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00:12you're going to Atlanta who lives in Atlanta that you're visiting and it's a family my boyfriend's
00:19family your boyfriend's family eight million US citizens have active criminal warrants sir
00:35today local police have alerted the airport authorities that a man heading to Jamaica has a
00:41warrant and is not allowed to leave the country we'll start checking everybody's passports from
00:46now on you think in the white sweatshirt we cannot lawfully detain this gentleman until
00:55he shows intent to travel outside the United States so once he scans the ticket and crosses
01:00through the door onto the jetway that's intent to travel and we are able to detain him do you see
01:06him now or no the gate closes in less than 10 minutes but so far there's no sign of the
01:16suspect if they
01:17have idea they do have a warrant they maybe they see us prior to ending the plane they get a
01:21little
01:21skittish they decide not for the plane you have your passport you have a few more questions for you
01:44right over here okay you currently have a warrant out of Florida for larceny larceny yes so we're
02:01going to detain you down correct are you sure it's me yes I think this is a mistake but I'm
02:09going to
02:09miss my flight you are not going to Jamaica today come with us
02:18anything in the bags that stick me poke me cut me hurt me by any chance we're up against a
02:23clock
02:23we're looking for anybody that's not declaring and there's going to be a lot
02:49good morning ma'am where are you coming from today Dubai you have a great day seriously I think
02:54it's okay across Newark's three terminals just put it down on the ground for me is that everything
03:02uh money wise yeah that's fine I'm not worried about your change okay hundreds of customs and
03:10border protection officers work to ensure travelers aren't entering the US with undeclared goods or money
03:17first and foremost you're coming to a port of entry it looks good it smells good but it's you can't
03:22bring it in sorry there's certain things that's prohibited here some of the things that we do
03:27look for is eye contact with passengers are you bringing anything back into the country you sure today
03:35officer Bynum is conducting cold stops on travelers who just disembarked off a flight from Europe given
03:41the fact I was born in Brooklyn it's just second nature that you know you got to trust your gut
03:46and
03:47if it quacks like a duck it walks like a duck it is a duck so being skeptical it's not
03:52bad you just
03:52want to make sure people have the right intentions coming into the country at the CVP checkpoint he zeroes in
03:59on a
03:59married couple acting nervous you're here to visit from Poland okay let me see your passport and what do you
04:08do for a living sir we're here for business we are we're on business in America we sell something we
04:14are so weird
04:16okay give me both passport with visa and this one is my current it's okay okay okay how much cash
04:25are you
04:25bringing into the country I have eight thousand something like that eight thousand how much cash are you
04:33carrying ma'am six thousand why okay you have six thousand four hundred you have eight thousand and I have
04:40eight okay by law cash which exceeds ten thousand dollars per person or per couple must be declared
04:48in customs using a FinCEN 105 form failure to do so can lead to criminal seizure of the money or
04:57criminal
04:57charges okay so how long you're gonna be here again for a week for a week so why do you
05:02have
05:02a thousand why you have six thousand what are you trying to do what are you looking to purchase
05:08uh do you consider this like a big money so it's like you're here you're in New York sir listen
05:14you're
05:14I'm asking you a question and you're answering my question with a question so that your behavior
05:18no no big plans we were not but just for a case because you know sometimes online banking doesn't work
05:26properly so you have to pay for uh for a hotel some maybe some shopping uh that I really heard
05:34that the banking in the United States fails to where you have to have currency of that amount not saying
05:41that you can't have that money right but it's not your typical passenger to bring eight to six thousand
05:47dollars so um let me just uh run some system checks real quick if everything comes back good uh you
05:53know you're on your way okay all right so just follow me over here but we follow you or yeah
05:58you're gonna you're gonna follow me the couple's reliance on cash instead of electronic payments could
06:05be a sign they want to make untraceable transactions yeah sir put your jacket up here and whatever you have
06:11in your pockets just put here your cell phone okay all right guys I'm gonna quickly uh just search
06:22your bags and just want to verify a couple of things okay and you said the money is in here
06:33yeah
06:34it's uh pocket on the back the pocket in the back okay do you always keep your money like this
06:48yeah like that okay the couple has divided the cash into several bundles and distributed it in various
06:57pockets around their luggage sometimes there's something called structuring where uh essentially
07:03people say hey hold half of it and I hold the rest and that's people way of trying to get
07:08around
07:09the system just bear with me real quick just check something and I'll start I'll tell you why you're here
07:17curious about their story officer Bynum searches a public database
07:23and discovers something surprising okay all right guys
07:32so just have a seat over there yeah we're gonna leave this all here yep just go there and take
07:37a seat
07:40so the gentleman happens to be wanted by for investigation by the FBI so I'm trying to figure out
07:50what's my next step as far as in what to do
08:12how you doing sir do you have a few more questions for you right over here okay
08:24in Atlanta officers have intercepted a man with an active arrest warrant in Florida just as he was
08:31about to board a flight to Jamaica until they make contact with the Orlando department who issued the
08:45warrant officers must detain the suspect a lot of people don't know they have a warrant a lot of
09:04people something happens they get arrested think that the charges were chopped they don't make a court
09:09appearance they fail to keep up with what they need to do and the wards put in for them while
09:15officer
09:16Kovalevsky informs the Orlando PD officer Gonzales inspects the man's luggage I mean there is a scent of
09:28marijuana in this area here so we're trying to figure it out you know if it's coming from his bag
09:34or
09:36where's it coming from as soon as we pick him up we notice a strong smell of marijuana it could
09:40be
09:40anywhere in the bag could be hidden anywhere inside linings inside pills so we got to be thorough make
09:46sure we're fine what we need smugglers exporting marijuana to the Caribbean often target commercial
09:53flights out of the southern states so when officer Gonzales discovers several bags of pills red flags go up but
10:08we're just gonna do a test I mean it's a large amount of these capsules they're different types different colors
10:28because marijuana can be used in capsule form if the test is positive officers haven't just
10:34intercepted a wanted man they may have uncovered a smuggling operation
10:55in Newark you always keep your money like this yeah you like that okay officer Bynum is working
11:04with a couple that just arrived from Poland they are carrying fourteen thousand six hundred dollars
11:11in cash between them but failed to submit a FinCEN 105 form declaring that they were over the ten
11:18thousand dollar threshold something called structuring where essentially people don't want to come into
11:26the country with ten thousand dollars so they say hey hold half of it and I hold the rest and
11:31that's
11:31people way of trying to get around the system but ten thousand is ten thousand after discovering
11:37several bundles of cash stashed in pockets throughout the couple's carry-on just have a seat over there
11:43yeah we're gonna leave this all here yep just go there and take a seat officer Bynum discovered
11:50the husband may be wanted by the FBI hey what's going on man this is biting bags concern the man
11:57may
11:57be involved in criminal activity he calls his supervisor yes I got a question for you man I did
12:05a cold stop on the passenger and he was let through like normal turn to find out he's wanted for
12:12some
12:13investigation with the FBI and he's traveling with a large amount of money that's labeled yeah so you
12:22you know I just happen to do a cold stop stopping you know appear like all day all right
12:34his supervisor confirms that the FBI investigation is now closed the man is no longer under suspicion but
12:42officer Bynum still has to process their cash all right I got some money here I just need you to
12:50witness okay he has eight it says he said that he has eight and then his 2044 only you got
12:57this okay
12:58all right all right all right all right just tell them just tell them to come on you can come
13:01up both of you
13:02guys we just got to count this up how much you actually have as I remember there is a limit
13:13of
13:1310,000 there's a limit of 10,000 but you're coming together so together is over 10,000 each day
13:20U.S.
13:21customs officials seized around 300,000 dollars in illicit or undeclared money as part of a global
13:27initiative to combat international crime syndicates from transporting ill-gotten gains across borders this
13:34is seven 20 if there's any doubt over the money's origin the couple faces having it seized so one two
13:42three four five six seven eight seven twenty
13:55okay the total comes to over fifteen thousand dollars more than they earlier declared to officer
14:02Bynum you can you can bring as much money as you want you have to fill out this form though
14:08okay yes okay yes and then if you're leaving the country you still have more than ten thousand
14:14dollars you also have to report that to us okay officers Bynum and Cucero have the couple complete
14:20offense in 105 legally documenting the cash you guys can come out here all right and the couple is
14:30allowed to go you came in here the right way you're declaring the money the right way and maybe you
14:35wasn't informed and maybe you forgot upstairs but this covers you but they'll be checked the next
14:40time they return to the U.S. he had to fill out the proper documentation what she did it was
14:46a good
14:46catch this was a good opportunity just uh know that we're out here doing our job and we're doing it
15:19correctly
15:24across the United States.
15:25Excuse me, sir.
15:26Mail, could you guys come here real quick?
15:28Customs and Border Protection officers
15:30are tasked with spotting anyone entering the country
15:33who could pose a risk to its citizens.
15:37Hi, sir.
15:38May I see your passport before you go?
15:40Okay.
15:40Are these your bags?
15:41Yes, sir.
15:42Okay.
15:42Where are you coming from?
15:43Zambia.
15:44Okay.
15:48In Detroit, a teenager traveling from Scotland
15:51has been referred to secondary
15:53after his behavior raised suspicions.
15:56He's been giving kind of vague answers.
15:58He's super shaky, very nervous.
16:00He said he was coming to visit his girlfriend.
16:03He said they met through a gaming website, a gaming app.
16:07We do see it a lot.
16:08He told me he's 18, his girlfriend's 15, 16.
16:11So that is the first issue is him being an adult,
16:15visiting a minor.
16:16So trying to figure out what her actual age is.
16:18Well, there are a lot of pressures online
16:20and our job is to protect, you know,
16:23not only the people coming in,
16:24but like the people that are already here in the U.S.
16:28Online grooming is a worldwide problem
16:30with over a million cases each year reported in the U.S. alone.
16:35But to prove his intentions are honest,
16:38the young man volunteers information on his phone.
16:42If you'd like me to, I can direct you to the messaging.
16:45You can search for specific keywords on that.
16:48That's okay. I can do it. Thank you.
16:50Even though the messages reveal nothing of concern,
16:54Officer Lamour wants to speak to the 15-year-old girl,
16:57but he only has her mom's cell number.
17:01She consults a colleague.
17:03So they talk on a gaming thing.
17:05So you don't have her number, though?
17:06Mm-mm.
17:07Okay.
17:08Yeah, it seems pretty suspicious.
17:10Something's, yeah.
17:11I think I should try to call the mom.
17:13I think you should definitely call her.
17:15Maybe it's not that big of a deal,
17:16but yeah, just get some answers, basically.
17:19All right.
17:35Hi, this is Officer Lamour with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
17:38How are you?
17:40Good.
17:42We're trying to verify his true intent
17:43as to why he's coming to the U.S.
17:49And what's your daughter's date of birth?
17:51The mother tells Officer Lamour her daughter is 18,
17:55not 15, as the passenger first claimed.
17:58What he's telling me, what you're telling me
18:00are two separate things.
18:01We just need to know the truth.
18:05All right, thank you.
18:07Bye.
18:09All right.
18:10It just seems weird.
18:12How old is the daughter?
18:13Did you get that information?
18:14She said 18, but he's telling me 15 or 16.
18:17All the moms said that she's 18.
18:19The mom.
18:21Oh, yeah, yeah, that's weird.
18:23Officers suspect the woman on the phone
18:25may have been the girlfriend posing as her mom
18:28so she can meet the passenger in secret.
18:31We don't know if her parents are aware of the situation,
18:33so I need to figure out if there's consent with them,
18:37and yeah.
19:01In Atlanta, officers have detained a man with an active arrest warrant for larceny theft.
19:07I mean, there is a scent of marijuana in this area here,
19:12so we're trying to figure it out.
19:15You know, if it's coming from his bag or where's it coming from?
19:24The man was about to board a flight to Jamaica.
19:27After picking up the scent of cannabis on his carry-on,
19:30a search revealed several bags of pills.
19:33It's a large amount of these capsules.
19:37Let me see, they're different types, different colors.
19:41The Jamaica-era corridor is a common trafficking route
19:45for U.S. high-potency cannabis and cocaine.
19:48Who carries this large amount of,
19:51it looks like they're homemade capsules,
19:53but we're just going to do a quick test on them
19:54and see, you know, what we get back.
20:11Yeah, it looks like it's negative.
20:13It's coming back.
20:14I mean, some sort of supplement, herbal supplement,
20:17but it's not testing positive for any narcotics,
20:20so we're just going to call it a negative.
20:24The suspect's luggage is clean.
20:26Now all he has to worry about
20:28is where he'll be spending the night.
20:35We did get confirmation from the originating agency.
20:38We will now transport him to Clayton County Jail
20:40where we'll be held until the originating agency
20:43comes up from Florida and transports him back to Florida.
20:46He will not go on his trip to Jamaica now.
20:48Once he's been extradited to Florida,
20:50he'll appear before a judge
20:52who will decide whether or not to grant him bail.
20:55When you do catch somebody, you do feel satisfied
20:56and you do feel like you've done your job for the day.
21:02Every day we try to keep the country safe,
21:03regardless of if they have a warrant,
21:06somebody trying to transport drugs, narcotics.
21:11Do the crime, do the time, as they say.
21:32You can search for specific keywords or not.
21:34That's okay.
21:35I can do it.
21:38In Detroit, an 18-year-old has flown in from Scotland
21:42to meet a 15-year-old girl he met on a gaming website.
21:47Officer Lamour wants to make sure
21:49that her family is aware of the relationship.
21:52What he's telling me, what you're telling me
21:53are two separate things.
21:55We just need to know the truth.
21:56A call to the girl's mother to check his story
21:59has revealed an inconsistency.
22:01When I called the mom, the mom said she's 18,
22:04so I'm not really sure what that is.
22:07I'm going to go back in
22:08and kind of do a little bit more investigating
22:10and see where that kind of takes us.
22:14Officer Lamour suspects
22:15the person on the other end of the line
22:18might have been the 15-year-old girl herself
22:21posing as her mom.
22:22We're just trying to figure out his intent.
22:24I mean, if he is coming to see a 15-year-old,
22:26that nothing, you know, illegal is going on.
22:29We're trying to, like, make sure he's safe,
22:31make sure the people that he's coming to visit are safe, so.
22:36She decides to call the mother's phone number again.
22:41This is Officer Lamour calling back.
22:43I have a few more questions for you.
22:46First off, what's your daughter's date of birth?
22:52So she's 15.
22:54You said 18, he's visiting an 18-year-old daughter?
22:59The woman insists she is the girl's mother
23:02and initially gave the age of her older daughter
23:04because she was worried how it might look to authorities.
23:08Um, I think that's all the questions I have for now.
23:11I'll give you a call back if I have anything else, okay?
23:13Bye.
23:15Right now, it does seem like that was actually the mom's date.
23:17But she did say that he is visiting them,
23:22like, as a family, I guess they're family friends,
23:24um, because her daughter is 15 years old.
23:27I guess he's staying with the mom's boyfriend,
23:30not in their house.
23:32That was one of the stipulations for him
23:33to come and visit, I guess, so.
23:38I think it actually was the mom.
23:40You did?
23:40Like, just how she was talking,
23:42she gave me the date of birth,
23:43she finally gave me the daughter's age,
23:45she was giving me the 18-year-old age,
23:47saying, like, that's the one he's visiting,
23:49but he's visiting...
23:50Her older daughter?
23:51The older daughter.
23:51She gave you that daughter.
23:53Because I think she's 18, this one's 15.
23:55She gave me the addresses, so...
23:59Boyfriend's address, too?
24:01I don't know, I mean, she's frustrated,
24:04but, like, she knows,
24:05she seems to know everything,
24:06it's not like she's in the dark.
24:07I know the mom was kind of lying
24:09a little bit in the beginning,
24:10but she started opening up a little bit more
24:13when she realized, like,
24:14we're just doing our job.
24:15Satisfied with the story,
24:17Officer Lamour wants to confirm
24:19the traveler will be staying
24:20with the mom's boyfriend.
24:22Hey, do you know,
24:25are you aware of where you're staying
24:26while you're here?
24:29You know you're staying at his house?
24:33Okay, I just want to make sure.
24:35Okay.
24:35Sorry if I didn't explain that, the best.
24:36That's okay.
24:40With no legal basis to deny entry,
24:43the passenger will be admitted into the U.S.
24:46Maybe when you see her mom,
24:49you can let her know
24:50that she doesn't need to lie to us,
24:52she can just tell us.
24:53It makes things so much smoother.
24:55Oh, sorry, I didn't realize she lied.
24:56That's all right.
25:00All right, so I'm going to walk you out, okay?
25:01You have your phone and your passport.
25:03You don't have a backpack?
25:06Okay.
25:09Just push the door, you're all set.
25:11Have a good day.
25:15We're trying to protect everyone,
25:17so you hear about crazy stories
25:19that go on out there.
25:21So, and kids are innocent.
25:23We want to keep it that way.
25:25We're trying to protect the country from threats entering
25:53through one of the world's busiest internationals.
25:56What kind of meat?
25:58From what animal?
25:59From what animal?
25:59Everywhere around me.
26:00All in the town.
26:02Some of those threats
26:03are less visible than drugs or weapons,
26:06but potentially just as damaging.
26:10Every suitcase represents a possible risk
26:13to American ecosystems and food supplies.
26:18This is not what I expected to see today.
26:22A traveler from Ghana, West Africa
26:24has declared a suitcase
26:26and a box packed with food
26:28to agricultural specialist Norwood.
26:31So usually from Ghana,
26:32we see a lot of vegetables,
26:34a lot of dry items.
26:36Typically, dry things are fine
26:38if we don't find any disease on there.
26:40We don't find any evidence
26:42that there could be pests living on there
26:43or still munching on the leaves
26:45or anything like that.
26:46So we're going to take a look
26:47to see what we find.
26:55The woman explains
26:57she didn't pack the box herself.
27:00Yet travelers are responsible
27:01for their own luggage,
27:03even if they don't know the contents.
27:14This is just corn husk,
27:17but a lot of the time
27:19we have insect holes in them,
27:21so like this one.
27:24There's a small one here,
27:27right here.
27:29He's probably been eating on there, so.
27:32With dry things,
27:33we're always looking for a disease
27:34like I said, the pest holes.
27:36So that lets us know
27:38something is still in here,
27:39eating on it.
27:42A single invasive pest
27:44can cause billions of dollars
27:46in agricultural damage
27:47if it escapes into the U.S. ecosystem.
27:50Ma'am, so these,
27:52they have insect holes in it,
27:54so we have to take it, okay?
27:56There's still insects
27:57that could be living inside here.
28:04So this.
28:06But the corn husks
28:07aren't the only item of concern.
28:09These are not going to be allowed.
28:11They're fresh.
28:12Still have some leaves on it.
28:14Probably will find a lot of insect
28:15on these, too.
28:17If you take a diseased plant,
28:19plant it in soil with healthy plants,
28:21now those plants
28:22are going to be diseased plants.
28:24So we don't want to contaminate
28:27what we already have here
28:28that's growing healthy
28:29with diseased things.
28:31And we don't know what this is.
28:33We don't know if it could be
28:33a federal noxious weed
28:35that can grow crazy
28:36and we don't get any control over it.
28:40These are not going to be allowed, okay?
28:42They're too fresh.
28:44Insects can still live on it.
28:46What were you going to do with it?
28:49You eat, you chew on it?
28:54She said she was going to chew on those,
28:56which a lot of times
28:57they use as a toothbrush,
28:58so it's not uncommon.
29:01Prized for their natural
29:03antibacterial properties,
29:04people across Africa,
29:06Asia, and the Middle East
29:08have been cleaning their teeth
29:09with neem sticks
29:10for thousands of years,
29:13having already found
29:14two items hosting live insects.
29:17Oh, look, you have favorites.
29:19Look.
29:21Bug.
29:22It's right there.
29:26The worst is yet to come.
29:34Oh, come on.
29:37A bug,
29:38which could not only damage
29:40U.S. fruits and vegetable crops,
29:42but could also be carrying
29:43dangerous foreign pathogens.
29:46Yeah, that's a...
29:47That's a catapult.
29:54That's a catapult.
29:58Up to 15,000
30:00fast-track shipments
30:02arrive at Newark Airport's
30:03express consignment facility
30:05every day.
30:15Um, can someone get the Gemini?
30:18This morning,
30:20a CBP team
30:21has been assigned
30:23to screen over 150 boxes
30:25coming from Israel.
30:27Yeah, it's heavy, bro.
30:31Officer Olivo and his colleagues
30:33have just two hours
30:34to inspect the cargo
30:36before it enters the U.S.
30:38This is my workout.
30:40My gym days are over
30:41for now.
30:43Just concentrate on cardio
30:45and whatever little exercise
30:46I can get here.
30:48They must scrutinize
30:50every package
30:51to catch any contraband.
30:53Guys up.
30:54Do we got any bins up in the front?
30:57Okay.
30:57All right, here we go.
31:00Including counterfeit
31:01consumer goods,
31:02weapons,
31:03and narcotics.
31:06All right.
31:07Guys, get the shipment
31:08coming out.
31:09Officer Olivo
31:10quickly spots something
31:11that requires a closer look.
31:13Just to see what it is,
31:14sometimes I can't identify
31:15what it is
31:16by looking at the image.
31:17So then we just, you know,
31:20pop it open
31:20just to see what it is.
31:22It's very dense.
31:23And that could be indicative
31:25for narcotics, possibly.
31:26So we'll take a quick look.
31:28This is some type
31:30of agriculture product.
31:32It looks like, though,
31:33they cleared it.
31:34It has tape on it.
31:36I'm going to just
31:37double-check this piece.
31:40It looks like we have
31:41more food products in here.
31:47Yeah, some type of yogurt.
31:53With the first box clear,
31:55attention turns
31:56to a shipment of watches.
31:59We just got to look at it
32:01to see if it's
32:02possibly counterfeit.
32:06Most of these
32:07are different vendors,
32:08but they're all coming
32:09from the same country,
32:10United Arab Emirates,
32:12which is a common area
32:14for counterfeit goods.
32:16So it's good to take
32:17a look at these
32:18just to make sure.
32:20Over 50 million
32:21fake luxury goods
32:22from the Middle
32:23and Far East
32:23enter the U.S. annually,
32:26costing the economy
32:27over $130 billion
32:29in lost revenue.
32:33That's not the brand,
32:35right?
32:35O-R-I-S?
32:37It's a watch brand,
32:39but it's nothing.
32:40It's expensive.
32:42It's just a regular brand,
32:44not high value,
32:45so we're going to let
32:46this go down the road today.
32:48With the clock ticking,
32:49the officers have
32:50just one hour left
32:51before the shipment
32:52is scheduled for release.
32:54Oh, boy.
32:55Yeah, let's look at this, guys.
32:58Let's look at this.
33:00Something new
33:00catches Officer Olivo's eye.
33:02We're going to take
33:03a more closer look at it
33:04because it's something
33:05in the X-ray that I like.
33:06It may be something
33:07or it may not.
33:08I just need to confirm it.
33:14All right,
33:14you guys are ready?
33:19Oh, wow.
33:20Okay, guys,
33:22hold the shipment out.
33:34Jose,
33:35yeah,
33:35it looks like
33:36we have some cot here.
33:38You want to come over here
33:39and confirm
33:39just to make sure?
33:40I think you were right
33:42with the X-ray.
33:44Inside the box
33:45is what appears
33:46to be cot,
33:47a plant that produces
33:49a euphoric high
33:50when chewed
33:51and a Schedule I drug
33:53in the U.S.
33:54in the same category
33:55as LSD and heroin.
33:58Yeah, that's definitely cot.
34:00Yeah, okay.
34:14In Atlanta...
34:16These are not going
34:18to be allowed, okay?
34:19They're too fresh.
34:20Insects can still live on it.
34:22Agriculture specialist Norwood
34:24has discovered
34:25several potentially dangerous
34:27pests lurking
34:28in a traveler's luggage.
34:30Oh, look.
34:31Your favorites.
34:32Bug.
34:34They've hitchhiked over
34:35from Ghana, West Africa
34:37on various items
34:38of local food.
34:39Yeah, that's a...
34:40That's a caterpillar.
34:41As well as destroying crops,
34:44non-native caterpillars
34:45can carry foreign pathogens
34:46and parasites.
34:49Having already confiscated
34:51bug-infested neem sticks,
34:53corn husks,
34:54and dried fruit...
35:01Yeah, so we do have
35:03a few insects on here.
35:06Agricultural specialist Norwood
35:08spots more
35:09on some fresh banana leaves.
35:11I don't know
35:11if you can see it
35:12moving around there.
35:14That's also one, too.
35:17You see them?
35:20Used to wrap food,
35:21they are known
35:22to carry a host of pests.
35:24That's the risk
35:25of bringing in leaves.
35:26We're already seeing
35:28the insects on it,
35:29so we're going to have
35:30to take it.
35:31And there's another one
35:32there, too.
35:33Yeah.
35:34Yeah.
35:35Yeah.
35:40One of the most common
35:42is the banana weevil,
35:43a root borer
35:45which hides its larvae
35:46in the leaf.
35:48So based off of
35:50the body of the insect,
35:52oh, there's another one,
35:54is how we're going
35:55to preserve it.
35:56So with these being
35:57soft bodies or immature,
35:59we place them in alcohol
36:00just so they could
36:02stay preserved longer.
36:07Every single pest
36:09harvested today
36:10will be sent to a lab
36:12and its threat level
36:13assessed.
36:14So we're going to have
36:15to take these also.
36:16We found live insects
36:17crawling on them,
36:18so we're going to have
36:19to take it, okay?
36:24This one's fine.
36:26All of this stuff
36:27is okay.
36:28But everything back here
36:29that we took,
36:30you're not going to be
36:31able to bring it in
36:32because we found insects
36:33on it, okay?
36:34or they pose a risk
36:35of bringing in disease.
36:37The traveler earlier
36:38claimed that she didn't
36:39know the contents
36:40of the box
36:41because someone else
36:43had packed it for her.
36:44But in the eyes
36:45of the law,
36:46she is liable
36:47for the contents
36:48and could receive a fine.
36:51In the future,
36:52when you're coming in,
36:53make a list of all
36:53the things that you're
36:54bringing.
36:55Failure to declare
36:56any of these items
36:57could cost you $300.
36:59It's okay today,
37:00but in the future,
37:01make sure you declare
37:01everything, okay?
37:03Because the woman
37:04initially declared
37:05to Customs
37:06that she was carrying food,
37:08she won't pay
37:09a penalty today.
37:10We're going to let her go.
37:11I gave her a warning
37:12this time.
37:13I educated her
37:13about a few things.
37:23She was kind of
37:25understanding,
37:26I think partly because
37:27she wasn't even sure
37:28what she had
37:28from the beginning,
37:29but she could very well
37:30see for herself,
37:31like, we're not just saying
37:32that we're taking it
37:33because of this reason.
37:34She can see, like,
37:35this is on your stuff,
37:36this is why we're taking it.
37:37And she was good to go.
37:39So she told me
37:40that she understood
37:41and that she would do
37:42better next time.
37:42So we'll just have
37:44to wait to see.
37:59At Newark Airport's
38:01Express Consignment Facility.
38:08A package from the Middle East
38:10has been found
38:11to contain COT,
38:12a Schedule I
38:13controlled substance
38:14in the same category
38:16as heroin and LSD.
38:19Yeah, that's definitely COT.
38:21Yeah, okay.
38:24People basically
38:25chew this stuff
38:26and it gives them, like,
38:27a hallucinogen
38:29kind of high.
38:30So, um, but
38:32it has to be
38:33in its potent form
38:34when it's fresh.
38:36As it gets older,
38:37it loses its potencies.
38:39Its active ingredient,
38:40cathinone,
38:41is a stimulant
38:42which increases
38:43the heart rate,
38:44similar to cocaine
38:45and amphetamines.
38:47It almost looks
38:48like a thorn bush.
38:51Majority of time
38:52come like this
38:52because it needs
38:53to be fresh.
38:54So it's going
38:55to look like this.
38:56COT is primarily used
38:57in religious ceremonies
38:59and social gatherings
39:00in Northeast Africa
39:01and the Middle East.
39:03Since it can cause
39:04paranoia and psychosis,
39:06it was banned
39:07in the U.S.
39:08in 1993.
39:12Let's open it up
39:12and see where it's coming from.
39:14It should be
39:15in the paperwork.
39:27It's coming from Israel.
39:28So look at that.
39:30All right,
39:31so we got something
39:31good today,
39:32so that's good.
39:33Despite its illegal status,
39:35it's in high demand
39:37in cities
39:37with large immigrant populations,
39:39such as New York
39:41and Los Angeles.
39:54officers deploy a canine
39:56to seek out
39:57any other COT
39:58in the same shipment.
40:18The remaining boxes
40:20are clear.
40:22That's it for today.
40:25Today's findings
40:26will be passed on
40:27to Homeland Security
40:28investigations.
40:30The COT,
40:31worth over $25,000,
40:34will be destroyed.
40:37We did get the COT,
40:38which is good,
40:39so we'll definitely
40:41take a win for that.
40:42And we'll wait for tomorrow.
40:44Tomorrow's another day.
40:46Another battle.
40:47Why not?
40:49.
40:50.
40:50.
40:50.
40:51.
40:51.
40:55.
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