To Catch a Smuggler (2020) s01e04 Episode Script

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(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA)
ALBRITTON: How you doing, man?
Where are you coming from?
- PASSENGER: From Zurich. Switzerland.
- ALBRITTON: Okay. Okay.
- ALBRITTON: Is that where you live?
- PASSENGER: Yes, sir.
- ALBRITTON: What are you doing here?
- PASSENGER: Studying.
- ALBRITTON: This is your first time?
- PASSENGER: That is the reason why--yeah.
Just do me a favor. Follow him.
We're gonna just go ahead and
talk to you a little bit more, okay?
You said these are all your bags, right?
PASSENGER: Yes, sir.
Anything else in your pockets, sir?
Any knives? Scissors?
ALBRITTON: Any weapons? Firearm?
Anything like that? No?
PASSENGER: No.
Alright, have a seat. Okay?
(BAG UNZIPS)
RODRIGUEZ: Are you serious?
(RAPID ELECTRONIC CLICKS)
(LAUGHS)
ALBRITTON: That's interesting.
(PASSENGER SPEAKING)
(LAUGHS)
ALBRITTON: Like he needs to go
in a washing machine.
- RODRIGUEZ: How long have you had that?
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
- Really?
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
- RODRIGUEZ: How old are you?
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
- RODRIGUEZ: Do you Do you talk to them?
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
ALBRITTON: You know what?
There's a lot of closet
stuffed animal talkers. So, it's okay.
(PASSENGER SPEAKING)
ALBRITTON: All right.
You're good to go, man.
- Okay.
- Go ahead and pack these bags up for me.
Box number 35.
KEARSE: Our main focus here in mail
is to inspect cargo and shipments
coming into the country,
looking for items that are being smuggled.
It can go anywhere from 20,000
up to 100,000 or more
parcels or letters a day.
There's something in there.
OFFICER: We've identified a package
containing a doll with an anomaly inside.
It could be anything.
(OFFICER SPEAKING)
KEARSE: They'll find all kinds
of ways to smuggle items.
We have the items coming in
that are being disguised.
(OFFICER SPEAKING)
It appears to be silica or a drying agent.
So we're gonna release it
and let it go on its way.
KEARSE: Like 99% of the time we know that
a lot of the items are gonna be good,
but then, from time to time, in these
shipments, we do get something major.
So, it looks like something
is right here, I'm not sure.
KEARSE: So, let's go ahead
and prep it for examination.
The officers intercepted a parcel
containing different types
of arts and crafts,
and further examination revealed
the frames of the paintings
had some anomalies.
We're gonna have to test
to determine what it is.
And that's a positive test for cocaine.
We're gonna notify HSI to pursue
a further investigation.
AGENT: It's not the powder,
it's become like
It's more crystal.
The more powder it is, the more cut it is.
MIGUEL: This package came from Haiti,
destined for Riviera Beach in Florida.
In between all of the paintings,
a layer of cocaine within them,
and there was a total of eight.
The total weight of this shipment was
1.32 kilograms of cocaine,
worth up to $100,000 in street value.
So now that we have
the possession of the cocaine,
our goal is to identify the recipients
and dismantle the criminal organization
behind this effort here.
- FINN: How you doing today?
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
- Can I see your passport, please?
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
FINN: Anybody coming off a plane
from an international flight
is a potential suspect to us.
Doesn't matter how old they are,
race, sex, where they're from.
There's no textbook to show us
who are the people swallowing
drugs or smuggling drugs.
So, we got to be on our toes, eyes open
and listening to everything around us
because you never know
when that person we're looking for
will cross your path.
LEON: We're expecting a high-risk flight
coming in from the Dominican Republic.
FINN: Oh, it's pulling in now.
We've been seeing drugs coming out
of the Dominican Republic for a long time.
The Dominican Republic is known
as a transit country
for narcotics out of South America.
So, it's like a middle ground
before their drugs
make their way over here to the U.S.
Passports out, please!
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
We've seen all types
of drugs coming there,
but primarily cocaine and heroin.
LEON: Have your passports out,
ladies and gentlemen.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA)
FINN: There's one individual
traveling in a wheelchair
we wanna talk to a little bit more.
He's showing some similarities
to a seizure we had
a couple weeks ago of an internal courier.
- LEON: How you doing, buddy?
- (PASSENGER IN SPANISH)
FINN: We've always seen
internal couriers
coming out of the Dominican Republic.
LEON: Good, brother. Have a good night.
FINN: They'll swallow pellets
and try to bring them in their stomachs.
It's one of the methods they use
to bring drugs into the United States.
Passports out. (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
LEON: That's him.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
(PASSENGER SPEAKING)
- (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
- (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
- (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
LEON: As soon as I requested
to see his documents,
he automatically requested
to go to the restroom.
That does draw a flag for us.
So, he said he needs the restroom.
- Just make sure you stay with him.
- All right, guys.
LEON: We've had instances
that people immediately go to the restroom
after having an interaction
with an officer,
they have anything on their body
or if they have anything in the bag
and they feel like the trip
is compromised,
will just leave it in there
to avoid getting in trouble with the law.
FINN: So, Officer Leon's gonna follow him
just to make sure
he's going to the bathroom
and not trying to drop any product off
because he feels like maybe
we're following him.
(LEON SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
FINN: People that are trying
to get things past us,
they prey on the weak.
They put it with the people
that they think are gonna
get by the easiest.
So, they're gonna use people
in wheelchairs.
They're gonna use people carrying babies.
But us as officers,
our job is to stop the product
from coming into the United States.
Just because someone's in a wheelchair,
that doesn't mean they're not in play
for someone that may be
trying to do harm to the U.S.
or bring something in
they're not supposed to.
(LEON SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
STEVE: CBP, they found
eight little hand paintings,
about 12x12, and inside the hand paintings
were packages of cocaine.
About 1.32 keys.
So, we are going to attempt
a controlled delivery on that
to the receiving address.
The address comes back
to a compound, basically,
and I wanna pass out
some photos of this place.
The aerial view basically
is two structures.
One is an actual church.
It's up for sale right now.
They're not worshiping in it.
The other is a two-story building.
It appears that there is nobody there.
So, it's probably just a drop location.
As soon as we give the green light,
he's gonna go into the church
compound with the box.
We just wanna make sure we've
got all these corners covered.
We don't know what's gonna happen
so we're just gonna be
prepared for everything.
MIGUEL: Safety is paramount.
Especially because of the location
and what we know of the sketchy area
right across the street.
So, we'll get fully tacked out.
In the course of conducting
our law enforcement operation,
we run into a number of risks.
We're obviously dealing
with over a kilogram of cocaine,
and as such the individuals
that we're dealing with
normally have a criminal history
and a violent one, too.
These individuals might use guns
to protect themselves,
protect their product.
So, we have to take every precaution
to make sure that we protect the community
and obviously our fellow
law enforcement officials.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(LEON SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
Checked it.
There was nothing there.
(FINN SPEAKING)
All was clear in the bathroom.
So, now we're gonna search his bags
and make sure that nothing's in there
that's not supposed to be in there.
(LEON SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
- (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
(LEON SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
- (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
- (LEON SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
FINN: The bag was negative.
So, we did a baggage exam.
During the exam, still a little nervous.
(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
FINN: We proceeded to bring
him into a pat-down room
and check his body,
make sure he's not carrying
anything on his body.
LEON: Put him inside the first room.
FINN: Hopefully we'll get
to the bottom of the truth.
- LEON: That's good. You got gloves?
- AGENT: Yeah.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
I've been assigned to this office
in West Palm Beach, Florida,
for three years.
Um, what we're seeing today
is pretty common.
Here in South Florida,
our community's seen a lot of cocaine.
We wanna make sure that we take
these drugs off the street.
Our ultimate game plan
is obviously to disrupt
or dismantle the organization
that's operating out of Palm Beach County
here in Florida.
Air unit, status?
(AIR UNIT OVER RADIO)
10-4. We're standing by.
Your show.
(AIR UNIT OVER RADIO)
MIGUEL: There are several ground units
looking at the location.
And also we have an aircraft unit
that is assisting us.
We utilize our air unit
so that we don't have to get
as close and burn the operation,
and especially in areas
like where we're at,
there's a lot of shootings here,
there's a lot of drug activity.
In fact, the target location
is literally sitting
across the street
from known drug traffickers.
Yeah, this is our target location
to our right.
Right here.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: We're clear.
I think everyone's in position.
We can commence the operation
whenever you're ready.
(MAN SPEAKING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: Air unit, do you have
visual on the package?
(AIR UNIT OVER RADIO)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: So, we have reached
a critical point in our investigation.
This package has been claimed by somebody.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: There's a very big possibility
we're gonna be going mobile.
That this package is gonna be
delivered to someone else.
The ultimate distributor.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT 1: Ladies and gentlemen,
we're about to go mobile.
CANALES: The lady with the black jacket.
Where's she coming from? Colombia?
CANALES: Panama.
ALBRITTON: I'm on the SIG team,
which is Special Interdiction Group.
Our job is to interdict
narcotics, smuggled currency,
and whatever else we run across.
Yeah, that was interesting.
CANALES:
The SIG team is comprised of six members.
- What's your favorite color?
- CANALES: Teal.
Teal. Teal? Like an old lady.
CANALES: We're practically like family.
We joke around a lot,
but we get the job done.
Oh, do you have a business card?
Do you have a name card?
This is just our daily routine.
We're always getting smarter.
We're always trying to get better.
Once we catch them, they're on to the next
thing. So, we got to find that next thing.
- ALBRITTON: How you doing?
- WOMAN: Fine.
- You guys together?
- WOMAN: Yeah.
- Where are you two coming from today?
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
Alright. What were you doing out there?
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
- ALBRITTON: Okay.
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
- ALBRITTON: A horse breeder?
- WOMAN: Yeah.
ALBRITTON: It's like two
different spectrums, right?
WOMAN: Yeah.
ALBRITTON: I like to talk to people
and have fun and laugh and joke,
but at the same time I take
what we do very seriously.
- You live in Istanbul?
- WOMAN: Yeah.
ALBRITTON: All right. What are you
two doing in the United States?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
ALBRITTON: Oh, it was.
ALBRITTON: Flights originating
from Istanbul
have been kind of a flight of interest.
Some narcotic seizures
coming from that country
as well as a lot of undeclared currency.
How much cash you guys traveling with?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
Ten or nine.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
ALBRITTON: I asked them
a question about currency.
The first thing out their mouth was ten.
Then it went from ten to eight or nine.
Follow this handsome man
right here for me, okay?
So, we're gonna go ahead and take a look.
Okay, ma'am? Sir?
Is this the currency here?
- WOMAN: Yeah.
- All right.
- Any other currency anywhere else?
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
ALBRITTON: I'm just placing it right here.
That way you guys keep an eye on it. Okay?
So, this is just your birthday trip?
ALBRITTON: Oh! Why didn't you go
to the Maldives? Come on.
A lot of times when people
get selected for a random exam,
they're all freaked out.
They think they did something wrong.
I put myself in their shoes.
If I was gonna be stopped
by some law enforcement officer,
going through my bag, asking me questions,
I would be a bit uncomfortable.
I'm good over here.
Sir, you can go ahead and grab your money
and put it in your bag, okay?
You know, you go with your gut.
If something is off, you inspect
their baggage, you get their story.
You don't find anything, you don't find
anything. I mean, it's all good.
This guy's about to sprint out of here.
He's gonna be a track star.
- All right, you guys. Enjoy, okay?
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
(LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON: (SIGHS) Done.
(LEON SPEAKING)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- LEON: Okay?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
FINN:
When we get into the interview,
we're talking about their story,
about their travel history.
He shows some similarities
to an internal courier we had
a couple weeks ago that we arrested.
So, we just have to get
a little bit more in depth
with the questioning,
give us a better idea
if we need to elevate to
a potential medical examination
to see what's inside their stomach.
You went down there in January, you said?
- (LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
FINN: And how did this trip come about?
(LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
He said he's not working
right now. He said when it gets cold,
he doesn't wanna stay here for
the cold, so he goes over there.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Are your sisters that live in that house,
are they married?
(LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(MAN SPEAKING)
FINN:
So, what other family do you have
in the Dominican Republic
that live in El Campo?
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- LEON: He said, look, I
- (MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- FINN: Cut him off.
- LEON: Huh?
FINN: Cut him off and ask him
to answer the question.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- FINN: Cousins? Uncles?
- (LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON: He said, yeah, I got cousins.
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON:
He said, I know more,
but I don't associate myself with them
because I live more here.
- FINN: He's dancing around this.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
FINN: How about Inocencio?
Inocencio?
MAN: Hmm?
FINN: Inocencia.
(LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
He said he knows that
person but they're not family.
FINN: Okay. And how do you know him?
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- LEON: He said I
- (MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
FINN: Well, how do you, well,
how do you know him?
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
He said it's a female.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON: Uh-huh.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON: He said
that his sister Consuelo
actually took care of Inocencia
when she was pregnant.
- FINN: It's a girl?
- LEON: He's saying it's a female.
No, this is a guy.
(LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
- LEON: He said, "No. I don't know."
Are you sure it's not Ignicio?
FINN: Yeah. However you spell it.
(LEON SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
- LEON: Ignicio.
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON:
He said, "No, I don't know."
(MAN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON: He said He said maybe
you guys
are confusing me with somebody else.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
LEON: He said, "My father's
never showed me to do anything wrong."
FINN: Where are you
vibing on this? I'm not
You know what I'm saying?
LEON: Yeah. His baseline has been the same
ever since he came in here.
- FINN: Yeah. So, right? Agreed?
- LEON: Yeah, I think so.
All right, let's cut it.
Let's get out of here.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
FINN: In the end, there was
no signs of deception.
He was able to explain fully
about what he was doing
in the Dominican Republic.
We got to go by the facts
that they're presenting to us
and how our interview is going,
and we play that out until we're satisfied
that there's nothing illegal going on
and the passenger
can proceed on their way.
- (FINN SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
(BUZZER)
FINN: TheThe stereotypical
profile of a drug smuggler doesn't exist.
So, we have to interact with
as many passengers as possible.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
FINN: 99 percent of
the traveling public is legitimate,
coming for vacation, business.
We're looking for a small
percentage of people
that aren't doing what they're
supposed to be doing.
So, to find that one that has
a couple kilos of cocaine and heroin
is a pretty big feat.
OFFICER: Where are you coming from?
Five, six, seven, or eight, please.
FINN: It's a numbers game.
At the end of the day, the more you look,
the better your chances are
to find something.
Gotcha.
All right, bye.
We just got word that a baggage rover
over at T8 may have found some narcotics.
LEON: So let's make moves, man.
FINN: So, we'll get some details
and go from there.
LEON: I was warming up
for this moment, bro.
CANALES: Right now we're waiting
to see who's gonna collect bags
that are still pending to be picked up.
The reason why we focus on these bags,
they belong to a business class passenger,
and normally they're
the first ones off the flight,
yet, they're the last ones
that are getting picked up.
Incidents have occurred
where bags have been left behind
and they have had contraband
or things that were not declared.
(LARA SPEAKING)
All right, let's walk away
- and then we'll pick him up at the thing.
- We should just go to the exit control.
- RODRIGUEZ: Al right.
- CANALES: 10-4.
Right now it just appears
that the owner of the luggage
maybe has an eye on us.
So, we're just gonna move
away from the area,
see if that gives him interest
to go and pick up the bags.
Go.
CANALES: So, they just confirmed
on the radio
it is a male subject
that we're looking for.
WATSON: If you guys want, I'll
put on some regular clothes
and start walking around if he's
already identified you guys.
- CANALES: How fast can you change?
- Real fast.
- Okay, we'll be here.
- Okay, I'll be right back.
Chief Watson's gonna go change
into plain clothes
and see if she can walk around
and identify the subject
since he hasn't seen her
out here in uniform.
Maybe she's able to get eyes on him
before he comes down to get the bags.
WATSON: All right, I'll go look for him.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: He was in a white sedan, he's got
the package, and it's going northbound.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
- MIGUEL: Garage?
- AGENT: Yup.
(HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: There's a possibility that
this individual's conducting a heat run.
What this means is that
he's trying to identify
if law enforcement is following him.
AGENT 1: If they do indeed
have counter surveillance,
they're gonna be looking hard
to find the police.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(AGENT 2 SPEAKING)
AGENT 1: Looks like it's up here.
See the white car?
Mercedes here.
MIGUEL: The package is inside
this same white Sedan.
AGENT 1: Windows are rolled up.
So no one can just grab it.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT 1: He cut back over.
He is doing heat runs, then.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
All right,
we're gonna be frickin' blocked.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT 1: Don't stop. He's turning.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
I can't see. Did we lose him?
(AGENT 1 SPEAKING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT 1: Oh, (BLEEP).
(AGENT SPEAKING)
Unfortunately, we've lost eyes,
meaning that we do not have a visual
on the individual and package.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
All right.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: I'm close by.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
- AGENT 1: Yup. He's right here.
- MIGUEL: He's right there.
So, here's the vehicle to our right.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT 1: Yes, he is.
He's in it with it.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT 1: Someone's gonna walk up
quickly and grab that package.
PA ANNOUNCER: Please come
to carousel number seven.
LARA: We're trying to play
cat and mouse right now
trying to find this individual.
Doesn't wanna be caught by us.
The subject was already
obviously on to us.
No luck.
CANALES: So, I guess
it'll just be a straight seizure.
WATSON: Yeah. Abandonment seizure.
He might just have said
"Hey, you know what? Forget it.
I'm better off not getting in trouble,
not getting flagged.
I'll just go ahead and take off
without the bags."
WATSON: You don't need
bolt cutters on this job.
Yeah, obvi.
There you go.
CANALES: So, it's black market cigarettes.
They're busting at the seams
with cigarettes.
With the price of tobacco,
especially in California
with all the taxes,
people buy these very cheaply overseas,
bring them back
to the United States for resale.
And what they try to do is bypass customs
so they don't have to pay
any duty on them.
How many do we have in here?
60, 65.
CANALES: 67.
People may say what's the big deal,
they're just cigarettes.
They don't understand
that there's FDA regulations.
Some of those harmful chemicals
are not allowed here in the U.S.
This one's four.
So, it's important that we intercept them
before they make it out to the street.
MONTALVO: So, we have 406 boxes
and 81,200 individual cigarettes.
So, once everything's bagged up,
it ends up getting taken
to the incinerator.
WATSON: At the end of the day,
we got the contraband.
We got enough intel to track the guy.
We'll place a lookout on him
and we'll get him next time.
Go SIG. We get the job done.
OFFICER: It could potentially
be narcotics.
FINN: I was thinking the same thing.
There was an older woman traveling
in a wheelchair coming from Peru
that may have had some narcotics
disguised in bottles.
LEE: It was a little strange to find
somebody with that many bottles,
and the bottles themselves
were of a weight
that I had never really felt
in a bottle before.
Like, this is kind of heavy,
like, why is this so heavy?
(PATRICK SPEAKING)
(MAN SPEAKING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(PATRICK SPEAKING)
PATRICK: Liquid cocaine's common,
and they put it in normal goods,
so when they come in
they just look like they're
bringing drinks or shampoo
into the United States.
FINN: There was cocaine in the bottle,
but on top there was
a little bit of liquid.
If we just open a bottle
and pour a little out,
we would never find the actual product.
PATRICK: So they all have it except for
this one. This has nothing in it.
They're hoping that CBP will
stop them and test that one
and then there's nothing in it
and let them go
with, for this case, 11 other ones.
It's about 6,900 grams.
AGENT: Six kilos is a lot of
liquid cocaine.
LEE: But the passenger was 82 years
old, in a wheelchair.
She was very cool.
Gave off the air that she had done this
before and nothing was wrong.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
The next thing we did was contact HSI,
and HSI sent a few agents over
to begin the process of interrogating her.
(AGENT SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
What did you think it was?
(AGENT SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
What did you think it was?
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
AGENT: In Peru, it's vitamins.
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
AGENT: Natural remedies.
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
AGENT: They don't sell it in pharmacies.
ED: Okay, so, who did you talk to?
- WOMAN: Diaz.
- Diaz? Okay.
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
(CONTINUES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: So, Diaz comes to your
house, knocks on your door,
and says, "Hey, can you take something
to me?" And you said yes?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
AGENT: Okay.
ED: Getting somewhere.
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
AGENT: You don't know who
gave your phone number to Diaz?
ED: She stated that she received
a phone call from an individual.
She didn't know the individual
that well, a friend of a friend.
You don't know him?
(AGENT SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
- AGENT: Okay.
(AGENT SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
- AGENT: Okay.
(AGENT SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- WOMAN: No.
- AGENT: First time?
Don't you think
that's kind of weird and shady?
- (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(AGENT SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
WOMAN: No.
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
ED: She stated that she did
not know she was smuggling cocaine.
People tell us this stuff all the time.
But it's our job to investigate the truth,
find out who this individual is
or if this individual even exists.
Here's the deal.
I don't believe that you're being
a hundred percent honest with me.
MIGUEL: Vehicle has not backed up.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
Oh! He does! He does! Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MIGUEL: Alright, we got it, we got it.
We got the package right here.
Two males. One with a blue shirt,
one with a grey shirt.
And they're walking to one
of the apartment complexes.
- (AGENT 1 SPEAKING)
- MIGUEL: Yeah, man.
- (AGENT SPEAKING)
- MIGUEL: Yes. Approach.
Alright, guys, go in, go in.
(CHILDREN SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(WOMAN SCREAMS)
AGENT: Get back in your apartment!
(SCREAMING)
(DOG BARKING IN A DISTANCE)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT: Police!
- (DOG BARKING)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
AGENT 1: They could have gone
anywhere.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
- AGENT 1: Upstairs?
- AGENT 2: No, downstairs.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(DOGS BARKING)
(CHILD TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
(YELLING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
Let's go! Let's go!
AGENT: Police. Out!
Keep your hands up.
Keep, keep walking, keep walking.
Stop right there.
SUSPECT: What's going on?
AGENT: Open the doors.
AGENT: Hands up.
Hands up.
Let's go.
- AGENT 1: Anybody else in there?
- AGENT 2: Coming out, we got one.
STEVE: We have two individuals in
custody
with approximately 1.32 kilos of cocaine.
Street value is about $100,000 U.S.
They're looking at possession
with intent to distribute.
We have a secure site. We're still
processing, doing a search warrant now
on the apartment and the vehicle.
AGENT: He's got some receipts to Haiti.
STEVE: Putting people in jail is fine.
Taking drugs off the street is fantastic,
but there's a ton of kids here,
so it makes you feel even better
when you take down people
that are doing this kind
of thing in this atmosphere.
MIGUEL: The investigation
doesn't stop here.
We will continue doing analysis
of telephone records
and any other evidence that we
got from the search warrants.
We started at the beginning
with just a very simple package,
and now we have enough evidence
to be able to target
a transnational criminal organization.
ED: This is your last opportunity.
(AGENT SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Okay?
Otherwise you're done,
and Diaz is just gonna go free.
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
- ED: Okay. Where?
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
ED: Okay. In New York.
Where in New York? It's a big place.
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
AGENT: He works in trucks.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
He's a truck driver.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Doesn't know which company.
ED: She never stated
that she had knowledge
that she was smuggling in cocaine,
but we got a lot of information
from her about this individual
who wanted the bottles
that she was bringing back.
So we're going to have to follow up on
that and see where it leads.
Any facial hair? Mustache? Beard?
(WOMAN SPEAKING
FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
ED: Anytime that we get a seizure
like this it's a good feeling.
This is our job is to stop these narcotics
from coming into the United States.
But it doesn't stop here for us.
Our job is to investigate
these crimes transnationally
and prosecute these criminal
organizations from the top down.
FINN: To know that we stopped this
load of narcotics coming into the U.S.
that could've ended up into some kid's
nose and some kid's arms on the streets,
it's a rush, it really is.
You're never winning the war,
but we do like to win those
individual battles from time to time.