Over 2 TONS of pot found in sophisticated cross-border tunnel

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Posted on Thu, Jan. 26, 2006

Tons of pot found in sophisticated cross-border tunnel

ELLIOT SPAGAT
Associated Press

SAN DIEGO - More than 2 tons of marijuana were found inside one of the longest and most sophisticated cross-border tunnels ever discovered, officials said Thursday. The size and scale of the tunnel - the 21st discovered in more than four years - stunned authorities, who said that the passageway revealed the lengths smugglers will go to evade detection.

The tunnel began near the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, and ended 2,400 feet away in a San Diego warehouse, said Michael Unzueta, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. It was unclear how long the tunnel had been in operation, Unzueta said.

At least 60 feet below U.S. soil, authorities found a tunnel floor lined with cement, lights that ran down one of the hard soil walls, and air piped down from the surface, he said. An adult could stand in the 5-foot-high shaft. "It was like being in a cavern or a cave," Unzueta said in an interview. "It's just huge, absolutely incredible."

Mexican investigators found the tunnel entrance Tuesday inside a warehouse near the airport, about 150 yards south of the border. A 6-by-10-foot cement shaft equipped with a pulley dropped about 75 feet to the tunnel.

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Investigators discovered a sophisticated cross-border tunnel yesterday extending about a half-mile and found about 2 tons of marijuana on the Mexican end.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. ohhh!

thats where I left it! :banghead:

do I really need to say JUST KIDDING!??!?!? :P

[Ezlivin]

2. I thought the successful Drug War had eradicated marijuana

Or was it common sense?

Somebody say sense? Mmmmmm.

:smoke: