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[intense music playing]

[Valoze] I'm in Alabama
this week, in Oxford.

It's a small town
with lots of charm...

Found over two ounces
of fentanyl.

[Valoze] ...but it's also
a prime location

for major drug trafficking
operations.

Fentanyl, methamphetamine,
cocaine, heroin...

all off the streets
of Oxford.

[Green speaking]

You're on the front lines
right here...

[officer speaking]

When you're doing
undercover work

things go wrong
and you have to think
on the fly.

[officer speaking]

This could be waiting for you.

This is the great unknown
for law enforcement.

[officer] Hold on, boys.

[Valoze] There's no
turning back now.

This is it. It's on.

[officer] Let's go!
Go, go, go, go!

[officer shouts]
Police Department
search warrant!

[Valoze] In cities and towns
all across America,

there are undercover
operations keeping us
all safe,

happening right now.

I ought to know.

That's me.

As a former federal agent,
I took thousands
of illegal guns

and millions of dollars
in narcotics off the streets
while working undercover.

Now, for the first time ever,

I'm taking you inside
the invisible operations

happening
in your own backyard...

This is a very
dangerous situation.

...showing you the why
and the how...

Right now, as you approach,
tension is high.

...on the ground,

in the action,
all access.

[officer shouting]
Please do not move!

I'm Lou Valoze and this is
Operation Undercover.

[Green] I was on I-20.
This car ended up passing me.

It was changing lanes
without using a signal.

causing another vehicle
to hit its brakes.

-[siren wailing]
-[indistinct radio chatter]

I initiated my traffic stop,

[tires screeching]

[Green speaking]

And they're off to the races.

[sirens blaring]

[Green speaking]

There's 1,000 different things
going through my head,
like "What's he got?"

"What's he wanted for?"

"Is it dope related,

gun related,
human trafficking related?"

You run into
so many different things

most people
could never imagine.

I was on patrol
and Investigator Green
came on the radio and said,

"Hey, this car is taking off."

So I immediately got off
and started traveling north
to parallel them.

As luck would have it,
they came back eastbound,
which was directly towards me.

[Green]
We were reaching speeds
from 100 to 110 miles an hour.

Those speeds
get extremely dangerous
at times.

[engine roaring]

You've got all these citizens
on the roadway.

That's just something
that could turn out
disastrous.

There's a pursuit
headed this way.

So I started getting
civilian traffic
out of the intersection

'cause more than anything
we just wanna be safe,

make sure no accidents
are caused.

Come on, Go.

Here he comes.

[speaking over radio]
He turned. Go, he turned.

[dramatic music playing]

-[engine revving]
-[siren wailing]

[Wilson]
When I caught up to Green
and the suspect vehicle,

I kind of paralleled them.

I drove up
beside the suspect vehicle.

I could see four occupants,
for sure,
inside of the vehicle.

And I saw in the back seat,
passenger side,

the gentleman
that was sitting there.

I could see something silver
in his hands.

That could be a gun.

So I backed off.

[Green] The state
had joined in at this time.

They were able
to create a box-in maneuver
on this individual

and get it to slow down.

But with that
comes the danger

of a subject
being able to shoot out
the side window,

or the front window,

right into
the back of a patrol unit,

which has happened before.

But luckily, upon being
boxed in, the individual
finally gave up.

-[tires screeching]
-[siren blaring]

[officer speaking]

[sirens blaring]

[Wilson] I looked
and I see a female
sitting in the back seat.

And she was holding
an infant.

Being a dad, I can't help
but think of my little girl.

And you think about
all the possibilities
of what could have happened.

It's not that child's fault
that these adults
made this decision.

[baby crying]

[Wilson] When you see
things like that, sure, yeah,
it gets you fired up.

It makes you upset.

-[woman sobbing]
-[Wilson] You just ran with a
[bleep] baby in the car, guy.

It would be in your best
interest to shut the [bleep]
up right now.

They were obviously
running for a reason.

[Green]
The front passenger,

he had been convicted
with a felony, prior.

We start a search
of the vehicle.

We located
an AR-15 style pistol.

[Green speaking]

And then
a Cobra FS 380 pistol.

So there was weed in his door.

We knew at that point
that these suspects
were not up to any good

We ended up
with felony charges
for weapons violations

and narcotics.

Have a seat.

[Green]
We at Oxford PD
try and really hammer

the interstate system

to cut down
on large amounts of narcotics,

weapons smuggling,
human smuggling.

This is exactly what Oxford PD
is trying to keep
out of our city

and off these highways.

[Valoze] Interstate-20
has become a major artery
for drug trafficking.

Mexican cartels are using
Atlanta as their hub

to then distribute
all of their narcotics...

fentanyl, methamphetamine,
cocaine, heroin,

to all the smaller cities
in the Southeast.

Right now, I'm on my way
to Oxford, Alabama,

a small city
that sits right on I-20,

about halfway in between
Atlanta and Birmingham.

And we're gonna see what
the Oxford Police Department
is doing

to defend this city.

-[Valoze] Chief.
-[Partridge] It's
a pleasure to meet you.

-[Valoze] Great to meet you.
-Come inside.

We'll give you a tour
of the real time crime center

and let you see
what we're doing here.

[Valoze] Sounds good.

[Partridge]
One of the biggest things

that we have running through
our region's interstate

runs through
the center of the city,

And as I tell some people,

if they knew what went up
and down that interstate
every night, they wouldn't

-sleep very well.
-[Valoze chuckles]

[Young]
We've got multiple cameras
throughout the city,

along with license plate
readers, a little over
400 camera views.

We can live view
the body cams as well.

Wow.

[Valoze] So if something
happens in the city,

-you know about it.
-[Young]
That's correct.

So in order to combat
those things

of people getting
off the interstate
to do nefarious things,

we not only utilize
the real time crime center
to help solve those cases,

but we also have
what we call our
Special Investigations Unit,

and they actually fight
the drug problem,

the trafficking problem,
the gun problem
and so forth on the street.

[Pesnell] Right here
is gonna be our drug vault.

We've got a plethora of...

pretty much if you can
imagine it, it's in here.

You know everything from meth
to the suspected fentanyl.

-All this is nothing
but narcotics.
-[Valoze] Pills...

-In all cases
waiting for adjudication?
-Yes.

[Valoze] Wow.
That's a lot of drugs.

[Pesnell] I had
family members that got
involved in the drug trade,

and I watched their life
just basically tank.

To see how hard drugs
flooded these communities now,

and everybody's got it...

it's scary bringing up
children in this world.

If it happened that quickly,
within a timeframe
of basically 15 years,

what's it gonna be like
in the next 15?

So this whole entire wall...

every one of these
is a firearm.

All crime guns.

All off the streets
of Oxford.

That's... that's
a lot of guns. [exhales]

This is typical of what you're
getting off the street here?

Yes, sir.

So when you do an affidavit,
get a search warrant,
and then it's up to you guys

to stack up
and enter that door.

And you never know. This
could be waiting for you...

-Sure.
-...behind that door.

[Pesnell] Yes, sir.

The mission of SIU, the
Special Investigations Unit

is to take care
of our communities first.

We know we can't win
the war on drugs,

but if we can push them
out of our communities,
and out of our cities

then we've...
we've won that battle.

To this day, the Special
Investigations Unit
has been able to get

over a million dollars
worth of drugs off the street.

We have one of the greatest
group of guys right now.

They want to build
these cases,

they want to pursue
these criminals.

You have to have the drive.

Can you guys tell me
what's on the agenda
for this week?

We've developed a guy out west
on the western side
of our city that's dealing in

what we believe to be
at least ounce amounts
of methamphetamine.

We're going to try to line up
a buy with him,

and we've got a guy up north
that's dealing
large amounts of fentanyl,

and we all know
how potent that is.

So we've got
a buy lined up for him also.

[Miller]
Motels are a big problem
for this area

right off the interstate,

because I-20 runs
right in between

Atlanta and Birmingham.

So there's a ton of drugs

trafficked on it every day.

[Pesnell] We've got
some motels in our area that
we have a lot of issues with.

[Miller] Cheaper
motels, basically.

-[Valoze] That's where
the crime's happening?
-[Miller] Yeah.

[Pesnell]
We're gonna do
a motel detail

where we take
pretty much one of our CIs,
one of our informants.

We're gonna interject them
into the motel scene,

see if they can drum up
some kind of business.

Great.

We have what we refer to
as confidential informants

in the communities
around here.

The goal in using them
is to set up a buy

on a decent target
that we have in this area,

build that case,
lock that case down,

flip him if he will,

then move on
to the next person.

It's kind of like
a fishing expedition.

You got to get
the bait fish,

you got to get them
in the water
to catch the bigger fish.

[Valoze] Most Friday
and Saturday nights,

these motels
near the interstate

fill up with bad guys
hiding amongst the tourists.

And this weekend
is no different.

[Pesnell speaking]

[Valoze] The CI's
gonna be wired,

and you're gonna be
monitoring in real time?

[Pesnell speaking]

[Valoze] So the undercover
officers are taking the lead
in this operation.

I'm following behind
with Sergeant Pesnell,

in my car, so that
we can better blend in.

[JP]
The informant
we're going to use tonight.

has been an informant
for several years.

They know the gang,
they know the lingo.

They know everybody
and everybody knows them.

So this is a very valuable
informant that we have.

[Valoze]
She's over there now.

-[Pesnell] Yeah.
-[Valoze] All right.

[JP]
The utilization of a CI,

it makes our job way easier.

They're basically
able to go in
to somewhere we're not.

[JP speaking]

[CI] Mmm-hmm.

[JP speaking]

[CI speaking]

[JP speaking]

[Pesnell] So this
is the device that we're
real time monitoring

the audio, the video
as well as GPS location
of the confidential informant.

[JP]
Even though this informant
knows this target

there's always that chance

that there could be
somebody else there that
the informant doesn't know,

and it could just throw
the whole vibe off.

[Valoze] It's very
nerve-wracking when you
send an informant in,

even if they've been there
15 times before.

You never know
when the target could flip.

He could be under
the influence of drugs,
and this could go bad.

[JP]
That's it. On our left,

right there.

But we have to go up
past it, and turn around
and come back.

So we have to be
close enough to react
in case something goes wrong.

But not so close
that we look suspicious.

It's good right here.

[Pesnell]
We'll just pull over here
and black out.

[car door slams]

[JP]
So the informant just got
out of their vehicle

and is approaching
the target run right now.

[indistinct conversation]

[Pesnell speaking]

[informant audio breaking up]

[JP speaking]

[Pesnell] Negative.
I think it went
completely down.

[Valoze] We've lost our feed.

The undercover
transmitting device,
that the informant has.

[JP] So we don't have
radio or wire
on the Charlie right now.

[Valoze]
It's a worst-case scenario.

This is when you
start tensing up

[JP speaking]

[Valoze] They're
ultimately responsible

for this informant's safety,
and right now we don't know
what's going on in there.

This is a very
dangerous situation.

[dramatic music playing]

[JP speaking]

[Valoze] Right now
we have no comms
with the informant.

We have no idea
what's going on in there.

So this is one of those areas
in law enforcement

when you're doing
undercover work.

Things go wrong
and you have to think
on the fly.

[JP speaking]

[Pesnell speaking]

[JP speaking]

So the officers
can see the CI's car
in the motel parking lot.

That's a good sign.

But until we get her
out of that room,

we have no idea
if she's safe.

[Valoze] Is that the
informant's car right there
with the one headlight?

[Pesnell speaking]

[JP speaking]

[woman speaking indistinctly
on phone]

[JP speaking]

[Valoze] So we've had
a successful undercover deal.

But as happens,
more often than not,
things go wrong.

The device went out.

We couldn't get the feed.

But it will still
all be recorded.

And everybody's out.
Everybody's safe.

That's about
a worst-case scenario

when you have an informant
inside of a hotel room

and you don't have
any eyes and ears,

you don't know
what's going on.

[JP] Luckily, it was
a successful purchase.

-That's not a lot,
but now we can go back...
-[Valoze] Mmm-hmm.

...and start working up
the case on that target

to see if we can
purchase more.

This again just goes
to illustrate how you guys
work these cases

-using these CIs.
-[Pesnell] Yes, sir.

You know, you start small,
you make some more buys,

you get into another dealer
here in Oxford area,

and flip these criminals,
one by one,
to get from the drug users

to the big time suppliers.

[Pesnell]
Keep chipping away.

That's it.

[Pesnell] So we've got
this confidential informant
we're working right now.

She's a low level dealer.

Can you tell me specifically
how you cultivated

this confidential informant
for this particular case?

[Pesnell]
We got a good tip
in this case

-that a person was buying
from someone in this area.
-[Valoze] Okay.

[Pesnell speaking]

[radio beeping]

Yeah, one of the investigators
saw the truck

found probable cause,
pulled it over.

[Pesnell] We found a bulge.

Asked about it,
and ultimately yielded
the methamphetamine.

You caught her
with trafficking amounts
of meth.

So she's... she's
facing felony charges.

That's the highest
drug charge

that you can catch
in the state of Alabama.

[Valoze] So you flipped
this low level drug dealer.

Now she's gonna help you build
a case against her supplier.

-The bigger fish.
-Yeah, I would say
he's probably

of the biggest
meth dealers in this city.

This guy is located dead
between Interstate 20
and Highway 78.

Complete access,
two exits on each side.

[Valoze] So if he's
moving product,

he can either have
people come to him
coming in on either highway,

he can head west,
he can head east,

I mean, he's located
strategically
for a drug dealer.

[Pesnell] That's
exactly correct, and we're
looking to do a purchase

with a confidential
informant this week.

And that's gonna gather
intelligence for you guys.

It's also gonna gather
probable cause

to write up an affidavit,
get a search warrant

and hopefully put an end
to this drug dealer.

-[Pesnell] Correct.
-Absolutely.

[Pesnell] So we're
gonna meet the informant
at the airport.

It's pretty well vacant
throughout the week,

so we don't have to
worry about a lot of people
rolling up on us

when we're briefing these
informants, you know,

trying to figure out
what they can do,
what they're going in...

you know, the whole
nine yards of that.

[Valoze] You know,
you can never fully control
an undercover deal, right?

-[Pesnell] Right.
-But you want to control
as many variables as you can.

This abandoned airport
is a good call.

'Cause we do not want
to blow the CI's cover

and let anybody see her
with the police.

[Valoze] That's the informant
over there.

Those are your guys who are
talking to her.

They search her and they
document that search that,
you know,

-she didn't have any, you
know, any dope or anything...
-[Pesnell] Yeah.

...on her person.

That's for legal reasons.

[CI] Okay.

[Pesnell] It looks
like they've pretty much
concluded

the brief and everything.

We're on the move.

[intense music playing]

We'll follow
them in pretty close

until we get close
to the target location,

and we'll kind of back off.
That way,

you know, we... we don't
run into spooking the target
or anything like that.

[Valoze] So is the target tied
to this house or is he just...

[Pesnell] Yes, this
is gonna be his property where
he lays his head at night.

This is probably as close
as I feel comfortable parking,

and, basically, what we're
gonna do is stand by
and monitor the wire,

and make sure everything...
you know, we don't hear
any code words

for danger
or anything like that.

[Valoze] And she's been
in this house before?

-[Pesnell] Yeah.
-[Valoze] She's made
buys before...

-[Pesnell] Yes.
-Was there any any red flags,

any kind
of security concerns?

We're in the
deep south, so...

You know, the chance of him
having guns
and stuff like that

is very, very high.

I mean, the the tools
of the trade, you know,
to protect his... his dope.

-But, you know, our guns...
-We're close enough.

If we needed to go,
you know, and pretty much
extract the CI,

we could do so.

The last thing
you want to do
is burn your... your CI.

[Pesnell] Okay,
they're about to pull
into the target location now.

[knock on door]

[CI chuckles]

[suspect] I'm hiding.

-[CI speaking]
-[suspect laughs]

[CI speaking]

[Pesnell] It's
a little bit of wild video,
but like even with this,

we're getting intel of, like,
what's inside the...
the residence,

like what obstacles
are we gonna face, you know,

if we do actually
make entry into here.

[Valoze] And that's
important information.

Like, which way
the door swings, you know,
in or out, left or right.

[Pesnell] Absolutely.
I can see it's an inward
swinging wooden door.

So if I put my breachers up,
I know what they need to have
with them to make entry.

Well, she sounds
very comfortable,
very relaxed.

The conversation's flowing,

you know, she obviously
knows this guy,

but you know,
up to this point,
she's doing a great job.

-Yeah, he's real
comfortable with her.
-[Pesnell] Mmm-hmm.

[Valoze] Bingo! That's
definitely enough
for probable cause.

[Valoze] There's the video
you need right there.

Weighing out the meth.

-[CI] Let's see.
-[suspect] I do. Uh...

[suspect] I always
make more...

And this is usually the point
where, as law enforcement

you want your CI
to get out of that house.

-[Pesnell]
Yes, this is--
-Let's wrap it up.

I can tell he's pretty
paranoid with
law enforcement in general.

Because he's talking about
the police has been
on the power lines,

and this that and other which
obviously, is more of a reason

for us to err on the side
of caution as we're planning
this search warrant.

Paranoia kind of goes hand
in hand with drug dealing.

-[Valoze] Right?
-[Pesnell] Yes, yes.

It looks like the CI
is back in vehicle.

Hopefully about
to pull off now.

[Valoze] So,
with the informant
safely out,

the officers need
to immediately take
possession of the drugs,

to establish
chain of custody.

[JP speaking]

Good deal.
This stuff looks clean.

Well, if he's telling her
he's got plenty more,

you're dealing with a pretty
major dealer at that point.

Yeah, that's great
intel from the CI right there.
Great job.

If he's telling her the truth,
he should be
sitting on some weight.

[Pesnell] Yeah,
fingers crossed he's
still got it when we go.

Let's go weigh it.

56.7.

We've got over two ounces
of methamphetamine.

What's the next step?

We have the probable cause now
to do a search warrant.

So, hopes are,
within the next day or two,

that he's still
got plenty left

and you all are gonna
go in there and get it.

-And then we'll get it done.
-All right.

The Oxford PD has
another target
in their sights this week.

A mid-level dealer
on the north side of town.

[Pesnell] He was dealing
ounce quantities of meth,

bouncing around a lot,
like we'd find
this house, that house.

We never really could
pin him down enough

to do a search warrant
or anything like that.

This guy has kind of
been an on-again, off-again,

deal with us, because
he'll kind of pop-up,

and he just goes missing
for a little while.

Right now he's
popped back on radar.

We've got him
at the house now he seems
to have been at for a while,

but now he's dealing with
ounce quantities of fentanyl.

An ounce of fentanyl could
kill thousands of people.

Fentanyl is in a whole
nother category. Isn't it?

[Pesnell] Stupid lethal.

So we really want to try to
get this guy off the street.

[Pesnell] So if you'll look
as we do our ride by,

this is the target location
right here.

We've been here before.

We've done a buy
from the house using
a confidential informant.

We got the probable cause
we needed to get the search
warrant for the house.

[CI] Oh, for real?

We're gonna set up
one more buy to show
the continuity of the CI.

To kind of say, "Hey, look,
he didn't stop because
you're about to get hit."

Protecting the CI
is paramount.

[Valoze] If the CI
goes off the grid right before
the target is arrested,

it's gonna look
incredibly suspicious.

And it's gonna risk revealing
him as a police informant.

So to be sure he's not made,
they've arranged
one more controlled buy.

This buy is going down
at a gas station,

that's located very close
to the target's house.

It's not uncommon for a target
to wanna do these deals

in a public place,
so it doesn't lead
the police to his residence.

[Pesnell] We're looking
at the location
the target gave the CI.

I believe that's
gonna be the target.

[both laugh]

[Pesnell] He's pretty good
about talking smack
with these guys.

So nothing seems to be
out of the ordinary,

other than the fact
he's sitting in the guy's car

and we've got to be ready to
go if they start to pull off.

[CI speaking]

[Pesnell] Sounds like
counting cash.

[CI speaking]

[Valoze] Great evidentiary
value right there.

A full,
clear shot of the dope.

Great job
by the CI right there.

[CI speaking]

[suspect speaking]

[Pesnell] Sounds like
they're talking about guns.

[Valoze] A little gun talk
right there.

This is
a convicted felon, correct?

[Pesnell] Absolutely.
Yeah. He knows
he can't have that stuff.

[CI] You still got
that big ass, ugly ass pistol?

-[Valoze] Wow. Look at that.
-[CI speaking]

-[Pesnell] Freakin' GLOCK.
-[Valoze] Yep, it sure does.

You know, if he needs
a weapon, it's readily
available right there.

[Pesnell] It was right there
on the side.

[Valoze] This is
a drug dealer,

and a convicted felon who's
not supposed to have a gun.

And he just brandished
the firearm
during a drug transaction.

That kind of
changes the game.

[CI] All right, bro.

[Pesnell] We know right now
he's got the means to do
something bad if he wanted to.

He's got some
violent past charges.

That always plays
a huge factor in how
we plan these operations.

So this is a major operation
right here in Oxford.

Yes. This is one
of the biggest ones
we've got going on.

[Valoze] So it's
my understanding that you guys

are splitting this operation
into two parts,

that are gonna happen
at the same time.

We're gonna have pretty much
surveillance sit on the house,

wait till he leaves,
traffic stop him to get him
away from the house,

so we can
execute the search warrant,

and preserve anything
that might be inside.

I'm gonna go to
the crime center to the EMACC,

and I'm gonna be
watching you guys live.

More than anything I just want
you guys to be safe.

So be safe, man.

-[officer 1] All right.
Appreciate it.
-[officer 2] Sounds good.

All right, we have
two live feeds going here
from two different units.

But neither of them
can get going until
the target leaves his house.

[officer over radio]

[officer over radio]

[Valoze] All right,
the suspect is on the go

and Sergeant Pesnell
is tailing him,

and he's looking
for an opportunity
to safely pull him over.

[police siren wails]

So it looks like we have
a vehicle stopped
with the suspect.

Now we know
how a roadside stop

can turn into a full-speed
chase in no time flat.

So if this guy decides
it's time to run,
the officers have to be ready.

Looks like they're approaching
the suspect's vehicle.

Suspect's in
the passenger front side.

[Pesnell speaking]

[Valoze] And meanwhile,
we have a search warrant

about to be served
at the suspect's house.

The search warrant team
is at the front door,
knocking and announcing.

[knocking at door]

[Valoze] So they've waited
a reasonable time.

And here they go.

Police! Police!
Get on the floor!

[Valoze] So the entry team
is gonna clear the house
and make sure it's safe.

[officer] Coming up!

[Valoze] This is
the great unknown
for law enforcement.

You enter a house,
but you don't know
who's hiding behind walls,

who's hiding in closets.

[officer speaking]

-[officer 1] Police!
-[officer 2] Dogs. Dogs. Dogs.

[Valoze] You don't know
if there's dogs
that are loose.

If there's kids
in that house.

You have to be aggressive,
but you also
have to be careful.

Meanwhile, they're
asking the suspect

to step out
of the vehicle right now.

He is a violent,
convicted felon,

who's had a couple encounters
with law enforcement

while he was
armed already.

[Pesnell] Step out
with me real quick.

He just reached
in his back hip.

[Pesnell speaking]

[Pesnell] Step out
with me real quick.

He just reached
in his back hip.

[Pesnell speaking]

[Pesnell speaking]

[Valoze] That was
a scary situation right there.

You don't know
if he's pulling up his pants

or if he's reaching for a gun.

But I see
the officer was alert,

and got risk control
right away.

Well done by the officer.

The suspect is in custody.

-[officer 1]
That side is clear.
-[officer 2] Clear!

Clear.

It looks like
the house is secure.

Now they will be searching
for anything
listed in that affidavit

on the search warrant.

[Pesnell speaking]

[cell phone vibrating]

[Miller] Hey.

Okay, how much was it?

Good deal and good job.

[Valoze] Wow.

Probably around
15,00 to 20,000 in cash.

And that information
will be used by the officers

who are interviewing
the suspect, to try and see

if this guy might
want to cooperate.

[Miller] Yes, if we
can get the guy
that's supplying him...

I mean, if he's got two ounces
then just, you know,

imagine what the guy
supplying him has got.

[Pesnell speaking]

[Pesnell speaking]

[Valoze] If he's not
willing to cooperate,

with that amount of drugs
and cash that has been
found at his house,

he's gonna find himself
sitting in prison cell.

[Pesnell speaking]

[Valoze] We're gonna see
what's gonna happen.

He might wanna eat
his charges, take a chance,

and not cooperate
with the officers.

There's never a guarantee.

[Valoze] It's 5:00 a.m.
and the search warrant
has just been granted

for the meth dealer who sold
two ounces to the informant.

And he said
he's got plenty more.

Right now, the team
is gearing up for the raid,

to take this suspect
into custody.

Early morning
is the best time to strike

because you want to catch
the target off guard.

Knowing that
this dude's selling so much,

he's not gonna
sit on this forever.

We know that
we really get to move.

It's very nerve-wracking.

You don't know where
all the dangers are located

or what could
possibly happen.

I still get
as anxious to this day

as I did the very
first bust I ever did.

Thank you, Captain.
Appreciate it.

Everybody ready?

Everybody good?

All right. So this morning
we're gonna execute
a search warrant at [bleep].

So basically, this is
generated off of some buys
we've done with the CI

from the target that lives
at this location.

The CI was able to give us
some pretty awesome intel.

Talking to the CI,
we're trying to gather
any intel we may not have.

Like, have you ever seen
guns on the property?

He might be a little crazy.
He's known to be armed.

I can see
huge officer safety issues.

You know,
stuff that we definitely
have to take seriously

when we're planning
these operations.

The house that he's gonna
be in is not very large.

So basically,
we're gonna pull in,

we'll file out, file up
to the door, do our thing.

The outside door, the hinges
are on the right side,

so we'll just kind of base
our stack off of that.

We're gonna bang the exterior
part of the house.

We'll do our
initial form and entry,

lock it down,
see what we've got.

[officer speaking]

[Pesnell] All right,
let's start loading up.

The target is
on a very rough road,
a very rural neighborhood.

He's also up a hill
to the point where you

almost have to have
full four-wheel drive
the whole way.

It becomes
a logistical nightmare.

And so we're gonna
take the BearCat.

We're gonna take
the armored vehicle.

[tense music playing]

This is the great unknown
for law enforcement.

When you're entering
a suspect's house.

[Pesnell] All right,
this is it.

[over radio]

[Valoze] There's a BearCat
with the entry team inside.

We're seconds away
from hitting this house.

There's no turning back now.
This is it. It's on.

We're rolling up with
all the Oxford PD's
tactical units right now

to the home of our target,

where we're gonna execute
s search warrant.

[officer speaking]

[Valoze] We don't know
if this guy's armed,

we don't know who else
is gonna be in the house.

For the entry team,
you don't know
what's around every corner.

That's why tensions
are running high right now.

[officer 1 speaking]

[officer 2 speaking]

The BearCat can't get close
enough to the house right now

because of all those cars
parked out front.

This is a dangerous situation
for the team.

Operations don't
always go as planned,

and this is
a prime example of that.

[officer 1 speaking]

[officer 2 speaking]

[officer 1 speaking]

[officer 3 speaking]

[officer 4 speaking]

[officer 3 speaking]

[officer 4 speaking]

[officer 3 speaking]

[officer 1 speaking]

Here comes the suspect.

They got the suspect
in cuffs taking him out.

Looks like it happened
without incident.

[officer 1] Hey,
check this real quick.

[Valoze] It looks like
we've got a firearm
right here.

It was taken
off the suspect.

Entry is done
and everything went well.

Suspect in custody.

Now you transition
into the search mode.

-[Pesnell] Yes.
-And see what we come up
with, what's happening.

-Absolutely.
-All right.

[officer 1 speaking]

[officer 2 speaking]

[officer 1 speaking]

[officer 3 speaking]

[officer 1 speaking]

[Valoze] There's another
federal charge.

[officer 1 speaking]

[JP speaking]

[officer 4 speaking]

[officer 1 speaking]

[JP speaking]

[officer 2 speaking]

[JP speaking]

[officer 1 speaking]

[JP speaking]

[Valoze] Everything you're
finding in this house

is indicative of a pretty
major drug dealer, right?

We've got large amounts
of methamphetamine
there, which is his supply.

You've got smaller amounts

that are packaged for sale
in hideaway cans, firearms.

[JP speaking]

Is that a blasting cap?

[JP speaking]

[Valoze] That's
an explosive device.

Possession of that device
is a separate federal felony.

So after everything
we found in the house,

it was kind of
a proud moment for us

as a police department
and a unit,

that we were able
to get that stuff
out of that area of the city.

[JP] We found
what we call a ledger
in the target's house

that had five
or six names on it.

[JP] The very first name
on the list,
I knew exactly who it was.

This person is
a large distributor

of not only methamphetamine,
but fentanyl.

[JP speaking]

[Pesnell] I'm recognizing
the names on the ledger.

And I'm going,
"How in the world

does this guy
know these people?"

He's a big fish
in this area.

But the fact that
he knows bigger fish

in our area, that we can still
get to, it is paramount.

So now we're able
to branch this off
and try and do additional buys

from the new intel we have,
and kind of
bring this all together.

[Pesnell] When I know
we've taken a legitimate
dealer off the street,

that's hurting these families
and selling dope to everybody,

you feel like
you're making a difference.

You know, you feel like you're
putting a dent in something.

And as long as we're doing
that, it helps me
sleep better at night.

[Valoze] We've been
in Oxford, Alabama
for just one week.

We've seen
an initial sting operation

at a motel off Highway 20...

Nine ball, uh, eight ball
of methamphetamine.

...setting the stage
for a bigger operation
now under way.

-Keep chipping away.
-That's it.

A major fentanyl case, leading
to the arrest of a target.

And a large-scale
search warrant

yielding guns,
drugs and a ledger...

...that will help
the Oxford PD make
their streets even safer.

The Oxford PD
is using the information

gathered in the hotel
sting operation,

to build more cases
against bigger suppliers.

The suspect
from the vehicle stop,
and home search warrant,

that turned up
a large amount of fentanyl,

has decided not to cooperate

and has pled guilty
to drug distribution.

He is currently awaiting
his next court date.

The suspect from
the methamphetamine bust

is facing
federal drug trafficking,
and weapons charges.

His case is the subject
of a grand jury investigation.

The ledger that was recovered
is currently being used

in active investigations
by Oxford, PD,

to hopefully
hook a bigger fish.

This season we'll take you
all across America

to see undercover teams
protecting their community.

Move to me!

Witness the live covert
operations unfold.

The undercovers are going to be
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You guys will be our
primary rescue.

A large quantity of Fentanyl
and Heroin.

Let me see your hands!

Drop it!

These are armed drug dealers.

Somebody to the front door!
Do it now!

This is the Bonnie and Clyde
of Pueblo, here.

There he is right there.

A little bit like
the wild, wild west

with this guy showing up
on his Harley, huh?

This is way off the radar here.

Looks like he's interested
in having sex in
the actual firetruck.

The female undercover officer
is going to go to his location.

It's a high risk take down.

Show me your hands!

Learning why and how
criminals get caught.

She's actually weighing
the drugs

and the camera is capturing
all of this.

Get down on the ground!

And see the missions
these teams endured...

-Police department search!
-Keep your hands up!

...to take down the bad guys.

This is Operation Undercover.

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