About 1 million packages arrived at John F Kennedy International
Airport every day and just like Travelers have to go through customs.
So do International packages the US Customs and Border
Protection CBP is tasked with screening all of them.
They're looking for anything that isn't legally allowed in the
u.s. Certain foods animals drugs and counterfeit Goods.
JFK is one of nine international mail facilities in the US.
It's essentially the country's biggest mailroom dealing with
roughly 60% of all International packages entering the country
first. The packages are taken off a riding passenger or cargo
planes and transported to the US Postal service's mail room
on-site. They're sorted and then taken to the CBP mail facility
next door for inspection CBP uses a three-tiered strategy
to efficiently search each of these packages intelligence-gathering
non-intrusive inspection and hand inspection.
We followed two units searching for drugs and counterfeit
items.
Before package ever land in the US CBP gathers Intelligence
on the sender of the container and the aircraft will check
with law enforcement Partners like Homeland Security the DEA
and the FBI to see if there's anything of Interest.
This is how CBP Narrows down a million packages to the ones that
will get flags for further inspection.
Once a suspicious package is pulled it goes to the CBP Inspection
area. This is where human CBP officers get a little help.
Hear a four-legged officer like Alex will search hundreds of
packages in 20-minute runs.
These dogs are trained to sniff out seven different drugs heroin
methamphetamine ecstasy as well as fentanyl.
He's right. He gets his chew toy race could play.
And if Alex are one of his furry friends comes in contact
with the drug officers have the antidote Narcan on hand near
by CBP officers are using another non-intrusive Search tool
x-rays produced. I would literally open up everything
cuz I couldn't tell what the image was,
but eventually after you do thousands of parcels opening
them up and compare them damaged.
Now, you start getting good you can identify.
Oh, that's so that's it.
We can let that go because of this if they see something
on an extra monitor that look suspicious officers will isolate
the package there were pulled out one.
Isolated packages go through an intrusive search officers
will cut them open to hand search for drugs or counterfeit
Goods.
I always got to basically expect the package will be something
that's going to your mom so that if it is good,
it's coming back to your mom the same way that it's supposed
to be this comment.
It's like from back home is pillows certain kind of vitamins
and they get them from their little Pharmacy.
I'm pretty sure this right here is actually a steroid.
Is that allowed know the worst part is you don't know what's
in these capsules?
If the officer finds drugs packages sent to Muriel best 4000
plus pills here.
But if he finds a counterfeit good it sent to Steve will start
with Muriel. This land is areas that we find love concealed
radio speakers or even called bumpers.
They love to place cocaine in car bumpers.
It's crazy where we even find drugs in Plato's also cooks children
books in between the lining of the pages.
You'll find drugs.
They're real test drugs with the spectrometer call the Gemini
using lasers. The machine can pierce your packaging and tell
what the drug is inside right now.
I'm going to test this particular package.
Is telling me that is ketamine is used for horse tranquilizer
and also painkiller.
Label the drugs based on where they fall among the DA's drug
schedules schedule for the lowest potential for abuse or dependence
like Robitussin and schedule 1 drug with the highest potential
for abuse like ecstasy.
We have the GBL coming from the Netherlands on someone in New
York is receiving at steroid of schedule 3 coming from Hong
Kong. Then we have the carrot soup odor coming from India and
then we have the Tramadol coming from Singapore scheduled
drugs will be seized.
There's no day that we come to work that we don't find anything
everyday is a sense of importance because of the fact that we
taken out this particular drugs from the street the narcotics
unit had over 7,600 seizures in 2018,
including 246 lb of cocaine in / 360 lb of ecstasy now back
to Steve. He's the It's all the counterfeit Goods.
That's anything that infringes on a company's intellectual
property rights or IPR thinks fake Air Jordans Gucci purses
or Rolex watches companies like Louis Vuitton and Gucci Train
theme on The Tell-Tale signs for spotting a fake.
While most of the tips are kept top secret to protect the brand.
There are a few things that Steve could share with us.
The first when it comes in is the country of origin behind
manufacturers here Louis Vuitton Gucci.
They're coming from France Italy Spain the watch is coming
from Switzerland when it's coming from China thing.
That's your number one red flag, then you looked at the dilapidated
boxes. So that's two red flags there.
A third thing is commingling the high-end manufacturers
never commingle their products like another words of Gucci
inside of a Fendi or a Louis Vuitton fees.
People will stuff watches a wallet inside a handbag until dawn
never come and go their products are so precise.
Some of the things I can say like them to manufacture.
They don't put any of this in it the Killer Inside it they would
never do that.
Go look at the smell.
Sometimes it smells like petroleum.
It's not real leather.
We look at the stitching.
We look at the symmetry of the logos by the manufacturer
the zippers. This one.
Here's a Coach bag Michael Kors zipper.
This code has barbelly on the buttons instead of a Burberry.
So he's a comical things that we find when you look at it up
close and you could pick it right out to make up an estimated
trillion dollar industry that's even been linked to terrorist
groups around the world in 2018 CBP had over 1,800 IPR seizures
and if all those counterfeit Goods have gone on to sell at their
suggested retail price, they total an estimated 54 million
dollars. So where do all these Seas Goods end up?
Anyway, well most of the narcotics and counterfeit Goods will be
sent to a top-secret incinerator to be destroyed.
Some of the drugs will go under further testing while some of the
counterfeit Goods may be donated if the offended company
allows it but in some cases if the illegal guns are part of a
greater investigation CBP off.
Will actually put that package back in the mail then they'll
track it all the way to the person it was sent to this is
known as a controlled Shipman.
I'm the one who opened that package and now I'm involved
in this country delivery.
Now I get to finish the story.
All right. Now we go out with knocked on your door you open
hello with all this that you've ordered in all this particular
package is MDMA.
What's the story behind it?
So then we listen up against fake Gucci's are dangerous
amounts of fentanyl CBP stands guard the country's busiest
mail facility, So you don't see it all the time coming across
the border and trucks and big bundles like the TV will have
you seen where it's all coming from and it hits the street
and it destroys lives.
So in our way if we can stop at here that's one less.
Tragic storage probably that we can have to hear about.