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Duration
60 minutes
Series Info
Season 1 Episode 13 of 13

Quick Summary

Officers at a New York airport confronted a man who had swallowed forty pellets packed with heroin, prompting a security response. In San Ysidro, local detectives intercepted a suspected sex‑trade worker, seizing the individual as part of an ongoing investigation into illicit activities.

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The broadcast is a programme presented as a single episode, offering a snapshot of law‑enforcement activity in two distinct locations. It adopts a straightforward documentary style, focusing on real‑world incidents rather than fictional storytelling, and it is structured around two separate confrontations that unfold within the same instalment. In the first segment, officers stationed at a New York airport encounter a man who has concealed a substantial amount of heroin inside his body. The individual has swallowed forty small pellets, each packed with the drug, prompting the airport security team to intervene and manage the potentially hazardous situation. The second part shifts to San Ysidro, where detectives carry out an operation that results in the interception of a person suspected of involvement in the sex‑trade industry. The law‑enforcement officers act on intelligence that leads them to stop the individual, aiming to disrupt the alleged illicit activity. Together, these two vignettes illustrate how police and investigative units respond to very different criminal threats—one centred on drug smuggling via ingestion, the other on a suspected sex‑trade operation—within the same episode, highlighting the varied challenges faced by authorities across the United States.

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Border Security USA broadcasts on Sky Crime +1 at 6:00am, Thursday, 12 February 2026. (Subtitles, repeat)

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Production Details

Runtime60 mins