To Catch a Smuggler (2020) s01e06 Episode Script

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WOMAN: Who do you have in El
Salvador?
Oh, okay. I'm gonna check your bag.
After so many years experience,
uh, I have learned a lot.
What is this?
PASSENGER:
Orillia, yeah, it's orillia, yeah.
- BRITO: And what is Orillia? Oh.
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
- Oh!
- (PASSENGER SPEAKING)
Different cultures. Different people.
(MAN SPEAKING)
BRITO: You get more familiar
with what you have in front of you.
Homemade?
- This is homemade cheese?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
The point that
you see something different,
you know that something is not right.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
- MAN: Without labels. Yes.
- (BRITO SPEAKING SPANISH)
BRITO: I can be very friendly,
but at the minute
I feel something is wrong,
I'm all business.
Do you have any type of food, package,
or anything for somebody else here?
(MAN SPEAKING)
What you bring? Just tell me.
(MAN SPEAKING)
BRITO: Oh, somebody's sending
that with you?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
- BRITO: Who?
(MAN SPEAKING)
BRITO: Okay. No problem.
(MAN SPEAKING)
BRITO: Say that again?
(MAN SPEAKING)
BRITO: Ah, Illiano. Illiano!
- Sir? Stay over here.
- PASSENGER: Yeah.
(MAN SPEAKING)
Yeah.
When I probed the can,
I saw a white powdery substance.
- (OFFICER SPEAKING)
- BRITO: Go ahead.
One of the things
that really got my attention
is the three cans of Ackee.
Ackee's the national fruit from Jamaica,
and, uh, he's coming from Trinidad.
Why he's bringing this here?
And when I saw the white powder,
I said, "Oh, my gosh."
(BRITO SPEAKING)
(BEEPING)
KEARSE: Here at our facility
we're looking at a lot of packages.
Finding the contraband goes back
to the officer doing the exam.
OFFICER: Nothing.
KEARSE: So, the guys, they do
pretty well because they take joy
in trying to find this stuff.
It's like trying to solve a good mystery.
It's like
there's got to be something in there.
Sometimes it's nothing.
And sometimes we spend an hour
searching one little thing.
It's just not right,
but, you know, they don't give up hope.
(OFFICER SPEAKING)
KEARSE: Looks like a chemical solution.
So, let's prep it for examination.
Drug dealers, they come up with unique
ways to try to smuggle their goods
into the US, and that's one of them.
(OFFICER SPEAKING)
KEARSE: It could have originated
in Germany and routed
through the Netherlands, but
you wouldn't have
a Netherlands postage, so.
The criminals will try to do anything
to mask what they're doing
to get a product through.
They're claiming it's bio eco-culture oil.
Green is the future.
Based on what we're seeing on the outside,
there's something suspicious going on.
The good thing about
this equipment we have,
we can scan it without opening
the plastic, causing spillage.
KEARSE: Gamma-Butyrolactone.
GBL.
It's a Schedule I
chemical class with the DEA.
This chemical can be easily
converted into a narcotic,
so, in this case,
GBL can be converted into GHB.
GHB is a known date-rape drug.
I have a young daughter, so, um,
things like this is always a concern.
So, this is another drug
that we wanna get off the streets.
Looks like 1.3 kilograms.
We're gonna pass
that information along to HSI
and see what they want to do with it.
When was the last time you were there?
- Uh, November.
- MAN: November.
(INDISTINCT AIRLINE
ANNOUNCEMENT)
AUSTIN: Air China or China Eastern.
WATSON: Iberia.
We have Madrid, we had one from Japan.
WATSON: Specifically in LAX,
we seem to apprehend
a lot of women that are working
in the sex-trade industry.
Are you traveling alone or do you have
friends on the same plane?
WATSON: So, we have CBP officers
dedicated to targeting people engaged
in sex trafficking and human trafficking.
Mmm-hmm, Mmm-hmm.
Yeah, ORB?
WATSON: Mmm-hmm.
AUSTIN: Operation Risky Business
is when the immigration inspectors
are trying to determine whether or not
someone is engaged in sex trafficking.
Where you coming from? Passport?
Very often, passengers can be promised
an opportunity
to come to the United States
and eventually, through
blackmail or a series of debts,
they end up working as a sex worker,
either voluntarily or involuntarily.
Where you going?
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
- For what purpose?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
PACHECO: What do you do for work?
PACHECO: What do you do for work?
- (WOMAN SPEAKING)
- PACHECO: Yeah.
- Jewelry?
- Yeah.
You usually come around the same time?
- Hmm.
- You were here April 28th last year.
You know anybody here in the U.S.?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
PACHECO: Male or female?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
PACHECO: What does she do for work?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
PACHECO: What do you think?
AUSTIN: Okay. So, her friend's a
student?
It's a female friend and a student.
- That's what she claims.
- AUSTIN: Okay.
Um, what city is she going to?
- L.A.
- Of course.
I think it's weird that she comes
around the same time.
Officer Pacheco noticed some
behavioral inconsistencies
with the young lady from Italy.
It's possible ORB.
AUSTIN: So, we'll move forward
with our inspection and continue looking
for other information.
Just wait right there.
He'll call you right now, okay?
Thank you.
- AUSTIN: How you doing, ma'am?
- Hello.
WOMAN: Hi.
Uh, are you traveling
with anybody else today?
- WOMAN: No.
- AUSTIN: No? Just you?
Could you step over here
for a second, please?
AUSTIN:
Do you have your passport, please?
(LAUGHS)
I happened to notice
that there was another young lady
a little farther down the line
that was actively avoiding
any kind of eye contact.
AUSTIN: What kind of work do you do?
(WOMAN SPEAKING)
AUSTIN: Hmm. Do you have
any kind of a company ID for that?
- PACHECO: Like your business card?
- AUSTIN: No? Okay.
PACHECO: Nothing?
AUSTIN: The young lady
claimed to be a travel agent.
One of the more popular answers
for an established sex worker.
She's got extensive travel.
- PACHECO: What country?
- AUSTIN: Lots of them.
PACHECO: Come on over with us.
Just right over here, please.
The second traveler
definitely had red flags,
so, we're gonna take her
and the first young lady
into the Admissibility Review Unit
to determine whether or not they are,
in fact, able to enter the country.
(INDISTINCT AIRLINE
ANNOUNCEMENT)
BRITO:
Now that we have the person secure,
I'm gonna proceed to test the substance
that I saw inside the cans.
- OFFICER: Careful.
- BRITO: Mm-hmm.
This is supposed to be ackee.
Ackee is a yellow fruit,
supposed to be liquid inside,
but when I probed the can,
I saw a white powdery substance.
Voila, positive for cocaine.
Look.
All three.
If you feel this, it feels funny.
- OFFICER: Yeah.
- And if you shake it,
you're not gonna hear any water in there.
OFFICER: Right.
BRITO: This drug organization,
they're very creative.
Not gonna see every time
the same concealment.
It's not, it doesn't work that way.
They wanna confuse us.
Everything gotta be double-checked.
That's why when you look
in a passenger's bag,
you got to open everything.
Sir? Are you okay?
- Are you listening right now?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
Okay. I understand that you're going
through something right now,
but we have to focus
on what we doing here.
- Okay?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
BRITO: I'm gonna explain you,
I'm gonna give you more
information later on,
but right now, I place you under arrest
for the importation of narcotics
into the United States.
Do you understand, sir?
(MAN SPEAKING)
BRITO: You gonna have time to explain
yourself, but please, right now,
you're under arrest.
Now that we know what type of narcotics
the passenger is bringing,
we're gonna go ahead and contact
the Homeland Security Investigators.
If you want to cooperate
with them, that's up to you.
- You understand?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
Because you know this is serious here,
right?
And right now, you're in a situation.
(INDISTINCT AIRLINE
ANNOUNCEMENT)
Number six.
AUSTIN: Hello, again. Okay.
We have the authority
to look through your phone
while you're in, uh, inspection, okay?
AUSTIN: Any person entering
the United States,
they are all subject
to an admissibility inspection,
that includes
the cell phones of the young ladies.
PACHECO:
When did you book your trip?
PACHECO:
Three days ago. Why so sudden?
Usually, if I'm gonna travel somewhere,
I plan my tickets
and my trips, like, a month before.
AUSTIN: So, you're like a tour leader?
AUSTIN: Okay.
Any time there's an inconsistency,
we try to get a more complete story
out of the subject
and determine whether or not
they were, in fact,
able to enter the country.
So, you're not doing it anymore?
AUSTIN: Okay.
AUSTIN: Okay.
And then you said
you have more friends here.
Male friend,
when did you meet him, you said?
(PACHECO SPEAKING)
PACHECO: There you go.
Just check out at the front desk, okay?
She had a lot of pictures of her jewelry
and she had a lot of orders
as well on the side.
So, to me it seemed
like she was legitimate.
AUSTIN: The second passenger,
her passport showed rather consistent
international travel.
None is particularly recent.
Only one of them is to a party town.
Thank you, ma'am.
Go ahead and show this
to the officer at the desk
and he'll let you out.
Okay.
They're not up to anything that
is prohibited, so they're both free to go.
PACHECO: That's just how it is.
We're just picking and choosing
and if it's not there, it's not there.
Thank you for your time. Bye, bye.
MARCO: Afternoon, guys. How are you?
We got approximately 1.3 kilograms of
GBL
that the CBP in Miami intercepted.
The bottles that
you guys see in the middle,
those bottles
are the ones that contain the GBL.
We are not gonna be delivering those.
They've been replaced with
the little bottles of baby oil
just in case the package goes mobile.
The individual that
we're delivering to is a white male,
approximately in his, uh, late 30s.
This individual, he works out,
he's pretty much got, like, a ten-pack.
He's a big fella.
So, obviously, the entry team,
when we go in, we want
to proceed with caution.
Once the subject accepts delivery
of the package,
we'll go ahead and have
our designated entry team,
make entry on the apartment,
secure the subject,
and then we'll go ahead
and conduct a search of the premises.
Any questions, comments, concerns?
So, remember, guys, safety's paramount.
Make sure you have all your vests, gear,
and we'll see you guys out there.
MARCO: GBL is commonly known
as the date-rape drug.
In South Florida, there's a lot
of beach parties and whatnot,
and we have had males and females
drugged with GBL for sexual assaults.
For us, it's highly important
to take a drug like GBL off the street.
PACHECO:
Tell me the breakdown for the money.
PATRICK: Okay. Five 100s.
This is Special Agent Patrick.
The time is 10:13. Can I give this to you?
- Did you know what was in there?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
PATRICK: No? Okay.
Who asked you to bring
that over there, if anybody?
Did you bring that over yourself?
Did you just
(MAN SPEAKING)
PATRICK: And who is he to you?
(MAN SPEAKING)
So far, what we know about the perp
is that he was traveling from Trinidad,
where he resides and owns a store.
Did he give you any compensation for that?
(MAN SPEAKING)
- He didn't, he didn't, he didn't pay you?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
Okay.
PATRICK:
This guy's in serious trouble right now.
He has a large amount of cocaine
that came in on his luggage.
Right now, it's all his
and that's all we know.
But there is always more to it than that.
He asked you to bring those over
(MAN SPEAKING)
- PATRICK: For his aunt?
- MAN: Yeah.
PATRICK: And who's his aunt?
(MAN SPEAKING)
You wanted to get
those cans to the aunt, right?
- Yeah.
- Have you called her yet?
(MAN SPEAKING)
If we can get him to get him to talk
to the individual from Trinidad
we can use that to lead us
into catching the next big fish,
much bigger targets that we have
in these drug trafficking organizations.
So, so far for me, there are some
red flags that are being raised here.
I think you know more
than you might be telling me.
(MAN SPEAKING)
PATRICK: There's a lot
of phone calls back and forth.
(MAN SPEAKING)
Listen. I'm not here to try
and haul you off to jail.
I'm not here to snap my fingers
and say, "Ha, ha, got you."
I'm really not interested
in you, to be honest.
Maybe you've done this before.
Maybe you don't ask what's in the package.
(MAN SPEAKING)
I'm not even trying to get you to say
you did something before.
What I am trying to do is figure out
what happened today with this
and who is coming to get it.
Because if I can get on to them.
(MAN SPEAKING)
I want to get on to them, too.
I'm glad you want me to.
Listen. I'm gonna tell you right now,
your guy in Trinidad,
he doesn't care about you.
AGENT: Use this opportunity
that you have now to help yourself.
Because we wanna help you.
- MAN: Yeah.
- AGENT: You're not a bad guy.
PATRICK: Let me ask you this.
How were you going to give it to his aunt?
(MAN SPEAKING)
So, she's supposed to meet you
at your brother's place,
- not the airport?
- (MAN SPEAKING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
- (AGENT SPEAKING)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
- PATRICK: Okay.
(SPECIAL AGENT SPEAKING)
Mmm-hmm.
The perp is being cooperative with us,
which does help us figure out
the truth of what's going on here.
This isn't the only person involved.
This is someone's product,
this is someone's money,
and it's being pushed into the US,
and there's gonna be other people
that are gonna have to take responsibility
for what happened.
We'll see what we can do, okay?
All right.
AUSTIN: Number four.
Number five.
This is your second visa
for the United States?
- MAN: Yes.
- AUSTIN: Okay.
Cashier or you sell products?
What do you do?
OFFICER: Krishna. Krishna?
Got everything?
Just follow that young lady there.
OFFICER: Of which country
are you a citizen or national?
(KRISHNA SPEAKING)
OFFICER: What is your marital status?
(KRISHNA SPEAKING)
OFFICER: How did you first meet?
OFFICER: What is his occupation?
(KRISHNA SPEAKING)
OFFICER: Have you ever used
any controlled substances?
- (KRISHNA SPEAKING)
- OFFICER: Ever.
(KRISHNA SPEAKING)
Are you applying for admission
into the United States
under the Visa Waiver Program today?
- (KRISHNA SPEAKING)
- OFFICER: Yeah.
When you did that electronic application,
it asks you on there
if you use any controlled substances.
So, you've signed off on that, saying
that you're gonna adhere to those laws
while you're here, and unfortunately,
and obviously, you haven't.
Right, but it's a state's issue
at this point.
Federally, we still consider it illegal.
(KRISHNA STUTTERS)
Totally understand
but that applies to US citizens.
OFFICER:
Anything that has to do with immigration,
that's gonna fall under federal law.
OFFICER: Under federal law.
Yeah, I understand.
Even though marijuana use in Colorado
might be totally legal,
the fact of the matter is
it's still against federal laws.
And, obviously, because
we're a federal law enforcement agency
we're going to enforce federal laws.
Do you have any pending petitions filed
on your behalf to live
or work in the United states?
Do you have a screenshot on it,
on his phone or anything?
- It's in the emails.
- Emails? Okay, we'll do it in there.
(KRISHNA SPEAKING)
OFFICER: This is or was?
- (KRISHNA SPEAKING)
- Oh.
Under Border Search Authority, CBP
maintains the right to look through
people's cell phones and laptops.
We're gonna check her phone
for conversations
between her and her potential fiancé
to establish exactly what her intent
for coming to the United States is.
So, we're gonna take a quick break
and then I'll call you back in.
- OFFICER: Man, you can smell it.
- PATRICK: Yeah, it reeks.
We can try and turn it upside down
and cut the bottom and push it through.
PATRICK: Yeah.
It's actually still like brick in there.
There it goes.
OFFICER: Look at that, huh?
(LAUGHING)
It's gonna be a good weight.
PATRICK: All right.
BRITO: 1.3 kilograms
with a street value of $64,000.
That's a good weight
that I put out of the street.
OFFICER: There you go. (INDISTINCT)
PATRICK:
You didn't say about any times,
any pickup times or anything?
(MAN SPEAKING)
Did he say if a guy or a girl was coming?
(MAN SPEAKING)
The passenger at this time
is being cooperative.
(MAN SPEAKING)
PATRICK: So, when this individual
calls from Trinidad,
we're gonna have him talk to that person
so that we can go ahead and snatch up
whoever this stuff is supposed to go to.
This is the only entrance in or out?
MARCO: I believe so, yeah,
because here in the north, there's a wall.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MARCO: All right. 10-4.
Okay, we're live audio on the UC.
Stand by.
We're gonna have the undercover
operative under a ruse,
plainclothes, walk up, knock on the door,
and pretend that there was a mis-delivery
to a different apartment.
(MARCO SPEAKING)
AGENT: He's walking down the hallway.
MARCO: I got you.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
MARCO: All right.
UC just knocked at the door.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
MARCO: All right, UC just knocked
again.
All right. Somebody just answered.
Stand by. Somebody just answered.
(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
MARCO: All right.
Subject accepted parcel.
Subject accepted parcel.
Package is in play. Package is in play.
We got the UC walking back
toward the main hallway.
Stand by. Will advise as soon
as he clears the area.
UC is in the clear. We're good to go.
(FEMALE AGENT SPEAKING)
The subject is home.
He accepted delivery of the package,
and now it's just a waiting game.
We wait to give the person the opportunity
to break into the package,
so when we go in,
we catch them
with their hand in the cookie jar.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(PHONE RINGING)
(MEN CONVERSING ON PHONE)
MAN 2: Hi, hi.
(MAN 1 SPEAKING OVER PHONE)
(MAN SPEAKING)
- (MAN 1 SPEAKING OVER PHONE)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
- (MAN 1 SPEAKING OVER PHONE)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
(MAN 1 SPEAKING OVER PHONE)
(MAN SPEAKING)
- (MAN 1 SPEAKING OVER PHONE)
- (MAN SPEAKING)
Were you able to get, like, a description,
like the way the car looked
- or anything like? All right.
- No, no, no.
- So, maybe when he calls back?
- Yeah.
PATRICK: The individual from Trinidad
has someone coming to pick up the drugs,
and he'll call him
when that person's coming.
So, we're gonna let this whole thing
play out and see if we can get
our hands on the individual
that's coming to pick up the drugs.
AGENT: All right, guys.
We have four PD units
on the block already.
They'll do the initial takedown.
We're gonna have the cooperator
with you, in the car.
You are 100% responsible
for our cooperator.
PATRICK: When we're conducting
a controlled delivery
where we're actually going
to be bringing the perp out with us,
the safety of the perpetrator
is one of our main concerns,
just as much as the safety of any other
agent or law enforcement personnel
on the scene.
AGENT: The meeting
should take place around here.
But say the guys get mobile.
We wanna be able to cut if off here
and then cut it off here
so there's nowhere to go.
So, soon as he arrives,
we could just pounce him and get him.
We don't have to allow this elaborate
face-to-face meeting to take place.
- PATRICK: Yup.
- AGENT: Stay tactically sharp
and stay safe. Let's do it. All right?
(AGENT 1 SPEAKING)
AGENT: All right.
PATRICK: Right now,
we have a plan in place
as far as the controlled delivery goes.
We're gonna get our cans from 7-Eleven
so that we have something to present
to the person that's gonna
come pick up the drugs.
We also have NYPD that's moving out
to secure an area that we're gonna use
for the drugs to be delivered to.
We're gonna see who shows up
and we're gonna take them down.
OFFICER: Hey, Chief.
This stuff in her phone.
WATSON: Oh, wow.
(CHIEF SPEAKING)
There's a lot more
going on than we thought.
We were going with the intent
that she was coming to live
and work here without authorization.
We looked at her phone because
she had said that she had
an application for a lawful
permanent residency status on it.
These pictures,
are we able to blow them up,
especially the one with the money
- and the, the weapons?
- OFFICER: Oh, yeah.
But upon further inspection, we found
pictures of drug paraphernalia,
we found money, we found guns,
and it appeared like
her fiancé was attempting to smuggle
those things or been selling
those things in the United States.
Have you asked her about
any of these pictures yet?
OFFICER: No.
WATSON: Okay. So, now might be a
good time
to contact
Homeland Security Investigations.
- MAN: Mmm-hmm.
- WATSON: Let them see the pictures
so they can pursue an investigation
potentially against the fiancé.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Be ready if the subject, for some reason,
leaves the apartment
and we do not see a package in hand,
we're gonna go ahead
and take him into custody
as he approaches his vehicle.
All right. You guys can start
moving into the stairwell.
No change on the residence. No change.
Our entry team's getting ready to move
into position to go into the premises.
Anytime we're going into an apartment
or a house, there's a lot of unknowns,
so that's where we got to gear up
and prepare for the worst
and run scenarios in your head.
And that's basically
what our entry team's doing right now.
Uh, entry team be advised.
Uh, we got a, uh, bystander
walking by on the fourth level.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT: All right.
Hang on. He's coming out.
MARCO: The subject
just came out of the apartment.
He's wearing a black ball cap,
white shirt, dark shorts.
He's making his way to the elevator.
Looks like we're gonna have
to take him at the vehicle.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MARCO: Okay. Subject's coming out.
Subject's coming out,
approaching the vehicle.
(SIREN WAILING)
MARCO: Go ahead. Go ahead, guys.
AGENT: Stop right there!
Put your hands up!
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
MARCO: Subject just came out
of the apartment.
- AGENT: He just came out.
- MARCO: Okay, subject's coming out.
Subject's coming out,
approaching the vehicle.
Go ahead. Go ahead, guys.
(SIREN WAILING)
AGENT: Stop right there!
Put your hands up!
On your stomach! On your stomach!
I'm gonna roll you to the side
and we'll sit you on your butt, all right?
One, two, three.
We just executed the arrest
of the subject that we delivered
a--a package to.
(OFFICER SPEAKING)
(MAN SPEAKING)
We'll go ahead and execute a federal
search warrant on the premises,
see if we can find additional evidence,
and hopefully interview him,
and he'll wanna cooperate with us.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
AGENT: Police search warrant!
Police search warrant!
Police.
Police coming in!
MARCO: Team is making entry now.
Stand by.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
All right. 10-4. Let's run the dog.
We're gonna run a K-9, see if we find
any, uh, additional, uh, contraband.
We're searching
for any additional evidence
that we'll prosecute the subject with.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
MARCO: Okay.
At the end of the day we got the job done,
took a bad guy off the street,
took drugs off the street,
and everybody's going home safely.
PATRICK: Right now, we're going over
to Jamaica, New York.
We have an address that we've selected
that's gonna be advantageous to us,
and that's gonna be where everyone's
set up to see if this international drug
receiving coordination,
if it's gonna go down or not.
This is good because we'll be able to get
direct players involved.
The key is to make sure
that they don't think anything
other than a normal drug,
uh, transaction is, is occurring
as far as someone
bringing drugs into a country,
them going somewhere to pick it up.
You know, we wanna keep
everything completely normal,
and that's how we get to them.
It's just a matter of who's coming over.
That part, we don't know yet, but I think,
definitely, someone's gonna show up.
So, I want to get us about a block away
or so and coordinate from there.
Let's see if it goes.
Best-case scenario is that someone
shows up and the conversation
between all parties goes correctly.
If we can talk to the intended recipient
for this drug transaction,
then hopefully we can get even further
when it comes to taking
something off the street.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
So, the house is about
one block away to, uh, our right,
where we're sitting,
but the individual could pass by us.
They could circle the block.
They could weave in and out.
You know, they could do whatever ritual
they have it is to get the paranoia
off their backs that they're coming
to pick up almost a kilo
and a half of cocaine.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
Copy.
We just got word that the person
that's coming to pick up the drugs
is getting close.
We aren't able to see what she looks
like, we don't know her name,
but this amount of drugs involved,
there's a strong history
in-in times like this
where guns are also involved.
I don't like this car that just rolled up.
I don't like this car that just rolled up.
But we'll see what happens.
We're still currently
waiting on the female.
From what we could tell,
she's actually coordinating
still with the individual
in Trinidad that is talking
to, uh, our cooperator.
He's seemingly giving
her directions over here.
And we're hoping that, uh, she makes
herself more, more known
than not when she gets into the area.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(AGENT 2 SPEAKING)
The hardest part about being patient
is that you have to spend energy
being patient because
you can't get complacent.
You have to stay alert.
You have to watch every car
that goes by, every individual.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
(AGENT SPEAKING)
Wow.
(AGENT SPEAKING)
PATRICK: Copy.
Sometimes you get them,
sometimes you don't.
It seems like communication's
kind of fallen off.
Um, so, they're gonna go ahead
and try and reconvene,
see if they can't reach
back out to the person.
You know, it could be a misunderstanding.
We could be right back
out here in an hour.
We don't know.
So, we'll see what happens.
OFFICER: So, this was actually
the boyfriend's phone.
He gave it to her, like, two months ago.
So, everything prior
to two months ago would be
from him.
It happens a lot that CBP will contact us
and give us information
on prospective drug smugglers.
OFFICER: There's actually a text,
someone texting him,
asking him if he had molly,
and he said yeah.
So, obviously, he was selling
more than just marijuana.
KENDRED: Okay. We'll definitely
follow up on the drug questions
- OFFICER: Uh-hmm.
- (KENDRED SPEAKING)
OFFICER: Okay.
KENDRED: Bring her down.
(KENDRED SPEAKING)
KENDRED: So, have you
ever known him to sell
any, uh, controlled substances?
(KRISHNA SPEAKING)
What about all the pictures
that were on his phone?
The money, the cash?
Well, as far as I'm concerned,
the money is probably,
it's probably just dollar bills behind it.
Uh, it's probably not even his.
The videos are probably not even his,
probably his friend's.
It is, I mean, you have to admit,
it is kind of unusual to have
that kind of money
- in the pictures, and especially with
- KRISHNA: Honestly,
I've, I've bundled up one myself.
It's a 100, the rest
is, like, ones or fives.
It's just to, like, look cool, I guess.
His friends do it.
They all take Snapchats of it.
That's probably what he's done.
CHRISTOPHER: He does
have some text messages
in here that are referencing
- selling drugs or narcotics.
- KRISHNA: Yeah.
There's some that, what he calls molly.
Is that something you've seen? I mean
KRISHNA: I've, I've
never seen anything like that.
What do you make of all that?
That he has
KRISHNA: I've never see,
I haven't gone through his messages,
I've never seen them,
but I know he's, like,
bought weed in the past.
But I've, I've smoked some of that weed
and, like, in Colorado done that.
He bought, I assumed
was legal anyways because he told me
it was legal,
so, I just kind of assumed it.
I have seen the videos
you're talking about,
but I just assume they're from
his friend's factory that he has,
and he grows and then ships
them out to dispensaries.
(CHRISTOPHER SPEAKING)
Oh, he has a few in his house,
but they're legal, right?
Like, handguns and stuff?
He tries to look cool.
You, like, you gotta understand,
he tries to really, you know,
put it out there and send it
to celebrities just as all his friends do.
But, I assumed all the firearms
were legal and none were illegal ones.
Thank you very much for your time.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
He is a seller in Colorado,
and his friend has a dispensary.
(WATSON SPEAKING)
KENDRED: Yes.
What about all the cash and the, the guns?
KENDRED: Well, she's saying
that the cash is
CHRISTOPHER: She's claiming
everything is staged.
- WATSON: Oh.
- KENDRED: Yeah, especially getting
- for the cameras.
- it's for, it's like a show.
WATSON: Okay.
- KENDRED: So, we're good to go.
- PASSENGER: Right on. Thank you.
KENDRED: Thank you.
HSI decided not to pursue
a criminal investigation against
the passenger or her fiancé,
but even though marijuana use
in Colorado might be totally legal,
the fact of the matter is
it's still against federal laws.
So because she was a marijuana user,
we determined that
she needed to be refused admission
into the United States
under the Visa Waiver Program.
You're just gonna wait for your flight.
All right. Thank you.
Unfortunately she just came off
of a long flight from Australia,
and because we've had
to Visa Waiver refuse her,
she's gonna have
a really long flight back.
(INDISTINCT AIRLINE
ANNOUNCEMENT)
PATRICK: The individual that we've been
having our cooperator talk to
that seems to be orchestrating
this whole thing,
um, he stopped answering his phone.
Um, so, at this time, uh,
we're gonna, got to stop where we are at
and we're going to turn our custody
of our cooperator over to NYPD
for further investigation.
The 1.3 kilograms
that we seized this morning
is going to be headed over
to the district attorney's office
to be further prosecuted.
(MAN SPEAKING)
Even though this individual helped us out,
right now, we can't make any promises.
He's looking at a steep felony,
right off the bat.
But if he can help us
get to the next step,
then maybe he can help himself
out down the road
as far as us being able to say,
"Hey, look, this guy went ahead
and tried to make sure that
we had all the information we needed
to get to the truth that day."
I think that there is always going to be
drug trafficking occurring in some way,
shape, or form.
If you ask me is there an end in sight,
I'm gonna tell you no.
But if we stop and let it all flow,
it's gonna be a lot, lot worse.
So it's very important
that we keep doing what we're doing as
as far as HSI is concerned
and as far as protecting everything
that comes in at our borders.