He begins smuggling cannabis resin to England, concealing it in a rubber body suit. After his first few runs Chris becomes a full-fledged cannabis smuggler, addicted to the thrill. It's the start of a series of daredevil adventures on the roads, in the air and across the ocean that will eventually land him in prison. But when the "gold" turns out to be cocaine, Stephen finds himself battling both tuberculosis and hostile inmates as he begins serving an year prison sentence in Argentina.
Loving father Robert Pringle is a successful Cape Town company director struggling to cope with a sudden corporate expansion. Exhausted, he begins using cocaine, and when his ex-wife leaves with his son to begin a new life in the Middle East, he spirals into addiction. Pringle goes to Peru and is duly given a package to put in his suitcase.
But he panics, and en route to Lima airport, dumps the drugs by the roadside. When he returns to South Africa The task appears easy when she's assured the Colombian customs officials have been bribed. But things are not as they seem and instead she ends up on a crash diet in a terrifying tropical jail. Faced with an impending manslaughter trial, military veteran Kim Hood needs a break from life. When her girlfriend's cousin, Lisa Taylor, invites her to Thailand on a business trip to procure nail products for her new business, Kim jumps at the opportunity.
But in Thailand Kim's suspicions are aroused when Lisa starts to become highly strung during telephone dealings with her nail product supplier. Hours before their return flight home, the true nature of Lisa's trip is finally exposed when the products delivered are not nail supplies but heroin.
Kim decides she has no choice but to smuggle heroin in order to make it home in time for her manslaughter He loved the teaching and the nightlife but was struggling financially, so he agreed to participate in a scam. Although he knew he could face the death penalty if caught in Thailand, the money was too tempting to pass up. But at the airport, Tim was stopped at the check-in counter. In a back room, drug authorities found During the Persian Gulf War of , Tom Lynch and John White made a daring escape attempt from the oil field where they were working, to avoid becoming human shields.
However once in the middle of an inhospitable desert a betrayal between the two men occurred and they were captured by the Mukhabarat, Saddams infamous and terrifying secret police force, and plunged into a brutal world of torture and execution. Michael Morey was a music-loving hippie who fell in love with a woman he met in Trinidad.
But when he learned he and his girlfriend were expecting a baby, Michael agreed to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe. When he got to Quito, he was told he'd need to cut his dreadlocks. For Michael, cutting his dreads was like selling his soul, but he didn't think there was another choice. On the day of his departure, he was duct taped with almost 4 kilos of cocaine. In the airport, Michael was almost caught twice: once by a chewing gum wrapper setting off a metal detector, and later by a guard with a German Shepherd.
After arriving in Madrid, he nearly Jackie Nichols was living the dream, in love with her boyfriend until one day he suddenly died in a car accident.
Trying to move on, she decided to go to Japan. She felt alone in Tokyo until she met Yoram, a charming drug mule, who invited her to smuggle hashish with him. She had fallen in love with traveling and needed money to pay for it, so she agreed.
On the first trip, she swallowed hundreds of wrapped hashish pellets, but some residual hashish oil was released into her bloodstream. Feeling high while going through security, she very nearly got caught. But the money and the buzz she felt when she got away with it made her come back for more The film "Midnight Express" told the story of year-old college student Billy Hayes his life, imprisonment due to drug smuggling and escape from a prison in Istanbul, Turkey.
But because of legal reasons, neither the film nor the book, authored by Hayes, were completely accurate. After spending five years there, he was sent to Imrali, an island prison off the coast of Turkey.
His journey to freedom from Imrali began after stealing a fisherman's dinghy and heaving a skiff seventeen miles through the rolling waves to the mainland. However, once he But he got more than he bargained for when he and his companions were ambushed by murderous paramilitaries.
April Atlanta musician David Evans loves his girfriend Julie Goldstein but they're always broke. In a rash attempt to prove he could make some cash, he agrees to act as a drug mule. He deceives Julie by telling her he is going to Europe when actually he flies to Caracas Venezuela.
There he picks up 7 pounds 3. Despite believing that 'everyone is paid off' at Caracas airport, he is caught and arrested. Julie meanwhile has gone to meet him in Amsterdam. She has no idea why he is not there to meet her - until he calls.
Over the ensuing months he sinks deeper into the hell of the Venezuelan penal Greg Williams travelled to the Philippines in in the hope of turning his life around as a church volunteer. But within days of arriving, he was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf - a brutal Islamic terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda.
Greg realized his only chance of survival was to escape. In Jake Stanford was fresh out of high school and headed off to Mexico in search of adventure and excitement. He got both - but not in quite the way he anticipated. Funding his stay by selling Marijuana to tourists, he unwisely attempted a deal too far when he agreed to supply another American with two kilos of the drug.
A resulting drugs bust would see him witness two policemen shot point blank as well as being gunshot himself. After three days holed up in a friend's house he made a doomed escape attempt disguised as a woman before falling into the clutches of the town's menacing chief of police, who soon made it clear he would only save In Brendan Cosso was partying and mixing with celebrities in Hollywood.
He didn't need the money. He was arrested with three friends at Sao Paulo airport. Thanks to the efforts of his father in securing a top criminal lawyer, Brendan received a sentence of four years rather than the 25 demanded by the prosecution. But he was sent to Carandiru prison, the most violent prison in South America, where a year previously prisoners had been massacred.
In Australian businessman Chris Parnell was arrested and accused of smuggling twelve kilos of hashish in Bali , Indonesia. To avoid going to court and a possible death sentence, he feigned madness, and was locked up in a mental hospital. An early escape attempt ended in disaster when he crashed through a roof into a secure lunatic asylum.
After this he stood trail and was sentenced to life in prison. Determined to prove his innocence, he made a further daring escape attempt disguised as a woman, but was recaptured. He spent the next eleven years in a spiraling prison nightmare which in culminated in him being declared dead in a prison mortuary El Paso, Alex Silva is a bored and disaffected teenager, whose life is going nowhere fast.
Worried he'll end up on the streets, Alex's uncle gets him a job in a tire shop. But instead of keeping his head down, Alex is distracted by some wealthy Mexican customers.
Chasing the scent of money, he discovers that they are drug smugglers, who bring marijuana into the US from Mexico. Alex begs to be let in on the action and finds himself driving marijuana-laden cars across the border from Juarez into El Paso.
Thinking this is easy money, he asks for a bigger job. For the next task, Alex, who has never been south of Juarez, will have to drive deep When Kahlilah Saleem meets big-shot music producer Roy her life is completely transformed. She moves from Philadelphia to Miami with her six-year-old daughter. But when Roy offers Kahlilah the chance to travel to Panama to see the Carinval, her hopes are turned upside-down.
Roy abandons Kahlilah in Panama with a bag stuffed with 8 kilogrammes of pure cocaine. He returns to the US and he holds her daughter hostage to force Kahlilah to smuggle the bag to Paris. But it's no easy journey. Kahlilah must first travel from Panama to Costa Rica and then to Cuba. Along the way she makes friends with English backpacker Laura who is also travelling to Paris Journalists Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul rush to the remote city to report from the frontline.
But they are kidnapped by insurgents who think they're American spies. From then on their lives hang in the balance as the American military pound the City and the journalist face execution and torture and witness scenes few westerners have ever survived. Zara Whittaker, from a poverty-ridden housing project in South London, left behind her 8 month old baby, to go to Barbados and smuggle cocaine back.
She never thought anything could go wrong - her partner in crime had done it 12 times before. Three days before the run, she found out she was pregnant, but she'd already spent too much of the drug dealers' money to pull out.
Stopped by the police at the airport, Zara was given a five year prison sentence - she gave birth in Barbados, and, after three heartbreaking months, had to give the baby up. In , Zoe McGarry's life changed forever after a chance encounter with a man called Tony. She met him in Nigeria while visiting the country with her Nigerian husband Olu, and they soon all became close friends. Tony had family in London and Zoe and Olu invited him to stay in their house. But within months his personality started to change, he was no longer the happy, warm person they once knew.
And then, one day, he just disappeared. A few months later, he called Zoe from Ecuador begging her for help to re-new his visa so he could return to the UK and make a fresh start. Eventually, Tony persuaded Zoe to visit him to help with his paperwork Without knowing that marijuana is illegal in Jamaica, the couple takes off, playing the tourist and enjoying the beach.
After a few days, the women head back to the airport with suitcases that barely conceal the drug packages. They are caught, handcuffed and sent to Kingston's over-crowded, roach-infested Central Jail, where they end up defending their gay lifestyle to hostile Jamaicans. TK's family secures her release back home to New York after paying a lawyer, but now, the guilt-ridden TK must convince her girlfriend's grandmother What he finds are bloodthirsty child soldiers controlled by a menacing rebel warlord.
When some rebels turn in their weapons to Phil, the angry warlord goes on a violent rampage, and closes in on the UN team for revenge. Surrounded, outgunned and vastly outnumbered, Phil risks everything in a desperate mile escape through rebel-controlled jungle. She loves it so much that when her money runs out, she overcomes her initial fears and hides 2 pounds of hashish in a statue, mailing it off to Europe to make some quick cash. But her party lifestyle spirals out of control, and she needs more money.
She ships another parcel, and then another-but the third one doesn't reach Europe. The courier company says they've lost the address and ask her to go to the post office to pick up a fax. Desperate for money but suspecting a trap, Clare reluctantly picks up the fax. She's arrested and ends up spending years in one of Asia's After Jeremy's girlfriend leaves him, taking their daughter, he turns to bodybuilding.
He uses steroids purchased illegally in Mexico, printing counterfeit cash to buy them - only to be caught at a roadside store. Hippie Michael's girlfriend is pregnant, so he agrees to smuggle cocaine for extra money. After being busted in Madrid, he learns she lost the baby and is ending the relationship. Navy sailor takes a gamble on cocaine smuggling to get out of debt, but his choices catch up with him when he is caught in Colombia.
A student searching for his South American roots hikes from Panama to Colombia through dense jungle. After being taken hostage by guerrilla soldiers, his life is on the line.
A teenage drug courier is tricked into a more dangerous job than she bargained for in Bolivia. Another teen struggling with obesity is so desperate to get gastric bypass surgery that she agrees to smuggle drugs from Colombia. Military veteran Kim Hood needs a break from life, so she joins a friend on a trip to Thailand to procure nail products for her new business. Hours before their return flight home, the true nature of the trip is finally exposed when the products delivered are not nail supplies but heroin.
Actor Erik Aude is on the brink of stardom, but almost famous doesn't pay the bills. When the trip goes smoothly, Erik takes a similar trip to Pakistan. But this time, authorities discover opium in the lining of Erik's suitcase; a crime he didn't know he was committing. Dwight Worker decides to smuggle cocaine to America, concealed under a phony shoulder cast. But when he's busted in Mexico City and sent to the notorious 'Black Palace' prison, his life becomes a living hell, and he vows to get out or die trying.
Anxious to escape the prison, he teams up with a former runaway, and they make an exhausting trek across the country to secure their freedom.
Tom Lynch and his fellow contractors are imprisoned while trying to escape Iraq in In a notorious prison in Baghdad, they are forced to listen to fellow inmates being tortured to death. But their two-month-long nightmare was far from over. A few years earlier, Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia is imprisoned and forced to act as a body double for the notorious, violent son of Saddam Hussein.
A fantasy vacation in Mauritius turned into a seven-year nightmare when Brigene Young was busted for smuggling drugs hidden in her shoes.
A pole dancer is forced at gunpoint to smuggle cocaine from the Caribbean to England. Less than a year into motherhood, Susan Haglof faces the possibility of jail time and being separated from her adopted son forever.
When British police learn of Pieter Tritton's drug empire, he is forced to go on the run, but he can't resist collecting one final shipment of cocaine. When Steve Peterson's plan to smuggle marijuana from Mexico into the U.
Young Scott Campbell travels to Pakistan to meet his nomadic father for a trip along the Silk Road; little does he know, his estranged dad is actually a cannabis smuggler with big plans. Jobless Duane Wollum needs money to maintain his party lifestyle and support his daughter. The lure of easy cash leads him to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the U.
Incarcerated in a brutal Soviet prison camp in the s for smuggling heroin, American Jerry must leave his friends behind to make a daring escape. Also in the '70s, five Americans imprisoned for smuggling marijuana desperately plan an escape, digging a tunnel through concrete with just a butter knife and rocks.
With water and feces gushing through the floor, can they make it out alive? Forced by drug dealers to follow through after attempting to abandon the deal, he is caught and jailed, with few prospects for escape.
English nursing student Lucy Wright also attempts to smuggle cocaine to pay her debts, but ends up facing 16 to 25 years in Argentina after being busted. She decides to jump bail, become a fugitive and flee across the border. Australian teacher Tim Schrader gets caught up in a Thai drug syndicate while working in Bangkok.
He is lured into smuggling heroin to L. In Maui, Eddie Padilla is living a bohemian paradise funded by drug smuggling. A drug run gone wrong in Peru leads to imprisonment in a jail nicknamed The House of the Devil, where he must escape or die trying. Struggling single mother Zara begins smuggling drugs only to discover she is pregnant again. After being apprehended, she must serve time and can only keep her son with her for his first three months.
In Spokane, Washington, teenage street racer Rick Cedar is overwhelmed to find out his girlfriend is pregnant. Short on cash, he concocts a plan to scam people seeking to buy engines, but a buyer who catches on ends up leading him deeper into crime.
Martial-arts expert and smuggler Chris Chance is caught in a police ambush, and must abandon his wife to spend years in a Spanish prison. Chance's training is the only way he can survive the violence he encounters daily in prison. In Jamaica, TK White and her girlfriend are funding their vacation by smuggling marijuana. Unaware that its illegal in Jamaica, the women are caught and must survive together in an overcrowded, pest-infested jail. Two incredible stories of American heroes: Vietnam prisoners of war Senator John McCain and Ernest Brace find a way to survive imprisonment together, forging a lifelong friendship.
Then, the true story behind the award-winning movie Argo - the daring CIA rescue of six American diplomats during the Iranian hostage crisis. Subtitles Lang. Banged Up Abroad S01E Banged Up Abroad S02E Banged Up Abroad S03E Banged Up Abroad S04E Banged Up Abroad S05E Banged Up Abroad S06E Banged Up Abroad S07E After being caught with a kilo of heroin in Mauritius, Brigene Young faces 45 years in jail unless she can help catch the drug traffickers.
Young eventually served 7 years in prison. The tale of Chris Chance, whose daredevil life smuggling cannabis into the U. Company director Robert Pringle is sentenced to seven years in a violent South-American lock-up after being pressured by his dealer to smuggle drugs. Vivian Carrasquillo faces a crash diet in jail after an attempt to raise funds for gastric bypass surgery by becoming a drug mule backfires.
Military veteran Kim Hood faces life behind bars in a squalid Thai prison after being caught smuggling 14 kilos of heroin with a friend, Lisa Taylor. A young man travels to Pakistan and sets off with his estranged dad, unaware that his dad is a veteran cannabis smuggler with plans to bring 20 kilos of the drug into China. The lure of easy money leads an out-of-work father to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the U. An American woman is charged with fraud after trying to acquire a birth certificate and a passport for her adopted son.
A California man is arrested during a drug deal in Chile and sentenced to five years in prison. He and a fellow prisoner decide to escape and flee the country on foot. Life inside Venezuela's notorious Los Teques Prison is detailed by an Irish man who was arrested at the Caracas airport for trying to smuggle cocaine back to Dublin. Freelance journalists Nigel Brennan and Amanda Lindhout describe how they were kidnapped by a criminal gang while covering the war in Somalia in July , and the subsequent 15 months they were held captive.
Life in a notorious Bangkok prison is detailed by a woman who received a life sentence for attempting to smuggle heroin out of Thailand. He details his incarceration in a Soviet prison camp and his eventual escape during a power outage.
Travelling magician Mark Greening juggles a young family with a budding hash-smuggling business after moving to Japan, but he soon gets caught. Lucy Wright is a nursing student when her life goes from bad to worse to hell. Her boyfriend leaves, she becomes addicted to crack, and the bills keep piling up.
Adventure-seeker Thomas Hamill takes a job driving trucks in Iraq, leading to a terrifying time in captivity after being kidnapped by insurgents. Dwight Worker is busted in Mexico for smuggling coke and attempts a daring escape from one of the country's most notorious prison. Ruthie Lambert, a middle-aged mother of three, decides to smuggle drugs to make ends meet.
She is imprisoned for years but eventually escapes by bribing a corrupt official. British nurse Stephen Comiskey, who takes a job in Saudi Arabia to support his family, draws the unwelcome attention of the Saudi religious police after a series of illicit gay affairs. Erez Eltawil and Reini Weigel are among eight backpackers who are snatched by guerrillas during a trek in remote northern Colombia. David and Jayne Bladen's dream of a new life overseas turns into a nightmare journey of drug smuggling and violence culminating in 20 months behind bars.
Iraqi soldier Latif Yahia describes how he was summoned to Saddam Hussein's palace and forced to become the body double of the dictator's eldest and most notorious son, Uday. Scott Campbell goes travelling in China with his estranged father, only to find out that his dad is a professional smuggler carrying 20 kilos of cannabis.
Duane Wollum is about to make some easy money smuggling cocaine, until an airport security check reveals that he is concealing a package. Orthodox Jew Samuel Leibowitz dreams of making millions as a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary. When Susan's Haglof's adoption goes wrong, she ends up in an Egyptian jail, facing a charge of human trafficking.
The gripping story of Tom Hanway, who flees a Chilean prison with a fellow prisoner, taking a dangerous and fatal escape route across the desert. The shocking story of Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, two British backpackers who are ambushed and held for ransom by a guerilla group while crossing the notoriously dangerous Darien Gap.
Desperate to keep his family afloat, Paul Keany agrees to smuggle six kilos of cocaine from Venezuela back to Dublin, but it turns out to be the worst decision of his life. Thrown into a notorious Bangkok prison for attempting to smuggle heroin, Angela Carnegie has an epiphany while nursing a fellow inmate with a drug addiction.
The terrifying story of photojournalist Nigel Brennan and reporter Amanda Lindhout, who are held hostage for 15 months by a criminal gang in Somalia. Shaun Attwood moves from England to Arizona to become a stockbroker. However, he gets caught up in drugs, and eventually starts dealing ecstasy. After some intimidation from a mafia boss, he goes back to being a stockbroker, but he gets a visit from the police and ends up serving more than six years in prison.
Tom Crutchfield is a reptile smuggler under investigation during Operation Chameleon. He gets close to being caught in the United States, so he flees to Belize, where he ends up in prison until being deported back to the United States. Roy Hallums is an American contractor who was kidnapped in Iraq from to Five Americans attempt to smuggle more than 2, pounds of marijuana to the United States.
After they are caught and placed in a Mexican prison, they plot a daring escape, excavating a meter tunnel under the prison walls. This episode is the true account of the "Canadian Caper" during the Iran hostage crisis, the story that inspired the movie Argo. Eddie Padilla is living the high life in Maui, surfing, partying and drug smuggling to support his cocaine addiction.
But a run-in with the Peruvian police on a smuggling trip lands him and two friends in a prison called The House of the Devil. The guards say they expect them to try to escape, but if they don't make it they are killed.
Even so, they decide to do whatever it takes to get out. Eddie shares his story of being Locked Up Abroad and the terrifying events that led to his freedom. Frank Cullotta is a mobster in Las Vegas who becomes well known for robberies. He is caught by the FBI thanks to an informant, becomes a witness against the mob and enters witness protection.
When he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant, he's overwhelmed. Short on cash, Rick decides to use his knowledge of cars to scam people online into buying engines he'll never send them. His con catches up to him when one buyer comes knocking down his door with threats. To pay him back, Rick decides the only way out is deeper into crime. When British schoolteacher Howard Marks agrees to help an old friend finish off a drug deal, he has no idea that it will be the start of a new career.
Attracted by the easy money and the thrill of being a smuggler, he is soon running a huge transatlantic operation. In , 19 year old American Jim Pap Rocki, a college graduate is convinced by his brother-in-law to join him on a drug run to Southern Mexico.
All goes to plan until the cargo catches fire and they are forced to crash-land. In , year-old Australian Martin Garnett is earning good money at a car dealership in Sydney, but he's hungry for more.
He's caught smuggling 4. The story of year-old Canadian Tabitha Ritchie, whose life took a terrifying turn when she was caught smuggling drugs out of Colombia. The shocking story of South African couple Debbie Calitz and Bruno Pelizzari, who were kidnapped by Somali pirates and held captive for 20 terrifying months.
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