To Catch a Smuggler (2020) s01e01 Episode Script

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(TIRES SCREECH)
SILVA: Right now we are waiting
for a flight from Cali, Colombia.
This particular flight
has a passenger of interest
because he's frequently traveling
to Colombia.
We have a unit that analyzes flights
before they arrive.
They sent us a picture
from his passport application
and that's what we're gonna use
to try to pinpoint this individual
coming off the flight.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MATLIN: Passports out, folks,
and line up by an officer.
(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE)
RIMOLA:
Colombia's always been at the top
when it comes down to cocaine distribution
So, whenever we see passengers traveling
back and forth to Colombia
we like to talk to them
a little bit more to verify
why they're going abroad so much.
MATLIN: Passports out, please.
Line up in front of any officer.
- How you doing?
- (WOMAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
- Where are you going, ma'am?
- WOMAN: San Francisco.
(INAUDIBLE)
RIMOLA: That's this guy right here.
MATLIN: Which one is it?
RIMOLA: The guy tattooed over there.
MATLIN: All right, everybody,
passports out.
RIMOLA: Passport please.
OFFICER: Step over to the side, please.
MATLIN: Hey,
he doesn't look like him at all.
Gold teeth and dyed his hair
and he doesn't look like
the surfer boy anymore.
So, the officer's have located the person
that we were curious about.
RIMOLA: He won't know we're
specifically looking into his trip
because we're gonna be stopping
multiple passengers coming on the flight.
(OFFICER SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
MATLIN: From here we're gonna
take them to passport control
then downstairs to baggage,
pick up any checked-in luggage
he may have.
This way please.
MATLIN: And then begin the search.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(INDISTINCT)
How we doing, guys?
- Mind if I take a look at your passport?
- PASSENGER: Yeah, of course.
- Cool. You have one too?
- PASSENGER: Yeah, sure.
- MUBARAK: Where are we headed?
- PASSENGER: Las Vegas.
MUBARAK: Las Vegas?
How long we going out there for?
PASSENGER: For one week.
All right. Well you guys
enjoy Vegas, yeah?
- Thank you very much. Have a nice day.
- Take care. Bye.
Bye.
MUBARAK: Our main goal is to find out
whether or not you're admissible
to the United States.
A person coming to United States.
If they're not a citizen
of the United States
or a resident of the United States.
They're seeking admission
to the United States.
What brings you
to the United States today?
To Honolulu? Hawaii?
MUBARAK: Once they come to the border,
even though they may have touched down
it's not until we grant them admission
that they've actually been admitted
to the United States.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Hi. Can I see your passport real quick?
- Hi.
- PASSENGER: Yes. Of course.
- MUBARAK: Cool.
- What brings you here today?
- Going visit my friend.
- He live in, uh, Seattle.
- MUBARAK: Your friend lives in Seattle?
PASSENGER: Yeah.
MUBARAK: Sometimes we go out before
the passengers have a chance to
meet up with an immigration officer.
We look at passengers
and look for any inconsistencies.
How did you meet this friend?
(HESITATING) Um, uh
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
- It's a long story but, yeah.
- Uh-hmm.
You still didn't answer my question.
Like, how you met?
Uh, on Internet.
- On the Internet?
- Yeah.
When a person's trying to put up a front
or hold to a story
they make preparations
and prepare themselves.
A lot of times when they're in line
they haven't gotten
to the lie that they're prepared
to tell once they get up to the officer.
How long do you intend to be here
in the United States?
Uh, now I'm gonna stay two weeks.
Uh-hmm. I noticed that
you were here last month.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. All right.
Who paid for your ticket
to come out this time?
Uh, I got a gift. It's a gift.
- Yeah.
- Okay. From who?
That guy.
Oh, so he paid for your ticket
to come here?
Uh, yes.
It's like a gift. So.
All right. Just go ahead step out with me.
We need to talk about
a few things about your trip. Yeah?
All right. Come on.
PASSENGER: Yeah, I didn't know
that you ask so many questions.
MUBARAK: Well, it's,
they're very basic questions.
- PASSENGER: I'm not a criminal.
- MUBARAK: No. No.
- I did not accuse you of being a criminal.
- Yeah.
NEEDHAM:
This is the international mail facility
where 60% of all mail
comes into the United States.
KHZAM: Every piece of mail that comes off
an international flight
we have jurisdiction to search.
My dog's name is Argo.
He's a five-year-old Belgian Malinois.
He's trained on narcotics,
human detection, and fentanyl.
Good boy. Come on, buddy.
NEEDHAM: We're looking for narcotics,
fish and wildlife,
agriculture, or people ordering stuff
off of the dark web.
That's definitely powder.
If it's prohibited
we're gonna seize it. We might destroy it.
It all depends on what it is.
This right here is coming off as fen acid,
a cutting agent for cocaine.
They'll use this with cocaine
so this little amount go to this amount.
KHZAM: Come on, buddy.
Argo pretty much puts in my hours.
(CHUCKLES)
Eight hours a day. Many times longer.
Never complains. Never talks back.
Ready? Come.
Here.
Good boy.
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
Good boy.
We've got an alert
on the boxes in this area.
So, what we're gonna do
is we're gonna put them in a line
and we're gonna see exactly which box
contains his trained odor,
um, narcotics in other words.
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
Good boy. Come on.
Good boy.
Okay. So, definitely
the alert is on that box.
GROB: All righty.
Hopefully there's something good.
Oh! Ecstasy! (SNICKERS)
KHZAM: Good boy, buddy.
This is fish food but it's factory sealed.
Inside are pills of ecstasy.
As soon as I opened the container
there was a sweet smell
that comes off the ecstasy.
All right.
Now, we're gonna take it
into our detention room,
process the seizure, get a weight on it
and go from there.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MATLIN: The team trains
constantly on techniques
and behavior.
And there's certain signs
and signals that people give off
that they're definitely looking for.
RIMOLA: People tend to have
certain movements that they do
when they're nervous,
when they're trying to hide something.
He has his head on a swivel.
Very, very attentive to what's going on.
MATLIN: Yeah, he's fidgety. Look at him.
MAN: Yeah.
OFFICER: Gentlemen, let's go please.
RIMOLA: He's walking a little bit weird.
Not a relaxed behavior.
Not a relaxed way of walking.
OFFICER: How long were you
in Colombia this time?
OFFICER: Yeah.
OFFICER: How long have you been
involved with your wife?
RIMOLA: His story's
not making much sense.
He's saying he went down to Colombia
to visit his wife for three weeks
but we don't believe he's married.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Yeah.
RIMOLA:
People lie for all sorts of reasons.
Maybe they don't want us to find out
the true reason for the trip
but it's our job to verify
the reason why they're lying
or what they're trying to hide.
HUMES: There are multiple ways that
smugglers get drugs
into the United States.
They have it concealed in a luggage,
on their body, or inside their body.
OFFICER: Is that your phone?
HUMES: When we're talking about
inside their body
that mean they usually wrap it
in some type of condom,
they usually conceal it
in their rectal cavity.
He keeps crossing his leg.
He had his hand behind his back,
leaning on the table.
So, I've been doing this for 21 years
and the body does not lie.
GROB: An average seizure here at JFK
would probably be, like,
one of these containers.
Right now we're up to two, four, six,
eight, ten, twelve.
KHZAM: We're gonna use test kits
to verify that it is in fact ecstasy.
A very small amount is all you need.
Positive result for MDMA and/or ecstasy
is gonna be basically black
which is what we have here.
GROB: We have seen
the fish food containers before
but normally it's not this quantity.
Smugglers use all different kinds
of concealment techniques.
If they think they can get it by us,
they'll give it a try.
But, they can't beat our dogs.
So, we got
six keys of ecstasy.
That's a lot of ecstasy.
Hopefully we'll get
some arrests out of it.
Listen, I'm reviewing that case folder,
on the opioid investigation
you got going on.
HSI is Homeland Security Investigations.
We are the principle investigative arm
for the Department of Homeland Security.
CBP and HSI is like the one two punch.
OFFICER: So this was partially
a business trip?
WALTER: Customs and Border Protection
are basically the uniform cops.
They are the ones
that the public usually deals with.
How are you today?
WALTER: So, when you look at HSI
we are the detectives.
KHZAM: Yeah.
WALTER: So, they turn over
the information, the evidence,
and we take the lead at that point.
We had a package come through
our international JFK mail branch of MDMA.
We're gonna attempt to
deliver that package.
What's the location?
Location is in lower Manhattan.
The financial district.
WALTER: Okay.
This also might be a couple
accepting these packages.
Did you send another
recon team this morning?
- Yeah, they're on site.
- Okay.
We're expecting this one to go
kind of smooth?
- Hopefully.
- All right.
Um, obviously, you know,
just like any other controlled delivery
there's certain things that can happen.
We'll prepare for it and everybody is
on the same page right now.
- Let's get out there.
- Okay.
We always hope for everything
to go according to plan
but you always got to plan
for the unexpected.
That's why when we do these operations,
we go out in numbers.
'Cause if the bad guys
got more than you guys,
it's not a good day for us.
HERNANDEZ:
Right now we're gonna go meet up a flight.
Should be landing pretty soon.
Here in ATCET,
the Anti-Terrorism
Contraband Enforcement Team,
primarily what we look for
is any contraband
coming inbound and going out
of the United States
and cargo, as well as aircrafts.
Get it done.
They can open up the belly
then start the off load.
All right.
SILVA: The manifest shows
to be bringing in
fruits, vegetables, and some flowers.
So go in aircraft search,
make sure that's all that's on there.
Costa Rica is considered
a transit country.
A transit country is used
just to transport narcotics.
They receive the narcotics
from a source country,
they'll then ship it
either to the U.S., Europe,
or overseas, anywhere else.
HERNANDEZ: It's flowers galore.
Coming off of this flight.
We don't know when they're gonna send it.
They could be sending it today.
They could be sending it tomorrow.
They have the advantage because
they have the element of surprise.
So, we always have to make sure
that we're on our A game.
We got one pallet down.
Now we're onto the next one.
See what this one has.
Now, that they're here.
Probe some of these boxes
As we're probing the flowers
it doesn't take a whole lot of force
to push it through.
So, if there was a large mass in there,
like a brick of cocaine,
you'd feel it stop.
You wouldn't be able to actually pierce it
all the way through.
It's real easy to be like,
"Oh, well, we haven't caught
anything in a month,
chances are today we're
not gonna catch anything.
Why even try?"
- Nothing?
- SILVA: No.
HERNANDEZ: But that's where you
got to dig deep
and I'm like "You know what?
They're not gonna get by me today."
Hi, excuse me.
Let me see your passport, please.
- (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
- (SPEAKING IN SPANISH)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MATLIN: From the initial time that
we encountered this particular individual,
he exhibited some
inconsistencies in his story.
Physical pat down is negative.
He doesn't have anything on his body.
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
So, we're gonna talk about
the real reasons for his trip.
Try to get some more information
out of him
to either make sense of the story
or to push for a medical examination
at the hospital
for a possible internal.
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
MATLIN: This is kind of the real
true art form of what we do.
The officers are very good at this.
And some of these will go on
for quite a long time
to the point that they'll never tell you.
(INDISTINCT)
HUMES: The officer's pretty much told him
that they suspect that he had narcotics
and he denied it and denied it.
Mm-hmm.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MATLIN: We have enough at this point now
to make us believe he may be
an internal smuggler of narcotics
and now we're gonna take
the subject to the hospital.
The medical staff will perform an x-ray
to determine whether the individual
has something inside of their body
or in one of their cavities.
Then let's take him.
Here I come.
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
MATLIN: You know, some people,
I guess they're hoping
we'll let our guard down long enough
for them to just pass it out
and kick it under the table kind of thing.
Obviously, this is not our first day here.
The officers are very good at what we do
and they kept a close eye on him
as we always do.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
MATLIN: This is the ultimate version
of hide and go seek,
you know, with high stakes.
So, if he gets caught everybody knows
that narcotics
are illegal in this country.
They know the stance
that the United States takes on smugglers.
It's a serious consequence
to bring cocaine, heroin,
whatever this may be
into the United States.
HUMES: As soon as we got
the x-ray, they just tell us all,
what's going on.
MUBARAK: Everything inside this bag
belongs to you?
Of course.
She's traveling by herself,
here to visit a boyfriend.
The worry is
she would come to the United States
and more than likely
find some work or something
that would allow her to stay
and spend more time
with her boyfriend here.
Are you bringing anything
for anyone else inside this bag?
MUBARAK: Okay.
People bring
a lot of information
that tells you a lot about
why they're gonna be here
inside their bags.
Someone who's coming here
looking for a job,
they bring copies of their resumes,
copies of their certificates,
and things like that.
When you go in the bag search
and you see those items it kind of
gives away their whole entire purpose.
I'm not a criminal.
MUBARAK: You keep saying that is gonna
make me believe you are.
All right. Let's get your bags
and I'm gonna have you
sit outside for a bit.
All right.
Typically someone who's
traveling for tourism,
you don't see them coming
to the United States and then coming back
another two weeks later.
That doesn't sound like tourism.
You may wanna spend
a little bit of time in your country
before you decide to come back here.
All right?
Uh
but I'm gonna allow you to come and visit
your boyfriend this time.
Like they say a bag check can either
make or break a person.
Looking inside her bag
you see the items that you typically find
of a person who's coming here
for a two-week vacation.
Clothes, shoes, you know, sunglasses.
I didn't find anything that would indicate
that she's coming here possibly
to stay or anything like that.
So, I'm gonna let her go on her way.
- Only thing that's missing is the towers.
- Yeah.
WALTER: 9/11, that's when the, uh,
you know, all our agencies
got put together
and created the, uh,
Department of Homeland Security.
At 9/11, I was the duty agent
with the United States
Customs Service that morning.
So, I was sitting at my desk
and the first plane hit.
It shook our entire building.
I mean, I, it was like
it was like an earthquake.
At that moment,
you know, I thought that, uh,
yeah, this is it.
Uh
In law enforcement, you know,
when you say good-bye
to your family that day
and you go to work,
you know, there's always that feeling
you might not come home.
Today might be that last day.
So, I try not to take things for granted.
Looks like we're coming up here.
So, uh, you can drop me off wherever.
- Here you go?
- Yeah.
All right.
WALTER: All units, all units, be advised,
Tom is, uh, going to the target location.
OFFICER: Good.
WALTER: Once that parcel's
been introduced,
it's a live set,
and hopefully the target,
uh, it, uh, it, uh, shows up.
Right now, we have
every possible angle covered
on this location.
So far we have a cover team
on the perimeter of the building outside.
We have a three-man team
inside the building covertly.
And also we have, uh,
two vehicles just in case
if everyone misses him
and he jumps on a vehicle,
they'll retrieve the parcel
and the subject.
All units, be advised,
parcel's in play. Parcel's in play.
WALTER: All right. Roger that, 10-4.
Be advised, everyone.
All in blue?
All units, be advised,
we might have a possible,
uh, target in there.
Roger that.
Hopefully they'll go for the package.
Both subjects that we were interested
in are on the set right now.
So, yeah. The hearts are racing
'cause what we don't wanna do
is miss this.
And we don't wanna spook the targets.
It's almost like the cat
and mouse game, right?
So, we gotta play it cool enough,
but stay on top of them
with good eyes on them.
This might be going down pretty quickly.
MUBARAK: Here at LAX
we're one of the higher-volume airports.
So, we definitely receive
quite a few referrals in the secondary.
Thomas?
Interviewing so many people really does
key me into a lot of indicators.
How's it going?
Within the first five minutes
I'm usually able to tell whether or not
this person is gonna warrant
further inspections.
MUBARAK: Okay, you were here for one week?
MUBARAK: Okay, and then
after that one week, where'd you go?
MUBARAK: Punta Cana?
Okay. And now you're coming back?
And how long do you intend to be here?
MUBARAK: One or two months?
Do you have a return ticket?
Okay. So, I asked you how long
are you gonna be here,
you said one or two months.
But if you have a return ticket
then you know exactly
how long you're gonna be here, right?
Yeah. Go ahead and show it to me.
25 of April. Is that what that says?
MUBARAK:
And you're traveling on Este today?
MUBARAK: Thomas is traveling under
the visa waiver program.
It's an agreement the United States
has with a few countries
that allows them to waive
the visa requirement
for coming to the United States.
Who do you live with in the United States?
MUBARAK: Okay.
And he's the one who paid for
your ticket to come here?
What do you do for a living?
So, you haven't been employed for a year?
In order to come to the United States,
especially under the visa waiver program,
you are required to be able to
support yourself
for the duration of the time you
intend to be in the United Sates.
So, Thomas is gonna
warrant further inspection.
What I'm handing you
is a copy of our
inspection notification sheet.
This lets you know that the U.S. Customs
and Border Protection
has the authority to check your
electronics, search your bags,
and to search you here at a port of entry.
You understand? This is your copy.
You can go ahead and read that.
If I inspect the contents of your phone,
am I gonna find
anything in there to show me
that you've been doing something different
than what you told me?
Have you been working
while you're in the United States?
No?
Um, come with me to the back.
We're gonna search your phone.
HERNANDEZ: We can open this up.
While it's not easy to show up to work
and give the same effort
every single day in and day out.
It's important that we stay focused
on the mission
and find ways to keep ourselves motivated
because all it takes
is just that one misstep,
not paying attention, or that one day
where you're just not feeling it
and that could have been
the day that you could have had
not just a seizure,
but it could have been a major seizure.
So this particular shipment
is coming from South America
and they have used
fish in the past to conceal
cocaine in particular.
Our intention is never to
damage the goods that are
coming into the United States,
but we have no other choice because
the narcos,
they do use legitimate shipments
to load narcotics into,
and it forces us to look for
deeper concealments.
SILVA: All right, this one's good to go.
Pull this pallet down
and see what's inside those boxes.
Remember how it's packaged because
I haven't played Tetris in a long time.
Here it is.
HERNANDEZ: That vacuum-sealed bags?
SILVA: Yeah, these are vacuum-sealed bags.
Oh, yeah.
This is something, for sure.
I am seeing at least,
at least seven packages
inside this backpack alone.
HERNANDEZ: Yeah, I got about another
five or six in here.
This looks like it might be,
um, marijuana.
SILVA: I can smell it, too.
It's pretty strong odor
coming out of here.
All right.
HERNANDEZ: Every day, show up to work
and do the same thing over and over again
and, you know, we don't hit every day,
but when we do hit
it makes all the hard work worthwhile.
All right, that's it.
SILVA: Let's do it. We'll take this
package back to the office.
We'll get confirmation with a test kit
and go from there.
HERNANDEZ: We got something.
- SILVA: Boom.
- HERNANDEZ: That dry spell is over.
MUBARAK: Being in the United States
you have to be able to support yourself.
When I asked him earlier
can he support himself he said "No."
So, that raised a few alarms there.
The next thing I'm gonna do is
search his phone to see
if he has any kind of messages
or anything that shows
that he may or may not be involved
in some form of unlawful activity
here in the United States.
People will engage in unlawful activity
for some reason like to
share that information with others.
A lot of the key things
that I look for are
conversations that they have about work,
unlawful drugs,
things that may be violations
of certain immigration laws.
The Customs and Border Protection officers
are granted a border search authority,
which does authorize us to check
electronics, bags and person
at the port of entry.
Oh.
He's talking quite a bit about drug use.
One of the conditions
of traveling into the United Sates
under the visa waiver program
is that you cannot be
a drug abuser.
There are so many conversations
of different kinds of drugs.
Cocaine.
Marijuana and possibly ketamine.
I've seen enough.
When I did an inspection
of your electronics,
I see you have a lot of conversations
that talk about your use of drugs.
Uh
Do you use marijuana?
MUBARAK: You, you have
conversations in your phone
that show you and your boyfriend
using drugs while you're here
in the United States.
You even purchased it while you were here.
I also found the messages
that show that you use cocaine.
It's a good idea not to give me false
or misleading information.
When you're in Punta Cana,
did you use cocaine?
MUBARAK: Yeah. So you used a little bit
because the friends around you
were using it?
Yeah.
What about ketamine?
You used ketamine in Paris before?
Yeah.
Using ketamine in Paris is
against the law, is that correct?
Okay. So, it's very likely you're gonna
go back to France.
MUBARAK: Are you aware that
under United States federal law
it is illegal to use, sell,
or be in possession
of marijuana, cocaine, or ketamine?
Some of the things that I was seeing
in Thomas's phone
was messages showing that he used
several different forms of drugs.
The visa waiver program
is a very sensitive program.
If there any violations,
then it automatically makes the ESTA
null and void.
Due to your unlawful drug use,
you're gonna be processed
for a visa waiver refusal.
We'll make flight arrangements for you
so that we can get you out
on the next flight that we have available.
Can just I, can I just never smoke again?
Like I said,
you're inadmissible to the United States.
Any airline that brings an alien
that's inadmissible to the United States
is required to take that alien back
to wherever they brought them from.
So, we're gonna get him booked
on the next flight
and he is going to have to
depart the country.
All right, go ahead and come with me.
A vast majority of people
aren't bad people.
This wasn't, uh,
a judgment of his character.
The thing is we have a job to do
and we'll do that job.
We are law enforcement officers
and we will enforce the law
to the best of our ability.
MUBARAK: Someone like Thomas
can come to the United States,
use drugs, have a clouded judgment,
and could harm someone that's here.
We remove elements like that
from causing any harm to the citizens
in the United States.
HUMES: He just pooped it out.
You guys tested it?
All right. Perfect. Positive for cocaine.
Okay, let us know
when you're clear to come back
with the doctors
and get the medical release
and then we'll get HSI on the way.
All right. Thank you.
So, they just informed me
that the doctor took an x-ray.
Was about to interpret the x-ray
with the radiologist
and then the subject passed
the object that we
the, the doctor felt it in there.
HUMES: Well, it appears that it's
wrapped up in a condom.
Okay, zero it out.
Pure cocaine coming from Colombia.
Cut it three times, it's about $28,000
That's a lot of money for that
little small amount of cocaine.
And you're making a trip every month,
so that adds up.
The street value on that is a lot.
MATLIN: Once he comes back,
we'll place the subject under arrest
and then turn him over to HSI.
They'll conduct an interview
and they'll decide
which charges and sections of law
they're going to apply
to this particular case
and then they'll book him into
the federal detention facility.
WALTER: Right now,
the surveillance scope team
has got eyes on both subjects.
So, we'll wait and see.
We'll wait and see if both subjects
pick up the parcel.
WALTER: Stand by.
WALTER: All right, roger that.
Keep me posted.
(INDISTINCT)
WALTER: We're going. We're going.
Yeah, he took the package.
He went upstairs.
WALTER: Roger that. Roger that. Be alert.
They're out the back?
OFFICER: Go, go, go, go!
WALTER: Go! Go!
(INDISTINCT)
OFFICER: Out of the way! Out of the way!
Out of the way! Out of the way!
(SIREN WAILS)
Out of the way! Out of the way!
Out of the way! Out of the way!
Go, go, go, go! (INDISTINCT) go!
He's dressed all in blue.
He's dressed all in blue.
OFFICER: Go, go.
(SIREN WAILS)
All right.
WALTER: Our main target,
we got him trying to exit the building
into a van that was
waiting for him in the back,
in the entrance of the building.
The, uh, target's wife.
Anyone know where she's at?
WALTER: All right. Roger that.
OFFICER: Yeah, put him in (INDISTINCT).
WALTER: Everyone's been apprehended.
OFFICER 1:
I haven't ran that fast in a long time.
OFFICER 2: Nice job, man.
Today, we helped stop
the flow of narcotics.
We disrupted this network, saved lives,
and hopefully by the end of the day
we'll have a better understanding
of where this is all coming from
and stop that flow
from this one supplier completely.
(SIREN WAILS)
No one got hurt.
In my books, this goes down
as a successful operation today.
And there's our confirmation.
SILVA: Positive for marijuana.
HERNANDEZ: Yeah, Maui Kush.
Yeah. The sour OG.
Original gangsta.
SILVA: Final weight.
HERNANDEZ: 6.9.
This is a pretty decent seizure for us.
Now we'll get things rolling
and go find some more.
HUMES: Okay. So you'll be here
in probably, like, three to five minutes?
MATLIN: The doctor medically
cleared the suspect.
Once he comes back
we'll fill out our paperwork
as far as turning over
chain of custody forms and evidence.
With his circumstances he can certainly be
in jail for quite a few years.
HUMES: Even though he was caught
smuggling cocaine,
this guy seem like he has
some type of opioid addiction.
He stated to the officers that he takes
oxycodone on a daily basis.
Can you sit up?
You have to sit up.
What he's going through now
is the oxycodone withdrawal.
(GROANS)
When we encountered him,
he was walking
and he was coherent
and he was speaking normally.
(GROANS)
HUMES: Now, he's like
the worst condition
that you could see a person.
I, you know, have empathy for
any person going through that.
But, as an officer, it's our job
to make sure we enforce the laws.
You know,
anyone that comes into the United States
who's attempting to break the law
by smuggling
is gonna get arrested.
MATLIN:
For us, this is what it's all about.
To catch people who are smuggling
narcotics into the U.S.
is exactly why we sign up
to do this job on this team.
HUMES: Today is a good day for us
to get this off the street,
save a lot of lives.