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Authorities find another cross-border tunnel

November 29th 2011   ·   0 Comments

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For the second time in two weeks, U.S. authorities on Tuesday discovered the exit of a cross-border drug tunnel inside an Otay Mesa warehouse.

Lauren Mack, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed the finding by members of the San Diego Tunnel Task Force. The warehouse is located near the end of Cactus Road.

Members of the Mexican army search a building where the entrance to a drug tunnel was discovered Tuesday afternoon in Tijuana. Omar Martínez / Frontera — Omar Martinez, Frontera

On the Mexican side, police and military authorities traced the tunnel’s start to a white, unmarked warehouse just southwest of the A.L. Rodriguez International Airport in Tijuana.

Throughout the late afternoon and into the evening, Mexican soldiers guarded the entrance to the tunnel, their dozen or so military vehicles parked nearby. The warehouse is situated on a two-lane street that has a wide range of buildings, including government offices.

Authorities have not said how much marijuana is in the tunnel, who might have built the passageway or the tunnel’s level of sophistication.

This latest tunnel is the seventh major one found in the past five years along along San Diego’s border with Mexico, Mack said.

With greater enforcement at the border, she said, “We know (the cartels) are going underground and building more tunnels. At the same time, we have a very active task force that’s very aggressively pursuing it.”

The San Diego Tunnel Task Force includes agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, ICE, the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, there have been well over 100 cross-border tunnels found, Mack said. Most of the passageways were not built out completely, she added.

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