Mexican army seizes 40 tons at Tijuana tunnel warehouse
Mexican soldiers found an incomplete 400-yard cross-border tunnel with a rail system in a Tijuana warehouse on 12 July 2012 and seized more than 40 tons of marijuana at its entry. The tunnel ran 100 yards into US territory but had no US exit.
On Thursday 12 July 2012, Mexican soldiers found an incomplete drug tunnel
inside a warehouse in Tijuana and seized more than 40 tons of marijuana
(about 36,300 kg) stockpiled at its entry.[1][2]The passage ran nearly 400
yards, including more than 100 yards into United States territory, but no
exit had been built on the American side.[1][2]It was lit and ventilated
and fitted with a railcar system, and soldiers also found four moving trucks
full of marijuana plus a trailer of dirt and excavation tools in the
warehouse.[1]
The find was one of four border tunnels discovered in a single week, and
press reports linked the week’s sophisticated passages to the Sinaloa
cartel’s expanding control of the border region.[1][2]The Associated Press
noted that raids the previous November on two San Diego-Tijuana tunnels had
netted a combined 52 tons of marijuana.[1]
Case data
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