Next Episode of Contraband: Seized at the Airport is
Season 2 / Episode 8 and airs on 21 April 2026 00:00
Follows Dept of Homeland Security officers at five different airports across the country, from San Francisco, Detroit, Newark, Atlanta, and Honolulu, as they search for contraband both leaving and coming into the US.Â
Two UK women are questioned after one of them barely resembles her passport photo, and the officer suspects her documents are forged; a man returning home from an antique coin auction provides an officer with an ancient history lesson.
When a traveler tells an officer he doesn't remember the code to open his suitcase, the bolt cutters come out; K9 Magnus alerts to a strange odor coming from the floor of a plane that just arrived from the Dominican Republic.
A man is referred for questioning after failing to declare the full contents of his luggage, which contains a half-cooked Ghanaian delicacy. At a vast CBP cargo facility in the United States, a K9 team sniffs out suspicious packages destined for London.
Rising tariffs tempt some citizens to go abroad to buy luxury goods, where items can be up to 40% cheaper, then bring them home without paying the proper duties. A traveler returning from Italy claims she has a $50,000 watch belonging to her brother.
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