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00:07Newark Liberty International Airport is a major hub for transatlantic travelers.
00:13We get a lot of flights pouring in from all over the world every single time of the day.
00:18The Passenger Intelligence Enforcement Response Team, or PIER, is vigilant against
00:24international drug traffickers. We're basically an intelligence gathering
00:29team as well as a narcotics enforcement team. Hey, how we doing today? If we were all a bunch of
00:35students in the school, the PIER team would probably be the nerds and the jocks at the same time.
00:42Today, Officer Farrar has received information that a British woman is suspected of smuggling
00:48narcotics into the U.S. She's got a child with her. Can you get a job down here to sit
00:54with a kid while
00:54we're going to go through the inspection? She's probably going to get a PD. All right. Perfect,
00:58brother. Thank you. Do you have any checked luggage today? Hi. Yeah, how many bags do you have? Just one.
01:08Just one bag? Each year, Customs and Border Protection officers arrest around 1,500 people
01:15attempting to bring drugs into the country. You were randomly selected for a screening,
01:19so it's just going to be basically an advanced customs inspection screening. So questions about
01:23why you're here. Go through your bag, quick and easy. So we'll grab all this stuff. Don't forget
01:28your coat. All right. What we're going to do is find out why she's here, who she's visiting,
01:33actually sit down, talk to her questioner, figure out what her intents are.
01:37And we're going to go this way? Yep. And then we're going to open up the bags and let the
01:42bag tell the story.
01:46Anything in the bags that stick me, poke me, cut me, hurt me by any chance? We're up against a
01:51clock.
01:51We're looking for anybody that's not declaring, and there's going to be a lot.
02:08Worldwide, criminal enterprises launder up to $2 trillion each year.
02:12Are you bringing out any currency with you today? Gangs regularly use airports to transport illegal
02:20currency across international borders. Yeah, we're all customs. Yes. Thanks, guys. Go, go, go, go.
02:28Each day, U.S. customs officials seize around $300,000 in illicit or undeclared money. Go, go, go.
02:37In Newark departures... Go, go.
02:41Officer Hyotis and his team are preparing to spot check travelers departing the U.S.
02:46This is almost like a fishing expedition. We're just randomly stopping people.
02:49Sammy, you bet the car, right? Perfect. Yeah, it's a police explorer.
02:54You're allowed to take as much money as you want that out of the country. There's no limit.
02:57But if somebody's carrying more than $10,000, it just must be reported.
03:03C-82, we said, right? Yeah. C-82. Okay.
03:05All right, kids, no fighting. I'm turning this car around right now.
03:10This morning, they've identified two flights due to take off within the next hour,
03:15each known as prominent cash smuggling routes.
03:18All right, right now, we're going to be doing a flight that's destined to Lima,
03:21but then you have people that can transit into either Ecuador or Colombia.
03:25Sometimes with South America, you have illicit money that might be going down.
03:30It could be drug money. It could be gambling money, organized crime, narco-terrorism.
03:35So this flight is a really good flight for us to examine.
03:42To avoid having their money seized, travelers carrying more than $10,000
03:47dollars must declare the amount to customs officers and complete a form called a FinCEN 105.
03:54The form was designed to combat narco trafficking, organized crime, because when you make somebody
04:01fill out a form that they're carrying the cash, it gives a tracking where it came from.
04:05Peru is the world's second-largest producer of cocaine. Its cartels launder around $8 billion each year.
04:15It's a large flight, so we have a lot of volume. More chances of us getting FinCENs,
04:21or even possibly a seizure, or even looking for illicit activity.
04:30How much cash are you taking out of the United States right now?
04:33Uh, we'll say cash, $9,000, yes.
04:36Okay, and how long are you going away for on this trip?
04:38I'm going for four weeks taking care of my mother.
04:40Okay.
04:41FMA.
04:42Please write down how much money you have and sign there for me, okay?
04:45Should I put in $9,000?
04:47You tell me, ma'am.
04:48I don't know.
04:50Are you carrying money for anybody else?
04:51No.
04:52Okay, just call me for a second, please.
04:53Uh, excuse us, we're going to get down here, okay?
04:57The woman's claim that she's carrying $9,000 for her sick mother doesn't sit right with Officer Hyotis.
05:03Just take out your monies, put it down on the ground in front of me, in front of the cameras.
05:08He decides to search her carry-on.
05:11Hey, just put it down on the ground for me, okay?
05:12Here?
05:12Yes.
05:13Okay.
05:13All right, put the whole thing as is.
05:16And, uh, let me just see your bag when you're done, okay?
05:19Yeah.
05:19All right, and just stand back and just watch me, okay?
05:21Okay, no problem.
05:24If Officer Hyotis discovers the woman is lying, she faces having her money confiscated,
05:30and fined tens of thousands of dollars.
05:39Over in arrivals in Terminal B.
05:42How are you today?
05:43Thank you, how are you?
05:44I'm wonderful.
05:46Peer Team Officer Farrar is processing a British woman who has recently landed with her daughter.
05:53She's suspected of trafficking narcotics.
05:57It's not a good look for the kid to see their mom placed in cuffs.
06:00Smugglers often travel with children, believing it makes them less likely to be stopped.
06:06Right here.
06:07All right, so all of your luggage, anything that you may have in your pockets, your bags,
06:11everything right here.
06:12All right.
06:27Fantastic.
06:27What brings you to the United States today?
06:29Trick-or-treating with my friends that I went to high school with.
06:32My mom immigrated when we was 13, me and my brother.
06:35We immigrated to the States, and we started, um, I started middle school,
06:40and then I went to high school.
06:42And then we come back two and a half years later, and I've been back for 19 years.
06:45And where are you going to be staying at while you're here?
06:47At Tom's River.
06:47And how long do you plan on being here?
06:49It's five days.
06:50Okay.
06:51Now, do you have a return ticket?
06:52I know you're flying on ASTO.
06:53What's your return ticket for?
06:54I've got a house.
06:55Yeah, yeah.
06:56This is my boarding pass.
06:57All right.
06:58And this is, uh, the booking reference.
07:00The woman claims she's due to return to London in five days,
07:05but a passenger with an almost identical name is booked on a flight to Frankfurt today.
07:11It's a coincidence that Officer Farrar needs to investigate.
07:16What the ?
07:17Yeah.
07:18What's that?
07:18I don't know .
07:19My mum booked it.
07:20Can we call her?
07:21No, we're not going to call anybody.
07:22That's the reason for the question.
07:24Do you know what I mean?
07:24I'm not going to Germany.
07:26Honey?
07:26No, thank you.
07:27Okay.
07:28Smugglers often dump their contraband and then jump on the first available flight out of the country.
07:35It's a tactic known as a turn and burn.
07:40So what do you do for work in London?
07:42I'm actually a mobile hairdresser, but I don't do anything at the moment,
07:44because my daughter's, um, just turned aside to school.
07:47Okay.
07:48Do you do anything on the side for yourself, like supplement your income?
07:51I want to pet my parents, my parents.
07:52Gotcha.
07:53I'm a bit of a princess, honey.
07:54Good for you.
07:55Yes.
07:55I'm kind of jealous of that.
07:56No, no, no, but thank you.
07:57She's not hating.
07:58She's probably just picking it up.
07:59I need you.
08:01The woman's claim that she is supported by her parents
08:04could be a smoke screen to hide a second income smuggling narcotics.
08:10So what I'm going to do, I'm going to open up your back.
08:11Do me a favor.
08:11Take a step back.
08:12Just keep your hands where I can see them.
08:14Outstanding.
08:25That's a wig.
08:27That's a wig?
08:27That's a wig.
08:29Oh, I like it.
08:30You like that?
08:32Her suitcases are clean.
08:34But there's still a mystery around why two people with similar names
08:37are booked on two return flights to Europe.
08:40I want you to show me where you're flying out from.
08:42I want to look that up real quick.
08:49So this is your outbound flight?
08:51I think, yeah.
08:53All right, perfect.
08:53You want to do me a favor and just go have a seat right over there with your daughter?
08:56Yeah, I want to look this up real quick.
08:58Officer Farrar and his colleagues double check the woman's return booking
09:02and confirm it's genuine.
09:05For what she has listed, she's flying out on November 3rd on another flight back to London.
09:11They did see that she does have a return ticket on the 2nd.
09:14However, there just might have been an administrative clerical error.
09:16But Officer Farrar isn't finished yet.
09:20We'll try to make this as quick as painless as possible.
09:22The woman could be carrying drugs on her person.
09:25And so he explains that she needs to be searched.
09:30Oh, he's absolutely outrageous.
09:32What the ?
09:33And her mood suddenly changes.
09:37So they do have a kill pad now.
09:38There's always some in there.
09:48So what I'm going to do, I'm going to open up your bags, do me a favor to take a
09:50step back,
09:51and just keep your hands where I can see them.
09:52Outstanding.
09:54In Newark, Officer Farrar is investigating a woman as part of an anti-smuggling operation.
10:00Oh, no, this is fine.
10:01Her bags are clean, but he's also authorized a full body search.
10:13These officers are going to take you, they're going to do a quick pat down on you, and then...
10:21I didn't understand about 90% of what she was saying.
10:25Yeah.
10:26I understood swear words outside of that.
10:32Concealing drugs internally is known as body packing.
10:35It is normally used by traffickers to carry high-value narcotics, such as heroin and cocaine.
10:42When she came off the plane, she was extremely jittery, very energetic.
10:47Usually that's an indication of some sort of upper, be it, you know, cocaine,
10:51something along those lines.
10:52So we'll see where this carries us.
11:00Officers don't find any narcotics during the pat down.
11:03I need a rig.
11:05But then the woman requests to use the bathroom.
11:09She's going to dump it.
11:10Officer Farrar moves quickly to prevent her from using the bathroom trip to get rid of any drugs.
11:17We went and shut off the water in the bathroom, so if she does pass any foreign objects,
11:21then she wouldn't be able to flush and we could retrieve the item and she'd be handcuffed immediately.
11:33Five minutes later, the woman emerges.
11:36She's not handcuffed, so it looks like she didn't pass anything foreign.
11:39We're going to move on with the investigation and figure out what's going on.
11:44Now, officers want to dig deeper into her background and make sure that there's no suspicious
11:49aspects to her visit.
11:52Are you dating anyone?
11:53Are you seeing anyone?
11:54You have no issues back at home or anything like that?
11:58No.
11:58Okay.
11:59No one wishes you will, will, but they're not looking for you.
12:04I love you.
12:04You're so nice.
12:05Oh, thank you.
12:06Mm-hmm.
12:08Her story checks out.
12:11So, I appreciate your time and your patience.
12:14I appreciate it.
12:14I appreciate it.
12:15You just want to do entertainment.
12:21We just don't mess up the Halloween costume.
12:24That's all that matters.
12:26And despite the long delay, she has no hard feelings.
12:30You're stocky, aren't you?
12:32Yeah, it's just good genetics, I think.
12:34It is.
12:38What is that?
12:41Oh, I got you, I got you, I got you.
12:43I was like, what are you stepping on my face?
12:44I was confused.
12:47Once Officer Farrar repacks the woman's bags.
12:50Good enough for government work.
12:52She is reunited with her daughter.
12:55You have a really good mom, you know that?
12:59Pretty much did the interview, went through the bags,
13:01figured out her travel, coming in, going out, looked at all the intel.
13:05So, at this point, she's clear, she's, there's no issues with her at all.
13:10Can I take my phone?
13:10Can I take my phone?
13:11Yep, yep.
13:12So, need your phone, you got your passport, yep.
13:15The woman is free to leave.
13:19All right, guys.
13:20Thank you, Rob.
13:21You're good.
13:21Bye, Cuppie.
13:22Thank you, bye.
13:23Bye, Cuppie.
13:24Bye, Cuppie.
13:28All right, guys, so straight out those doors is freedom.
13:31Welcome to the United States, guys.
13:32Take care.
13:46In Terminal C departures, a flight to Lima is due to leave in less than one hour.
13:52How much cash are you in charge?
13:54Uh, I can't sit 100.
13:56Officer Hayotis and his team are on the hunt for travelers carrying undeclared cash
14:01on a well-known money laundering route.
14:04Just take out your monies, put it down to the ground in front of me, in front of the cameras.
14:08A woman has admitted to carrying $9,000 for her sick mother in Peru.
14:13Sir, you going away for how long? You said four weeks?
14:16Yes.
14:16All right.
14:24Taking care of mom?
14:25Yes.
14:25All right.
14:27Okay.
14:28Who's going to count your cash?
14:31If the woman has under-declared, she faces a possible fine and risks having her money confiscated.
14:41My job as a law enforcement officer is to look at the truth and what's really there.
14:46Problems come when they declare one amount and they got a lot more than what they said,
14:50or if they had more than 10,000 and they purposely have given us false information,
14:54then there's an issue.
14:57Yes, you're at 9,000, like you said.
14:58Yeah.
14:59All right.
14:59Everything's good.
15:00I'm just going to sign that you get back all your money and have a good flight.
15:04And best of luck to you and your mom, all right?
15:06I hope everything works out.
15:09Now, with just 40 minutes to take off, officers quickly work their way through the rest of the
15:15passengers.
15:19And don't find anything suspicious.
15:22We did a few bag exams.
15:24There was no ineffrious activity involved with cash.
15:26We didn't find any type of contraband, like any weapons or narcotics.
15:30They got back all their money and then everything's good to go.
15:36The next flight on the team's list is heading to Vienna, a transit hub for people traveling to
15:43the Middle East.
15:44I just want to know how much cash you're traveling with.
15:46Zero.
15:47Anyone give you any money to bring back one out?
15:49Zero.
15:49Zero?
15:50Okay.
15:52Have a good one.
15:54As the passengers board,
15:56We got your name, your address.
15:59Officer Hyotis stops a husband and wife who have declared just over the threshold.
16:04Why nobody like nothing just us, right?
16:07Well, I stopped you randomly and you told me you have more than,
16:10you have over $10,000, so we're filling out the form.
16:12Maybe nobody else has it.
16:13Yeah.
16:13Okay?
16:14The wife objects to being singled out.
16:17I'm not going to take much of your time, all right?
16:20Okay, do me a favor.
16:21Take out your money, put it on the ground.
16:23I'm going to count it and give it back to you, okay?
16:25Nobody stops us.
16:27She claims the cash is for renovations on their vacation home.
16:31And just watch me because I am going to be looking through your stuff.
16:34And I want you to just keep your eyes on me, okay?
16:40Don't be shaky, okay.
16:41You want to sit down?
16:42You can have a seat there.
16:44As Officer Hyotis continues his search, the woman grows increasingly agitated.
16:50I'm shaking.
16:50I cannot stay no more on my feet.
16:52I have to sit down.
16:53You can sit down.
16:54You want me to sit down, okay?
16:55I just, I do have to count your money.
16:56Hold on, ma'am, ma'am, please don't touch.
16:57Let me, let me do what I got to do here, all right?
16:59I would like to get you out of here.
17:00I would like to get you out of here.
17:02No, no, you got to leave everything here, honey, okay?
17:06Hidden in the couple's bags are envelopes of cash they failed to disclose.
17:11What?
17:11You don't steal our money?
17:12No, we don't steal it, ma'am.
17:13All we're doing is reporting.
17:15No, you have to report it, but right now, ma'am, you told me one thing and I'm finding
17:20more money all over the place, okay?
17:23That's against the law.
17:25You can't tell me one thing and have anything else.
17:27Ma'am, don't touch anything.
17:28Don't touch anything here, okay?
17:31All right?
17:32Because right now, I can tell you got more.
17:34I can tell right now.
17:35So for you, without even counting, you have a lot more than what you told me.
17:39So let me do what I got to do here, okay?
17:46Hold on one second.
17:47I still have to count what I found, okay?
17:52There was almost twice as much cash as the couple initially declared.
17:56You're at $19,548, okay?
18:00Hold on.
18:00Please let me finish, sir.
18:02But they're fortunate that today, Officer Hyotis is in a forgiving mood.
18:08What we're going to do here is this.
18:10I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt here, all right?
18:13I'm going to say you made a mistake, okay?
18:15I could seize the money now, but I'm just going to give some discretion here.
18:19Take all your money, and I'm going to get you on out of here.
18:21You're going to get on the plane, okay?
18:22So today, we're just teaching you a lesson.
18:27The woman doesn't appreciate she's caught a break.
18:35So in this case, I could have actually seized the money because they did fail to declare
18:39properly, but I decided to extend some courtesy.
18:43One of the things with this job I've learned during this many years is there is the law,
18:47there is the spirit of the law.
18:48Sometimes the best way to enforce the law is by educating somebody.
18:53And sometimes if you just give them a little bit of a break, a little talking to,
18:57it goes a lot farther than seizing somebody's money or arresting somebody.
19:02The couple can continue on their journey, but they know that next time, officers may not be so lenient.
19:23San Francisco, California.
19:25San Francisco, California.
19:26The discovery of gold here in 1848 transformed what was a sleepy village into a bustling city,
19:34which is today home to 800,000 people.
19:3915 miles south is San Francisco International Airport, which welcomes a million passengers a week.
19:51Where are you coming from?
19:54Where are you on vacation or business trip?
19:55Visiting my dad.
19:57Most are here for vacation or to see loved ones, but some try to conceal their reasons for visiting
20:04the Golden State.
20:05I think you have a bag of all climbing gear.
20:08Oh, you're a climber?
20:09All right.
20:09Yeah, that is chalk.
20:12Yep, I know, for the hand.
20:13So yeah, it's a big bag of white powder.
20:15If you had that without your climbing gear, I would be a lot more suspicious, but it's actually
20:19all over your bag too, so.
20:28Today, in secondary, a German citizen has been referred after officers in primary became suspicious
20:37of his travel plans.
20:40Do you know how long are you going to stay in the San Francisco area?
20:44Yeah, we plan actually just to stay here for one or two weeks, and then we're going to visit
20:51our friend.
20:51Okay.
20:52Or his maybe come to us, like, let us see.
20:55Okay.
20:56The man claims he's visiting friends, having taken two months off work.
21:01What's your job?
21:03I'm working by Amazon.
21:04Okay.
21:05So it's like a part-time job?
21:08It's a full-time job.
21:09It's a full-time job.
21:10Yeah, full-time job.
21:11How can you take two months off from a full-time job?
21:17With no clear answer about his occupation, Officer Jiang drills down on the man's friends.
21:24Okay, what kind of work do they do?
21:27Security.
21:28Okay, what kind of security?
21:29Yeah.
21:30What kind of security?
21:32Security for shopping malls, security for police?
21:36Security for stores and something like that.
21:37Okay, I see.
21:39People trying to find illegal employment in the U.S. are known to seek casual security work.
21:45I see.
21:46All right, so have a seat, use your cell phone, and let me talk to my boss.
21:53We go from there.
21:57Officer Jiang takes the information to Officer McCarthy.
22:01We get a lot of people coming in here for short periods of time, and they hop on little security
22:06jobs, so having a friend that works security definitely red flags that he's going to be
22:10trying to possibly seek employment with that friend.
22:13He doesn't really seem to have any plans of anything he's doing.
22:16He doesn't know of anywhere he's going.
22:18So yeah, nothing says he's going to vacation.
22:21Yeah, I found it.
22:22I found the agent too.
22:25Yeah.
22:26Yeah.
22:26Officers want to dig deeper into the man's story.
22:29Okay, have a seat.
22:31So they decide to inspect his bags.
22:33Everything inside is for yourself.
22:35Do you have any gifts for your friends over here?
22:37No, no, no.
22:38You didn't bring any gifts for my friends.
22:42You're traveling here for two months, and you're broke.
22:45All right.
22:47The passenger's admission that he is broke doesn't help his claim that he's here for a long vacation.
22:53All right.
22:53It's like you're coming to work when you say you're broke.
22:56As officers search the man's bags.
22:59Okay.
23:00What about these things?
23:02They discover documents that suggest he could be visiting to make money, not spend it.
23:09Yeah, that's like from the police in Germany.
23:12Okay.
23:13That's me like, I'm clean.
23:14Okay.
23:15Sounds like a police worker say you are clean, that there's no arrest, right?
23:18Yeah, you need to come from the work.
23:19You need that for the work.
23:21It's a little bit harder for us to like assume you are only for vacation.
23:26Are you planning to find any work over here?
23:29No, actually no.
23:30I don't want to leave here.
23:31I live in Germany right there.
23:32That's not my question.
23:33I didn't ask if you want to live here.
23:35I just asked if you want to work here.
23:37Yeah.
23:40Mr. McCarthy is going to take the statement from you
23:43and then we're going to let the boss decide what's the outcome.
23:48Just as Officer McCarthy is preparing to take his sworn statement, the situation changes.
23:56Despite claiming otherwise on his ESTA application,
24:00the man admits that he has previously lived in a country on the U.S. watch list.
24:07As ESTA initially stated that he hadn't been to any restricted countries,
24:12come to find out he was living in Benghazi, Libya, all the way up until 2014.
24:17First, he denied it, but then eventually admitted that yes, he was living in restricted countries.
24:23When the man lived in Libya, it was a breeding ground for terrorist groups affiliated with ISIS and Al Qaeda.
24:32We're looking for anything that shows that he may be involved in what was the fighting back in Libya,
24:37or he may be involved with any of the organizations that are coming out of Libya that we deem as
24:41a threat.
24:52In San Francisco...
24:54It sounds like a police worker say you are clean, that there's no arrest, right?
24:58Yeah, you need it from the work.
24:59You need that for the work.
25:01Officers are questioning a German citizen trying to enter as a tourist,
25:06who they suspect is attempting to work in the U.S. illegally.
25:10Have a seat and wait for the officer to call you for the statement.
25:16They have discovered that he failed to declare that he spent more than a decade in Libya,
25:22a restricted country with known terrorist links.
25:27So we are still looking into possibly may have a link to some sort of organization
25:33that maybe could be seen as gang related or terrorism.
25:38Hey, come on in and have a seat.
25:41Officer McCarthy pulls him aside for further questioning.
25:45Just know you are stopped because we believe you might be inadmissible to the U.S. today, okay?
25:52So then to just clarify, you lived as a residence in Libya from 1998 to 2014, correct?
25:59Yeah.
26:00You were there during the fighting.
26:03You were there during the fighting, Benghazi.
26:06Yeah.
26:09In 2012, insurgents attacked the American embassy in the Libyan city of Benghazi,
26:15killing four people, including the ambassador.
26:19Were you ever involved in any of the fighting that was going on, the Civil War?
26:23Were you ever, like, a soldier there, involved in anything like that? Okay.
26:28Officer McCarthy needs to understand why the man didn't flag that he was in Benghazi at the time of the
26:34attack.
26:35And then, uh, why did you not answer yes on question nine of your ESTA application?
26:40Just explain why you didn't, you put no instead of yes.
26:44Why I answered with no?
26:46Yeah.
26:46Yeah, because I understand the question wrong.
26:49Okay.
26:50Yeah.
26:51The omission on his ESTA application could be an honest mistake,
26:55or it could be a deliberate attempt to deceive officers.
26:59I'll send this over to my boss, then hopefully we'll know it in the next 30 minutes, okay?
27:03Just have a seat in the front, and I'll come out and get you.
27:12Over the next hour, senior officers review the man's application.
27:23They find no evidence of any links to the Civil War in Libya,
27:28but they discover something else which sheds new light on his travel plans.
27:33We were able to re-interview him, talk to him. What we found that was of interest is a lot
27:38of
27:38influencer stuff. It seems to be that he has over a million followers. We're not sure why he didn't
27:44mention that to us.
27:46With over a million followers on one platform alone,
27:50it turns out that the man is one of Germany's leading social media influencers.
27:56The social media account kind of really helped him out. You know, influencers, you're going to get
28:00paid, you get endorsements, you get advertisement deals, you have more income coming in, and your
28:04travel is more authentic at that point.
28:09So they're reviewing it right now. We're just waiting to find out the final verdict.
28:14After an anxious wait...
28:17All right, we're almost done.
28:18The passenger learns his fate.
28:21Come on, it's going to be good news. You're going to be happy.
28:29After careful consideration, senior officers have decided that they're happy with his reasons for
28:36visiting the U.S.
28:37So after the whole investigation of everything, they've determined
28:40that you're okay to enter the United States, so you can come in, okay?
28:44Okay. So just in the future, read through these applications.
28:51The man is free to begin his vacation.
28:54You probably know the way by now, but you just right out that door, okay?
28:57Okay. I don't know.
29:00Have a good trip, all right?
29:02And begin sharing his experience with his many followers back home.
29:08This is one of those unusual circumstances where we find out the person just made an accident.
29:13I'm pretty sure his followers are going to hear about this story.
29:16That's probably the first thing he's already posting up outside of our baggage claim.
29:31Over at San Francisco's Terminal 1, officers are making their way to a gate to prepare for the
29:38arrival of a fugitive.
29:43We're here waiting for this gentleman to arrive from Switzerland.
29:47He is being extradited from Switzerland for being suspected of a homicide.
29:54The suspect, a U.S. citizen, is accused of killing his father in Santa Cruz and then
30:01fleeing to Switzerland.
30:02He left the United States a day before his father was found.
30:08And he became the prime suspect of the case.
30:12So the U.S. Marshals went to Switzerland to go look for him with the help of the Swiss police
30:18over there.
30:20Five U.S. Marshals are accompanying the suspect on the flight.
30:24And a further five officers are waiting to escort him to a holding cell.
30:29We have all hands on deck here. There's so many officers handling this case because we want to
30:35make sure that everything is done correctly and handled appropriately.
30:41For the safety of other passengers, extradited prisoners are usually secured at the back of the plane.
30:55The fugitive has been on the run for 11 days.
30:59And once the other passengers have disembarked,
31:02My eye is switching.
31:08They bring him into U.S. custody.
31:20Hey, RCC, can you set up Victor 15 for the Papa Delta room on the G-side baggage?
31:30Excuse us a little bit. We're going to come through here.
31:35If convicted of first-degree murder, the man faces the possibility of 25 years to life in prison.
31:45All right.
31:46Yes?
31:47Yep. A little kitten.
31:48All right, let's go.
31:53Next, he'll be subjected to a full body search and have his bags examined for evidence.
32:25Early morning at JFK in Queens, New York.
32:30One of the busiest airports in North America.
32:33Can I see a passport, please?
32:34Sure.
32:35And the main cargo hub for the Northeastern U.S.
32:40All right.
32:41All right.
32:41Good to go.
32:42Cool. Let's run the rest.
32:44More than one and a half million tons of freight passes through here each year.
32:49Concealment methods are ever-evolving.
32:52It's just a cat-and-mouse game, really.
32:56Former Marine Officer Vincents and his team are the first line of defense against contraband entering the country.
33:04I wish we could find drugs every day, but fortunately, that's not how it works.
33:10Today, Officer Vincents has received intel that a shipment from China contains illegal products.
33:19We're going to run this shipment completely and make sure that the contents inside of the boxes
33:25is legitimate and doesn't contain any narcotics or contraband.
33:30The description on the manifest is vague, and that's a red flag.
33:35It's a generic description of the shipment.
33:38It doesn't really identify what's inside of the box.
33:43The team's mobile x-ray unit can handle packages weighing up to 55 pounds.
33:49Are you going to run the rest?
33:52And scan hundreds of packages an hour.
33:57Could be organic, right?
34:00It doesn't take long for them to spot a suspicious shape hidden inside one of the boxes.
34:06Should be at the top, just right here.
34:10Anything is a form of concealment.
34:17Just always double check, you know, make sure it's good to go.
34:23I don't know what that is.
34:28Yeah, little dino seems he's good.
34:31It's not the kind of monster haul Officer Vincents was hoping for.
34:35You really don't know what's inside of the box unless you open it and actually physically inspect it, right?
34:47The next few boxes don't raise any alarms.
34:52Looks like there's an anomaly in there.
34:54But then, Officer Vincents spots a dark patch, which indicates a densely packed item.
35:01It doesn't look like the rest of the box, I can tell you that.
35:05Let's take a look.
35:08Each parcel conceals several sealed boxes.
35:13That's an interesting package.
35:16It's got some weight to it, too.
35:22Oh, yeah, we got powder.
35:25Oh, yeah, we got powder.
35:41Let's go through here.
35:42In San Francisco, officers are bringing a fugitive wanted for murder into U.S. custody.
35:49All right, let's go.
35:52Go that way.
35:53The man is suspected of bludgeoning his father to death before fleeing to Switzerland.
36:00Excuse me, that's not a waiting area.
36:05Officers escort the suspect into a holding cell where he'll be processed.
36:10So the individual is coming from overseas.
36:13So right now, what we're doing is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection part of the processing.
36:21We need to expedite the process because a passenger is a wanted person.
36:35After searching the suspect, officers also check his baggage.
36:50Some federal agencies are required to have warrants before they look through the bags,
36:56but we're going to conduct the baggage inspection
36:59and see that if there are any anomalies in it.
37:07The man watches the bag inspection closely.
37:22Any unusual items discovered during the search are bagged and tagged as possible evidence.
37:30So at this point in time, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has concluded our inspection.
37:38This is also the time we do the change of custody.
37:42Right now, we're handing it to Santa Cruz Sheriff.
37:48The man now faces trial and a possible life sentence in prison.
37:53They're going to give him his whole due process.
37:56They will give him a chance to appoint a lawyer.
38:00And then criminal justice will proceed from there.
38:14At JFK.
38:16That's an interesting package.
38:18Officer Vincent and his team have discovered possibly illegal products inside a shipment from China.
38:26Oh yeah, we got powder.
38:29It's unclear what the powder is.
38:31Yo, you got a mask in there?
38:33So Officer Vincent treats it as a potential threat.
38:37You want to keep everybody around you safe, you're himself safe, you know.
38:41I want to go home at the end of the day.
38:46The mystery powder has been packed in air-sealed plastic and aluminum bags to evade detection from the canine.
38:53That's not the best box.
38:55Let's see, we see some residual powder in here.
39:02They all seem to have the same off-white.
39:12This is our Gemini.
39:14It works on a spectrum level.
39:16And we're able to identify the substance as long as it's in the library.
39:23So we have a positive result for MDMB Anaca.
39:29MDMB Anaca is a synthetic narcotic known as a precursor cannabinoid
39:34and is used in the manufacture of illegal designer drugs such as spice.
39:40It mimics the effects of natural cannabis but is more potent and dangerous.
39:45And we've come across it quite frequently within the past like two to three years.
39:51So it's definitely up and coming.
39:55Consumption can cause seizures and death.
40:00So this particular chemical has been linked to overdose deaths in the past.
40:05So definitely want to try to keep this stuff off the streets.
40:09Smugglers are increasingly using smaller parcels to traffic goods
40:13to help minimize losses if one shipment is intercepted.
40:21So we got a total of 4.04 kilograms of MDMB Anaca.
40:28This seized shipment has a likely street value of around $12,000.
40:34We're going to turn it over to one of the sister agencies and they'll initiate
40:40an investigation that's going to hopefully lead to an arrest.
40:45Not every day is as successful as today, but you know,
40:48that motivates us even more to keep looking every day.
41:09The civil rights are going to
41:10Uh-huh.
41:17Oh.
41:19Oh.
41:20Oh.
41:21Oh.
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