Tuesday, January 8, 2019

In the News: 50-foot-long drug tunnel discovered in Nogales, AZ from Mexico

Border Patrol agent walks in tunnel found in March 2017  Cr: Assoc Press
Here's a story from December 2018 about that month's discovery of a tunnel from Mexico into Nogales, Arizona.  In fact, it wasn't the first one.  On January 25, 2006, a tunnel was found on the US-Mexico border by a joint US Drug Enforcement Administration, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and US Border Patrol task force. The 2,400-foot (730 m) long tunnel runs from a warehouse near the Tijuana airport to a warehouse in San Diego.  If there were two, there are more, and walls won't fix tunnels.Just saying.

Here's the story and video from USA Today. 


Tunnel discovered in Nogales, AZ from Mexico
A cross-border tunnel still under construction has been found in Nogales.
The tunnel was discovered Monday by Mexican police and Border Patrol agents from the Tucson sector, which includes Nogales.

The tunnel spanned from about 6 feet on the Mexican side of the border to about 44 feet into the U.S., said Border Patrol Agent Daniel Hernandez.

The tunnel, most likely the work of criminal organizations in order to smuggle drugs into the U.S., was not complete, Hernandez said.

The entrance was found submerged under water along the international waterway channel that spans underneath the two cities and is used to control flooding, he said.
The tunnel was about 50 feet long and about 2 feet wide by 2 feet tall, a news release said. The exit had not yet been completed. The tunnel came to an abrupt stop under a parking lot in Nogales. Border Patrol agents discovered structural shoring and digging tools inside the tunnel, indicating the excavation was still in progress, the news release said.


It was the first tunnel discovered in the Nogales area in about two years, Hernandez said.
More tunnels have been discovered in the Nogales area than along any other part of the 2,000-mile border. Hernandez could not immediately provide the most recent statistics, but the Border Patrol has said in the past that since 1990, more than 173 tunnels had been found along the border, with about 103 of them discovered in the Nogales area.


In recent years, the Border Patrol has taken a proactive approach, routinely working with Mexican authorities to conduct binational sweeps to explore underground drainage areas to look for signs of drug tunnels before they have been completed, Hernandez said.


VIDEO: https://www.azcentral.com/videos/news/politics/border-issues/2018/06/06/-wall-drugs-endless-fight/105143730/


Story:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2018/12/18/50-foot-long-drug-tunnel-discovered-nogales/2357596002/

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