On Monday, federal officials charges six people with drug trafficking in California and had recently discovered one-third of a mile-long tunnel under the US-Mexico border has a rail track system, electricity, and a ventilation system, announced the officials.
The task force led by investigators from the US Department of Homeland Security discovered the passageway earlier on Friday and had been watching an alleged drug house in National City, and law enforcement followed one of those accused person house to a warehouse in the Otay Mesa neighborhood in the south of San Diego, about 100 meters north of the border with Mexico, according to a release from the Justice Department.
Law enforcement caught the person along with several others, and was later arrested after authorities found drugs in their vehicles, the Justice Department said in a criminal complaint.
The tunnel lengthens from Tijuana, Mexico, for 1,744 feet to the warehouse in Otay Mesa. It is 61 feet underground and 4 feet in diameter. The builders even reinforced the walls. Well organized particularly for smuggling drugs.
US Attorney Randy Grossman said, the narco-tunnel route has been smuggling illegal substances and destroying the families and communities. “There is no more light at the end of this narco-tunnel,” he added, “We will take down every subterranean smuggling route we find to keep illicit drugs from reaching our streets and destroying our families and communities.”
Six people has been charged in involvement of illegal drugs with conspiring to distribute 1,762 pounds of cocaine, who live in Southern California statement adds. Two defendants are also charged with trafficking heroin and methamphetamine, plus cocaine, 164 pounds of methamphetamine and 3.5 pounds of heroin were seized by authorities.
