Cocaine Cargo: $25M smuggling scheme traps Pivot Airlines crew in the Dominican | W5 INVESTIGATES
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- CTV's W5 has been shown never-before-seen surveillance footage of Punta Cana International Airport from the night before a Canadian airline crew was detained after discovering duffel bags stuffed with 210 kilograms of cocaine in their plane's avionics bay.
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What makes this even more dangerous is when heads of state are involved. That is very scary. Makes us lose all hope in the goodness of humanity.
Humanity is full of goodness. But, politicians, are not human.
And that’s what the problem is Canada and the DR involved and honestly the pilot should have just left with the drugs and all probably would have been good??
the government is also involved in Canada. Safe supply and decriminalization hasn't done anything other than line the pockets of the gangs selling fentanyl.
@@CowboyUp99 devil and deep blue sea situation........now what does game theory has to say about it?
president clinton was involved in the cocaine trade.
Excellent Investigation & reporting W5! 1 of the best iv'e seen.
yeah right, never asking the passengers (e.g. that good looking mom with teenage son left behind) how they happenned to be on that flight, who paid for their flight and vacation, what were they doing in Dominicana... Excellent reporting, you are right!
Are you joking?!
@@CyberSystemOverload
Dominican president lost millions from them finding that cargo
Justinder Singh Trudeau probably in on the whole thing as well. Why RCMP or foreign affairs did not do anything
😅I¹11¹111111@@kevins9688
Thank you for pulling that crucial information out of your 🍑
Yup
I hope you are not suggesting the heads of state were part of the conspiracy to smuggle drugs to Canada.
Where's the Canadian gov't in this? Where's that spineless Trudough? He can cry foul against Modi but can't protect its own citizens. They were honest and upfront to report it. Yet Canadians spend tens of millions to visit the island every year.
Trudeau is just a loser! He cares about no one, but just himself!
He’s probably made a fortune on it. No telling how long it’s been going on.
Trust Capital sounds like a play on words. Trust the Capital or Trust Trudeau.
You have no idea what’s behind this. No idea who’s actually telling the truth and who’s lying. You can’t just feel pity for someone without knowing the whole truth.
Tourism is a cover for drug routes. There must be a smuggling route from Canada to US via north border. The handled this with white gloves 👌. Mind you this was 1 charter flight of thousands. The $ being moved in cocaine via the DR has to be at least a 1/3 of GDP.
Imagine doing the right thing then going directly to jail for your troubles
Happens every day sadly :(
Happens especially with much money involved
No good turn goes unpunished
They did not go to a real jail, but a breathtaking Villa in Punta Cana.
Heh yeah that's always the way in our countries. Our laws are truly bizarre in so many areas. Take for example self-defence laws and 'reasonable force' in UK, Canada and Australia. Someone breaks into your home to do you harm and/or rob you, and if you hit that person with a baseball bat and accidentally kill them, you're going to prison for 10 years or more for 'manslaughter' and 'unreasonable force' the prosecution argues. Never mind the fact the criminals broke into your home and you're fearing for your life and that of your family and children. That's in stark contrast to the more sensible US approach, where American citizens have guns and can shoot a home intruder dead and that's considered entirely lawful and reasonable self-defence if you give a warning you're armed. Many States go even further with the 'stand your ground' law which says it's entirely legal to have a non-concealed hand-gun or rifle and if someone tries to physically assault you, you're well within your rights to shoot them after a warning to back off.
How a person in UK/CA/AU can end up in PRISON for a decade or so purely for defending their lives against a violent person or home intruder who ends up dead is a really messed up law. There's so many other examples where innocent people end up in prison due to silly laws. Take 'hate speech' laws now...someone in UK/CA/AU can end up in prison just for posting something online which 'upsets' someone else...as though you're responsible for someone else's interpretation of something you said and their feelings! It's absolutely balmy.
@OfficialW5 The only reason there were let go was bc of all the hard work this team at W5 put in and all the info you guys started to dig up and they didnt wamt u guys digging up any more info on all the players involved. Great job, hope u guys get blessed as much or even more than the blessing u brought these 12!!!
Where's the Canadian Foreign Minister ? He/She needs to get these people home.
Sorry dude the passengers look very guilty according to this video, as for the crew they perhaps are the only ones worth saying something to help them, after all they reported the drugs.
paid off.
They have been home
As Dominican and airline crew I am so embarrassed but not surprised by the negligence of the justice system in that country. So sorry to see this fellow crew go through this unnecessary mess.
Pretty wild bell media canceled this show.. id rather them cancel local news and keep this. This is actually journalism.
Somebody used that plane and crew as a diversion and they became the fall guys for the traffickers protected by higher ups.....
Yeah, I think you're right.
The question is how did the passengers come across that lawyer to be their legal representation? Who is paying his bill? I would want my own lawyer.
The lawyer for the passengers was sent my the same person who chartered the plane. They are all connected.
Watch the follow-up upload "Cocaine Cargo II: Who is behind the Pivot Airline drug smuggling plot? W5 | Investigation"
Probably my favorite youtube channel right now. This is top quality journalism
after watching this clip, my first though is to avoid traveling to this country at all cost .... Their legal system is ridiculous...
That same cocain was put on another plane and got here before this broadcast.
Facts! 😂
Here's one more reason why we should get this prime minister out. He only cares for friends and family
I think those drugs were being brought for JT
My eyes were watering like I had been cutting onions when the copilot- who had just become a Canadian citizen, was hugging his kids. So glad they were reunited with their families
Excellent investigative journalism! Well done.
After seeing this video, I will never visit Dominican Republic.
Come on just travel one time. By the way can you take a bag with you from a friend if you travel back home? 😂😂
Dominican Republic has nothing to do with this. Corrupt people in power have.. and someone in Canada with power was picking up these drugs.
Don’t travel anywhere 🌍, drugs are wherever you at right now
Follow the money and see how much makes its way into one of the shell companies of the guy who lives at the $7 million bomb shelter outside Ottawa.
Man this was put together so well ... Definitely going to subscribe.
total bs the passengers were involved -
100% those two women are terrible actresses
@downieduck2414
""total bs the passengers were involved '"
What?? WOW You may have cracked the case! You must work for W5, Oh yes, I think I can clearly see your awesome "open/shut case" logic now!!
Was it Professor Plum with the wrench in the library? Or Miss Scarlett with the candlestick in the study? Yes! cause you know,
* As Canadian Nationals, the passengers would have easy access to an Airport security vehicle they could use anytime they please so;
*So when they liked, they had access to the security camera archives to edit manipulate and erase, (but forgot there was another camera pointed in that direction??
*Anytime they felt like it they could use their obviously all areas access to (international, no less), airport for,
* staging, taxiways adjacent to the RUNWAYS to,
*LOAD UP the aforementioned airport assigned vehicle (Somewhere on we'd have to assume, Airport Property no less), with eight duffies containing just shy of #463 LBS (which is incidentally, enough weight to seriously affect the takeoff, flight, landing, and general handling/response/characteristics of a small aircraft like that. but hey, minor details to a case cracker like you I suppose.
I don't want to steal your thunder but I'm guessing you know who did it!
Obviously I'd like to interview some of them (Some several times) befiore jumping to conclusions but UNLIKE many people these days, I am not ready to throw out factual concrete evidence just because it causes problems in the dramatic flow if the overall investigation
Investigative journalism is one thing but, there is a border that shouldnt be crossed and that is, when the journalism endangers others.
I"M SHOCKED at the arrogant, callous behavior of the W5 people who not only falsely ASSUME authority to demand andswers both personal and case related (non-public) information or, information that will eventually be made public, from the people involved in the case themselves but to completely callously and blatantly disregard the safety among other aspects of the witnesses/victims/passengers even as one or more may end up being linked to the case BUT, to assume they are, and be willing to endanger any or all of them in their effort to gain information they can exploiut ibnto clicks, with no regard to the utter danger they are obviously in because of the dropping dime on the shipment by the pilot/crew. You would think the W5 people might be more concerned with making sire they (passengers/crew) are safe or, AT LEAST AS concerned as they are with getting clicks and manipulating their story for viewership. "Gee I guess it will be kinda dull unless, some of them are targeted for telling on the smugglers"
Wonder why the media in general are so hated these days?
Sad the Canadian government doesn't do anything. RCMP is sitting back watching all this.
@@darrenlewis3199I'm getting that feeling too. They were mules. Follow the money. Their boyfriends. Dig into their lives. Assets. It will show
Ok now watching the video all the way through. Nope passengers were definitely involved..sorry it sucks getting caught. I know first hand. Ive done time. Who paid for the jet? That Sheldon guy is the one. He didn't expect the jet crew to check the cargo bay. Got greedy and tried to haul to much. If there had been 1 or 2 bags. But to pack it completely full like a rat. Those girls were probably with him. Anyway. The world keeps spinning lol
There keeping them hostage because the people who owned the drugs are pissed
Something isn't lining up with the lawyer for the Canadians. He doesn't know how they became involved in this flight or anything about who organized the trip. All the people on the flight minus the crew are involved and knew something was up.
Facts . But hey…. They stood together . I commented the same weird he doesn’t know .
The 2 girls no longer wanted to place nice ….. Wanna know what happened …. Trudope payed a terrorist for 10 million after he killed people …. Vick Mander sent a duffel bag of cash. THE END
exactly. and the proud reporters just forgot to elaborate on that "very minor unimportant" issue! =))
Their lawyer is there to protect them, not to find out if they are phony or suspicious…sadly
@@DM-lr5xz thats the only important thing for us to know! we don’t care if they were in on the trafficking scheme or not 😀
W5 doesn't seem trustworthy and I just watch it as entertainment and intellectual excercise. I watched the 2 W5 documentaries on the Canadian grandma who was arrested in Hong Kong for smuggling cocaine from Ethiopia (after being scammed out of 205 thousand CAD), and it was hilarious how they all claimed she did absolutely nothing wrong. While I sympathise with people who are very naive, the news reporters were absurdly one-sided: if the grandma took those drugs to Toronto, she would also end up in jail for months if not years.
It is a frequent situation that the judges and prosecutors are best friends with the narcotics also in Spain and Argentina, TRUDEAU is not a friend of Canadians!
Trudeau sucks!
Subscribed. Amazing journalism.
it is obvious who the culprits are, doesn’t take a genius to figure that out, but Kudos to W5 and to that pretty brave woman. ❤
Powerful people wanted their supply, and their good deed screwed it up. Those sending and receiving it weren’t average people
@Reviewer-qr5gr in the Dominican republic the same police that got them trust me
Running out of fuel because its over a ton heavy.
Perhaps, in the middle of the Atlantic worse 👈
It wouldn’t get off the ground had they not found it because they would have fueled for a nonstop back to Canada. They would’ve went off the end off the runway if they didn’t stop short.
That 506 pound more, bs , even fueled to the max that is not a problem, that aircraft is designed to be fueled to the max and carry full passenger load,nevertheless the crew is inocente but the passenger are questionable, definitely the airport authority are the guilty one, nothing goes down at the Dominican airports without the authority’s involvement, it has always been like that and it will remain like that, I know, I’m Dominican
Those freaking passengers are in on it, they drug smugglers, and the real state guy is the money man.
Well done to the whole media team - so sad the final release took so long
It was a clear message to anyone who dares to report such activity in the future
What happened to the 3 passengers that had previous drug convictions and the one guy connected to the phony capital company?
Shhh!
Where is the Canadian government. They should support this inocente people..
There not innocent
Thanks Justin. He is too busy running his own corruption empire. This country is sick.
Wrong. Putting over 400 lbs in the very front of the plane. Moving the center of gravity that far forward makes the aircraft unexpectedly nose heavy. Calculating weight and balance it part of very flight. Hard to take off, hard to climb. Overweight and not balanced is extremely dangerous.
Those guys got back and said, wooo. Can't believe they bought it. Never doing that again.
the twist is the plane they took home in the end was loaded to the brim with coke lol nobody even looked
You're the best channel ,thanks for this documentary ,
W5, you are the best. You rating is off the charts for me. Shame on the Canadian government.
pro zionist pro islam govrrnment......
there's a reason why people are leaving that country en masse
This is not true, but this is a very strange case that needs international oversite, they either innocent or guilty and someone else needs to find out, since the court there seems to have a bies against them, for example won't they know who exactly put the bags there, an airport employee or some other official that works for customs or even a baggage handler.
@@lcfflc3887 TRUMP 2024
awe would you look at that, he freed his spiders after he spent time in jail . lol
Will these canadian crew Sue the country of Dominican Republic for unlawful imprisonment.
They would have to return there
Lol , you cant sue a country for doing things their own way , we aint in America where you can sue for whatever
Lol
Lol, good luck with that. You clearly haven’t travelled to foreign countries…they don’t give a rat’s ass
Good luck fighting the goberment here lol …. They lucky the get out of here in one pice lol …. Thank good they make it out …trust me here in DR you fear the police they place on you drugs , guns anything to put you in jail ….is there words only hear thats the perfect example how the laws work here
Total corruption, they didn't even know what was in the bags, until they had been inspected , all inbound planes need to be inspected before being unloaded
Why do these shows have to use spoilers right through the show ? It just makes it unwatchable .. since you show the results at the beginning, there is no point
Women involved willingly.
Yes i agree the US is more agressive when it comes to getting you home. Prayers for you.
Why I don’t understand is how they were able to enter DR with drug trafficking convictions?
What are talking about? DR doesn't stop people from traveling there for any conviction, what country does that? You know of any?
@@lcfflc3887yeah Canada ironically enough.
@@lcfflc3887canada and other countries stop people from coming in for simple shit like dui
@@lcfflc3887 Many countries restrict entry for convicted felons. The list is too long to put here.
They were extraordinarily fortunate. In most cases they would have been murdered.
You’re missing out of many beautiful countries and cultures. I’d skip many 3rd worlds though.😂
will be by their contacts.
Thank God for W5 great story to come across!! A real eye opener not to travel DR and possibly to Canada for just the fact their country didn't help at all. Good job W5!!!
its scary cuz i was on vacation in punta cana this time last year
For not knowing anything, the lawyer sure is answering before any questions. BTW ... I've heard of 'island time' but this is rediculous.
Amazing reporters! ❤ W5 at its best as always!!!
Great storytelling!!!
Great investigation! Your team’s expertise, passion and commitment to correcting this tragedy is heartwarming.
Investigative journalism at its best, thank you!
Two criticisms, if you don’t mind? Sooner would have been better, yes? And… Canada’s government officials and prime Minister? Why not push harder? A deeper investigation into their cowardly inaction is warranted, yes? Their lack of accountability and character bothers me. It’s inexcusable, period.
They need to specifically answer for gross negligence and deliberate disregard for human rights violations.
the pilots and the flight attendants are clean but all the passengers are involved in this dirty business
They need to start revoking Dominican visas in Canada, and stop provoding aid and see what they do.
do not go on vacation in countries like this! there are a lot of nice places in counties like the USA and other Europian and western countries... In the US itself there are places that you can go on vacation and be safe. Be safe ppl! Thank you for W5, this investigation probably helped the process of them being released. Excellent job W5!!!
Bro...if you're scared in your house eating cookies drinking milk say so. Rest of us are going outside.
There are many, mostly safe and beautiful places to go to. Don't go somewhere because it's cheapest.
Delphi,Indiana joins the conversation! #corruption
clutching my pearls
usa is a shithole. and what is europian? wtf
This was a great report thank you
That smile on their faces when they finally were able to embrace their love ones, it’s priceless.
Great job Avery !!
their company Pivot really went above and beyond. the Ceo did everything he could do to help them.
You are an angel of Hope
Canada's Prime Minister is not respected abroad or at home.
By the way the passengers looked very guilty and the upfront gosth company Trust capital too, so yeah maybe the crew perhaps were innocent but the passengers uhh very doubtful, the prosecutor there made a big mistake, both the crew of 4 and the group of passengers were supposed to be divided in to two groups with separated cases and then they could have gotten to the bottom of this, the drugs were been requested from Canada and the passengers seems to know everything about it. The whole case was a failure, the American court system would have cracked down the whole thing faster and easily if this took place here in the US, the prosecution did terrible investigation work over there, I'm from DR myself, I was born there, and this much I have to say about this case and court system there.
Damn. Stellar investigation! Well done.
That’s not an airport truck it’s 5-0
Excellent work
What happened to the aircraft?
Yeah good question
What happened to the drugs?
The aircraft was not under detention only the people. The drugs is taking by the law enforcement of that country to presumably destroy it. But if there is corruption to the highest level it may be reshipped.
The pilot's wife was not happy to see him.She didn't hug him.She wasn't holding on to him nothing
and this is why I don't travel anywhere outside USA.
So only to Detroit and St Louis, and Chicago
That’s where all this is headed.
Scary. I wanted to do a medical mission trip to DR….. but now…. No way.
Dude, relax my sister and her husband did this many times for over 5 years, they founded their own organization too, providing restauration surgery for children with bad spine, that's her husband's specialty, spine surgery, me and my sister were both born there but been living in the US for over 22 years, get to know the country better, the dos and don'ts for your own convinent and safety, there are hundreds of foreighners including from the US and Canada doing medical school over there at a fraction of the cost and then validating over here, common sense safety tips, don't stop for anybody while driving unless is police, don't get on unmarked taxis or cars offering you a ride for cheaper if you haven't requested them first, all of this guidelines and more you can learn online even from the government's own website for tourists and permanent foreigners, tags: D.R safety tips, D.R traveling guide, DR safety travel, D.R travel info, D.R tourist living.
What do you mean? The 3 passengers everyone is ignoring on this entire comment section? Yeah me to what happened to them, very guilty looking in my opinion and that stupid gosth company too, Trust capital which the Canadian government desided not to investigate LOL, because after there's no way a Canadian could be and international drug dealer, Americans only.
As for the crew they got wrapped up in some bad business gone wrong by the passengers, the crew reported the drugs after all, could at least one of the 4 be guilty? Maybe but which one? Pilot? Mechanic? Fly attendants? Who knows I don't think the dealers needed them to pull this up.
people use charters and private jets to smuggle huge loads its called pay to play
They set this up 💯 good got caught and no on was able to be charged
Remember that the pilot saw the open door indicator come on which shows the drugs were being loaded by Dominican DNCD officers (or military) without the pilot's knowledge of the cargo.
The passenger is involved! Obviously 🙄
Robs wife/partner did not seem very welcoming at all!
We went there on a family vacay about ten years ago, but my passport has no record of it. Why? At that time you didn't have to go through customs, and we didn't. Not because we were dishonest but because we got into the fastest moving line. It lead straight to the parking lot. My wife wanted to go back inside, but I'm a smoker and I was having none of that BS. Still can't believe you can land at their busiest airport and just walk past customs. PS. Worst Caribbean country I've ever been to.
There’s a lot of hypocrites in this world !
I still don’t understand how the passenger got the flight
That's the million dollar question.
🇨🇦 Canadian drugs dealers playing innocent
If u guys havnt realized the prosecutor the judge and everyone else lost money from that drug bust
0:28 Avery, thank you for a stellar job. No matter the outcome , shame on the Canadian government and the RCMP for dragging their feet. They let this affair drag on so long without showing their citizens that they were involved. Talk about looking like gutless wonders.
This illegal detainment is really quite common in drug cases in the DR it happened to us in the 80’s with the same outcome they dropped all charges and released everyone without explanation. I can’t help but think the DEA was involved at some point . The only difference was we posted a bond that was never returned . But it was worth every penny Jails in the DR are closer to torture chambers than jail’s. At least by American standards , dysentery runs rampant ( runs rampant is an under statement) it’s like projectile vomiting only from the other end . But I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that this was 40 yrs ago when you didn’t need a passport to enter or exit the country . I’ve never been back nor do I have the desire to go back
Around $9,000,000 oughta do it.
Almost would have been smarter to fly to a friendly airport to report it. Leave that island and go to US territory nearby
Lol great idea, fly out of DR to a U.S. territory and when you land say, oh hey, found this lmao
It would have been dangerous to travel with that cargo. The immediate danger was the safety of the aircraft. If it landed in a "friendly" country everyone would have faced charges of smuggling drugs and considering the amount of drugs, a life sentence for conviction.
You know...Similar to "It ' s not a Cottage...it' s a Chalet". 😂😭
"we suffering"
And they live in a all inclusive villa in the tropics. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Incredible investigative journalism. Wow. 👏
Drug dealers!
Jimmy Olsen ova here!
Good documentary, thanks.
That's one group of people who will NEVER set foot on the soil of the Dominican Republic, neither will I. Scary place with no real rule of law.
Thank God for your work!
Well done investigation!
Great job 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 hope you continue helping real people who really need help.
Is this a reupload? I remember watching this some time ago already
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
All the things that they are saying experienced in jail happens in every country jail, but because is in the Dominican Republic, they want to makes it look like only in the DR can happened.
Easiest to force their Dominican Republic’s hand will be to stop foreign aid to Dominican Republic, stop flights from there and stop immigration from there.
W5 is a hero in this moment in time!
Bell cancelling this incredible show?? I’ve cancelled bell
Why was the 8th passenger who left a few days early left out of the investigation?
im sorry. as soon as i got my bail, I would have done EVERYTHING in my own power to get off that island. I dont care. I would have swam to Cuba if i had to. I would have disappeared into the night and hell or high water, id be gone.
Sharks in those waters
Good Work!
I would’ve flown back to Canadian borders then claim the find . cocaine of that amount is extremely dangerous of who ever is involved is major and from what it already looks like all fingers point to the government
I love this program as i am 95% convinced it is full of facts and not fake news and fake reports
This is why I no longer want to travel to the Dominican Republic or Mexico or other similar corrupt Third World countries.
I will travel in the United States where I am safer, and there is due process !
Shame on the Canadian government for not helping these people sooner.
Great reporting! Just subscribed.