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00:10Tonight on Border Security, he's arrived for a holiday.
00:14You don't have many clothes, though.
00:16But officers are more interested in what he has brought with him.
00:20That doesn't look like that.
00:21What's that?
00:23I have a search warrant for this premise.
00:25A dawn raid takes a few by surprise.
00:27It's a lot easier to present your identification to us now.
00:31And a woman desperate to meet her husband...
00:33A man!
00:34...has to get past officers first.
00:37Today I don't like Australia.
00:49Thank you, hotel.
00:55International tourists usually arrive with a fair amount of luggage for their stay.
00:59But today, officers have noticed this passenger has arrived for a holiday with virtually no baggage at all.
01:06This passenger has come off a flight this morning, straight out of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
01:11He's only got one small bag, which is just his personal items in a luggage, so we're going to just
01:16do our regular search.
01:17He's actually declared some food items, so we'll have a look at what he's declared and go for a look.
01:24Quarantine may need to be called in to inspect his snack food.
01:28But first, Customs and Border Protection officers want to know his reasons for visiting Sydney.
01:33What are you going to see? What are you going to do?
01:36I'm going to do tours.
01:39Holiday tours.
01:40Holiday tours?
01:41See, see.
01:42Yep.
01:42Do you know anything in particular?
01:44Can you name something in Sydney that you want to see?
01:46I want to see Blue Mountains.
01:48Blue Mountains.
01:49Blue Mountains.
01:50Officers want to be sure he's a legitimate tourist, so they'll conduct a narcotic trace detection test.
01:59I'm going to get another one for the bag as well.
02:03Do you have no contact with drugs or narcotics?
02:07No.
02:08You don't use drugs?
02:09No.
02:10Never?
02:10Never.
02:11All right, that's good.
02:23It's 4am in Adelaide's outer suburbs,
02:26and immigration compliance officers are about to launch an operation to locate three people
02:32suspected of living and working illegally in Australia.
02:36So this morning we're trying to locate three Vietnamese UNCs.
02:40Their visas expired roughly about eight or nine months ago from the information that we've got.
02:45They came in on tourist visas and overstayed.
02:47Once we've set up the cordon, then I'll approach the front door and we'll execute the warrant.
02:53Any questions?
02:54Okay, let's go, guys.
03:05Good morning, man.
03:06Hello?
03:08Hello?
03:10My name is Ashlyn from the Department of Immigration.
03:12I have a search warrant for this premise,
03:14and I've got officers here that are going to search through the house for people.
03:17Okay?
03:20Just want to take a seat down in the lounge room.
03:22Officers are just moving around the property,
03:24searching to make sure that there's actually no one that is hiding on the property.
03:28So although information says there's three people here,
03:30we need to be sure that there's no other people hiding here as well.
03:33So far, three people have been found,
03:35but identifying them is proving difficult.
03:38Just a bit worried about her in there.
03:40It's just a lady's gone into that bedroom.
03:42She's on the phone.
03:43Can you go in there and get her off, please?
03:45Officers are concerned she could be attempting to warn someone else about the operation.
03:50Hang up.
03:52She said that, can she call her relative?
03:54She can in a minute.
03:55We just need to positively ID her first, and then she can make the call.
03:58The man located on the property is not assisting officers with their investigation either.
04:04If you could just sit down, please, sir.
04:06I've got one male inside the house,
04:07and he's claiming to be an Australian citizen at this point in time.
04:10He doesn't have an Australian passport.
04:13So do you have any identification here in the house with you?
04:17Under the warrant that we have, we can search the premise for identification.
04:20So it's a lot easier if you present your identification to us now.
04:29To stop prohibited goods arriving in Australia through the post, quarantine,
04:35and Customs and Border Protection carefully screen every letter and parcel.
04:41That's an interesting one.
04:42I think we'll have a look at that.
04:45It looks a bit like a big sausage with something in it.
04:50Looking at the x-ray, it's really hard to say what it is.
04:53There's a concealment, or what appears to be a concealment of some kind, in there.
04:57You can see cracks, little lumpy bits.
05:02The package is first opened by Australia Post and taken to a testing room for inspection.
05:09OK, that's well wrapped.
05:11That's a bubble wrap.
05:18What have we got here?
05:22Some sort of either powdery or crystal substance inside the rolling pin.
05:28I've got to say it's a little bit suspicious.
05:30You wouldn't expect a rolling pin to come with something stuffed inside it.
05:35Officer Annette will take a swab that will be tested for traces of narcotics.
05:40We'll swab it across the top, around the edges, down the sides,
05:45and that will give us a presumptive reading, if there's anything along there.
05:52We'll put that in and it takes seven seconds and it'll give us a reading,
05:56if there's anything on there that shouldn't be.
06:04And it's come up with cocaine.
06:07Drugs detected cocaine.
06:15Yankee one, Yankee one, Yankee three.
06:18Officers are questioning this Singaporean man,
06:21who's arrived in Sydney with barely any luggage.
06:25Have you been in trouble with the police before?
06:28Never been in trouble with any sort of police?
06:31All right.
06:32They're awaiting results of a narcotic swab taken from his wallet.
06:38It's negative, but his lack of personal belongings still intrigues officers.
06:44You don't have many clothes, though.
06:47That's it.
06:48After testing his wallet,
06:50officers will now swab his bag and its contents.
07:10I think, yeah, it was positive for heroin.
07:19How many beers?
07:23I'm bad.
07:24I'm bad.
07:25Bad, good?
07:25In Perth,
07:27Svitlana's arrived home from an Italian holiday.
07:30But her souvenir salami
07:32is causing quarantine some concern.
07:46Passengers are asked to declare all of their food on arrival.
07:50Not doing so can be costly.
07:52Because we've got meat in here, and meat's a very high-risk item to us.
07:58Have you heard of foot and mouth?
08:00It's a disease that comes through with cattle and meat,
08:03and that's why we don't allow any meat into Australia
08:06when it's cooked or done through us, okay, for you?
08:10And when you bring meat in, it can cost you up to $220 for a fine.
08:15When you bring something in like this to Australia,
08:18I'll be back in a minute, all right?
08:21I'm buying duty-free in the pocket.
08:24That's the problem.
08:25I'm ready. Now let's go.
08:29I'm not paying money.
08:37I'll be in a little while.
08:39As daylight breaks on a market farm in Adelaide,
08:42officers have strong suspicions these two women living in the house
08:46have overstayed their visas.
08:48The man who was also located remains inside,
08:52and officers are struggling to identify him.
08:56We've been here for about an hour and a half speaking to that gentleman.
08:58He wasn't able to produce any photo ID,
09:00and that led officers to suspect that he wasn't who he said he was.
09:03All three people will now be taken to the immigration office
09:07for a formal interview,
09:09and officers will try and uncover how long they have all been here
09:13and what they have been up to.
09:16The two women are interviewed in one room,
09:18and in another, Officer Nick interviews the man
09:21with the help of an interpreter.
09:23This gentleman presented us with a false ID.
09:26He maintained that identity for around about an hour or so,
09:29but was making lots of mistakes in information we were asking him about that ID.
09:33Subsequently, he gave up his real ID to us.
09:36We've explored the identity,
09:37and we're satisfied that he is actually the person that he claims to be now.
09:40Have you worked since you've been in Australia?
09:44Yeah, just worked in the farm ever since I arrived in Australia.
09:47OK, so the place that we picked you up from today,
09:50how long have you been living there for?
09:52One month, eh?
09:52One month.
09:53OK, and for the month that you've been there,
09:56where have you been working?
10:00Do you know the name of the farm?
10:03Yeah, they didn't tell.
10:05He has already tried to mislead officers with lies and false identities,
10:10and Officer Nick has concerns he is still withholding important information.
10:15OK, just to let you know that we need you to be as upfront and honest as what you can
10:20with us.
10:21Not telling me the truth and not being honest with me is not going to help your situation.
10:34Drugs detected. Cocaine.
10:36A swab test of a glass rolling pin has indicated there are traces of cocaine,
10:41and now Officer Annette is taking a sample of the suspicious white powder.
10:47It's certainly not flour.
10:49It's crunchy and sticks.
10:51The sample is placed into a narco pouch that tests for opiates, MDMA and amphetamines.
10:59OK, that's not coming up.
11:01It changes colour, as you can see, according to what would be in it.
11:05We're not getting any result there, so what I'll do is test it on Street Lab,
11:09just to triple check and make sure,
11:11because we've already got the presumptive indication there
11:15that there was something around it.
11:18The Street Lab machine is another option to test the substance.
11:23The Street Lab works by laser principle,
11:26and it shines a laser beam through the base where we place our sample,
11:31and it has a database in it of particular substances
11:34that we often come in contact and are searching for.
11:40OK, we'll see what reading it brings us back with.
11:44It's too sus to let go without testing it thoroughly.
11:50No substance is found.
11:53With that reading, Officer Annette is confident
11:56there's nothing of concern within the rolling pin.
11:59It will be repackaged and forwarded on to its intended recipient.
12:03I mean, we don't look at it for novelty value.
12:05We look at it because we think there might be something in it
12:08or it in itself is a prohibited item,
12:10and for that reason we'll investigate it until we're sure it's not,
12:14and then we're happy to let it go.
12:29This passenger says he's never been in contact with drugs,
12:33but a test of his personal belongings has come back positive.
12:38It's come out of the inside of his bag,
12:40and it's positive for heroin and a small part for LSD.
12:43The machine tests for traces,
12:45so it doesn't necessarily mean narcotics are present in his baggage.
12:50Officers will now check everything just in case.
12:54I'm just going to X-ray this bag through here, OK, to the machine, all right?
13:04I'm just looking at this gentleman's bag to make sure that there is no consumments in there.
13:10That's just the outside of the bags there, so it looks pretty clear.
13:13That's the railings there.
13:15It looks pretty clear.
13:18Officers will now take a closer look at its contents, including the food.
13:23We're going to do swabs to work out where we're getting ready from.
13:27What's that?
13:30Is that supposed to be fragrant, crispy and shrimp?
13:34That doesn't look like that.
13:35What's that?
13:38Powder?
13:40Eat one.
13:41You eat it?
13:42Is it supposed to be biscuits?
13:44Like that one, no.
13:45Like that, biscuits.
13:47We all have biscuits.
13:48What's the bottom, I feel?
13:50Yeah, I don't know.
14:02In South Australia, immigration has confirmed that this man has been working on a tourist visa
14:09that actually expired 14 months ago.
14:12Yeah, he said that he wants to stay in Australia so he can earn some more money,
14:16so he can send the money back home and in the future he can come back here.
14:21Now, his only chance of staying in Australia could be immigration granting him a non-working bridging visa.
14:28If we were to look at granting you a bridging visa today,
14:31we would require a security bond of around about $20,000.
14:35Okay, I'm just going to go have a chat with my manager in regards to a bridging visa application.
14:45The impression that I get from the answers that he's provided isn't that he's looking at to party.
14:51I agree with you.
14:52I'm with you.
14:53I think his intentions are to stay here.
14:56We need to allow him the chance to lodge the bridging visa here if he wants to do it.
15:00Yeah, and obviously he'll remain until that's decided.
15:03Yeah.
15:04Yeah.
15:04The man is informed that he will be held at a detention centre
15:07while his application for a bridging visa is assessed.
15:11But due to the breach of his previous visa, his chances are slim.
15:16He likes to live in Australia.
15:18He has no choice but to do what he does.
15:21He understands that it's not good to be breaching the conditions of the visa.
15:26Officers have also confirmed that the two Vietnamese women had been working illegally on the farm.
15:32They were overstayers from visitor visas.
15:35They were actually listed as missing persons by their family.
15:38We've allowed them to contact their family.
15:40They'll be put into an immigration detention facility for a few days
15:43until we can arrange for a flight home for them.
16:08Quarantine officers are establishing whether Svitlana declared a salami that she purchased in Italy.
16:15No, she said to me she had dry pasta and cakes.
16:18No mention of the meat.
16:19Did you ask her why she didn't do that?
16:21She thinks it's duty-free.
16:22She's just gone that way.
16:24It doesn't matter, yeah, but she's...
16:25She's well-travelled.
16:28Svitlana's keen to reunite with her partner.
16:31Let's go.
16:31Amen.
16:32But she has to face quarantine first.
16:35Okay.
16:38When we look through your passport, you've been to Australia three times before.
16:42Yeah.
16:43So you should have known that you can't bring any food in without declaring it or any salt.
16:49Sorry, my English no good.
16:50I'm really not understanding.
16:51I've spoken to my officer and she's actually said that I have to...
16:56A fine for bringing this in, all right?
17:00You take my food?
17:01I will be taking this, yes.
17:03Won't be taking that, but we'll be taking this and I will be issuing you a $220 fine.
17:09Why?
17:10Because this is a high-risk item.
17:12So I just need you to stay there and I will get the paperwork for it.
17:16Maybe not.
17:18Maybe no money.
17:20Well, so I have to do the paperwork and we can sort that out in a minute.
17:25Cry.
17:27I'm starting to cry now.
17:35What's up, biscuits?
17:37No.
17:37Well...
17:37What's up, kimchi?
17:38Crispy entry.
17:39Fabulous crispy entry.
17:41A packet of food found in this passenger's bag shows signs of tampering.
17:46And officers are concerned about what may be inside.
17:50Just swap this for us.
17:51It's supposed to be this crispy entry style.
17:55It looks like it's pretty powdery.
17:57I don't know what it is.
18:10Chances are what's inside that actual packet isn't crisps, as it says on the outside of
18:14the packet.
18:15From what it's showing us here on the machine, it looks like it's here.
18:20Do you know what this is?
18:23No, I can eat one now.
18:25You can eat one now.
18:27You can eat one now.
18:28You can eat it.
18:29You can eat it.
18:31Despite the passenger insisting the contents are edible, officers have no choice but to open
18:37the packet.
18:42It's got like some double-sided tape there.
18:45It's very sticky, very hard to get open.
18:53As you can see, there's already some white powder there.
18:55Just hanging out.
19:14In Perth, Svitlana is being fined $220 for not declaring a souvenir Italian salami.
19:22Maybe I can not pay your money.
19:24No, it's actually a win that I've been asked to issue you by the senior officers, so that's
19:30what I have to do.
19:32And now I'm a very bad person in Australia?
19:34No, we've just gone on our records that you have done it.
19:38Okay.
19:44Today I don't like Australia.
19:48Can you just sign there, ma'am?
19:50Just here.
19:51Reluctantly, Svitlana pays her $220 fine and at last is reunited with her husband.
19:59They will have to make alternative plans for dinner tonight without salami.
20:05I think she was just more wanting a quicker way out.
20:10She needs to declare everything and then let us, the quarantine officers, make the decision
20:16whether you can keep it or not.
20:42This passenger insists he's carrying nothing more than food across the border.
20:47But officers have made a startling discovery.
20:52And here we go.
20:54Some blocks of white powder.
20:56Not our crisp biscuits that are supposed to be in there.
21:02Initial testing found traces of heroin.
21:05Now Officer Mary will conduct a more definitive test.
21:09Some of the acid in here should react to the powder.
21:13And the colour we're looking for is this green colour here.
21:16So just agitate it a little bit.
21:18And straight away we should see a green colour.
21:21And as you can see, it's green straight away.
21:24That tells us that there's heroin present there.
21:27There's more food officers are yet to inspect.
21:34Do you know what's in here?
21:36Do you know what's in here?
21:39What's in here?
21:40What's this?
21:41What is it?
21:42This one out.
21:42This one, eat one out.
21:43You eat it?
21:44Alright.
21:44Stop there.
21:45That's white powder as well.
21:47What problem?
21:49We're going to go into a room and I'll explain to you everything, okay?
21:53Just follow us.
21:54With the discovery of several suspected narcotic concealments, officers will inform the passenger
22:01of his rights.
22:02The remaining food items will also be tested.
22:06Looks like it's been opened up.
22:08This granola bar is actually a stick of white powder and it too tests positive for traces
22:15of heroin.
22:16The passenger is now handed over to the Australian Federal Police.
22:23And later, during a further inspection, it was revealed the man was actually carrying
22:29an incredible assortment of innocent looking products, all stuffed with heroin.
22:55Next week on Border Security, a passenger's empty bag.
23:00This man is going to come to your house and collect this from you.
23:03...is full of surprises.
23:05As you can see, it's got concealment.
23:08Oh my goodness.
23:11That's Border Security.