destination was Red White & Blue Arms. The cargo manifest named Nelson Del Rosario, aka Nestor Del Rosario, and Michael Lontoc, a well-known competition target shooter, as the recipients. The names were instantly familiar to Bailey. They were already part of the intricate map of Le Roux's operation that Kimberly Brill and Steven Holdren had created in Minneapolis—the website registra- tions, the shell companies, and the figures connected to them. “All the pieces started falling together,” Bailey said. “Within twenty- four hours we knew it was Le Roux.” The seizure would finally give them hard evidence that he was more than just an online crim- inal.

Bailey watched the case develop from afar, in part through Mar Supnad's stories in the local press. The Ufuk’s captain, Bruce Jones, was telling Supnad he was ready to tell authorities everything about the syndicate behind the shipment. He'd even surrendered to the Philippines Bureau of Customs and requested that they place him into witness protection. Finally, Bailey thought, they might have the insider they had been seeking.

Working through the Australian agents, he tried to reach Jones, first to tell him “to shut the fuck up,” as Bailey recalled. “We were like, ‘Dude, we’ll be lucky if you don't get killed before we get ahold of you.’” When the Australians finally made contact with Jones, they were able to meet with him twice to hear what he had. “A lot of that was confirmation of what we knew, that Le Roux was behind all this,” Bailey said. Jones suggested he might put up a website with everything he knew. But the Australians got the impression that Jones wasn't fully cooperating, and he was re- leased back onto the street.

In the meantime, the DEA investigators did manage to engineer one break. The team put together a presentation laying out why Le Roux should be added to the U.S. Attorney General's Consoli- dated Priority Organization Target (CPOT) list, an internal index of the DOJ's most wanted drug criminals. There were roughly fifty to sixty CPOT designees at any given time, people considered members of “the most prolific international drug trafficking and