Today, we're going to do an undercover purchase of GHB.
We know the drugs originate from Southeast Asia.
What we hope to do is identify other people that are involved
and how the drugs are actually ending up in St. Louis.
What we normally see GHB associated with is date rape,
sexual assault cases, human trafficking cases.
So it's of interest just because of the negative impacts
that surround the use of it.
We already have cover in place.
We already have our pre-surveillance units already in place.
What'll happen is our UC,
the undercover, he will be making positive contact
and conducting a transaction.
- Target street. - UC V's curbed.
It looks like the UC's, uh,
parking his vehicle directly across from target location.
UC's out of the vehicle. Rescue team on standby.
Alright, I'm gonna turn on the wire.
We got to ensure the safety of the UC.
There's a possibility he could be robbed.
10-4.
The UC's walking towards
the front of the target address.
Get ready.
Looks like he's entering the front right now.
Talking to somebody in the doorway.
Might be the target right now.
Alright, friendly is going upstairs.
10-4.
A lot of these, these deals,
a lot of the hand-to-hand deals
aren't necessarily done in a public location.
Nowadays, with technology and, and everyone with cameras,
what we're seeing more and more is it's, it's a common practice
that they're going to do it within, like, the,
the private confines of, of a residence
or, uh, places that aren't easily accessible by the public.
Unfortunately, this is always a challenge, though, for us
because we got to ensure really the priority of the safety
of the UC when conducting these, uh, illegal transactions.
Deal is done. We just got a text from our friendly.
Looks like he's coming out.
Walking back towards the UC V.
From the quick text that he sent me, we're done here.
Uh, it sounds like the target was talking about
another shipment coming in
from, uh, what he claimed to be Malaysia,
which is consistent with our intel we got
prior to doing buys out of the house, which is good.
So it looks like the friendly is away.
And we're going to start heading back to our staging location
to, uh, debrief and, uh, process the evidence.
Right now, we don't plan on doing any type of an arrest.
What we're trying to do is build up a probable cause
that we need for a search warrant.
We'll be submitting all the evidence
to the US Attorney's Office for review, and, hopefully,
it'll meet all the criteria that they need
for pushing it further for indictments and warrants later.
Do we have something over here?
Find it.
Phillip here is an agriculture detector dog.
We work with the Beagle Brigade.
Good boy. Let's get going.
Whoa, let's go up here.
These dogs are trained to find fresh fruits and vegetables,
meats, plants, seeds, and soil.
Hi, ma'am. Do you have any food in your handbag here?
I have this.
Okay. Oh, you have some flowers?
- Yes. - Alright.
So we just need to inspect these to make sure
that they don't have any insects hitchhiking in them.
If an insect, pest, or a plant disease
were to get in the US,
that would have a major, major impact
on our agriculture here.
Yeah, no, it looks fine. Good work, Phil.
One of the main reasons that we use Beagles
is because they're food motivated,
and food is the main thing that we're trying to get them to find.
Alright, ma'am. Do you have any food in this bag?
I had the apple before I leave, but discard.
Okay. Yeah, he just still smells it.
Dogs have this incredible
olfactory sense.
Phil, what's up?
Alright. I'm not following anybody into the men's room. Come on.
He can even differentiate
the odor coming through each nostril.
So if it's coming from the right,
he can tell that he's getting more odor from his right nostril
so he knows to turn right.
Come on, Phil. This way.
Where you and I might smell a pot of chili,
they can smell each individual type of bean.
They can smell the meat separately.
They can smell each individual spice that you've put in there.
Alright, buddy. Let's go.
Hey, find it.
Where are you coming in from?
Pakistan.
Alright, brother.
Alright, sir. I need that passport real quick, okay?
Are you traveling by yourself?
Yeah.
What kind of food items are in your bag?
A lot of dried fruit. Any fresh fruit?
- No. - Alright. Come on over here.
Which one has the food?
That's the one I want to look at.
Oh, my goodness. What we got in here?
This is walnuts.
You got a lot of goodies in here, man.
- Yeah, a lot of goodies. - Yeah.
This is...
pine nuts.
Yes, sir.
I need you to open that real quick.
Look, right here.
Did you forget about that?
I totally forgot about that.
You did. You can pull it out.
- Here. - Let me borrow that.
Good boy.
Alright, I got some friends
that want to talk to you today, okay?
Good job. Alright, sir. Come on down here.
Good boy. Ha ha!
While he was sitting there, he kept nosing the backpack,
and there was an apple in there.
So he's going to go to secondary.
They're going to inspect the food.
From what I've seen, everything in that bag there
should be okay.
But that's what the AG specialists do.
They'll make that determination.
We're going to go in this door here.
Go to letter A for me.
Thank you. They're going to take care of you, sir, okay?
Thank you.
Have a good day.
Alright, you ready to do some more fishing?
Let's get down here.
Good afternoon. How are you?
- I'm good. Good. - Alright. Passport real quick?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. - Thank you.
We're out here in pre-primary, before the car reaches the booth.
Primarily, uh, we're looking for narcotics trafficking
and, uh, human smuggling.
Where are you headed today?
I'm going right here. Shopping at Las Americas.
Okay.
I've been working at this port for about six years now,
and every day, there's drugs coming through, a lot.
There's a lot of drugs on the streets,
and I've seen the impact it makes on the community.
So we work as a team and try to get the job done.
Thank you. Have a good day.
Hey, can you put it in park for me and unlock the doors?
Any type of person,
any type of vehicle, uh, it could be loaded.
Open the back.
Yeah. There's so many layers here
that you could find a package or load.
Thank you.
Good job, buddy. Let's go.
Front pre-primary officers,
if they miss it, the primary officer could find it.
It just takes a little hand.
You might send it into secondary inspection
and an officer there can find it.
Just that speaker.
Yeah, but the speaker looks empty.
- Yes. - Alright. I'll go check it out.
Yeah, it's super heavy.
If we would've saw something on the x-ray image,
we would've definitely took it apart.
Everything looks good right here.
Gracias.
Go ahead and turn your hazard lights on.
What's up?
Why am I being inspected?
Because you're crossing the international border.
But, what is the reason?
Tha-that is the reason.
Alright, follow me, sir.
So I saw a male driving through the middle lanes of vehicle primary.
I asked him a few questions, asked him where he was going.
He was being vague.
So we're going to x-ray the vehicle.
I'm going to check the results of the x-ray.
I'm looking for it, and I don't see it.
The black Jetta?
I walked it in, he drove through the Z-portal.
Yeah, that's because he didn't wait for the green light.
Okay. He didn't wait for it, so it didn't read it then?
- Yeah. - Alright.
I might need you to back me up on this one, bro.
- Why? - He's acting noncompliant.
He tried to rush Z-portal.
Usually when they try to rush,
the vehicle is loaded with contraband.
So I decided to do a more intensive inspection.
No weapons, right?
Alright, go on and stand over there.
Go ahead and stand on the other side of the table.
You're ******* with my day.
I'm trying to do my job, man.
Yeah, and I'm doing...
Let me have you stand over there real quick.
- You mind, mind handling? Thank you. - Yeah.
Alright.
Find what you were looking for?
What's up?
Find what you were looking for?
Maybe.
Take your sweet-ass time, then. Yeah, you look sweet.
Hurry up.
Gimme my ****.
I'm not giving this back to you.
Why? That's nicotine and CBD. You can check.
Gimme that ****.
He has a vape of some sort.
I'm not sure what it is.
You look like a *****. You know that?
Wha-what was that?
You look like a *****.
We're not playing.
I know you trying to hold me up, *****.
I'm gonna be here until I get my ****.
I said, I'm gonna be here until I get my *****.
Cuff him up.
Put your hands behind your back.
No, don't touch me. Don't touch me.
- What are you doing? - Officer needs assistance.
Put your hands behind your back.
Get 'em off of me, bro.
Take this **** off of me.
I told you to comply, man.
He was being combative with me.
So, you know, we can only take so much.
I had to place him in handcuffs
and bring him to the security office
for a, for a pat down
and conduct a further, um, examination of the vehicle
and make sure there's no illegal contraband.
The tank there has a plastic cover on it.
It might be tampered with.
They're going to take it through and x-ray it.
The vehicle wasn't Z-portaled.
So at this time, we're still in the process
of running it through the x-ray machine.
How does the tank look?
I'm looking at the gas tank.
- I see anomalies. - Okay.
You got to take a double-take on it
and verify this, what's going on.
- Thanks, bro. - No problem.
K9's going to run it.
K9 turned up negative.
The vehicle is clear.
He'll be released,
and it will be a penalty for obstructing
a federal inspection, which he was doing.
All that for nothing. I didn't even do nothing.
I ain't do ****. I'm not a criminal or nothing.
Sometimes you deal with that.
This is the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
And we deal with nonsense people all the time.
This GHB right now,
based on the investigation,
what they're doing is, it originated from Malaysia.
They're bringing it in, uh, through international mail.
And to avoid, uh, detection,
they're putting it in lotion bottles.
So this is called a Gemini.
It's a thorough scientific... It's our drug tester.
It's a database that's inside that reads, you know,
thousands of substances.
The laser is able to read the substances
when we add it here.
And it actually gets to analyze it
without us having to get danger close to the substances.
We have a good idea of what we're dealing with,
but you never know for sure.
And here's our read. GHB.
We're weighing that bottle
and go ahead and process and seize that as evidence.
The investigation so far has gone extremely well.
We're very happy with where we're at.
And what we hope to use is all the evidence
from the undercover buys that we've done
to get the probable cause to do a search warrant.
Our first goal is take this guy down,
identify his connection to Malaysia
and how he's getting that
and can we shut that pipeline down?
Amsterdam? Alright, Amsterdam's good.
Maybe we'll get some tulip bulbs today. Okay.
My absolute favorite part of the Beagle Brigade is that
all of our dogs are rescues.
My partner Phillip, uh,
the paper trail I've been able to piece together,
start at a kill shelter in Tennessee,
and USDA found him.
And they trained him for this job.
And about six months later, he and I hooked up together
and it's been magic ever since.
Right, Phil?
High five. Good job.
Find it.
What's up, Phil?
Hi, ma'am. Do you have any food in this bag?
I have chocolate.
Alright. Did you have any fruit in here earlier today?
I did, I had a mandarin orange.
Like, 12 hours ago.
You're welcome to look, but there's nothing...
No, that's fine. Yeah. No, you're good.
Good job, Phil.
With these dogs here, although we do love on them,
we do have to remember that they're not pets.
They're working dogs and they have a job to do
and they need to get it done.
On typical shifts,
Phillip will search between 800 and 1,500 bags.
Alright. Good boy.
Without him, my job would be so much harder.
Come on.
Vienna is on 18, so what's on 19?
Oh, maybe Mexico City.
Alright. Good boy. Come on.
Let's check out these Mexico City bags, Phil.
From Mexico, we're worried about insects, pests.
We're worried about plant diseases.
We're worried about livestock diseases.
Here. Find it.
Something over here.
What do you think?
Alright.
This one, I think it's... Oh, my God.
I'm not trying to lift that.
That is the heaviest bag I have seen in a long time.
Alright. Let's see what we got.
Clothes.
This is tortillas wrapped up.
Oh, there it is. Is that what you found?
Oh, my God. That is a lot, that is a lot of meat.
Good job.
Alright.
That is a lot of meat.
When I picked this thing up,
this bag's probably about 50 pounds.
So I knew that there was definitely something in it.
What is this?
That looks like a bunch of fruit.
It looks like maybe gooseberries.
This bag is coming from Mexico City,
and I happen to know that beef and ruminant meat
is actually allowed to come in from Mexico.
So if it was just this,
we probably would have just made a note and cut it loose.
But with the fresh fruit, that's a good boy,
it definitely needs to go in the secondary to get checked out.
Good job. Alright.
One, two, three.
Alright.
I'm giving
the baggage information to the airline
so they can locate the passenger.
Come here, Phil.
I'm borrowing your cart so I'll take it to secondary.
If you could just bring the passenger when they show up.
Alright.
Secondary is where our unaccompanied bags go
until we can find the passenger.
Let's go secure this thing.
Alright, thank you guys for being here today.
Uh, this is a residential search warrant
for GHB,
commonly known as a date rape, being, um,
imported into the US through Southeast Asia.
We've conducted numerous buy walks,
uh, into this residence, identified multiple targets
that are dealing this throughout the St. Louis metro area.
So, hoping to seize GHB, money, and any other, um,
incriminating evidence of their, uh,
narcotics entity here in St. Louis.
Does anybody have any questions SWAT-wise?
Anybody got any for HSI?
Alright, thank you guys.
We're going to be executing a search warrant.
That search warrant's going to be the finality of everything,
what it's all led up to with all the, uh,
undercover buys that we've done.
We already have, uh, pre-surveillance
that was already set up on the, on the target residence,
just so we could give real-time information
to the SWAT team that's going to be hitting it.
And then when they go ahead
and execute the search warrant on the premises,
once they're done clearing everything,
then we will basically kind of go in
and start our systematic search of the residence.
GHB is an extremely intoxicating drug
that can totally, uh, incapacitate somebody
against their will.
So it's important to stop the import into America.
This is what we've been working for,
and it can go a couple different ways.
We can, uh, take these targets into custody
and, uh, they might want to cooperate
and help us further expand our case
'cause at the end of the day, our goal is
transnational and international crime.
Anytime that we're doing any type of an op,
there's always those, those, uh, those pre-jitters
and you just kind of have the butterflies.
Um, obviously, this isn't a game.
You have people whose lives are on the line.
And so, you have the confidence in your guys,
you have the confidence in the team.
But there's always just those unexpected unknowns
that can occur, and that's what
always makes me nervous.
You're not in control of what they're going to do
and it's, it's kind of that
hope for the best, but you're always, always prepared for the worst.
Come on, buddy. Let's go.
Hup, hup.
Highly motivated.
Can you put your car in park and open the back, please?
He's trained on ecstasy, marijuana, meth,
heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and concealed humans.
The quarter panels feel kind of hard on both sides.
So we're going to call for a buster from AT-CET.
Lane 25.
All AT-CET members have, um, this density tool
that we use to check any parts of the vehicle.
We're getting the narcotics behind the speaker.
I think we're okay.
If you're good with it, I'm good.
Good. Let's go.
Hup, hup.
Hup, hup, hup.
The dog's hitting.
He started breathing really hard and then he stops moving.
So that's when I know something is there.
We're going to send it to secondary for it to go through the Z-portal,
see if we got anything in there.
Good boy. Good boy.
So right here, this is Z-portal machine.
It's giving us, uh, x-ray image of vehicles.
And basically, we're just looking for anomalies.
Vehicles have a lot of empty voids:
doors, quarter panels, fenders, bumpers, tires.
So anything you can think of, um, that's dense,
that should be empty,
we're making sure that there's nothing there.
You find anything on the vehicle?
On the doors. Both sides.
And then there's some on the roof too.
Yeah, rear end on the roof top.
Alright, thank you.
Uh, we can go look now and do the seven-point inspection
to see if we can find it.
This car looks like it hasn't been tampered with at all.
No fingerprints. No one's gone in there and done anything.
I'm just checking the area right here.
Hopefully, we find something.
It looks, looks like there's nothing in here.
There's some tampering right here.
He has a cut right here.
Oh, yeah, we got packages here.
We're just showing proof of, uh, how the car looks
before we start taking it apart.
I'm going to get some gloves.
Let's see how many we got.
There's some kind of powder.
That looks like laundry detergent inside of the plastic bag.
They have precursors to hide the smell for dogs.
There's a vacuum seal, and then it's got electric tape around
with a label on the actual narcotic.
I'm sure it's for different people that they're sending it to.
These packages, usually when most of them are the same,
it's going to be the same type of drug.
The important thing is we don't miss any in here.
It doesn't look like there's any more in this area.
It doesn't matter how much damage we have to do
if we're trying to find something.
Sometimes you could find stuff in here.
Sometimes they hide it in here.
It looks, it looks pretty empty right now.
They use factory compartments and non-factory compartments.
You'll see stuff inside the dash, under the vehicle.
Everything.
Yeah, from right here, it looks, uh, negative too.
It looks empty.
Oh, yeah. There they are.
It looks like they're all powder.
The same kind of package. Same label.
Could be cocaine, fentanyl,
but, uh, we'd have to test it to make sure.
This is yours?
- Yes. - Okay.
Do you have any more bags or just this one?
It's four.
- It's four bags? Okay. - Yes.
I'm going to go get these other bags.
Phillip found her one bag that had the, uh,
the meat and the fruit.
Coming from Mexico City, there's usually a lot of food.
So we're just going to check these other bags
that she has to make sure
that there's no additional food items
that might be prohibited.
Alright, so we got four bags.
Here, I'll take that.
Gonna get that one on first.
On three. One, two, three. Alright.
Do you want them here or you want them over there?
Um, we're going to go ahead and put 'em up on the belt.
Alright. Alright, ma'am, come on over.
- This one's really heavy. - Okay, I'll help you.
Okay, if you want to grab that side.
Alright.
And then if you just want to come around
to the back.
I see there's definitely additional fruit
in the other three bags as well.
I have a dog that searches for fruits and meats,
and he found the ones in here.
But I see you have more in these other bags.
So coming from Mexico, right?
Yes.
Is this beef meat?
All of that is beef, yes. All of that.
This is, this is beef? Okay. Alright.
So beef is okay from Mexico, so you can have that one,
but fresh fruits are not allowed.
So these ones will have to stay.
- Okay. - And there's more,
they're like melon or something.
It's like a big fruit.
Oh, it's pumpkin.
I'm always bringing pumpkin, yes.
Oh, a pumpkin. Okay.
My kid loves the pumpkin sauces.
Okay. Yeah, you can't bring that. That's not allowed.
You can't... Oh, my gosh!
Yeah, you can't bring these in.
I always bring that. I never have a problem with that.
I paid too much money for this.
Yeah. Alright, well, they're going to check it, okay?
It's like where is the...
It's, it's that house where there's two, um...
The, the flag's at.
It looks like target vehicle is there.
It's going to be a red Mercedes, two-door coupe.
Hey, just FYI.
SWAT's going to be about two mikes out.
Two mikes out, for everyone on HSI channel.
We're just setting up all of our, uh,
unmarked vehicles, kind of doing a perimeter.
We got different areas kind of covered
and so we're just waiting for SWAT to hit it.
They're going to do their clearing.
They'll do the security sweep.
And then start our systematic search of that house.
We're moving up, and stand by.
- That's them right there. - Yeah.
Go time! Go time!
- First truck. - Come on.
- That's a go. Go, go, go. - Let's go.
Come out with your hands raised!
Police! Search warrant! Police! Search warrant!
Keep a view there in case we got runners.
Police! Search warrant! Open the door! Do it now!
They did deploy a flashbang.
Get ready for it.
Police! Search warrant! Get on the ground!
Police! Search warrant! Police! Search warrant!
Open, open!
- Come on out! - Hands up! Hands up!
Let me see your hands! Step towards me! Do it now!
Anybody else in there?
Yeah, over there.
- Hey, show me your hands! - Hey, hands in! Put them up!
Once they're clear, we'll, we'll go ahead and start our search.
We took two people into custody.
They're believed to be the only two inside the residence right now.
However, uh, just to be safe
and do our due diligence, uh,
SWAT's going to clear out the house, do secondaries
and once they deem it, uh, secure,
then they're going to turn it over for us.
Searching the whole entire residence,
looking for any type of contraband or evidence
of, uh, illicit narcotic sales.
- Nothing. - Okay, we're clear.
- There's nobody in there. - That's good. Perfect.
I'm assuming there's probably some stuff underneath their bed
- 'cause of the way it's built. - Okay.
So, but back there was a pretty big cavity underneath the slats.
Alright. And you said there's a safe in the bedroom as well?
There might be. I didn't go into the bedroom.
I just kind of stood outside of there.
Gotcha.
Let's do a walkthrough and see what we got.
- And then you want to label it? - Okay.
We have two different interview teams
right now talking to the arrestees
to try to, um,
get any more information out of them
to see if we can further this investigation
and adjust the search warrant.
So, hopefully, we can expand
to not just this house,
but to try to make it go international.
Bring it through here.
So these are all the items
that we seized from the house, so quite a bit.
So now after, uh, we seized it here,
now we're going to go back to the office, um,
and start to process, go through it, um,
get it into our evidence system
for tracking and accountability purposes.
So all in all, it went well.
And then there's one in here.
This is like a melon.
Ooh. Looks like maybe honeydew.
That is pumpkin too, but it's white.
Oh, okay. It's also pumpkin. Okay.
Yes, always it's this.
Do you have the manual open?
Pumpkin from Mexico?
We're just checking out what the regulation actually says.
Just because they brought it in before doesn't mean that it's allowed.
Sometimes there's a new pest that's found
that affects that kind of fruit
or there's a new plant disease that breaks out.
It's not super common to see people carrying whole pumpkins,
but her daughter really likes pumpkin
and she said these were special varieties
that she hasn't been able to easily find here
in the United States.
Now I put, I put pumpkin in, it's in there.
- Yeah, it says no pumpkin. - Yeah.
Permit required.
We checked our manuals.
It says these are not allowed anymore.
Even if they were allowed before, now it says no.
- Okay. - So I'm sorry about that.
It's okay. Next time, I won't bring.
Yeah. We've got lots of good pumpkins here, too.
- I know. - I know, it's,
- it's a special kind. - Yeah.
But at least you get to keep the beef.
Yeah.
That's the more expensive one, right?
Yes.
There we go.
Alright.
Thank you so much.
Alright. You're welcome.
So just go out here and make a right. Alright?
- Thank you. - Have a good day. Bye.
There was no fine associated with this. She did declare it.
Had it been the case where Phillip found it
and we brought her in and she didn't declare it,
she might have received a civil penalty,
but in this case, she was upfront with us about it.
Phillip did good. I'm proud of that boy.
Alright. This side. Come here.
Phillip is 7 and a half years old
and we start evaluating them
for retirement between age 8 and 10.
So once he retires, he's coming home with me,
and my daughter has already volunteered
to teach him how to be a pet.
Alright, bud. We're going to call it for the day.
I'll do the paperwork today, but you got it tomorrow, okay?
So that's eight.
That'll be it for this door.
Eight, passenger side rear.
Now I'm going to do the same thing again
on the passenger door in the front.
The quarter panels have always been a hot trend.
The roof is something more rare.
They change it up, and then we find new things
and then they change it back to the way it used to be.
That's it. Whew!
So there are six in the door.
Two more doors to go.
Yeah.
There's more computers in this one.
This is just bolted in right here.
Ah, there's nothing in here.
So a lot of times, they won't, uh, put the drugs
in the driver's side door.
'Cause when we're doing our inspection, on primary,
that's the first place we look is right in front of us.
The last one.
We can see the packages right away.
Same kind as the rest of the vehicle.
Trying to get these last couple out.
Looks like all of them. It doesn't feel like there's any more.
This, they cut it out right here. You can tell by the cuts.
And that's how they place them in.
One, two, three, four.
Yeah, right now, like, uh, the drugs are most important.
We'll get 'em tested and call the agent,
and then we can inspect the rest of the vehicle
because at this point, we feel like there's nothing else,
but we'll double-check, just to make sure every spot is empty.
We're going to do a narcotics test kit
just to get a positive result to be able to contact the agent
and get the case rolling.
I'll test for cocaine first.
So I'm going to get some of it out of here.
You don't need too much but just a little bit to make sure.
Close this up and we're going to seal it.
If it's cocaine, it'll be blue on the bottom
and pink on the top.
So what we're going to do is, um, break the ampule,
get the drugs in there really good, break the ampule,
and then kind of irritate it.
Cocaine. It shows that it's positive for cocaine.
I'm going to go weigh it now.
The last one.
After this, we put 'em in boxes,
we send 'em in to our narcotics vault.
After the case is over,
they'll end up destroying all the narcotics.
We contacted HSI, they're on their way over here
to interview the subjects.
So it was a real big, uh, team effort
from the K9 officer to the AT-CET crew.
And then coming to the secondary lot,
the x-ray operator, everybody made it happen today.
That'll be the last one.
That was a really unique load that we got today.
And the cartel definitely doesn't like it
when we get the cocaine. It's the most expensive drug
and, uh, whoever is waiting for these packages
is probably going to be really upset.
The fun part's all done.
Everything we already field tested on scene.
And so it's-- now it's just processing,
doing the paperwork, cleaning it up,
and onto the next.
This was the first thing that we noticed was, was these.
Both of these have the GHB, and then there was two boxes.
And then I cut open the boxes and each box was in the Mylar.
We cracked those open and surprise.
When we've done our undercover operations in the past,
we've yielded bottles like this, which we knew that they were,
uh, smuggling them into the country.
These are all unsealed.
We did a systematic search of the residence.
We found a lot of evidence in the bedroom,
and the bulk amounts of GHB were located in the office.
And when we talk about the bulk amounts,
we're talking full bottles ready to be pieced out
and distributed in smaller amounts.
What it just shows is they got a lot of GHB.
This isn't just something that they're just doing on the side
as a, as a hobby or anything like that.
They're doing this to distribute.
And then just in the same location of the GHB
was the, uh, revolver there.
I think that's a .357.
And then we found a whole bunch of meth in different areas.
Stuff that was already individually packaged
like they were going to sell it.
And then we found some larger stuff.
The suspects were already interviewed, um, right when we were doing the search.
These two individuals were
a large source of supply for this.
It looks like we're going to just kind of collect all that evidence,
put it in a nice package for the US attorney,
and then submit that for review for them.
And, hopefully, we'll be coming down with indictments
on those individuals.
We've never really encountered, uh, that much GHB.
And so, to see that much that we seized today,
it makes you sit there and really think how many people
were being maybe victimized by this.
And so what I'm proud of the guys on, really,
is that we absolutely put a big dent
in the flow of the drugs, especially GHB,
coming into and being distributed
in the city of St. Louis.