Next Episode of Contraband: Seized at the Airport is
Season 2 / Episode 11 and airs on 12 May 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
Officers identify a powder used to make designer drugs, and the search begins for where it came from and who it was for. Officers receive a tip-off about a traveler from someone who supposedly knows her well, saying she's planning to smuggle drugs.
A traveler claims he's shocked by the discovery of a firearm in his luggage; officers question a luxury fountain pen maker; her story of coming to the U.S. for a vacation raises suspicions that she may be planning to work while she's here.
Officers investigate an academic returning from the Dominican Republic with dead specimens; a tip comes in about a traveler running a massage parlor linked to sex trafficking. Drugs worth $1,000,000 are intercepted before leaving the United States.
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.
A passenger arriving from Cairo has brought some extra carry-ons that interest officers; an American fashion designer returning from Paris fails to declare nearly $20,000 worth of luxury goods; a bag of snails from West Africa raises suspicions.
Officers grow suspicious of a traveler who is about to board his second flight within 24 hours to and from Canada. After closer inspection, a traveler claiming to have arrived in the U.S. for a solo vacation appears to have lied on his visa application.
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