Yeah, I rolled they tried for 6 days and didn't get any of the items. Regardless, it doesn't cost you any of Downtime to wait for them to find it.
The sniffers come back to you. And they say that there's something going on on the station. That's restricting, they're ability find things. They're not sure what's going on. But the management is pulling specific types of items off the shelves quietly.