The BEST episodes of To Catch a Smuggler

#1 - Cocaine Shoes

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/7/2021

Hidden among the millions who enter the U.S. through JFK, MIA and ATL is dangerous contraband. DHS will stop at nothing to catch these smugglers.

#2 - Decoys, Diversions and Drug Busts

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2020

HSI and CBP team up to stop drugs from coming through JFK, and in Miami, a passenger with ties to a known drug smuggler is questioned.

#3 - Episode 5

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/13/2025

#4 - Snitching on Mom

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/6/2025

CBP El Paso uncovers a massive meth load in a railcar; HSI Miami investigates a counterfeit passport ring, with a son implicating his own mother.

#5 - Meth Hot Chili Peppers

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/30/2025

HSI finds illegal guns in Miami; CBP seizes meth.

#6 - Blow Aboard!

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/23/2025

AMO discovers suitcases packed with cocaine aboard a ferry in Puerto Rico. CBP stops multiple travelers with opioid pills across the southern border.

#7 - Meth-Mom Mayhem

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2025

HSI busts meth smugglers in San Diego; CBP intercepts drug body carriers.

#8 - Meth Inside the Machine

Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/2024

#9 - Drugs, Bugs and the Big Buy-Bust

Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2024

#10 - Blitzed at the Border

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/11/2024

CBP in McAllen faces a possible bomb; HSI arrests fentanyl traffickers.

#11 - Weed In, Weed Out

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/4/2024

Border Patrol chases suspect fleeing arrest; CBP stops weed leaving U.S.

#12 - Meth Lab Takedown

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/19/2021

HSI tails a truck loaded with narcotics to a meth compound near Los Angeles, and CBP discovers fentanyl and meth in cars using trusted traveler lanes.

#13 - Mega Millions Meth Stash

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/12/2021

While inspecting commercial cargo from Mexico, Laredo CBP discovers liquid meth concealed within paint buckets. In Atlanta, HSI conducts a controlled delivery of an air conditioner filled with 2 kgs of meth.

#14 - Express Delivery Ecstasy

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/2021

CBP finds multiple doses of lethal fentanyl hidden within passenger cars, and CBP Newark searches for an illegal stowaway onboard a cargo ship.

#15 - Fentanyl Within

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/21/2021

CBP Nogales busts a man internally smuggling fentanyl from Mexico. HSI delves into the dark web to stop a deadly party drug linked to overdoses.

#16 - No Rest for the Wicked

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/2/2024

A 48-hour sting leads HSI to a stash house; CBP finds drugs in gas tanks.

#17 - Ice Cold Cocaine

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/28/2023

CBP in El Paso finds $1M of cocaine hidden in a refrigerated cargo truck. LA HSI executes controlled delivery and arrests recipient of date rape drug.

#18 - Spiced and Loaded

Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/22/2024

HSI tails vehicle transporting meth; CBP seizes looted Ukrainian relics.

#19 - These Bedsheets Are Dope!

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/25/2024

CBP Dulles finds outbound drugs; Border Patrol tracks human smugglers.

#20 - Mobile Meth

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/28/2021

CBP New York discovers priceless shipments of looted ancient artifacts. CBP Newark intercepts stolen luxury cars headed for the overseas black market.

#21 - My Big Fat Weed Run

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/29/2024

CBP finds weed worth $200k inside a passenger's luggage. HSI in Colombia raids apartment filled with counterfeit sneakers. CBP finds coke in a bumper.

#22 - Not My Meth

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/1/2024

A mother crossing by car with her kids is caught smuggling cocaine in El Paso. AMO shoots out the engine of a boat loaded with coke in Puerto Rico.

#23 - Guac and Coke

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/2022

CBP finds 142 kilos of coke in a shipment of avocados in Florida, while CBP, HSI and Border Patrol pursue human smuggling leads in Texas.

#24 - Asleep on Lots of Coke

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/2/2023

PR AMO team hunts down boat loaded with $41M of coke. CBP gets a tip about money smugglers and finds cocaine and people inside car trunks.

#25 - Cocaine Sausages

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2020

CBP gets the truth out of a suspicious Nigerian passenger arriving at LAX. HSI zeroes in on food couriers smuggling narcotics into JFK.