Suspicious Man Tries To Leave With Someone Else's Suitcase | Customs | Real Responders

[Music] in our ports and in our airports the uk border agency is fighting a constant battle against smugglers i'm arresting you oh coming up one man is confused as to who his bag belongs to he's just picked up this bag to walk through customs on an inbound flight from madrid one passenger seems to let his nerves get the better of him you want to sit down because you look like you're about to fall down i don't know why i'm nervous and one repeat smuggler gets his memory jogged have you ever been stopped by customs before yeah okay obviously you should know them by now [Music] it's early morning at gatwick airport and a flight has just arrived from montego bay in jamaica a place known to the uk border agency as a hot spot for the trade of illegal drugs vigilant officers have been using sniffer dogs to assess luggage from the flight and they've identified a brown suitcase which they suspect contains illegal drugs in the immigration hall passengers are being observed as they come off the flight one man with a white jacket and red shirt has been seen to be acting very nervously as he waits at the luggage carousel for his suitcase he appears to be getting more and more anxious he spots the brown suitcase that's suspected of containing drugs goes to pick it up but quickly leaves it on the belt as the brown suitcase comes past again the man stares at it intently and seems unsure about whether to pick it up he later leaves with someone else's red suitcase but as he passes through the customs channels he stopped to answer a few questions [Music] this is your bag this is your the officer checks the luggage tag with the man's travel ticket which prompts him to have a change of heart [Music] the man is escorted back to the baggage hall to look for his real suitcase but it's already been found it's the same brown suitcase he was staring at on the carousel and which is thought to contain drugs [Music] he's led away to a private interview room for further questioning and then we'll get rid of that i think i'm not sure it's got nothing to do with it i think it's a female's name officers look inside the red suitcase to see who it might belong to i i think he realized that people were sort of haunted possibly so what he's done is he's just picked up a random bag he's taking the tanks off of the bag which is so cute for the other bag and then he's just picked up this bag to walk through customs with the red suitcase on its way back to its rightful owner officers can now concentrate on the contents of the man's real bag which they strongly suspect contains illegal drugs he's led away to the airport's custody suite where the contents of his suitcase can be formally assessed [Music] at gatwick's south terminal passengers have just landed from madrid in the immigration hall officers are looking out for any signs of suspicious behavior passengers who appear nervous will be pulled over in the customs channels officers will then check to ensure they're not carrying anything illegal [Music] a brazilian passenger from the madrid flight has been spotted sweating profusely so officers take him aside to search his suitcase basically he came through immigration it was the usual sort of nervous didn't really answer immigrations questions and how long are you going to be in the uk no i'm living tonight okay going back to brazil yes back to brazil and you've traveled all over europe is that what i love on this trip okay you've been to lots of places yeah uh barcelona istanbul do you want to sit down because you look like you're about to fall down right you're okay all right so i understand from listening to you in immigration that it was a business trip okay yes it is is that right yes i was with my representatives here and in istanbul barcelona and madhuri just for meetings yes meetings and of course some tourists too okay i don't know why i'm nervous it's just because it never happened to me to be so questioned like as this time but you attend meetings all the time yeah for your job so you must be familiar with travelling yes and being questioned by people yes yes why is it a problem now no reason for okay the man's anxiety leads the officer to doubt his story so his bags will be thoroughly searched for any illicit items officer fitz assists by swap testing his possessions to see if he's come into contact with any drugs [Music] the swab is then taken for analysis using a machine that can detect even the tiniest traces nothing on the iron trap this time the swab test is clear but the man's nervous behavior is still alarming his suitcase is x-rayed to check for unlawful concealments nothing is found in his belongings but officers want to check he's not hiding anything on his body all right i'm going to ask two mail officers okay to take you to a private room and give you a rug downstairs one way or another they'll find out why he's so nervous at gatwick's custody suite the man who's been arrested on suspicion of importing a suitcase full of illegal drugs is being checked in the brown suitcase he tried to ditch in the baggage hall is taken away to be examined the whole bag together was 29 kilos now there is some stuff in there but i would think that there's probably approximately 20 kilos of cannabis here eight blocks of what looks like herbal cannabis are pulled from the man's case it's no wonder he was keen to avoid being caught [Music] the man is held in a cell whilst the packages of drugs are weighed 16 kilos how to cut every one of this it looks like it is herbal cannabis i mean as soon as she cut into it there's a there's a quite a strong pungent smell i mean it's actually surrounded you know in the whole room now but i had to check all of them because sometimes they have mixed cocaine with cannabis a field test is done to confirm the substance definitely is herbal cannabis the positive indication should be a a kind of like a red reddish color see there we go that's that's a positive indication for herbal canvas with a street value of more than 45 000 pounds it's an excellent result for the officers all the man can do now is await his fate in the airport's south terminal the man whose nervous behavior and profuse sweating has aroused suspicion is being taken for a body search okay if you just put your berries up onto the bench for yeah yeah just put the bags there if you just want to take a seat over the far end [Music] i don't know where very nervous yes okay despite his nerves the man consents to the search yeah next one that's great it's fine his shoes are removed so they can be swap tested for any traces of drugs if he's got drugs internally and he'll sweat and it'll come out the sweat partly will be in the shoe so if this tastes positive then he's either used or is [Music] swallowed once again the swap is clear but officer fitz has uncovered some revealing secrets yeah he did actually admit that he's actually quite nervous yeah i mean he had quite a few um pills in his little his little small hole so obviously there was one for like for me sickness and there's like these other blue pills i said oh what are these [Laughter] the man confesses to have recently taken viagra which may explain his nervous behavior this sort of thing hasn't happened to him before since he's since he's been traveling for so long so i think he's just very nervous that he's had to go for all the security appearances so but apart from that you're such a nice chap okay sir okay this is shoes yep no problem want to put those back on with all the searches now complete and the reasons for the man's anxiety exposed he's now free to continue his onward journey coming up officers discover a massive hall of tobacco in the cargo area if you open up the plastic there's quite a strong smell of tobacco there we go [Music] coming up a repeat smuggler plays innocent have you ever been stopped by customs before yeah okay obviously you should know them by now shouldn't you [Music] at gatwick airport the uk border agency have a duty of care to assess all passengers and items entering the country each year officers have to check thousands of tons of freight passing through the airport right here you go this looks like the one today officer sarah is in the cargo holding area after being asked to check a large number of packages that have just come in from the far east what we've got here is um a consignment that's um originated in from hong kong it's marked up as clothing accessories and so we've just come over to have a closer look to see what's inside here what we've got is what looks like large spools here which look like there's some kind of um braiding oh if you open up the plastic there's quite a strong smell of tobacco coming out of here yeah it smells quite strong with suspicions aroused there's only one way to find out what's inside here we go if each of the reels is filled with tobacco it will be a concealment worth many thousands of pounds this consignment is marched originally from hong kong where tobacco loose tobacco is obviously a lot cheaper than here in the uk and duty levels are quite high and there's a huge black market in smuggled tobacco and this consignment here is about 130 boxes the reels of tobacco are taken away to be weighed officers need to work out how much they found before investigating where it's come from there's three three reels here 40 kilos if you take off the cardboard and the um and the string it's probably about 10 kilos i'd estimate um in each bale the unpaid duty for 10 kilos of loose tobacco is worth 1600 pounds okay 10 kilos it is a huge amount of effort but considering the amount of money that these gangs are going to make for them it's it's obviously worth going to this this effort in addition to the risk of smoking there could be additional products in this tobacco which are even worse for your health than the usual nicotine and with the hall weighing over 650 kilos the lost revenue to the tax system would have been over a hundred thousand pounds it's the biggest ever seizure of loose tobacco at gatwick it's just a routine recent examination by the guys and obviously very good work in picking this up in gatwick's south terminal a flight has just landed from tripoli in libya as passengers make their way through baggage reclaim officer helen and sniffer dog bran are checking passengers for the presence of drugs [Music] a lone female passing through customs is of great interest to bren so she stopped for further checks by officer hazel okay bring your bags around here for me almost immediately the woman's story seems unconvincing so where will you stay in england whereabouts in bristol you don't know [Music] do you have anybody meeting you here at gatwick who's meeting you you just said you don't have any friends or family in england i don't have anything but i just called him the woman's story keeps changing which is giving hazel cause for concern i'm just gonna go and speak to my colleague okay if you stay here just finish repacking your bag can i research on this girl please when i asked her if she had friends or family in england first of all she said no and then she said that she'd called somebody here and that they were going to meet her at the airport she's got 900 pounds she's really nervous but she hasn't got a proper address coupled with the sniffer dog indication hazel is convinced there's more to the woman than meets the eye she's so nervous she's only got 900 pounds so i'm gonna get her well i'm gonna do the search your person see if she's got anything right okay because the dog who's sniffing at you he's a drug detector dog so i need to make sure that you're not carrying any drugs on you or in you okay all right myself and my colleague are going to do a search of your person okay it has been authorized by your senior colleague all right do your bag up first of all okay if you bring your bag and follow me just go into the room for me just going take a seat okay can you just check that there's nothing on the floor nothing's been left in here has it but i just need you to sign there to say that you're okay to be searched the officers find nothing during the search but due to the dog indication hazel decides to do one more test okay we have a machine here that x-rays you to make sure that you've not got anything inside of you okay machine's just in the hall there so it won't take very long at all if the woman is smuggling drugs internally officers will know in a matter of minutes [Music] it's the middle of the afternoon and a flight has just come in from moldova being outside the european union passengers have a strict cigarette allowance of just 200. in the baggage reclaim area officers are closely monitoring a moldovan passenger who has a prior history for smuggling cigarettes as he heads through the green customs channel officer fitz pulls him over for further questioning hi sir well hi where are you from today what's up who's there traveling on your own ready traveling on your own are you traveling on your own yeah yes okay come here for a minute how long you've been away for one month one month and what was your purpose of your visit holiday just holiday holiday all right so you've been away on holiday all right are you aware of your customs allowances one carton of cigarettes little spirits and goods up to 390 pounds worth yeah none of those items at all okay well i'll have a look in there it's all right so i'll have a look all right i'll move this over here with the man's previous history for smuggling cigarettes fitz knows not to take him at his word and straight away he finds a 200 pack of cigarettes if the passenger is carrying any more he'll have breached his allowance a little deeper in the case fitz stumbles across a brown chocolate box which is clearly being used to hide packs of cigarettes as the box is opened individual packs of cigarettes are found concealed within drawers the man is way over his allowance and he knows it just for yourself why you put him in here for why have you put them in here basically you were trying to hide them weren't you sorry i know they're for yourself but you tried to hide them from me didn't you i didn't know all right and we're just asking this question have you been stopped by customs before have you ever been stopped by customers before yeah okay so obviously you should know them by now shouldn't you this is a season notice that say that i'm seizing 800 cigarettes from you so i need your signature there full name and date lies and deceit are a challenge faced by officers every day this is a womanly letter if it happens again it might be taken further right all of the man's cigarettes are seized once again fitz provides him with a guidance leaflet about his customs got it allowances you've got it so you know then do you all right with all pretends dropped the man is free to go 800 cigarettes lighter [Music] in one of gatwick airport's x-ray suites a woman who's flown in from libya has been taken for a full body scan three nine zero thank you you said you don't have an address to stay at in england but you don't know where you're sleeping tonight okay right okay this is consent for x-ray examination okay thank you the woman confirms she's happy to do the x-ray voluntarily [Music] okay what i need you to do is breathe in now when it when the belt starts to move breathe out slowly okay with a suspicious and inconsistent story there's good reason to put her through the x-ray but finding nothing out of the ordinary the woman is no longer suspected of importing illegal drugs she's escorted back into the terminal despite no evidence for drugs her reasons for being in the uk are still doubtful so officers in immigration will investigate her story further brought her back to immigration because i believe she's here to work but it's out of my hands now it's down to my immigration colleagues to decide what they do with her well listen i'm gonna leave it with the immigration officers okay from a customs point of view we're happy that you don't have anything you shouldn't have okay if you just take a seat the immigration officers will be with you soon okay just sit down all right the woman was later interviewed by uk border agency officers working in immigration she was eventually allowed to enter the uk on her student visa the cannabis smuggler pleaded guilty to attempting to smuggle 16 kilograms into the uk he's now serving 18 months in prison [Music] you

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Length: 23min 13sec (1393 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 18 2021