Border Patrol Agents Uncover Massive Drug-Running Tunnel Between Mexico and California
Border Patrol agents discovered a large tunnel that stretches about three football fields from a restaurant in Mexico to a house in California.
Border Patrol agents discovered a large tunnel that stretches about three football fields from a restaurant in Mexico to a house in California.
When Border Patrol agents found a man in scuba gear, they knew something odd was afoot.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Tunnel systems that run between the U.S. and Mexico border are used to transport drugs, people, weapons and other illegal material. Now, Border Patrol agents are using robot technology to detect tunnels, the Associated Press reports. Agents in Tucson, Ariz., plan to demonstrate the “tunnel robots” Tuesday. According to CBP, tunnels are…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There are endless reminders of the cat-and-mouse game that goes on along the Southwest border of the U.S. The latest: Border Patrol agents and the Nogales Police Department arrested two people last week trying to smuggle more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana through a drainage tunnel at the Mexico-Arizona border, KVOA…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Federal authorities on Wednesday discovered a 600-yard long tunnel with lighting and ventilation that went from Tijuana to California that was used to smuggle marijuana, the New York Times reported. DEA and ICE officials said they found about 30 tons of marijuana in the Otay Mesa section of San Diego,the Times…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities, acting on info from U.S. federal investigators, shut down a yet to be completed underground tunnel on Wednesday that originated in Tijuana, Mexico and extended 860 feet into San Diego. The tunnel, measuring just under 1000 feet in length and 90 to 100 feet in depth, had lighting, ventilation…