The BEST episodes of To Catch a Smuggler

Every episode of To Catch a Smuggler ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best 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: 5/2/2024Network: National GeographicStatus: Continuing

8.71

7 votes

#1 - Million Dollar Ride

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/6/2022

HSI seizes counterfeit cash and vax cards. CBP pulls 205 kilos of meth out of one car.

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8.50

4 votes

#2 - MDMA on the Move

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/2022

HSI tracks an ecstasy package through Chicago, while CBP finds fentanyl abandoned in a bathroom in Texas and searches travelers for narcotics at JFK.

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8.50

4 votes

#3 - Meth in the City

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/2022

HSI executes a controlled delivery of meth in Brooklyn, while CBP finds 2C on partiers in Florida and a vehicle bursting with meth in San Diego.

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8.29

7 votes

#4 - Guns of New York

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/16/2022

HSI busts an illegal gun operation in NYC, while CBP confronts a meth surge from Mexico.

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8.17

6 votes

#5 - It's Raining Meth

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/2022

HSI executes a controlled delivery of ketamine in Queens, NY, while CBP recovers stolen artifacts in Miami and finds a mega shipment of meth at LAX.

8.00

18 votes

#6 - Internal Investigation

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/31/2019

MIA CBP investigates a traveler suspected of smuggling drugs internally. JFK HSI conduct a controlled delivery of ecstasy in Manhattan on Wall street.

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8.00

21 votes

#7 - Stash House Takedown

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/24/2021

HSI confiscate 21 kilos of meth and disrupt a transnational drug ring. CBP seize one of the largest shipments of illegal shark fins in Miami history.

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8.00

10 votes

#8 - Powdered Rims

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/2022

HSI finds cocaine-filled tire rims in cargo and nabs a car loaded with meth and fentanyl.

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8.00

8 votes

#9 - Dope on a Rope

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2022

CBP pulls a line of meth from a gas tank and stops an internal body carrier with fentanyl.

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8.00

6 votes

#10 - Six Million Dollar Seizure

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/21/2022

HSI takes down a multi-million-dollar, transnational smuggling ring of airline employees.

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8.00

5 votes

#11 - Tunnel from Tijuana

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/2022

AMO Puerto Rico sinks a marine smuggling op. In San Diego, HSI shuts down a tunnel dug under the border by a cartel, and a CBP K9 finds drugs in a car.

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8.00

5 votes

#12 - Dark Net Dragnet

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/2022

HSI busts a notorious dark web trafficker in France, while CBP screens travelers for fentanyl in AZ and airline passengers for illicit cash in FL.

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8.00

5 votes

#13 - Coke on the Water

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/2022

HSI stakes out a cartel handoff of cocaine in Texas, while CBP finds coke hidden on ships in Miami and screens for duty violations at JFK.

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8.00

1 votes

#14 - Asleep on Lots of Coke

Season 7 - 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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8.00

1 votes

#15 - Gold Diggers

Season 7 - 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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7.96

25 votes

#16 - Hidden Compartments

Season 3 - 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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7.94

18 votes

#17 - Drugs, Guns and Money

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/4/2020

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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7.92

13 votes

#18 - Decoys, Diversions and Drug Busts

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/18/2020

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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7.86

14 votes

#19 - Search & Seize

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2012

When an 18-year-old trying to smuggle cocaine in the lining of his suitcase is selected for a random baggage search, CBP officers find the narcotic seeping through cracks in his suitcase. Now they work to get him to cooperate and start naming names.

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7.83

6 votes

#20 - Blow Overboard

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2022

AMO agents in Puerto Rico chase smugglers at sea who toss their load overboard, while meth pops out of a car after a fender bender in El Paso.

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7.80

5 votes

#21 - Drug Boat Bust

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/27/2022

CBP seizes counterfeit medications, and HSI pursues a series of maritime smuggling cases.

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7.80

35 votes

#22 - Courier to Kingpin

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2012

A man carrying four kilos of cocaine refuses to divulge the recipient of the package, while a young man's story shrouds a secret that the team struggles to understand.

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7.80

30 votes

#23 - Cavity Courier

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/2012

When customs officers confront two suspected smugglers arriving from Guyana they must use their skills to uncover cocaine in what turns out to be two very different places.

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7.78

9 votes

#24 - Killer Ketamine

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/9/2022

CBP screens for club drugs hidden in toiletries, while HSI uncovers meth buried in garlic.

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7.77

13 votes

#25 - Gas Tank Meth

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/23/2022

HSI snags a truck loaded with meth, while CBP’s beagles sniff out contraband.

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