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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE JjJ I DEC I 9 2011
EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA
Alexandria Division
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Your Affiant, Julie Hilario, being duly sworn, deposes and states:
Introduction
1.
(DHS), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations
(HSI) and have been so employed since December 2006. I am currently assigned to the
Washington, D.C. Special-Agent-in-Charge (SAC/DC) office and am assigned to the Washington Dulles International Airport. My duties as a Special Agent with HSI include, but
are not limited to, the investigation of federal laws governing the importation of controlled
substances into the United States (21 U.S.C. 952). I have received training in general law
enforcement, including training in Title 21, United States Code, and I am a graduate of the
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia.
2.
The facts set forth in this affidavit are based on my personal knowledge and
review ofrecords, documents, and other physical evidence obtained during this investigation, as
well as information conveyed to me by other law enforcement officials and private persons. All
observations referenced in this affidavit that were not made by me were related to me by the
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person who made such observations. Unless specifically indicated, all conversations and
statements described in this affidavit are related in substance and in part only and are not
intendedto be a verbatim recitation of such statements.
3.
CASIANO, Jr. (hereafter CASIANO) with the importation of a controlled substance into the
United States, in violation of 21 U.S.C. 952.
4.
Since this affidavit is being submitted for the limited purpose of obtaining a
criminal complaint, it does not include each and every fact observed by me or known to the
government. I have set forth only those facts necessary to support afinding ofprobable cause.
Probable Cause
5.
Washington Dulles International Airport, within the Eastern District of Virginia, after arriving on Aerosur Flight 700 from Santa Cruz, Bolivia. After arriving at the U.S. Customs checkpoint,
CASIANO was selected for secondary examination. CASIANO presented his United States
Passport and Customs Declaration to an officer with the United States Customs and Border
Protection (CBP). CASIANO informed the CBP officer that he had nothing to declare.
6. CASIANO was then instructed to place his luggage on the examination belt.
CASIANO stated to the CBP officer that the luggage belonged to him. CASIANO further stated
that he had gone to Santa Cruz, Bolivia for seventeen days to visit friends. During the baggage
that time, CASIANO began to exhibit additional signs of nervousness, specifically that he was
7.
The CBP officer removed the foreign object from the banner and probed the
package, revealing a brown powdery substance that field-tested positive for heroin. Further
examination of CASIANO's luggage revealed four pair of soccer-style pants and two pair of
soccer-style shorts, which also contained concealed packages sewn within their inner linings. A
total of twenty-seven packages containing suspected heroin were extracted from CASIANO's
8.
unlawfully, knowingly and intentionally imported one (1) kilogram or more of a mixture and
substance containing a detectable amount ofheroin, a Schedule I controlled substance, into the United States from a place outside the United States, in violation of 21 U.S.C. 952.