Episode 4: You Should Be Thankful
What Is Happening Here | Canadaland Investigates
Canadaland
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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"At that point it's really just survival mode."
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| 0:35.0 | Before any of the smugglers even got to Las Vegas to pick up the cocaine line |
| 0:39.8 | suitcases, there was trouble. They were supposed to travel in pairs, but the person who was |
| 0:46.1 | brought in last minute to go with Katiba Sunusi didn't make it across the Canadian-American border. |
| 0:52.1 | So Katiba carried on alone. |
| 0:56.7 | When the remaining five got to Las Vegas, |
| 0:58.7 | they picked up the luggage from strangers in the parking lots of their hotels as planned. |
| 1:02.2 | Katiba was given four suitcases |
| 1:04.2 | to somehow transport solo to Australia. |
| 1:07.8 | Too much to handle, and pretty conspicuous. |
| 1:13.6 | It was decided that he'd hand one off to Robert Wang. When Nate Cardi and Jordan Gardner met two guys in the parking lot of their hotel to get their |
| 1:20.4 | new bags, which they had been promised would be expertly outfitted with undetectable secret |
| 1:25.8 | compartments, they said the bag smelled like fresh glue. |
| 1:30.9 | That's when Jordan says he told the two guys he wasn't going through with it. And they put a gun to |
| 1:37.2 | his head and forced him. Here's Jordan's lawyer, Edan Havas, telling it from his client's perspective. |
| 1:44.7 | The next thing you know, these Mexicans pull out a gun, pointed to my head and tell me, |
| 1:49.8 | if I don't take this, we're going to kill your family. |
| 1:52.4 | Now, if somebody puts a gun to your head and says, if you don't take this to fucking |
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