The U.S. Border Patrol released on Wednesday (April 20) a detailed video of an 870 yard long (795 meters) underground tunnel used to ferry drugs between San Diego and Tijuana.
Authorities said the recent discovery of the secret passage beneath the Mexico-California border has yielded an unprecedented cache of drugs, with Federal agents seizing almost a ton of cocaine and six tons of marijuana as a result.
Six people were arrested when authorities discovered the tunnel, the 13th underground drug-trafficking burrow to be exposed along California's border with Mexico since 2006.
The latest tunnel, excavated 46 feet beneath the surface, ran from the bottom of an elevator shaft built into a house in Tijuana to a hole in the ground on the U.S. side enclosed within a fenced-in lot set up as a pallet business. The hole was concealed under a trailer-sized trash dumpster that smugglers used to move the drugs off the lot, federal officials said.
Authorities said the recent discovery of the secret passage beneath the Mexico-California border has yielded an unprecedented cache of drugs, with Federal agents seizing almost a ton of cocaine and six tons of marijuana as a result.
Six people were arrested when authorities discovered the tunnel, the 13th underground drug-trafficking burrow to be exposed along California's border with Mexico since 2006.
The latest tunnel, excavated 46 feet beneath the surface, ran from the bottom of an elevator shaft built into a house in Tijuana to a hole in the ground on the U.S. side enclosed within a fenced-in lot set up as a pallet business. The hole was concealed under a trailer-sized trash dumpster that smugglers used to move the drugs off the lot, federal officials said.
