By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Mexican drug dealers are getting pretty darn imaginative when it comes to using tunnels at the border.
ABC News reports that authorities found smugglers had dug more than a dozen tunnels at the border in Nogales, Az, that opened up right under a parking lot with meters.
ABC reported that the smugglers cut neat rectangles out of the pavement under parking spots.
People on the U.S. side then parked cars with false bottoms in the spots and fed the meters. Then someone would come under the car and load it with drugs.
After that, someone would put the concret blocks back in place, using jacks, ABC reported. Then someone would drive off with the car.
ABC reported that U.S. Border Patrol agents found 16 tunnels leading to the 18 metered parking spaces on International Street in Nogales.
“It’s unbelievable,” Nogales mayor Arturo Garino told Tucson, Arizona ABC affiliate KGUN. “Those are the strides these people take to get the drugs across the border.”
