SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. authorities on Monday announced the discovery of a major drug smuggling tunnel — running about the length of a six football fields — from Mexico to a warehouse in an industrial area in the U.S.
Highlights
- Authorities announced Monday, May 16, 2022, the discovery of the underground smuggling tunnel on Mexico’s border, running the length of a football field on U.S.
- soil to a warehouse in an industrial area.
- It was discovered near San Diego’s Otay Mesa border crossing in an area where more than a dozen other sophisticated tunnels have been found in the last two decades.
- The tunnel exited the United States in a nondescript warehouse named “Amistad Park” on a street that is busy with large semitrailers during the day but quiet at night.
- It is unknown how long the tunnel had been operating and what amount of drugs, if any, got through undetected.