This activity focuses on aiding participants to recognize hybrid threat indicators and overlapping criminal and terror issues as well reviewing more familiar law enforcement issues (e.g., lack of jurisdictional authority).
Exercise Read the Hybrid Threat scenario. While reading the scenario, look for answers to the following questions.
• Is the criminal activity described multi-jurisdictional?
• Are there terror threat aspects associated with the criminal activity?
• What are some of the crimes identified in the scenario?
• What is the host nation’s law enforcement involvement in the criminal activities?
• Are they interdicting the flow of drugs and arms?
• Do these criminal activities fall under DHS? If yes, why? If no, then who and why?
Scenario
You are a DHS intelligence analyst. You are reading the Thursday morning’s message traffic and a report catches your attention.
Fictional (But Representative) Federal Law Enforcement Report:
Title: Clandestine Drug Tunnel, Discovered on the US Southern Border
Details: As a result of US Federal and San Diego PD raid, a secret underground tunnel was shutdown. The tunnel, equipped with electricity, lighting, hydraulic doors, ventilation and a rail system used for smuggling drugs between a San Diego industrial park and Tijuana, Mexico, officials said on Thursday.
The tunnel zigzags a length of nearly 600 meters linking warehouses in Tijuana (Vic Grid AB 123456) and a San Diego industrial park (Vic Grid AB 134478).
Analyst Comment: A 600-meter long tunnel requires hundreds of thousands of labor-hours and millions of dollars to complete.
Border control and drug enforcement agents seized more than 19,000 pounds of marijuana, 500 pounds of cocaine, two (2) million dollars in cash, five (5) million counterfeit dollars from the tunnel, in addition to hundreds of small arms including assault rifles, hand grenades, tons of explosives, a rented warehouse where the passageway ended on the U.S. side and arrested three men arrested in a night raid on Wednesday.
Analyst Comment: Industrial area, populated with several nondescript warehouses, provides good concealment for trucks being loaded with drugs/weapons.
HUMINT Source (CI 2345187) reporting provided intelligence leading to the raid. Source went on to say that, the Sinaloa drug cartel is believed to have built and operated the cross-border tunnel. Local host nation authorities are allegedly aware of tunnel and associated criminal activity. Cartel allegedly is collaborating with Hezbollah agents from Venezuela to move weapons across the border.
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Fictional (But Representative) Federal Law Enforcement Report: (Continued)
Source Information:
• Source is registered CI and is monetarily compensated for information
• Motivated by monetary compensation and hatred for drug cartels which reportedly assassinated his brother (Brother’s death confirmed, responsible party – unknown)
• Has reported on Sinaloa Cartel reliably in the past
Asset Controller: Reports no reason to consider source untrustworthy at this time.
Source Information: Reporting based upon secondhand conversations among known drug smugglers in the area, overheard at local cafe.
Details of Items Impounded
• Drugs: 19,125 lbs of marijuana, 507 lbs of cocaine (98% pure)
• Weapons Confiscated: 120 automatic 9mm Makorov PM pistols, 95 AKS-74U 7.62mm 55 RDG5 hand grenades, 2.5 tons commercial explosives, 200 meters of det cord, assort fuses and blasting caps
• Cash: $2,210,765.00, used non-sequential, multi-denominational bills
• Counterfeit Currency: $5,000,000.00 Sequential $20s and $50s
Personnel in Custody: Three (3) Males, two (2) without identification, one with fraudulent DL, have not spoken since being placed in custody, Descriptions follow:
• Approximately 30 yrs old, nationality unknown, overheard speaking Spanish, 5’-10”, brown hair/brown eyes, 1” scar over left eye, MS-13 related gang tattoos on arms and neck, photos, in possession of California Driver’s License for a Steve Rodgers of San Diego, DL processed through DMV and verified as fraudulent, fingerprints to follow
• Approximately 25 yrs old, nationality unknown, has not spoken, 5’-11”, brown hair/brown eyes, several 2” scars on left arm, MS-13 gang tattoos, photos, fingerprints to follow
• Approximately 25 yrs old, nationality unknown, has not spoken, 6’-1”, brown hair/brown eyes, no visible scars, several tattoos in Arabic on both arms, photos, fingerprints to follow
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