US officials have discovered an underground tunnel about the length of five football pitches used to smuggle drugs from Mexico to a warehouse in California.
It is not known how long the secret passage, which has a railway track, ventilation systems, electricity and reinforced walls, had been operating.
Investigators found the tunnel after staking out a home used to stash drugs in the Mexican border city of Tijuana and stopping vehicles near the warehouse in Otay Mesa, south of San Diego.
The warehouse was on a street that was busy during the day but quiet at night, with armed guards watching over a small shaft with a ladder that descended into the tunnel.
Agents raided the warehouse and found no drugs there but a tunnel opening carved into the cement floor.
The passage, discovered last week, ran a third of a mile (532m) to Tijuana and was 4ft (1.2m) wide.
The opening of the passage was found in a warehouse in California.
“There is no more light at the end of this narco-tunnel,” said Randy Grossman, a prosecutor for the Southern District of California.
“We will take down every subterranean smuggling route we find to keep illicit drugs from reaching our streets and destroying our families and communities.”
The passage was discovered in an area where more than a dozen other sophisticated tunnels have been found in the past two decades.
The authorities did not link the latest tunnel to any specific cartel.
Recall that sometime 2020, US officials discovered the longest smuggling tunnel ever found on the border with Mexico.
Stretching for 4,309ft (1,313m), the tunnel had a lift, rail track, drainage and air ventilation systems, and high voltage electrical cables.
The passageway connected an industrial site in the Mexican city of Tijuana to the San Diego area in California.
There were no arrests made or drugs found. Authorities did not say who they suspected of being behind the tunnel.
But Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, described by the US government as one of the largest drug-trafficking organisations in the world, operates in the area.
Its founder and long-time leader, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is serving life in prison in the US.
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