Locked Up Abroad

2007 • National Geographic Channel
4.4
175 reviews
TV-14
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Season 10 episodes (10)

1 Undercover Biker
1/1/20
Season-only
After his arrest, drug dealer Charles Falco is facing decades behind bars. Instead, he strikes a deal with the authorities and becomes a confidential informant - living a life undercover. For the first time ever, Charles Falco tells his story on camera of how he manages to infiltrate the Vagos, one of the most violent biker gangs in the US.
2 Korean Ecstasy King
1/8/20
Season-only
Jesse Moskel is a rebel, drinking heavily and taking cocaine despite the rules of his Christian cult. But his addictions spiral out of control, and he escapes to South Korea to find work as a teacher. In Seoul, he meets a shady character with a ready supply of pure MDMA. Moskel soon becomes the kingpin of a huge international drug smuggling operation — and one of Southeast Asia's most wanted men.
3 Pop Star Smuggler
1/15/20
Season-only
Jimmy Bauer has been a singer since his teens and is a star in Latin America. Now the New Yorker's career is stalling and he wants to break into America, but he needs to raise funds to promote himself. When an old acquaintance comes to him with a shocking proposition to swallow and smuggle heroin, Bauer takes the gamble of a lifetime and agrees.
4 Undercover Arms Dealer
1/22/20
Season-only
When law-abiding arms dealer Peter Bleach is asked to supply weapons to a terrorist organization, he agrees to go undercover for British intelligence to prevent the massacre of innocent people. But for Bleach to succeed in his mission, he must travel to the farthest reaches of India, risk his own life and go to prison, where he uncovers an even bigger conspiracy and nothing is what it seems.
5 Model Drug Runner
1/29/20
Season-only
Garrain Jones grows up poor in Missouri City, Texas. Chasing money and celebrity, he goes to L.A. and works as a stripper called Mr Fantasy. Overnight success finds him launching a modelling career and starring in a music video with Beyoncé. For the first time in his life, he has it all - the money, the lifestyle, the status. But he soon loses everything when he is drawn into a shadowy European drug-smuggling operation from which he cannot escape.
6 Drug Runner Mom
2/5/20
Season-only
Single mom Melanie Di Egidio is set up by her Colombian contact during her second drug run to Ecuador. When caught by the police she turns informer, promising to entrap the rest of the gang in return for her freedom. The gang is arrested, but Di Egidio is still sent to a mixed prison. Here she marries a fellow inmate before being released on appeal when she is seven months pregnant.
7 King of Weed
2/12/20
Season-only
Ryan Phillips is destined to become a legendary ice hockey star, scouted at an early age and turning professional shortly after. As Phillips climbs the ranks, he starts running a more profitable business alongside his hockey career — smuggling hundreds of pounds of marijuana across the Canadian border. But as Phillips gets bigger in the bud game, he becomes a target for more dangerous criminals.
8 Colombian Double Cross
2/19/20
Season-only
Single mother Heather Ebling desperately needs a break, and when work colleague Danny invites her to Colombia, she jumps at the chance. But the trip soon turns sour and Ebling must head to the airport disappointed. Then when drugs are found in Danny's luggage, Ebling is also arrested and sent to a notorious jail, and she realizes she must fight to survive.
9 Peruvian Prison Break
2/26/20
Season-only
Tina Myers is an exotic dancer and part-time drug dealer hustling her way through life in downtown Orlando. When she gets the opportunity to make some serious money on a Peruvian drug run, Myers makes a decision that will put her very life on the line. She embarks on a dangerous ride to the dark side of Peru's underworld, culminating in an insane prison escape … with consequences.
10 Miami Mobster Take Down
3/4/20
Season-only
Miami mobster Tony Galeota is a strip-club supremo. But when he opens a new club in Panama City, the competition isn't happy and frames him for drug dealing and human trafficking. Locked up in La Joya, one of the worst prisons in the world, Galeota must fight for his life, prove his innocence and attempt an audacious escape back to the United States of America.

About this show

True stories of ordinary people who ended up miles from home, in a foreign land in a situation beyond their worst nightmares.

Ratings and reviews

4.4
175 reviews
A Google user
August 20, 2012
We already pay for cable to watch this show. At least make it so subscribers don't have to pay twice for the same thing. I swear you people are all in cahoots.
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A Google user
July 6, 2012
I really like this show. It's always interesting to see the many different ways people can get themselves into trouble while traveling abroad.
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rayyy
May 27, 2014
Watched this some time ago on youtube. (No I didn't buy this, that would be a waste of money) Exciting, almost like a thriller
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