I do have to ask, what's with the boxers? I'm pulling out about 25 pairs of boxers and I'm wondering what's going on with that. Why he only had the boxers in the carry-on bag. TRAVELER You don't have to ask, but, uh. TRAVELER I mean, I wear boxers. You know what I'm saying? OFFICER BUSA Oh, yeah, yeah. TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER BUSA I don't really know why he would have an excess amount of boxers to begin with, but it did appear to check out. How long are you heading down for? To Jamaica? TRAVELER Two months. OFFICER BUSA That's good. I'm gonna count your money real quick in your presence. TRAVELER Yeah. TRAVELER Yes, sir. OFFICER BUSA I just want you to keep eyes on your money the whole time so you know what's up with it. Four thousand. That's 6,000. Eight thousand. Nine thousand. So 9,570. It's just a negligible amount of money. It's all good. Yeah, you can get it all together. He declared 9,400. Did a quick bag search and a quick money count. He had just over 9,500. TRAVELER I didn't know what to do. OFFICER BUSA Yeah. So. TRAVELER Because I don't want to come into this kind of situation. OFFICER BUSA Yeah. CBP OFFICER Yeah. You could have a million bucks if you want. CBP OFFICER You just report it on the way out. TRAVELER Report it? TRAVELER Because I always wondered about that. OFFICER BUSA It was more of an education type of inspection. I'd rather people be more informed so they know how to travel correctly in terms of currency reporting. And I'm glad we were able to educate him on it. Thank you for the time. Yes. TRAVELER Thank you, sir. OFFICER BUSA Yes, sir. CBP OFFICER Anything to declare today? Here you go. Have a good one. OFFICER BLUE Here at San Ysidro, we're the busiest land port in the country. About a hundred thousand people cross here every day. CBP OFFICER Hello, sir. Where are you going today? TRAVELER To work. CBP OFFICER Are you bringing anything back? TRAVELER No. CBP OFFICER Can you open the door for me? OFFICER BLUE I would say every shift, maybe one to two large narcotic loads, a couple of human smuggling loads. So we're busy. CBP OFFICER [speaking Spanish] CBP OFFICER I got a 10-45 on lane 22. 10-45 on lane 22. OFFICER FRENCH There's an alien smuggling incident on lane 22 right now. OFFICER SCHIANO We got a lot of people that are either trying to seek asylum or just trying to avoid the inspections. CBP OFFICER It's two females back here. CBP OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Okay, miss. CBP OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Miss, are you okay? OFFICER SCHIANO It's very common for maybe alien smuggling in the trunk or even a compartment where they can't possibly get out of until someone removes them. CBP OFFICER [speaking Spanish] Do you have shoes, miss? TRAVELER No. CBP OFFICER [speaking Spanish] You didn't bring shoes? TRAVELER No. CBP OFFICER Can I get two females please? OFFICER CUMMINGS Things like this, we usually see, at least, on a daily basis. We're just always ready to respond. OFFICER SCHIANO There is no demographic. Anybody could be a potential smuggler. CBP OFFICER Unlock this. There you go. OFFICER SCHIANO Special built compartments. Put a sheet over it to make it look like it's part of the vehicle. Spray paint it. Throw some dirt on it. CBP OFFICER We're looking good over here. You're all set. Don't work too hard today, all right? OFFICER SCHIANO Anything is a concealment method here at the border. CBP OFFICER Hello. Do you have anything to declare? Okay. All right. Your vehicle got selected to go to a secondary inspection, sir. So that yellow line, you're gonna follow it to the left. CBP OFFICER There's a body in the trunk in the secondary lot. CBP OFFICER Let's go! Let's go! [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER GOMEZ Hey, guys! OFFICER GOMEZ Over here. CBP OFFICER Okay. I got him. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] I said don't move. [speaking English] Ready? All right. Don't move. Are you okay? Yes? Okay. Any weapons on you? Hold still right there, okay? Just keep your hands up here where I can see them. OFFICER GOMEZ As the guy drove through the machine, I could see that it was not a compartment. I knew someone was actually hiding in the trunk. Okay. Hands behind your back. Separate your feet. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Separate your feet. Separate your feet. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Don't move. [speaking English] This is a dangerous method that they're using to enter the United States. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Don't move. OFFICER GOMEZ I told you not to move. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Don't move. [speaking English] They could be dehydrated. They could have a lack of oxygen. They could be unconscious when we pull them out of the trunk. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Okay, let's take a walk. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Walk this way. [speaking English] Who knows how long she was in that trunk sweating. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Spread your feet. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Face towards the wall. OFFICER GOMEZ [speaking Spanish] Spread your feet. [speaking English] Her body feels hot just holding her arm. What if she got stuck in traffic longer? That's the risk that that driver was willing to take to get her across illegally. Just a sad story. OFFICER GOMEZ You ready? Okay. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Good morning. Thank you for participating today. We're gonna be looking for currency, illicit money. Montego Bay being our primary target. OFFICER SANTIAGO We've got a main target on this flight, so we're gonna try to see if he's traveling out with a large amount of currency in their bags. So we're gonna try to find him, his co-travelers, ask them if they're traveling with money, checks, or taking money for anybody else. And then we'll do a baggage inspection. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Are there any questions? No? All right. Let's go out and, uh, find some money. For us, it's gonna be a great intelligence-gathering mission. If they do have the currency, we're definitely gonna take it from them. FLIGHT ADVISORY Now, we're gonna board all [inaudible] for Flight 91. Scan your boarding pass here at the counter. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS How many traveling today? TRAVELER Five. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Can I ask you to step this way please? OFFICER BUSA How are you doing, ma'am? SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS How much currency, collectively, are you traveling with? TRAVELER I've got five. TRAVELER Like two. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Five hundred? Thousand? Million? Million? TRAVELER Five hundred. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Oh. Have a nice trip. OFFICER BUSA I just need to see your passport real quick please. Thank you. How are you doing today? TRAVELER Good. How are you? OFFICER BUSA Not too bad. Appreciate it. OFFICER BUSA This isn't a normal inbound inspection where the person is coming to Customs. We are coming to the gate while they were, are within out jurisdiction. They gotta make that flight. We're just doing currency checks on the flight. If you had to guess, all currencies combined, how much cash did you and your family travel with today? TRAVELER Uh, probably about two hundred bucks. OFFICER BUSA Easy day. Sounds good. We're just gonna do a quick bag check and get you on the way, okay? You can follow me. That flight's probably gonna leave at the same time either way, so if we're taking our sweet time, they may not be able to get on that flight 'cause of us. So we make sure we work quick but make sure we do everything right so we can get that person on the plane. Pleasure meeting you, man. Appreciate the time, yeah. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS Can I just ask you to step right over here and see this officer? SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS That's him. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS That's him. OFFICER BUSA What's going on, boss man? How are you doing? How much cash are you traveling with today? TRAVELER Between the two of us. TRAVELER It's twenty-five hundred. OFFICER BUSA Got you. Where you got the currency at? TRAVELER Right here. [SNAP-IN] OFFICER HICKS This vehicle here, the primary officer found some marijuana in the vehicle of a young driver. OFFICER HICKS So we're just gonna take a look. I'll make sure that he doesn't have anything else left in the vehicle. First things first, we always start off checking out the engine, making sure we don't see any non-factory compartments, anything that looks like it's been tampered with. Make sure the doors doesn't sound too solid. Checking the seats. All right. While checking the vehicle, sometimes take a glance at the subject to make sure he isn't fidgeting at any location I'm looking at and make sure he's not looking at me too much that something may be hidden there. Any bags in the vehicle, you're gonna go ahead and take a look inside those. All right. Moving around, just doing the same things. So I'm checking under the dash, making sure any of the screws haven't been tampered with. I didn't find any other narcotics in the vehicle. As far as the primary officer, they just found the marijuana here that we have. So we're just gonna issue you a warning today. Just make sure next time, you don't have anything like this on your vehicle or you'll be issued a citation or a further disciplinary action. Just go sign your name. TRAVELER I was like, "I'm gonna keep the weed." OFFICER HICKS The subject has to abandon the property over to us and he did mention a little funny comment about, "Oh, I thought I could keep my marijuana." But, no, not here today. We'll have to keep that, sir. TRAVELER Yeah, man. They took my weed. I thought for a second I was gonna have it. [END OF SNAP IN] MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA You wanna drive? Okay. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA Right now, just doing, uh, security patrol. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA We conduct document checks, verify vessels. But, of course, we're looking for those little things that, uh, that keep us, uh, reasonably suspicious that some illegal activities, uh, is happening. These drug organizations from South America, they use the small islands to arrive in Puerto Rico. And then from, from here, they deploy those, uh, narcotics into the United States. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA Now, we're entering the south of Vieques island. These small islands are what the organizations utilize to, to bring the narcotics and merchandise here to Puerto Rico. The Navy utilizes these islands for target practice, but, um, they, they ceased all those activities I, I will say like twenty something years ago. You can see there's many, many isles that are very remote and the drug organizations they utilize those, uh, those routes, uh, to perform their, their illicit activities. It is not easy for us to actually access and get into it. But in Air and Marine we try to, to prevent as much as we can, uh, the traffic of, uh, of illegal narcotics to, to the United States. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA Got a boat over there. CBP FEDERAL AGENT I don't see it. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA [speaking Spanish] Look right there. CBP FEDERAL AGENT All right. We'll see. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Captain. Customs. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Police! CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Come up to here. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Customs. How you guys doing? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Good. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Where are you from? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] From here, Vieques. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Where were you coming from? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Working there at the base. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] What base? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Here. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] With the cleaning? TRAVELER Huh? CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] With the cleaning? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Yes. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA That vessel was driving very shallow. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA Apparently, they are workers. Supposedly, they're, they're still doing some cleanings from the, what the Navy, uh, used to do here. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Do you have ID? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Yes, of course. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Come up to here. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA Right now, we're gonna do a document check and verify that everything is corroborating with what he said. Um, the guy was driving way too shallow in the water. And, again, that's another limitation. We are not able to drive where, where he was at. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] Try to stay close. CBP FEDERAL AGENT [speaking Spanish] We'll be done in a minute. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA [speaking Spanish] What is your job, as such? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] To not let anyone into the area where. TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] They are demolishing or anything. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA [speaking Spanish] Because they're cleaning there? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] Yes, they're cleaning there. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA Ah, okay. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA [speaking Spanish] Anything interesting happened lately? TRAVELER No. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA [speaking Spanish] Neither of you have a record? TRAVELER [speaking Spanish] No, I don't have any. CBP FEDERAL AGENT Good? CBP FEDERAL AGENT Nothing. CBP FEDERAL AGENT All clear. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT RIVERA [speaking Spanish] Thank you. Take care. [speaking English] So basically, in this case, those guys were super close to shore, like literally five, six feet away. And, uh, it's the only boat in the area. They seem, didn't look like he was fishing, so we, we approached them to make some questions and, uh, basically what they were answering us, it was completely legit. So we run the, uh, document checks. Everything was fine and we just let them go. OFFICER BUSA How much did you declare? TRAVELER Twenty-five hundred,l sir. OFFICER BUSA We'll do a quick search, verify your currency, and get you on the way. OFFICER BUSA I saw you guys come up with these guys. Like family friends? TRAVELER Yeah, it's all friends. OFFICER BUSA Okay. Good. OFFICER BUSA We received intelligence on this individual that he potentially is carrying, uh, bulk currency. We're gonna be inspecting him and his co-travelers for a possible bulk currency concealment. You guys here locally, in Philly, or you take a connecting flight in? TRAVELER No, no. Locally. OFFICER BUSA Uh, what do you guys do for work? TRAVELER Uh, tow truck driver and. OFFICER BUSA Nice. TRAVELER Homecare. OFFICER BUSA Homecare. TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER BUSA Now, how about that. You guys like what you do? Yeah, that's, how long are you guys heading down for? TRAVELER Uh, seven days. OFFICER BUSA You guys ever been down there? TRAVELER Uh, no, this is my first time. OFFICER BUSA Ooh, there you go. You guys staying at a resort or are you guys staying out, out in town, in an Airbnb? TRAVELER So it's like a villa. OFFICER BUSA Villa? Ooh. TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER BUSA You guys gonna be right there in Montego Bay or out in Negril? TRAVELER Uh, I don't know. I'm not sure. They planned everything, I just paid. OFFICER BUSA Ooh. Okay. You can actually close this one up. I don't wanna smoosh your shoes in. The passenger's bag was clear. I didn't find any undeclared currency. I'm just gonna do a quick money count, uh, verify everything checks out and then send the traveler on their way. They had about twenty-five hundred bucks between the two of them that I just verified. We got some of the other people in the larger group. They were all under the $10,000 reporting threshold, so we sent them on their way. That's for you to keep. TRAVELER All right, man. Thank you. OFFICER BUSA I appreciate the time, guys. Pleasure meeting you. TRAVELER Thank you. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS See you later. Have a good trip, all right? Yup. OFFICER BUSA We didn't find anything on this one, but, uh, we're gonna go hit another flight here in a few minutes. OFFICER WELLE Can you pull all the way to the front, sir? TRAVELER Sure. OFFICER WELLE Thank you. OFFICER WELLE Right there is good. And then everybody step out and, uh, just sit over by that table over there please. Thank you. OFFICER WELLE If you can think of putting something in something, you'll find it here at San Ysidro. They get really creative 'cause they wanna maximize their profits as best as they can, so it's a constant game of hide and seek. There's all sorts of different nooks and crannies in a truck, especially a big one like this, that you can hide something. We like to check, um, everywhere in the engine compartment, the quarter panels, tires, under the vehicle as well. The trends change as to where people hide things in their car, so it's always good to be very thorough. CBP OFFICER All clear. OFFICER WELLE You guys are good to go. Thank you. It was negative, so they were released, uh, to enjoy the rest of their day. CBP OFFICER Can I get a K9 in secondary? OFFICER FRANCO So this vehicle was selected for a secondary inspection at the vehicle primary lane. We are gonna do a K9 inspection on it. CBP OFFICER There's something there, huh? Good boy. Good boy. OFFICER FRANCO At this point, it was a K9 hit. Therefore, we are gonna do a seven-point vehicle inspection on it and then we'll go from there to see what we find. CBP OFFICER Spot back here. OFFICER FRANCO Which one? You wanna pop it? There you go. OFFICER Yeah. OFFICER Feel like it's right here. OFFICER [inaudible] OFFICER If there's something in there, we're gonna have to go in there and get it. OFFICER [inaudible] OFFICER It's gonna be a lot. OFFICER Access might be through the wheel well. OFFICER [inaudible] OFFICER Oh, there you go. I saw it moving right there. OFFICER FRANCO There's some tampering here. So right now we're just trying to figure out, um, how to get into this area. OFFICER Might have to take the tire off. OFFICER It's missing a lug nut. You can tell it was recently taken off. And there's fingerprints all along the side, right? So you can tell it's recently been done. The compartment may be located behind the tire. The only access is through the wheel well. OFFICER FRANCO Since it seems to be like there's some deep concealment in that trunk area, we're gonna go ahead and take the car to one of our secure areas, where we'll go ahead and lift the vehicle up and get underneath there and actually get in there deeper to find that narcotic concealment. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER Straighten out. Straight. OFFICER [inaudible] OFFICER Oh, I see it right there. Can you hold that? OFFICER You can see a package right there. There you go. OFFICER Yup. OFFICER There you go. OFFICER Yup. There it is. Sweet. Oh. OFFICER RAY We found some drugs in the car. OFFICER RAY Right now, we will look into the different areas of the car for any potential, uh, areas where they can easily, uh, hide a drug. OFFICER Here we go. There you go. It's right there. OFFICER RAY Perfect. OFFICER Could be a lot. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON You said it's, uh, two subjects, multiple bails? I'll look for it. If you have any updates, uh, give me a call. Bye. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON We just got a phone call of a, uh, possible target. Uh, south of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Two subjects. Uh, possibly loaded with narcotics. We're gonna prep our equipment, gather a crew, go out and, uh, try to find whatever vessel is out there. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT JAMES This is especially challenging. Uh, we got some weather moving in and we have a very large search area. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT JAMES That search area is gonna be south of Vieques for, for quite some bit, almost down to St. Troy. We have a lot of open ocean. Um, tons of surface area, and it all looks the same. Um, so it's finding a, a needle in a haystack out here. AGENT All right. Don't fail. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT JAMES We have the, uh, weapons. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON We have, uh, multiple assets deployed to the area, looking for any targets. So we have a big, a better chance to catch them. AGENT We have a vessel on radar. Approximately, seven miles from, uh, shore, uh, going northbound at, uh, almost twenty knots . MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Okay. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] It might be the guys coming to do the pickup. [speaking English] Go, go, go. These guys are maybe five miles from us. Everybody on the lookout. OFFICER So we're doing, uh, currency verifications today. How much currency are you traveling with, sir? TRAVELER None. TRAVELER Less than a hundred bucks. OFFICER Have a pleasant flight. OFFICER BUSA All of our flights, whether out of the U.S. or transiting through the U.S., we see currency violators in some way, shape, or form. OFFICER BUSA So right now we're transitioning from our outbound currency examinations and heading back up and doing some inbound currency examinations. OFFICER What's going on, boss? Can I see your passport? How are you doing today? TRAVELER Pretty good. How are you doing? OFFICER Do you ever travel with like over $10,000 when you travel? TRAVELER Ten thousand dollars? OFFICER Yeah. TRAVELER No. OFFICER Okay. OFFICER BUSA An inbound currency examination doesn't have the time constraints that an outbound currency examination does. It gives you a chance to look through both carry on and checked luggage. OFFICER All right. When you get your bags, you gotta go to baggage inspection. OFFICER SAJIB All right. Where are you coming from today, sir? TRAVELER Uh, India. OFFICER SAJIB Okay. And what's the relation between you two? TRAVELER This is my wife. OFFICER SAJIB Wife? Okay. OFFICER SAJIB Are you staying in the U.S. or are you going to Canada? TRAVELER No, I'm going to Toronto. OFFICER SAJIB A primary officer asked them how much cash they had. First, the gentleman said 7,000, then changed the answer to 9,000. He got a hunch that, "Okay, they may be underdeclaring their currency," so he referred it to customs secondary. How much cash are you traveling with today? TRAVELER Uh, around, uh, $13,000 Canadian. OFFICER SAJIB Thirteen thousand Canadian? So all the cash that you're traveling with is your money? Your. TRAVELER Yes. OFFICER SAJIB Okay. Did you sell some property? Did you take it out of your bank account? TRAVELER Property. OFFICER SAJIB All right. Where is all the cash? Is it in your pocket? In your purse? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER SAJIB Can you put all your suitcases over here please? What is your job in Canada? TRAVELER Truck driver. OFFICER SAJIB Truck driver? What about your wife, what does she do? TRAVELER She stays home. OFFICER SAJIB Stays home? All right. So all the cash is here? TRAVELER Yeah. OFFICER SAJIB All right. Any cash in these bags? TRAVELER Uh, not at all. OFFICER SAJIB No? Okay. Thank you. OFFICER ARCHUT Whose credit card is this? TRAVELER Oh, that's my relative's. TRAVELER Uh, my brother-in-law. OFFICER ARCHUT Where is he? TRAVELER He's in India. OFFICER ARCHUT Where? TRAVELER He's in India. OFFICER ARCHUT Why are you carrying his credit card? TRAVELER He gave to me because I needed it in India. OFFICER SAJIB I found some more cash in here, okay? TRAVELER It's rupees. OFFICER SAJIB We care about all cash. Indian rupees, Canadian dollars, U.S. dollars, euros, pounds, everything. Anything they have, if they have foreign currency, then we'll convert it to U.S. dollars and add it to the total. We're gonna count this money. If you're underdeclaring it. TRAVELER Uh-hmm. OFFICER SAJIB And if it's over ten thousand, okay, we will seize that cash from you. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER SAJIB We'll go inside a private search room. We'll count all the cash that they have and then we'll get a grand total. [COMMERCIAL BREAK] OFFICER SAJIB You sit right here. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER SAJIB And then you can watch me count all your money, okay? TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER SAJIB The first officer, you first told him no cash, then you said 7,000, then you said 9,000. Why did you keep changing your answer? TRAVELER My understanding actually. TRAVELER Ten thousand or less each person. OFFICER SAJIB Okay. TRAVELER So we split it. OFFICER SAJIB What you have is hers and what she has is yours. That's marriage. If it's over 10,000, you have to declare the total amount. OFFICER SAJIB When a person tries to give some of their money to another person so they don't have to report their cash, we call that structuring, and that is illegal. I'm just gonna separate the Canadian, Indian, U.S. dollars. A hundred, twenty. If he has over $10,000, that'll be a seizure straight off the bat. So we got 40. Ten thousand in this stack. Sixty. We'll go back to the counter there. Calculate it. I was able to count and separate them based on the countries they're from, U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars, and, uh, Indian rupees. The grand total we get in U.S. dollars, that's what we're gonna put down on the FinCEN 105. Ten thousand plus eight hundred plus sixteen hundred. Twelve thousand five hundred thirty Canadian. Three thousand plus four hundred plus three hundred and fifty is, all right. Because of the conversion rate between the U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar, converted to U.S. dollars, you had nine thousand eight hundred eighty dollars and fifty-three cents. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER SAJIB So you're just slightly under 10,000 U.S. dollars. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER SAJIB Let's say you came last week, because of the conversion rate, you could've been over $10,000. TRAVELER Okay. OFFICER SAJIB To his luck, he was right underneath. However, this could have gone the other way. We'll keep our eyes on them for future travel. You take your stuff and I'll show you the way out, all right? Follow me. This was a learning experience for him and I'm pretty sure he's not gonna do that again. OFFICER BUSA So if you ever have to export or import $10,000 or equivalent, you just have to report it before you leave or when you come back. TRAVELER Okay. I wish I had that much. OFFICER BUSA There you go. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We're targeting undeclared currency exiting the United States. OFFICER BUSA Thanks for your time. SUPERVISORY OFFICER ADAMS We didn't find any but we keep swinging. And we know that we're being watched and we know that we're being countersurveilled. And the people that, that are doing this are trying to see what we do and how close we are paying attention. And it's always good for them to see us out there, whether we catch something or not. OFFICER RAY So, right now, we found the drugs and, sitting over here in this compartment. So we'll try to cut more of these areas to find out if we can find some more. It seems like it's pretty much welded over here but we'll see. OFFICER This piece is the chassis. OFFICER RAY Okay. OFFICER But I can make a hole if you want. OFFICER RAY Yeah. OFFICER [inaudible] OFFICER You see anything down there? OFFICER RAY Nope. Nothing. Do you think we can cut more or, or let's just go off of that? OFFICER No. OFFICER No, no. OFFICER RAY Nobody can hide anything at the back, right? OFFICER No. OFFICER RAY Okay. Got you. We need to test the drugs to find out what kind of substance it could be. OFFICER RAY My guess was cocaine or it could be also fentanyl, because it's one of the most sought after drugs right now. So let's see what it can be. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Okay, guys. Two miles out. Two miles out from target. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Anybody see it? MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT JAMES I don't see it yet. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON I got it on radar. I got it on radar. One mile out. One mile out away from target. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] Look at the lights over there. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] See the lights? MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] See the lights in the water? AGENT [speaking Spanish] Yeah, I see them. AGENT We have air surveillance up. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] We got some people out here but. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] I don't know what they're doing, if they're fishing or what not. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] I'm going to send you my location so you can see them. AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT We have a Yola type vessel. AGENT Uh, it looks like maybe from two to three P.O.B. AGENT And several, uh, packages on board. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON It's a go. Go, go, go. Light it up. Light it up. Light it up. Spotlight! Spotlight! Spotlight! Spotlight! AGENT Go time, go time. AGENT [speaking Spanish] Police! AGENT [speaking Spanish] Police! Put your hands up! AGENT [speaking Spanish] Don't move! AGENT [speaking Spanish] Don't move! AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Don't move! AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Don't move! AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hands where I can see them! [COMMERCIAL BREAK] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hands up! AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hands up! AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hands up! AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] You in red, put your hands up. You in red. AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hands up! AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Hands up! AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] On the ground. AGENT [speaking Spanish] On the ground, on the ground. AGENT [speaking Spanish] On the ground. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON I'm going on the other side. Going on the other side. AGENT Okay. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON I need somebody here on this controls right here. AGENT Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Right here. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON [speaking Spanish] You good? AGENT [speaking Spanish] Yeah, we're good, we're good. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Finally. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON I'm not sure, but there was, I think they were, they were, we caught them asleep on the boat. AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Stand up. AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] Stand up. AGENT [speaking Spanish] Stand up. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Put on a lifejacket on him. AGENT On it. AGENT [speaking Spanish] Stay here and have a seat. AGENT [speaking Spanish] You have a life vest, right? AGENT [speaking Spanish] Yes. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON It's a gray Yola. Gray Yola type vessel. Twin 150s. Multiple bails on board. Two subjects currently detained onboard of my 814. Uh, being transported now to Ceiba. AGENT If you don't, uh, need any more of our assistance. AGENT We will have to leave the area due to weather. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Hey, we owe you, man. Thank you for everything. Appreciate that. AGENT It's what we're here for, bro. You got it. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Make sure we pat down these guys real good. AGENT [speaking Spanish] Any knives? SUSPECT No. AGENT [speaking Spanish] Firearms? SUSPECT [speaking Spanish] Nothing. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON You took electronics from him? AGENT [speaking Spanish] MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Okay. These guys are gonna be transported. It's gonna be a joint, uh, interdiction case with multiple federal agencies. And, uh, they're, they are waiting for us to, uh, process these, these subjects for narcotic smuggling. AGENT [speaking Spanish] I think you're good now, okay? MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Woo! Good job, guys. Good job. OFFICER RAY We're gonna be testing it to see what it is. OFFICER MCDONALD When they package these narcotics, it's pretty common for them to do multiple layers to somewhat mask the scent of the narcotics. Here, we have some kind of oil in a plastic wrap. And, at this time, we have a white powder. Right there. OFFICER [inaudible] OFFICER MCDONALD We do not know what it is until we test it. At this time, this white powder is testing positive for cocaine hydrochloride. OFFICER RAY I'm gonna weigh all the packages and see from there how much we have captured. Eleven packages. OFFICER RAY Total weight is 13.92 kilograms . It's an Altima. I followed up with HSI. They will be looking into the investigation and see what, uh, what they can find further. At this time, the travelers will be placed under arrest. Taking these drugs out of the street and helping one of my countrymen to be out from drugs and that's more, worth living for. It is always like a cat and mouse game. They like to hide and we like to seek. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Hey, guys. Good job, man. More than likely, this is gonna be a cocaine seizure. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON Uh, this is what we usually see in this area. We see large, large amounts of it. Uh, subjects are being transferred to jail to be presented to a, uh, prosecute, to a judge. The guys in the crew are offloading all the bails that we just, uh, got in the ocean. We're gonna get a, a, a bail count and transfer it to the investigative agency. AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] AGENT [speaking Spanish] MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT JAMES They usually brand their products with their logos or their name or, uh, some kind of identifying mark, you know? It's marketing is what it is. So it works two ways that we can now figure out brand it was, what the source was, and go from there. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON It ended up being a total of, uh, 40 bails. MARINE INTERDICTION AGENT LEBRON A thousand three hundred seventy-six kilograms of cocaine. This is definitely a, a big seizure. This is definitely worth, uh, all the work and effort we put into it. We took out thousands of kilos, worth millions of dollars, out of the streets.