The WORST episodes of To Catch a Smuggler

Every episode of To Catch a Smuggler ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of To Catch a Smuggler!

Millions enter the US through airports each year, and hid amongst them are a stream of contraband. DHS will stop at nothing to catch these smugglers.

Last Updated: 11/4/2024Network: National GeographicStatus: Continuing

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#1 - 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.

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#2 - Junk in the Trunk

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/26/2023

An HSI stakeout leads to nearly $500K of meth and fentanyl in San Diego. CBP finds concealed cash and a carload of cocaine at the El Paso border.

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#3 - 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.

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#4 - To the Grinder

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/9/2023

HSI Orange County performs 3 undercover drug stings with multiple arrests. CBP finds cocaine hidden under a vehicle's backseat in Rio Grande Valley.

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#5 - Money Dog

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/16/2023

CBP's K9 sniffs out stacks of hidden cash in Atlanta. HSI air surveillance tracks a multi-level drug deal in San Diego, seizing $2 million of dope.

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#6 - Fentanyl Express

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/23/2023

After fentanyl bust at JFK, CBP blitzes food courier bags. SD HSI arrests dealer trying to ship kilo of fentanyl to NY. CBP RGV finds meth and weed.

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#7 - Gold Diggers

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/2023

HSI helps Colombian National Police take down illegal gold mining ring. CBP finds almost $1.5 million cartel drug haul at RGV port in Texas.

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#8 - Meth Magnets and Dirty Money

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/6/2023

HSI runs multiple money laundering stings in Chicago. CBP has two of the largest crystal meth seizures in LAX history.

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#9 - Drugs, Guns and Money

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/5/2020

CBP JFK finds drugs concealed in cans, HSI Miami stops a date rape drug from hitting the streets, and CBP LAX suspects a woman of marriage fraud.

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#10 - 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.

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#11 - 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.

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#12 - 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.

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#13 - 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.

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#14 - 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.

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#15 - 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.

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#16 - 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.

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#17 - 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.

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#18 - Weed In, Weed Out

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

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

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#19 - Blitzed at the Border

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

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

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#20 - Spiced and Loaded

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

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

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#21 - These Bedsheets Are Dope!

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

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

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#22 - Lockdown Lockup

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2021

CBP finds a smuggler of so-called “crazy pills” at JFK and responds to the COVID-19 crisis on the southern border, seizing over 800 lbs of meth.

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#23 - Cocaine Rides in the Crew Cab

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/13/2023

HSI runs a human trafficking sting at a KC hotel. CBP in Philly is on the hunt for a passenger suspected of making terroristic threats in the US.

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#24 - Hidden Compartments

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/17/2021

HSI takes to the streets of Brooklyn to arrest the person picking up a suitcase of cocaine. CBP catches a man who has swallowed 85 pellets of cocaine.

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#25 - Flesh, Bones, Ketamine and Drones

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/12/2024

CBP discovers ketamine and human remains in packages from Europe. U.S. Border Patrol intercepts smugglers bringing migrants across the Rio Grande.

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