A recently discovered one-third of a mile-long tunnel under the US-Mexico border has a rail track system, electricity and a ventilation system, federal officials said Monday when they announced drug charges against six people in California.
The passageway was discovered early Friday by a task force led by investigators from the US Department of Homeland Security who had been watching an alleged drug house in National City, just south of San Diego, according to a release from the Justice Department. Law enforcement followed one person from the home to a warehouse in the Otay Mesa neighborhood in San Diego, about 100 yards north of the border with Mexico.The exit to the tunnel was found on the floor of a warehouse.
The builders even reinforced the walls.The tunnel was six stories underneath the ground and went under a border fence."There is no more light at the end of this narco-tunnel," US Attorney Randy Grossman said."We will take down every subterranean smuggling route we find to keep illicit drugs from reaching our streets and destroying our families and communities.
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