U.S. authorities discovered a major drug smuggling tunnel — running about the length of a six football fields — from Mexico to a warehouse in the U.S. The secret passage from Tijuana to San Diego featured rail and ventilation systems, authorities said. https://t.co/bnR1fOCcnb
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 17, 2022
Oh so Mexicans are flooding America with drugs on an industrial scale?
Who would have thought?
A sophisticated drug-smuggling tunnel equipped with a rail system and electricity was discovered near the US-Mexico border in California on Friday, authorities said.
The subterranean passage, one-third of a mile long, linked Tijuana to a warehouse near San Diego’s Otay Mesa border, federal officials announced Monday.
The tunnel also had ventilation systems and reinforced walls and is 61-feet deep and 4-feet in diameter.
As part of the bust, 1,762 pounds of cocaine, 164 pounds of meth and 3.5 pounds of heroin were recovered.
Six people were charged with cocaine trafficking, and two of those six were also charged with meth and heroin trafficking, authorities said.
Authorities ultimately uncovered the tunnel after they pulled over vehicles they saw coming and going from a home and the warehouse. During those traffic stops, boxes of drugs were found, prosecutors said.
Authorities found no other drugs at the warehouse when they raided it, but spotted a tunnel opening carved into the cement floor, federal prosecutors said.
Now, we just have to get the other six million tunnels.
Or maybe we don’t have to do that, because the US is legalizing all drugs, which is killing the profit margins of Mexican drug smugglers.