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Cocaine Wars: Airport Sting

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A close look at an X-ray scan of a passenger who was selected to go through the Body Scanner for additional screening at the El Dorado Airport in Bogota. The Body Scanner workers examine the scans for cocaine pellets.
The American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Colombia investigate an elusive smuggling ring of American servicemen, capturing a drug mule posing as a mountain climber with liquid cocaine impregnated into his climbing rope. Later, a Colombian man gets busted with pellets of cocaine in his stomach, and a father attempts to smuggle drugs out of Colombia with his 3-year-old daughter in tow.

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