New Border Drug Tunnel Largest, Most Luxurious Yet
"Drug smugglers have dug one of the longest, most sophisticated tunnels discovered in recent years along the Mexican border, and the
American and Mexican authorities have hauled nearly two tons of marijuana out of it since they entered it on Wednesday, officials said," according to the New York Times. "The tunnel is 60 feet below ground at some points, five feet high, and nearly half a mile long, extending from a warehouse near the international airport in Tijuana, Mexico, to a vacant industrial building in Otay Mesa, Calif., about 20 miles southeast of downtown San Diego. The sophistication of the tunnel surprised officials, who found it outfitted with a concrete floor, electricity, lights and ventilation and groundwater pumping systems."
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