Officer Ortega's First Drug Bust is Big Money on 'Border Wars' (VIDEO)

Officer Brandies Ortega got to participate in her first official drug bust as a border officer on 'Border Wars' (Sun., 10PM ET on National Geographic). In doing so, she and her partner, Officer Nate Garcia, saw some of the newer techniques drugs and arms runners are using to try and fool their detection equipment.

The secret compartment in which they found the stash of weapons and money was lined with lead. Bad news for the bad guys, though, because it didn't work.

"About three inches thick full of money," Ortega said of each of several packages of money stashed in the compartment. Once it was all laid out, verified and counted, she could say she helped take more than three quarters of a million dollars out of the drug business. Final tally: $799,422. Not bad for her first time.