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00:10Tonight on Border Security
00:12If you were in the States, I'm very famous
00:14A notorious party girl arrives to a mixed reception
00:18Why are we getting cocaine meetings?
00:20Her lifestyle may have just caught up with her
00:22I'm just here for a trip
00:24That's the number one test we want to keep out of Australia
00:27A dangerous brew causes double trouble
00:30And he's here for love
00:34She was like, call me when you get to Brisbane
00:36But this phone call may not be the news his girlfriend expected
00:54At Sydney Airport, a passenger has just arrived on a flight from the US
00:59She says she's here for an all-expenses-paid trip with her Las Vegas girlfriends
01:05You're a friend that you've met in Melbourne, that's the girl
01:07What's her name, sorry?
01:08Shawna, she's in Melbourne already
01:09She called and asked if I wanted to come
01:11And I was like, sure
01:12How many other girls did she organise the trip for?
01:15There's me, and then Heidi, and then Shawna and Madison
01:20And they're all from Vegas as well?
01:22Uh-huh
01:23And when did she purchase his bag?
01:24Was it just recently or was this?
01:25Uh, yeah, I just got it in Hong Kong
01:27In Hong Kong? When was that?
01:29It took about two weeks ago
01:32Two weeks ago, you were in Hong Kong?
01:34And how long were you there from now?
01:35About five days, we went to Hong Kong and then we went to Macau
01:39Okay
01:40So, did you pay for that trip?
01:42Did you pay for that?
01:43No, that was my good friend, Andy
01:45You travelled two weeks ago?
01:46You're travelling again now?
01:47Yes
01:48You got time off work to do all this travel?
01:50Uh-huh
01:50Yeah?
01:51I do
01:52How many weeks you got off work?
01:55Um, I'm an actress
01:56So, you know what I mean?
01:57I get booked whenever I get booked
01:58Okay
01:59It's kind of like a job that's not very steady
02:03Sometimes I'm broke, sometimes I'm rich
02:05You know what I mean?
02:16An X-ray of bags belonging to an Australian passenger returning from Vietnam
02:22has revealed parcels of a curious-looking mix
02:26Within one of the parcels is a small packet containing a white powder
02:30that will need to be tested for drugs by Customs and Border Protection
02:35It's about to test for some narcotics or explosives as per that white substance that we saw on the bench
02:42Meanwhile, quarantine officers are having a closer look at the unusual mix
02:47Okay, so what do you do?
02:48Do you drink this or?
02:50Oh, drink
02:51You drink it?
02:51Yeah, yeah
02:52So, this here, you said to the customs officer, tea, correct?
02:58Yeah
02:58But this is plant material, correct?
03:01That one?
03:02Yeah, I wrong
03:03I, I wrong
03:04I think here
03:05Yeah?
03:06No, I think
03:07You ticked that one?
03:09Yeah
03:09I, I wrong
03:10You did it wrong?
03:11Yeah
03:11Officers are concerned the medicinal tea that includes dried plant material and even snake
03:18could also be harboring pests and diseases
03:21Are you a farmer?
03:22Yeah
03:22Have you bought any seeds for the farm?
03:26Seeds?
03:26No
03:27This one?
03:28No seed
03:28No
03:28No
03:29This one?
03:29Ah, and there's one?
03:30Not yet
03:31This one, seeds?
03:33Tablet, the same tablet
03:34Tablet
03:35Yeah, yeah
03:36As the officers pick through the ingredients, they are shocked to find large bugs crawling through the tea
03:43So, that certainly looks like caper beetle to me and that's the number one pest we want to keep out
03:48of Australia
04:00At Brisbane Immigration, officers are preparing to interview an Israeli man on his second visit to Australia in six months
04:09With his girlfriend already in the country, he has plans to drive down the coast to meet with her
04:15She went to Melbourne and I came here to go to Cairns, Port Douglas, because we've still got a car
04:21back in Port Douglas
04:22During a bag search, suspicious rent receipts were uncovered that could suggest he was living and working in Port Douglas
04:30in breach of his visa
04:32So, what month was that, that you arrived in Port Douglas?
04:35Oh, that's a hard question
04:40I reckon it was around September, yeah, I don't really know
04:45Yeah, that's the rent receipts that you've got
04:48And so, what did you do for that time between September and October?
04:53Well, in the beginning I didn't do much
04:55I was just, my girlfriend got a job in a fish plant, in a fish restaurant
05:01Fish restaurant, yeah
05:03And then, so what did you do while she was working?
05:06Yeah, well, in the beginning I did nothing much
05:09But eventually I got really bored
05:11So, when I did get the option
05:14I found something
05:17Like I found a job
05:19You found the job?
05:29Officers want to establish how this American passenger funds her lavish lifestyle
05:35I'm an actress
05:36So, you act
05:38Well, hopefully someday
05:41Yeah
05:41What do you do to pay the bills?
05:43I act
05:44So, your acting supports you or do you do other work as well?
05:49Who am I acting?
05:50And, I mean, to be honest with you
05:53I'm kind of broke right now
05:56It's kind of hard to do anything right now
05:58That's why we're on vacation
06:01Somebody else is paying for
06:04Her frequent free travel raises alarm bells
06:09And officers will test her handbag for traces of narcotics
06:13But she insists there's no cause for concern
06:16This probably doesn't matter
06:18But I used to miss Las Vegas
06:19Like the Miss USA pageant
06:21So, I'm kind of famous
06:22If you were in the States
06:24I'm very famous
06:38Immigration is interviewing a young Israeli traveller
06:42Who has arrived back to Australia
06:44To reunite with his girlfriend
06:46But he has just made the startling admission
06:49Of previously working in breach of his tourist visa
06:53Like, I found a job
06:54You found a job?
06:55Yeah
06:55Like, I'm working in a construction site
06:59So, you were working full-time
07:01Or how many days and how many hours?
07:03Well, it was five days a week
07:05I was just 7 to 3.30, something like that
07:10He was supposed to pay me 150 days
07:13Yeah, he didn't pay me as much as he should have
07:15And he cancelled the cheque as well
07:17Like, when I left
07:19I'm just going to go and discuss these details with my supervisor
07:22And then we'll return to talk about it further
07:25Okay?
07:26Sweet
07:26Working while on a tourist visa
07:29Is a serious offence
07:30And is strong grounds to send him back home to Israel
07:34Maybe the real mistake was
07:36I'm not going to work
07:38Like, I didn't come here for work anyway
07:40Not in the first place
07:42And now I just came to travel
07:43What I did, I just did
07:45Because, yeah
07:48It was killing me
07:49Sitting around doing nothing
07:51It seems his girlfriend was anxious
07:53He might have trouble crossing the border
07:56She gave me some coins
07:57And she was like
07:58Call me when you get to Brisbane
07:59So I know that the immigration
08:01Didn't give you any shit and stuff
08:02I didn't call her yet
08:04So she'd probably be a bit nervous by now
08:07If he is sent home
08:08It could be months
08:10Before he sees his girlfriend again
08:27Quarantine has discovered a suspicious similarity
08:30Within several parcels sent from Hong Kong
08:33And officers decide to refer the items
08:36Over to Customs and Border Protection
08:38This is the fifth consignment of this haul
08:40That we received today
08:41It's all going
08:42It's all the same handwriting
08:44Oh, okay
08:45And how many roughly are these in each box?
08:47Four in each box
08:48Four in each box
08:49Might come out and have a look
08:51Okay
08:54So these are all the parcels then?
08:56Yep
08:56The reason we can't pass it through quarantine
08:59Yep
08:59Is because it's got dried skim milk powder
09:01Okay
09:02And Hong Kong is not an FMD free country
09:05Oh, okay, no
09:06So it's not foot and mouth free then?
09:07Nah
09:09As you can see the handwriting looks exactly the same
09:12And he's passing
09:13So they've all declared the same sort of thing?
09:15Yeah
09:15It is the same writing
09:16Yeah
09:16And they're going to different people
09:18At different suburbs
09:20It seems unusual that an individual
09:23Would go to the trouble of importing the product
09:25As it's already available in Australia
09:28Officers think something just doesn't add up
09:30Might have to test one of these
09:39Okay
09:39A passenger returning from Vietnam
09:41Has failed to declare an exotic medicinal tea
09:45That's infested with what officers suspect
09:48Is a dangerous pest
09:49That certainly looks like capra beetle to me
09:52And that's the number one pest we want to keep out of Australia
09:55The one that can destroy our crops at great rates
09:59If it got into Australia and proliferated
10:01A mysterious white powder has also been found
10:05Concealed inside one of the packages
10:07And has been sent off to be tested for drugs
10:10In this case we're looking for narcotics
10:13Tested the white paper
10:14It's come up a negative result
10:16Which is a good thing
10:18The tea is still a huge problem
10:21But the officers are concerned that the passenger
10:24Is not able to understand the declaration card
10:27I'm just wondering about her level of comprehension
10:30Of, you know, even her own native language
10:33Of Vietnamese
10:33Though she's considering that medicine
10:35We're saying it's maybe medicine
10:38But it's also a seed
10:39A seed as well, yeah
10:40Okay
10:40A decision has been made
10:42And Officer Lisa will inform the passenger
10:45I believe today you have made a mistake
10:48But we need to make you aware
10:52That next time you travel
10:54If you are bringing any of this into the country
10:57You must declare
10:58You keep on
10:59I will have to keep all of this
11:02It will not be allowed to go out
11:04Okay?
11:05Yeah, yeah
11:06Yeah, I know
11:08There's three and a half kilos of goods here
11:10Pretty much all of it is contaminated with insects
11:13It's a good find
11:14Especially since these goods were going straight to a farm
11:36Officers have just swabbed the handbag of a former Miss Nevada
11:40And it's returned a positive reading for traces of cocaine
11:45I have concerns as to why we're getting cocaine readings from this bag
11:49I do too
11:50Because I don't do drugs
11:52No?
11:53No
11:53You bought this bag
11:54Uh-huh
11:55In Hong Kong
11:56Yeah, in Hong Kong about two weeks ago
11:58Is it a coffee?
11:59No, it's real
11:59How do you afford a real Louis?
12:01My friend bought it for me
12:03You've got a lot of good friends
12:05Lucky girl
12:06I live in Las Vegas
12:07While Officer Stephen swabs her laptop
12:10Supervisor Karen x-rays her designer handbag
12:14To check for any possible concealments
12:16This is where we're getting the readings from
12:21Could be in the handles or a fake bottom
12:23But this appears to be okay
12:27So officers now test the swab from her laptop
12:35That was the laptop
12:39Okay, that was the laptop
12:40This time that's cocaine readings too
12:42I know, I hear that
12:44Why?
12:45I don't know
12:45I don't do cocaine
12:46I don't use cocaine
12:47I don't do drugs whatsoever
12:48I don't use cocaine
12:49I don't use any kind of pill
12:51No kind of Xanax
12:53No anything
12:53I don't use anything
13:01After admitting to previously working illegally on a tourist visa
13:05Jonathan needs to convince immigration to let him cross the border
13:09And reunite with his girlfriend
13:12As I told you before, I wasn't planning on working here
13:17That's not what I'm here for
13:18I just came to travel
13:20I know what I did was wrong
13:22Like it's not like I'm stupid and all that
13:24I wasn't supposed to
13:26But I just did it because I had nothing else to do
13:31And that's about it
13:32Okay, is there anything else that you would like to add?
13:37No, that's it
13:38Okay
13:38Now, with no reason to allow him entry
13:42It's a straightforward decision for immigration
13:45Due to the reasons that you have breached your work condition
13:50Against your visitor visa
13:51And also the fact that you admitted working as a labourer for one month
13:55So today your visa has been cancelled
13:59Yeah, well I'd like to talk to my girlfriend
14:01Because she's probably a bit worried
14:03I was supposed to call her when I landed
14:06Okay
14:07Ring her right now if you like
14:20Jonathan's girlfriend is struggling with the news that he's being sent home
14:24And he could be excluded from returning for three years
14:29Passengers make promises to us during an interview that they'll definitely not work this time
14:34But because he was pretty straightforward with his admissions
14:38And the reasons in which he did work
14:41We have to take all that into account and consider would he do that again
14:59Several suspicious boxes arriving from Hong Kong
15:02Containing packets of a malted milk drink are being closely examined
15:07Some of the ceiling on the bottom looks different to the actual ceiling on the top
15:11Which might be the original seals
15:12And the bottom seals just slightly different
15:19It's a white powder
15:20It looks very fine
15:22There appears to be no smell to it at all
15:24Which is odd
15:25So we're just going to run a street lab across that
15:27To try and see what it might be
15:29Yeah, that should be enough in there
15:31The street lab has actually got about 101 different things configured into it
15:36From drugs to sugar to table sugar to salt
15:39So it can tell us exactly what any substance is
15:43The 20 packets weigh almost 18 kilos
15:47And a positive test could prove this to be one of the most brazen attempts
15:52To import narcotics through the mail system
16:21Despite her friendly demeanor
16:24Officers are still concerned about
16:26Two unexplained narcotics readings
16:29And how she is funding her trip
16:31The booking at the casino will be under
16:34Shauna's boyfriend's name
16:35Is that correct?
16:36I don't know, ma'am
16:37I'm so sorry
16:38I don't know
16:39I don't know
16:40I just
16:41This is all the information I have
16:42I came to be with my girlfriend
16:43Who I hang out with in Las Vegas all the time
16:46I'm a Miss USA contestant
16:47I mean, I just
16:48I'm so sorry that this has happened
16:50But I can't answer your question
16:54And you don't know Shauna's family name
16:56I don't know
16:57I don't know
16:57I know, ma'am
16:58I don't know
16:58I'm sorry
16:59I don't know
17:00That's right
17:01Yeah, she is
17:02I'm just flying out here
17:03I call my parents
17:04I ask them permission
17:05I just came out here
17:06Just for a trip with my girlfriend
17:07I just didn't want to be in the United States anymore
17:09I'm sorry
17:10I don't need to get upset with you
17:12Of course
17:12But I don't know how to answer a question
17:14That you've asked me a bunch of times
17:16I'm sorry
17:16I can't change the answer for you
17:17I don't know, ma'am
17:19I just wanted to get out of the country
17:21I just wanted to have a good time
17:22Yes, I do know Shauna
17:23But I don't know her last name
17:24Her limited knowledge of her travel companions worries officers
17:28Do you think that's unusual
17:30That you've been on a trip?
17:32She's a really good friend
17:33I trust my friend
17:34And you don't know her last name?
17:36Very strange
17:38You're pretty healthy
17:39See if anything changes
17:43Now the former Miss Las Vegas
17:45Is fast losing her patience
17:48I don't even do this stuff
17:50This is so stupid
17:51Do you want a glass of water?
17:53No, I want to go home
18:11Don't ask me a million questions
18:12About whether I'm a escort
18:13Or whether this is really my friend
18:15I'm just here for a trip
18:19What you need to do is sit down
18:21Take a deep breath
18:21And get control of yourself
18:23Because all we're trying to establish
18:25I know, but it's just
18:25I'm not an escort
18:27I know, but I'm not an escort
18:29And I don't want my
18:30I mean, it sounds so stupid
18:32But it's just
18:33It hurts
18:33It's just really bothering me
18:35I'm a good person
18:36I'm not concerned that you're being an escort
18:37No
18:37I'm concerned about
18:39The concealment of narcotics
18:41That's what my concern is
18:42I understand
18:42But I don't even
18:43The thing is
18:44It would be different
18:44If I could even admit to you
18:45That I do this stuff
18:46I don't even do this stuff
18:47I don't do drugs
18:48I have too much going from here
18:49That I'm trying to go
18:50For my life
18:51That I don't want to ruin my life
18:52You know what I'm saying
18:53So I don't know where they're coming from
18:55I just want to get this resolved
18:56Because I would never come to an Australian
18:59Me too
18:59Or to another country
19:00And be dumb enough to bring you on
19:02Like, that's dumb
19:04Well, we'll be back soon
19:06Supervising officer Karen
19:08Will now try and contact
19:09The passengers' companions
19:11And compare their stories
19:13I believe what you're saying
19:14I just have to go
19:15Go through the process
19:16No, I know
19:17Because it is a little bit strange
19:18But so far
19:19You're explaining this all
19:20I went and spoke to her travelling companion
19:22Their stories were similar
19:23But not textbook rehearsed
19:25So what she was saying
19:27Added up
19:28Be safe
19:29Well
19:30I'll be good too
19:34Even though to me
19:35It seemed bizarre
19:37The world's a funny place
19:38People do unusual things
19:40And that doesn't always mean
19:41They're drug couriers
19:43But it was certainly something
19:44That had to be investigated thoroughly
19:46And we did
19:47And she's gone now
19:48On her way
19:49I think I almost just peed my pants
19:51To be honest with you
19:53I'm shocked
19:54I'm from Las Vegas
19:55So you never know
19:57What the heck's gonna be around out there
19:58And I think
19:59Gosh, I don't have anything on me
20:01Because I don't do any supportive illegal activity
20:04But Las Vegas apparently does
20:22A suspicious looking powder
20:24Found within malted milk packets
20:27Has just tested positive for traces of narcotics
20:30Tells me that it's pseudoephedrine
20:32So all we can do now
20:34Is we want to test for ephedrine
20:35To see if it is or not
20:37Pseudoephedrine is a precursor chemical
20:39Used illegally to produce methamphetamine
20:42The extremely dangerous drug
20:44That is known on the street as ice
20:47It's gone the bluish colour
20:49And it looks like it's slowly turning purple
20:50So looking at the test now
20:52I'd say that it's ephedrine
20:53And it looks like we have a fair amount of ephedrine
20:55For the post
20:56This is an extremely large seizure
20:58Because we usually deal with small amounts of mail
20:59And things like that
21:00In all
21:0120 packages are seized
21:03Containing 18 kilograms of pseudoephedrine
21:06When processed with other substances
21:09This much pseudoephedrine
21:11Can make more than 40 kilograms of ice
21:14Which has a staggering street value
21:16Of over 16 million dollars
21:19What we'll do now
21:20Is refer this on to Customs Investigation Unit
21:22And from this
21:24They'll try and catch the criminals involved
21:41Next week on Border Security
21:43Two men are questioned
21:45It's very, very nervous
21:47Officers think there could be a sinister connection
21:49They reckon this one might be internal
21:51So if you're thinking that one as well
21:53A terrifying x-ray image
21:55Forces an airport evacuation
21:57It appears that it could be
21:59Some sort of explosive device
22:00And this man's future plans
22:02Are shattered at the border
22:04You're going to give me back?
22:06No, no, it will be destroyed
22:10That's Border Security
22:12Oh yeah, let go!
22:12Well done for their wireless