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Previously on The Trade...

[James] There's criminal organizations,

and their goal is to do the United States harm.

We disrupt them, we dismantle them,

we arrest them.

And ultimately, we remove them.

We know what you do. You cannot lie.

She's pregnant and she's pretty deep into it.

[man on phone] Are you kidding me?

I don't think she's looking to flee.

You know, if she does, she does. We'll find her.

Son of a bitch.

[man speaking Spanish]

[indistinct chatter in Spanish]

[siren wailing]

[man shouts in Spanish]

[man speaking Spanish]

[indistinct shouting]

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[indistinct shouting]

[man speaking Spanish]

[applause]

[applause]

[Silva]

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[singing in Spanish]

[Spanish]

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[woman]

[speaking Spanish]

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[Don Miguel]

-[dog barking] -[speaking Spanish]

-[man speaking over walkie] -[Spanish]

[gun cocks]

[Don Miguel]

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[woman] Substance use disorder runs in my family.

Three out of four of my grandparents died

from the disease of addiction.

And that was before the OxyContin got introduced

into our-- our society.

I'm also the mother of a young lady

who found her way to and through recovery.

Let's take our power back. Let's tell our stories

about our beautiful families

that are loved and valuable and precious human beings.

[cheering, applause]

[Laura]

[Dan]

This is my friend, Cindy. Cindy and Susie. This is Kim.

-Hi, nice to meet you. -Her son's in recovery, Ryan.

Oh, okay. My daughter is as well.

[man] Really what we do, we do services for guys

who are coming out of detox...

[Laura] Our son, Andrew, is 26 years old

and is on the run.

He is a drug addict and hiding from police.

Your story just touched my heart so much.

We're gonna get rid of this disease.

-I'm telling you, we are. -We're gonna conquer it,

one way or another.

[Laura] Every day the phone rings,

you wonder if that's gonna be the time

that you get the call

that they're not here anymore.

-Hey, how are you? -How are you?

-Hi. -How about you?

-I'm okay. -Good. Good to see you.

-You too. -These are my friends.

These are from Akron Say No to Dope.

-Hi! -This is Laura.

-Todd. Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you, Todd.

-Dan. Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.

-And Chris. That's Chris Kimmel. -How you doing?

-How are you, Chris? -Pleasure.

We've got a son that's missing,

and he's too afraid to come...

-He's on the run. -...forward. Yeah.

He's underground. Um, so...

He's got warrants. One is for felony fleeing.

-[woman] -Yeah.

But see, I don't know where he's at.

It's-- it was two months between phone calls, so...

Well, we think it's somewhere between, like,

Albrecht and High Grove.

Carter. I'm gonna bring up a picture.

All right, thanks, Chris. Thanks, Todd.

I appreciate it. You helped my heart.

[Chris] We will help you out.

Hey, baby.

Okay. Let's go walk.

How are you guys?

Good. Did you guys lose somebody or have somebody...

Okay. But at least you know they're alive and they're safe.

-That's the biggest thing. -That's how I look at it.

Mm-hm. Every little step of the way.

[all chanting] Hope after heroin!

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[phone rings]

[Laura] Hey, Chris.

[Chris on phone]

Uh-huh.

Mm-hm.

Okay.

When I drove down the street to his friend's house,

I saw a beat-up Mazda.

I told ya, I know it.

I know it, Chris.

He's...

I know.

I'll call the judge on Monday morning.

And we'll see if we can't work something out.

But, I mean, if he'll at least talk to...

Tell him that.

Say we'll pick you up Monday morning

and we'll walk into the courtroom with you then.

I'll pay for the airline ticket.

All right, I just gotta make sure...

I don't wanna-- make sure I can do what I say.

I know, I know. And it's okay.

I'm patient. I've waited a long time.

I will wait longer.

I'm gonna go tell Dan real quick.

-I'll be right back. -Okay.

So listen, Chris has already been on it.

And the text that he got back says

he doesn't want to go to jail.

He wants treatment, but he doesn't want to go to jail.

Okay.

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[beeping]

You didn't see anything, right, Mike?

Take a look at this.

The vehicle was driven by two male Hispanics.

We found three kilos of brown heroin.

It's about the width of a tire.

[phone rings]

Hello?

Yeah, I'm just down here at the county garage.

I'm just going through this car, search warrant...

What do you guys got?

Whoa.

It's, uh... 1:00. I will be there at 1:30.

[James] I'm gonna visit our suspect, the pregnant female.

We were concerned that she had fled the area,

but we were able to track her down.

She's clearly a boss for central Ohio.

She receives directions directly from Mexico.

Her shipments of heroin come directly from Mexico.

They're gonna want to intimidate her,

threaten her, possibly harm her.

But we're gonna need to get her on Team America

before that happens.

-Hi, Edith. -Hi.

-You wanna go inside? Okay. -Yeah.

This letter's to advise you that you are a target

-of a federal investigation. -Mm-hm.

Tell me what happened on Saturday

when your boss called you. What happened?

No, you know, because I called him and I told him

I lost everything, I don't have the stuff,

I don't have nothing.

You told him that you lost all the heroin?

Are you scared?

Yeah.

The guy that's been here before?

Yeah.

What's your boss's name, by the way?

I... But he lived here,

and he comes to visit you every two months.

So you know his name. What's his name?

[bleeped out]

Okay. I need to be able to tell

the United States attorney

that, okay, when I talked to Edith,

-we-- we talked the truth. -Yeah.

Uh, and I can't, you know, right now I can't say that.

So what I need to know, Edith,

is how many kilos come at one time to this house?

Okay, how often do two kilos come here?

[laughs] No, you have-- So when we were here,

you had more than two kilos here.

We took 17 packages that had been opened and used.

That's 17 kilos. We took an additional three kilos.

That's 20 kilos.

Okay, so at least 20 were here

at one particular time.

How--

It's in your bedroom. It's where you live every night.

I know you know what a kilo is.

And I know you know how many kilos were at your house

because everybody keeps track of this.

And you know that it goes straight back to Mexico,

how much you owe, how much was sold,

how much was here, and how much is coming.

At some point in time, Edith, I have to be able

to show that this wasn't just you,

that you're not the ringleader

of a large-scale heroin operation in Columbus, Ohio.

That you work for somebody.

And if you can't show me and demonstrate to me

that there is somebody else,

then it just looks like it's you.

So I want you to know,

as we're looking at each other in the eyes,

stop with your bullshit.

Yeah, he's over here at Barbie's.

He contacted us last week,

and he finally came home on Saturday.

Just really helping Andrew to... detox,

uh, since we couldn't take him anywhere.

You know, he's got felony warrants, so...

[woman on phone]

Uh, the guys do seem.

And they work with Judge Teodosio on a regular basis

-in drug court, so... -Yeah.

You know, we're-- we're looking at our options.

If we don't have any here, if there's no beds available,

then we wanna look to see

where we might be able to go elsewhere, so...

All right, thanks. Love you. Bye-bye.

1,591 centers.

I wonder how many have a bed.

I just called a place in Orange, California

called Nationwide Recovery that a friend of mine got into.

And unfortunately, he overdosed before he got there.

[Todd] I know there's a program in Florida that's a year.

-[Laura] Where at? -[Todd] Faith Farm in Florida.

That's an expensive one, isn't it?

-I don't know. -I don't know.

Let me try one more time.

Uh, yes. Uh, I was just wondering about your program.

-[woman on phone] Okay. -I have a client

that we're trying to place in an out-of-state treatment

due to our rehabilitation centers being to capacity.

-Okay. -And I was just wondering

if you would have a bed available,

possibly next week?

Okay. I'm probably gonna take your phone number

and find out if we have any space available.

Okay.

Do you guys accept, uh, Medicaid?

We do. Medicaid only covers treatment.

It does not cover the sober living house.

$500 a month.

-I do not have $500. -I appreciate it.

-Thank you. Okay. Bye. -Uh-huh. Bye-bye.

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He's gonna have to turn himself in and detox in jail.

Yeah.

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[indistinct chatter]

[man] I heard you guys had a nice hit last week.

Worked out. You know, sometimes the good guys win.

Sometimes we don't.

This is the largest seizure so far in central Ohio.

Long story short, picked up on a target last Tuesday.

-Okay. -He's, um, a courier

for narcotics and currency.

And, you know, during a confession said that, um,

this money was going to this Hispanic female.

We ran into an issue arresting her

because she's nine months pregnant.

-Huh. -She's cooperative,

but not cooperative, if that makes any sense.

She'll tell you what she thinks you know.

She's not gonna tell you any more.

[Francis] Okay. We can easily arrest her at any time.

[James] The plan is to wait until she has the baby,

and then we'll arrest her and see if she's ready to play ball.

So what's the relation between him and her?

[James] We're pretty much 100 percent confident

this is [bleeped out] cartel currency and narcotics.

-Right. -The common denominator

is the boss in Mexico.

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[Spanish]

Mm-hm.

Mm-hm.

[laughs]

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[man over radio]

[man over radio]

[speaking Spanish]

[beeping]

[men speaking Spanish]

[helicopter approaching]

[man speaking over radio]

[man over radio]

Andrew, you want anything to eat?

Aunt Lisa brought that pizza over. Do you want that?

[Andrew] I'll just eat some chicken.

Okay. You're gonna have to turn yourself in in a little bit.

Are you sure you don't need anything else?

-No, I'm not very picky. -Not very picky? [laughs]

-Take whatever you can get? -Mm-hm.

Yeah.

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[Andrew] When I was a kid,

my parents loved me unconditionally.

But I was constantly in trouble.

Smoking a lot of marijuana.

In high school, OxyContin was really big.

My sister, growing up, she was always

very anti-drug.

But she was living in an apartment.

A bunch of guys moved in and they were just partying it up.

They were using heroin.

And I think my sister just thought, you know,

"I'll try it."

She just didn't expect how hard it was gonna grab her.

She would call me,

and I would go yank her out of the drug houses.

It kind of piqued my attention.

Maybe I'll try it.

For probably the first year and a half,

I would just snort it.

And then my sister, she said, "Oh, you're wasting it.

You're wasting it."

And finally, she convinced me to shoot up

and it's the greatest feeling I've ever felt.

I just-- I couldn't stop at that point.

I wanted it more than I wanted to live.

[man] Hey, Andrew! Time to go!

Uh, just... sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Yeah. It'll do that, man.

Pain will overcome anything, eventually.

It'll overtake you, you do something about it.

[Andrew] Yeah.

I knew I could change.

I just want you to know I'm proud of you for doing this.

It's a big step, brother.

Well, you know you're not in this alone.

Other than this part of it.

[vomit splattering]

Nobody likes to go to jail.

You ready?

-Be good, all right? -All right.

I'll be here when you get out.

-This way. -Love you guys.

Love you too, Andrew.

Hey.

It's all good. He's back in jail.

Yeah, I know. But at least we know he's not gonna overdose

or... you know. So...

All right.

I love you too.

All right. Bye.

[sighs]

[helicopter whirring]

[Spanish]

[helicopter passing overhead]

[indistinct chatter]

[child shouting]

[man speaking over radio]

[Spanish]

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[phone rings]

Oh, Andrew's calling.

Good morning. How are you?

I'm good. Dad and I are heading to work.

I'm gonna cross my fingers, yes.

I mean, we're very hopeful, Andrew.

We don't know for sure.

I don't think so. I'm not giving any more money

till I know what's going on after tomorrow.

I-- I already told you, I'm not doing any more.

-Goodbye. -I love you.

I love you too.

Bye-bye.

-[man] Talking about Andrew. -[Dan] Yeah.

-[man] Gotcha. -[Dan] He turned himself in

on, uh, Wednesday. So he goes to court tomorrow

and hopefully he's gonna get sent to a treatment facility.

-[man] Hope it works out. -Yeah, I hope it does too.

-Yeah. -We all do.

Yeah.

-We've got the meeting. -Okay.

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[Dan] My wife and I know a lot about addiction.

I was a drug addict and an alcoholic.

I knew if I kept using, I was gonna die.

We have 33 years being sober.

My kids have been going to meetings with us

since they were born.

And they still turned out to be addicts.

Alrighty. Talk to you guys tomorrow.

[man] See you tomorrow.

[Laura] With my daughter, there was stealing,

lying, prostitution.

It wasn't the same person I raised.

The overdoses started.

And then, um, my husband got a call.

[sobbing] And he just said she was gone

and there was nothing they could do.

And that was it.

I lost my baby.

[Dan] My son's a mess because he blames himself

for my daughter's death.

Because his best friend sold her the heroin that killed her.

So until he can get past that,

he's gonna have a really tough time.

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[Spanish]

[loud whirring]

[man over radio]

[helicopter approaching]

[over radio]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[man] Whoo!

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[man in Spanish]

Mm-hm.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[knocking]

[knocking]

-Edith. How are you? -Hi.

Oh, boy.

-Girl? -Mm-hm.

She's a cutie.

Is there-- is there somebody that could watch the baby?

'Cause we have to take you to court today.

-Okay. -Um, is there somebody

that you could call?

We have a warrant for your arrest, is what this is. Okay?

-We-- -My sister now is working.

It's pretty important. I mean...

We don't know when you're gonna be able to come back.

So you... preferably, if you could call

a family member to come watch her.

That would be best, if you could call your sister,

tell her to leave work and come.

[indistinct]

[man] One month.

[Spanish]

Uh, 1:30 you say? Not right now.

Right now. We have to take you now.

[Spanish]

Okay. Bye.

-Mm-hm. -[baby fussing]

[Spanish]

[indistinct]

[James] You have to be handcuffed.

We don't think you're going to do anything,

but they're policy, so you have to be. Okay?

Not something that we want to do,

it's something that they have to do.

I just want you to understand that.

-Okay. -Okay.

Tell your sister we don't know how many days.

Like, I have no idea when you're coming back.

It won't be up to us. It'll be up to the court, so...

-Yeah, she understands. -Okay. Okay.

Sorry. Thank you.

[Spanish]

[Spanish]

[Spanish]

-Your other hand. -[sobbing]

[James] She'll be okay.

You okay? Okay.

So the next meeting we have...

Total honesty, okay? The whole truth.

-Yeah. -Okay.

Watch your head.

You know, that's the sad part about that.

I don't think people understand the consequences

of what they do.

Obviously, it's not, you know, it's not fun to, you know,

take a mother away from a two-month-old baby.

[clears throat]

It's certainly nothing... no satisfaction here anywhere.

[judge] State of Ohio vs. Andrew Carter.

He's here for a termination hearing.

I don't think anybody wants to see Andrew terminated

from the program.

There's a lot of trauma associated with what occurred

with his sister that he needs to deal with.

It's probably underlying some of the addiction issues.

I would like to see the court release him today,

put him on electronic monitoring house arrest

with his aunt, Barbie, who's here in the courtroom.

I'll let his aunt talk to you as to why she'd be a good

person to host him for house arrest.

[judge] Tell me what your plans are to keep Andrew safe.

Well, I attend a lot of meetings.

I've been in AA for 31 years so I have a lot of, uh,

friends that are sober, so it would be a matter

of, uh, just... forming new friendships,

sober support.

I've already lost my niece and I don't wanna lose my nephew.

I didn't have any kids, and he's like my son.

So...

[judge] I'm sorry for that loss.

I would do anything to... to help him.

[judge] Mr. Carter.

Are you truly interested in your recovery?

At this point, judge, I just... I'm surrendering.

I thought I was out there living,

and I mean I was just dying.

I mean, I created my own prison. You know?

Even if I wasn't in jail, I was in jail.

It was like, in my mind.

I'm just surrendering. I want a completely different life.

[judge] Now, you've run from a couple of programs

that I've put you in.

If I give you the opportunity to go and live with Miss Knoll,

what assurances can you give me that you're not going to run

and you're gonna let this program work for you?

At this point, I feel like I'm just...

I'm ready to do whatever it takes.

A lot of that's not gonna change.

I'm going to tell you a lot of things

to do that I think are in your best interest.

We don't make recommendations to punish you.

We make recommendations

that we think are going to save your life.

Now I need to hear from you, Liz.

[woman] I am concerned if we do release him on house arrest,

if he's actually going to follow along,

if he's willing to cut out the people

that he has surrounded himself with.

My recommendation is that he remain in custody,

be screened for residential treatment again,

and see what they say.

[judge] All right, Mr. Carter.

The fact that you turned yourself in

and the fact that you have a incredible aunt

that's willing to sacrifice her time,

her life, is really the basis for what I'm doing.

So I'm gonna order that he be released to the custody

of his aunt, Barbie Knoll.

He's to be on house arrest. So I believe in you,

but you gotta believe in yourself and do it.

-Thank you. -Thank you.

[sighs]

[Dan] Hey, they're coming out.

Yay!

Wow!

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.

-Mm! -Oh!

Mwah!

-[indistinct] -Cigarettes?

-[laughter] -Cigarettes?

Oh, I didn't bring them.

-Does it weigh a lot? -That thing is huge.

[laughter] Looks like a cell phone attached to your ankle.

-Who am I going with? -You have to go with Barbie.

-Okay. -Okay?

-You're stuck with me, kiddo. -Okay.

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[Laura] I hope to be able to help Andrew.

But I have a feeling that I am not the person

to help him with this journey.

I couldn't help either one of my children.

And so I found it best to step back

and let other people take care of that.

And that's hard.

I just want him to make it.

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[Spanish]

[chuckles]

[speaking Spanish]

[indistinct chatter, laughter]

[man on PA] This is the Franklin County Sheriff's Office.

[man] Knockers. Knockers, knockers.

[man on PA] Come out with your hands up.

[man] Secondary, secondary.

[woman] 44 pounds of heroin

off the streets of northeast Ohio.

It is the biggest heroin bust in state history.

Authorities say five people arrested in Columbus allegedly

have connections to a Mexican heroin cartel.

[Spanish]

[siren wailing]

We will continue to partner with Mexico

to disrupt and destroy the criminal organizations

which threaten our citizens, our communities,

and our country.

[shouting]

[woman] This year, troopers seized

167 pounds of heroin

That would be about two million doses on the street.

[Spanish]

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