Feds Bust of US-Mexico 'Super Tunnel' Leads to Drug Seizures and Arrests

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Feds Bust of US-Mexico 'Super Tunnel' Leads to Drug Seizures and Arrests

By JACK DATE GENEVA SANDS ASHLEY RIEGLE
Mar 23, 2016, 6:54 PM ET

Federal authorities raided a U.S.-Mexico tunnel on Wednesday as a part of a 16-month investigation that led to 4 arrests and seizure of just under 3,000 pounds of marijuana.

The tunnel runs about 415 yards from a restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico and ends in the living room of a three-bedroom house in a residential area of Calexico, CA , a border city east of San Diego.

This is the first "highly sophisticated and operational" tunnel discovered in Calexico in a decade, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI), which ran the operation.

This is also the first time that drug traffickers are known to have purchased property and built a house for the sole purpose of hiding a drug tunnel in the area, said U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Laura Duffy.

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[angstlessk]

1. DEMAND creates all the tunnels, houses..DEMAND creates it ALL

It ain't about shuttering this or that...as long as there is demand there will be supply

Hell I learned that in ECON 101!

[Stallion]

2. Reminds Me of "No-Name City" in Movie "Paint Your Wagon"

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