Crime
Station:
National Geographic Channel (US)
Status:
Running
Start:
2007-07-24
Rating:
7/10 from 4 users
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your final destination: a long, lonely stretch in a dark and dangerous prison, far from home. Banged Up Abroad takes you inside accounts of capture, incarceration and terror far away from home with intimate personal interviews and dramatic re-enactments. You'll hear more first-hand accounts not only from those who were locked up, but also from those who were directly part of the story. Whether it is the undercover agent compiling the evidence against the suspect, or the person making the drug-dealing offers, you relive the stories from every angle.
There is no Next Episode of Banged Up Abroad planned.
S14E8 - Declassified: Mole in the Mob
A Japanese-American Orange County kid gets his dream to become a gangster before a Las Vegas mob hit changes everything and he agrees to work for the FBI. Now Gangster turned informant he works his way up the world of organised crime infiltrating the heights of mafia royalty in New York, before a planned hit threatens to destroy his entire world.
Air Date: 20 Oct 2021 15:00 (CDT)
S14E9 - 50 Ton Pot Run
A 70s hippie and his naive pal are small time dealers selling hash to Boston college kids, until they get approached by a Colombian cartel keen to use their skills. Seduced by the danger and the dollars, they soon become multimillionaire importers, shipping tens of tons of marijuana on freighters up the West Coast, until one of the biggest busts in US history forces them on the run to Bolivia.
Air Date: 27 Oct 2021 15:00 (CDT)
S14E10 - A Bellyful Of Coke
A troubled young father goes on the run to Spain to avoid a small prison sentence. He starts working for a crime gang in the Costa Del Sol and is enamored by the gangster lifestyle. He feels untouchable and agrees to smuggle and swallow a kilo of cocaine back from Peru, only to face the biggest adrenalin kick of his life and seal his fate forever.
Air Date: 03 Nov 2021 16:00 (CDT)