MEXICO: US and Mexican authorities discover second drug tunnel in less than a month in Tijuana

Record ID: 303168

  • Title: MEXICO: US and Mexican authorities discover second drug tunnel in less than a month in Tijuana
  • Date: 27th November 2010
  • Summary: TIJUANA, MEXICO (NOVEMBER 25, 2010) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS ARRIVING IN PICK-UP TRUCKS SOLDIERS GOING INTO PROPERTY PICK-UP TRUCK BLOCKING STREET SOLDIER STANDING BY VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS OUTSIDE HOUSE MORE OF SOLDIERS ON PICK-UP TRUCKS MORE OF SOLDIERS OUTSIDE HOUSE
  • Embargoed: 12th December 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Mexico, Mexico
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA8RCOELKESKKOGA9ZTHVLU6KSR
  • Story Text: US and Mexican authorities have found another sophisticated smuggler's tunnel stretching from a home in Tijuana to San Diego, California on Thursday (November 25).
    The half-mile tunnel linked warehouses in Otay Mesa, California, and Tijuana, Mexico. It was found close to the site of another tunnel discovered earlier this month.
    In that case more than 20 tons of marijuana was found during overnight searches of the tunnel.
    Mexican drug cartels have bored scores of tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years to beat ramped-up security at ports of entry and the rugged spaces in between. Nearly all of them linked cities on either side of Mexico's border with California and Arizona.
    In early 2006, agents discovered a tunnel measuring 2,400 feet running under the same stretch of border to Otay Mesa from Tijuana. It remains the longest such tunnel discovered to date.
    Tijuana is the principal gateway for drugs entering California from Mexico. Last month authorities there seized more than 100 tons of marijuana valued at more than $340 million in Mexico's biggest pot haul to date.
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