PAL NORTE PART 2 ENGLISH

NOGALES, ARIZONA ... WHERE CONFISCATING MARIJUANA, COCAINE AND METHANFETAMINE

HAPPENS OFTEN... DISCOVERING NARCO TUNNELS IS A MATTER OF TIME.

SOT DANIEL HERNANDEZ BORDER PATROL AGENT

"THIS HAPPENED SEVERAL YEARS. THIS HAPPENED IN 2011. A CAR WOULD PARK HERE. PEOPLE
FROM THE MEXICAN SIDE WOULD BRING THE DRUG THROUGH A TUNNEL UNDER THIS STREET
AND LOAD THE VEHICLE HERE, THROUGH THE FALSE SIDEWALK THEY HAD THERE. "

THIS IS PAL NORTE.

TO THIS DAY, BORDER PATROL HAS COVERED 111 NARCO TUNNELS IN NOGALES. SOME
SUBTERRANEANS WERE LOCATED BESIDE THE PEDESTRIAN PORT OF ENTRY CALLED MORLEY.

"WE FOUND THIS ONE IN 2013. THIS DATE INDICATES THE DAY THAT WE REPAIRED THE HOLE."

A PERFORATION OF 8 INCHES TO THE ROUND WAS THE SMUGGLERS SECRET TO CROSS THE DRUGS.
BUT CYLINDER DUCTS WERE BUILT BY THE BORDER PATROL TO PREVENT THE ILLICIT ACTIVITY.

BRIDGE

THE BORDER PATROL HAS FOUND AND COVERED AT LEAST 200 CLANDESTINE TUNNELS
NATIONALLY, THANKS TO TRAINING IN WHICH AGENTS HAVE TO CROSS THROUGH CYLINDERS AND
TEST THEIR SKILLS.

"THESE TUNNELS RUN THROUGHOUT THE DESIGNATED AREA, ABOUT 400 FEET BURIED UNDER
GROUND."

EVEN THOUGH THE AGENTS SHOW AGILITY TO NAVIGATE THE STRAITS, IT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO
ERADICATE THE DRUGS WHEN THE DEMAND CONTINUES TO INCREASE, AFFIRMS THIS YOUNG MAN
FROM MASCAREÑAS, SONORA.

SOT MIGUEL PADILLA MARIJUANA TRAFFICKER

"PEOPLE HAVE TO EAT BROTHER, WE ARE IN MEXICO. WE’RE ON THIS SIDE, THE CLIENTS ARE ON
THAT SIDE. "

THEY ARE KNOWN AS THE BURREROS. THEY RISK THEIR LIFE CROSSING DRUGS THROUGH THE
DESERT. THEY KNOW THAT THE ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE SHOULD ARRIVE TO THE VALLEY OF THE SUN
DESPITE THE HIGH PATROLLING OF AUTHORITIES ON ROADS.

(NAT)

IT WAS 11 AT NIGHT… FRIDAY. WE WERE TRAVELING ON BOARD OF A POLICE UNIT NEAR 19TH
AVENUE AND VAN BUREN STREET IN PHOENIX IN SEARCH OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. THE SERGEANT
INFORMED THAT A WOMAN WAS DRIVING WITH PLATES THAT DID NOT MATCH THE YEAR AND
MODEL OF THE VEHICLE. SIMILAR SITUATIONS END IN CHARGES RELATED TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING
OR NARCOTICS, THE SERGEANT EXPLAINED.

"HE’S NOT GOING TO LET YOU. CAREFULLY. BE CAREFUL."

"ARE YOU RECORDING? BE CAREFUL."

AT GUNPOINT, MULTIPLE ELEMENTS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY SURROUNDED
THE SUSPECT. THEY DEMANDED TO ABANDON THE VEHICL...

IN THE CASE INVOLVING THIS WOMAN, SHE WILL BE INVESTIGATED UNTIL SHE IS DECLARED
INNOCENT OR GUILTY.

ULTIMATELY, THE WOMAN WAS ARRESTED AND WILL BE INVESTIGATED.

WE WERE ABLE TO WITNESS THE MOMENT IN WHICH AN OFFICER REMOVED THE PLATES AND
FOUND OTHERS [PLATES] INSIDE THE TRUNK. IT IS BELIEVED THAT THIS PERSON PLANNED TO PLACE
ONE OVER ANOTHER. USEFUL, ACCORDING TO THE AUTHORITIES, TO SMUGGLE DRUGS AND
SOMETIMES SNEAK IN HUMANS.

FOUR HOURS BEFORE THAT INCIDENT,

SOT DONOVAN HARRIS AZ DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECURITY

“THIS TRUCK WAS INVOLVED IN A HIT AND RUN…

…HE TRIED TO FLEE WHEN HE CAUSED THE VEHICULAR ACCIDENT ON THE INTERSTATE 10.”

THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE HAD LEFT THE SCENE BUT NEVER DID IT CROSS HIS MIND HE WOULD
DRIVE PASS THE OFFICIALS ON THE WAY. BEFORE THE PERSECUTION BEGAN, THE OFFICERS HAD
STOPPED WHEN THEY SAW AN ABANDONED VEHICLE.

THEY GOT IN THEIR POLICE VEHICLES IN SECONDS, LEAVING BEHIND OUR CAMERAMAN IN
ASSIGNMENT.

AFTER 10 MINUTES OF THE PERSECUTION, THE SUSPECT STOPPED AT A GASOLINE STATION.

"YOU ASKED HIM IF HE HAD SOMETHING TO DECLARE, WHAT DID HE TELL YOU?”

“HE SAID NO ... BUT I FOUND THIS GUN. INSIDE THERE IS ALSO 40 THOUSAND DOLLARS."

BRIDGE

AT THIS TIME WE CAN OBSERVE THE OFFICER MAKING THE SUSPECT AWARE OF THE
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS THAT HE HAS AS A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES. AND IT’S ALSO AT THIS
MOMENT THAT THEY WILL ASK HIM WHERE AND HOW WAS HE ABLE TO OBTAIN AT LEAST 40
THOUSAND DOLLARS IN CASH.

"WHEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WANT DRUGS, THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH DRUGS."

AND THERE ARE ALSO THOSE WHO ACCEPT DEDICATING THEMSELVES TO DRUG TRAFFICKING FOR
OF AMBITION,

"30 THOUSAND DOLLARS ... EASY. I MAKE THEM IN TWO DAYS BRO."

IT IS THE INCOME THAT THIS CONCEALED MAN SUPPOSEDLY GENERATES FOR EVERY 2 POUNDS OF
HEROIN HE RECEIVES EACH WEEK.

“I LIKE IT."

TOMORROW, HE REVEALS THE SECRETS OF THE KILLINGS THAT PRESUMABLY LED HIM TO SPEND 18
YEARS IN PRISON. A VERDICT THAT HE INDICATES WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED.

"THIS PLAN HAS NOT ENDED."