A Backpacker's WORST Nightmare | Border Patrol - Season 6 Episode 5

What have you got there? He says he's here for the World Cup. If it is a story, it is very well rehearsed, but Customs digs deep to find the truth that maybe there is evidence or real goods on your body that customers are interested in. A

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. Go up, but I'm not really sure what the stowaway this man brought is. He won't get a good welcome. Thanks in Auckland. The airport is busy and Customs is on high alert. They monitor arriving passengers through their bank of cameras that cover incoming passengers from the moment they step off the plane.

Customs also profiles each plane full of passengers arriving in the country. These men meet the criteria for suspicious travelers and have been diverted directly to the personalized search area. I have two South African gentlemen who say they don't know each other. I said they are here for the Rugby World Cup, but one of them is in a position to get tickets and the other is not. The men are wanted separately, but already one of them. He's getting uncomfortable. I will go up and speak fully with my superior officer, yes, but not at this time. I know, I know, I'm sorry, sir, it won't be long.

Customs officer Matt is focusing on the first man who was born in Ghana but has South African citizenship he has a wallet yes ok thank you sir what do you have there? What's that? That's his ID. If the men are here under false pretenses, they could also be potential smugglers, so with the detection dogs. on the scene, it's game over for these guys, it's a busy day for MPI at Auckland Airport, thanks, take a bite if you want, have you carried fruit in your bag in the last few days, bacon and egg, mmm Can the dog still smell?

That's why he likes your bed, his suitcases here, please, what is this meat? Oh, good boy, and now this man arriving from Guangzhou in southern China has some hidden surprises. You come to New Zealand for two years. Yes, we will see all that. Yes, okay, very good, the 47-year-old professor seems a little anxious, right, you have plenty of seats. Yes, I know this is a good place to grow vegetables. Yeah, well, I'm not sure. I'm not sure if you can bring them. the country so I will ask someone else to verify that for you all seeds are risky not only because of the introduction of species to compete with ours but because of the diseases and insects that could be lurking inside them.

It's a good place to grow some. vegetables like, sometimes, in other countries, okay, the man has declared some foods, but everything is identifiable, this type of mushroom is okay, okay, this is just ground hot chili peppers, okay, there is nothing else, pepper, hot chili, yeah, no problem, okay? you can bring that into the country, these are from the blueberry family, some spices, okay, Chinese spicy, okay, there are enough spices here to equip a Chinese restaurant and, although he hasn't brought the kitchen sink, it's not far away of kitchen utensils made. of wood, man is very well prepared, but the problem is not the processed products.

Well, no garlic allowed. Fresh garlic is a problem because you can harbor a lot of nematodes and anything you can drag on the ground and it's not the only potential danger lurking in this boring-looking mobile Chinese cantina. Well, travelers from Thailand are arriving at Queenstown airport and Customs is alert to the risk of arriving with them. A random check targets a

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and how did you travel? As? You go with us alone, eh, yes, or I was traveling alone, but then I went with German girls and then I thought about German girls. I've been traveling with them for about two, two, three weeks, so Ellen has run into the wrong crowd. while backpacking you've never had one never okay, well this is your iPod, do you use it a lot?

Yeah, well, just do a couple of iron scans here just to see if you're okay, it's nothing, nothing shows you anything, but I'm just going to do a few more to be absolutely sure, but just as Ellen was looking to get clear, the things start to go wrong, something came up, but I'm not really sure what it is that you use a lot, yeah. at Queenstown airport Ellen's bag tested positive because it's a bit worrying, it's on the handles of the backpack, which means if she had been in something like she was going out or something, it could be because she was in a club night or something like that. which is a

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scenario for any backpacker if the only thing they carry everywhere tests positive.

Warwick is calling his colleague. The percentage is very high. That's why. You've definitely only had one reading. I have done two other readings. on things that he has used like his iPod, which you know he uses a lot and the camera that he uses a lot and then I thought about making another one and I made it on the backpack handles, I try to find something like a go out shoe or belt that he would potentially use in a nightclub as the search continues to see if it's just limited to his backpack. Ellen remains calm under pressure.

The search inside the suspicious backpack reveals nothing and he still has no idea that there are traces of an illegal substance. They have been found, so in all your triples you have never taken. Do you ever go out to nightclubs? What shoes would you wear if you went to a nightclub? There's nothing there, but Warwick's search isn't over yet. At the biosafety counter in Auckland, a man has a pile of seeds in his bags and some of them aren't even packaged, but it's the raw rind that really catches the eye. We need to look closer at the bark because sometimes insects can lay eggs underneath. the farm and they are not very easily visible and that could be a threat that could be a problem.

What worries me most is the food and the unidentified. So that's why the man was singled out in the first place because he initially declared items upon his arrival. true, but our risk assessor ruled that we would like to do a full inspection of passengers' luggage and that was worth it. The man can still recover some of his confiscated products if they are proven not to be contaminated. Give them 10 or 15 minutes, thank you. I had a great time in New Zealand, so what's that weird crust? It smells exactly like cinnamon and what are the risks. We are only looking for insect droppings or any other signs of insect damage or presence.

Initially, insects are fresh or manure. liquid that then dries. I have a small amount of excrement here and in the Story, or there is or was some kind of insect here, oh, here we go. I found it when founding here, it just came out and it's alive and kicking this foreign insect could be anything, so how good is homian's knowledge about chinese insects? some kind of cockroach. You better contain her before she escapes, a female cockroach can produce over 300 eggs, having one loose is potentially disastrous here, these bugs are incredibly resilient. The species can go without air for 45 minutes and without food for a month, but this captive has no chance of not receiving a good welcome.

The fresh garlic is archived for later destruction, but there is still a ripe pile of questionable seeds to investigate. There are no botanical names on any of these foods, everything is in Chinese, it also has something you like, beans, whose entry would be prohibited anyway without a phytosanitary certificate due to the diseases and insects they can transmit, and here are others seeds that are not commercially packaged and are also full of contaminants, it looks like just little pieces of straw, but it is a dead snail and it looks like there are some contaminating seeds, furthermore, all the seeds will need to be destroyed, the man will not plant his own.

Chinese Garden in New Zealand in the short term. I would assume that the passenger already knew that some of these, well, we're not allowed to enter the country and he just wanted to try, but crossing the lines didn't work for the man and he won. It also doesn't work for the Cockroach. We're pretty good at detecting things at the

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in one way or another. At Auckland Airport. Two men claim to be in New Zealand for the World Cup, but their stories are suspicious and they could be taken away as the dog can't find anything, it won't be a minute, sir, I'm just going to take a couple of x-rays of your things, it's Well, everything is fine and the x-ray is clear too, but Matt isn't convinced, so he's paying special attention to the man's documents. with a couple of tickets, he says that he is here to attend the World Cup matches, so we have tickets to South Africa playing Namibia and Fiji.

They seem to be legit, but the guys upstairs just want to take a quick look to make sure everything is in order behind examining the guys from the frontline investigation team or first monitoring the men's reaction and the evidence to support their stories. It's my job to just get as much information as I can and then give it to them and let them make the decision that I. What I'm going to do now, the men say they first met at the airport before the flight left, but coincidentally they both meet. They head to Wellington later today.

Good job, he says he owns three beauty salons and a boutique. It's another strange coincidence for These apparent strangers both claim to be salon owners, so are they both lying or telling the truth with just their salons and boutiques? How many people do you employ? Five plus six, that's eleven and I have the other one. four of them, four okay, so you said you had three salons and a boutique. The boutique is for two people, then two people, then four, five and six, well as it delves into the history of the man. Matt constantly monitors the man's reaction, if it is a story, it is very good.

Rehearsed, he seems pretty genuine about it, but the devil is in the details when it comes to deception, when it's the Namibia game, the man is a little vague about the dates of the games he has tickets for, but it's a second wallet check what reaps the largest fines so far located a credit card that appears to be a Visa credit card, which made us suspect that it may not be 100% legitimate, a genuine Visa or whatever, A series of numbers and information will appear, but generally we will have a person's name. on it, what we find here with this one is that there is no name, it is just the cardholder and there are other indicators that the card is not legitimate, such as numbers that do not appear on the surface of the card, but that does not It's a whole other problem. with the card is that the numbers, if you look very closely, don't line up perfectly, which is obviously something you would expect from a bank-issued card.

The other man also remains under suspicion for fraudulently obtaining World Cup tickets if you look at his behavior. he's worried about something he's thinking about here he's looking around the bank confirms that the credit card Matt found hidden in the man's wallet is actually fake, well you have a lot there the men's stories are scarce their travel plans They are doubtful and now is the time. It's over, both men face a strip search. A seemingly innocent Swedish woman has been found with prices in her backpack in Queenstown, but is she really a backpacker she accepts? I'm just going to get the um, your luggage directly.

A backpack filled to the brim could be an I plan to confuse the X-ray image, but now the backpack is empty. Is there something hidden in its internal structure? Some things at the top I will see well. The rest of his belongings are cleaner, but his plans are to travel to India. For the next six months, Greg, Warwick's supervisor, is curious, so what's your occupation to be able to afford this trip? He was about to start questioning me a little about this. I've already done four iron scans and only one of them came back, not sorry.

Five iron skins are the straps of the large backpack that someone else could have touched, not even the male attendant of the women we know, I suppose he couldn't, but the location may prove to be a saving grace for Ellen, so can explain why? it's there, when I did a search Iron Skin on this bag, we came up with four percent, which is a derivative, okay, any idea how I could have gone there? Have you just saved money for your trip or how to choose your money for your trip? trips I was there when I was working in Sweden I stayed still I'm still staying home Ellen also worked in New Zealand for a year to help fund the rest of her OE and the story of her seems to be a good girl.

She has traveled a lot and is pretty clean, so I'm sorry you have to go through all this, but yes, she is free to travel before we continue. Ellen is learning that sometimes it pays to listen to mom's advice. My mom said that too and she said, Do I have to make sure to check your luggage when you're in Thailand because they're so similar? I was like, Yeah, yeah, no problem, and then when she said that, I was like, “I should probably listen.” For my mom at Auckland Airport, the biosecurity benches are packed once again,this time with adventurous travelers holding exotic souvenirs.

Hello, do you have food in the bag? No, today it's the wildlife issue that raises questions for a couple returning from Bolivia with one of the commonly seized souvenirs, well guys, the story is with this one, since we're going to have to fumigate it, so We can't bring it, you can bring it, but we will have to send it to be fumigated. I'm sure there is no disease or virus, yes, from transferring it to our animals in New Zealand, so there is a small charge for radio host Jesse from Tauranga and his Bolivian wife to keep this Croc, but the cost will affect your budget.

How much are we looking for? We are looking at the total price 35. We have 35 in our budget because the Bolivian crocodile is not protected, there are no restrictions on taking this little guy to a new home in New Zealand, where are you going to put him? It's a gift for my mom, so it's not going to my house, oh my god, memory trackers Jesse and Julia might be free to leave, but they're captive. Croc is taking a mandatory detour. Any taxidermy animal like this can definitely carry diseases that can be transferred to our animals, so I'll take this young lady.

I'll call her lady. She looks like a lady. Hasn't she come to our land to be packaged and taken to the treatment center to make her harmless? She's not your usual Christmas guest, but in just under a week this prickly character will take center stage at a very Kiwi celebration, so that's Angela's. Christmas gift, it's nice, isn't it? I prefer Chanel. Two men at Auckland Airport claim to be here for the World Cup. One man is under suspicion for fraudulently obtaining World Cup tickets and the other has a fake credit card found in a personal search. of both men is inevitable, the first is negative at this stage and has been brought in for further questioning via video interview by our investigations team and our next gentleman is about to be taken to his strip search, the man who Matt has been investigating resists the A personal search team is needed.

There are reasonable grounds to believe that there may be real evidence or assets in his body that the clients are interested in. The fake credit card. The lack of funds for his trip and the vague details have given Customs reasonable cause to search the man. So he's still there too. There is no way to escape a personal search. Five minutes later, the search is over, but what is the result? 149 negative. Despite questioning the need for a search, the man was not found carrying anything else illegal, but his fate is sealed. The investigation team is only going to ask him a few more questions.

They are going to confiscate the Rugby World Cup tickets that they bought with stolen credit card details. The Visa card has been arrested. Both men were denied entry to New Zealand. which is a job Congratulations to Matt and two less scammers coming to New Zealand thanks to the Rugby World Cup.