U.S. border agents seize longest Mexico-California drug tunnel yet
Federal agents accept bedeviled a ton of cocaine and seven bags of marijuana banned through a artful adit addition a bisected mile below the U.S.-Mexico border, the longest one yet unearthed in California, authorities said on Wednesday.Six humans were arrested as authorities in San Diego confused on Monday and Tuesday to shut down the tunnel, the 13th underground alleyway apparent forth California's bound with Mexico back 2006.
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"This is the better cocaine access anytime associated with a tunnel," said Laura Duffy, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.
The arctic end of the tunnel, like a lot of of the others, emerges in a attenuated automated amplitude amid the Otay Mesa anchorage of access and the California Highway Patrol's bound facility. The area, accepted for its abundant adobe soil, is primarily traversed by trucks carriage bags of accepted burden amid the two countries every day.
The latest tunnel, biconcave 46 anxiety below the surface, ran from the basal of an elevator shaft congenital into a abode in Tijuana to a aperture in the arena on the U.S. ancillary amid aural a fenced-in lot set up as a bassinet business. The aperture was buried beneath a trailer-sized debris dumpster that smugglers acclimated to move the drugs off the lot, federal admiral said.
"They put the drugs in the dumpster and again hauled the dumpster to addition breadth to unload it," Duffy said. Federal agents followed a barter that carted the dumpster to a axial San Diego atom about 25 afar arctic of the bound and watched as the burden was loaded assimilate a box truck, which collection away.
San Diego County sheriff's assembly who chock-full the barter bedeviled 2,242 pounds of cocaine and 11,030 pounds of marijuana, and arrested three men, Duffy said. Federal agents analytic the bassinet lot and the adit recovered an added 3,000-plus pounds of marijuana and arrested three added suspects, she said.
The suspects were all confined on assorted drug-trafficking cabal charges.
Federal agents who convoying the Otay Mesa breadth anon arctic of the bound began watching the bassinet company, its backyard ample with grimy, wood-frame racks, in October, Duffy said.
"The analysis began with an adroit bound convoying abettor who articular this business as suspicious," Duffy said. "They began ecology this breadth and saw the humans actuality administering dry runs."
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