Mexico-Arizona Drug Tunnel Found
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Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001
NOGALES, Ariz. – Another tunnel used to smuggle drugs under the Mexican border was uncovered Tuesday.
The tunnel, which apparently originated in a Mexican storm drain and led to a Nogales home, was the ninth such passage found in the border city since 1995. It was linked to the seizures in November of 956 pounds of cocaine and 839 pounds of marijuana.
"It appears smugglers break a hole in a concrete drain in Mexico to obtain access to the tunnel. After every drug shipment is made, the hole is patched to avoid detection by Mexican authorities and rival smuggling organization," the U.S. Customs Service said.
Customs said it became aware in August of the existence of a new tunnel connected to the house. No arrests were immediately announced.
The Nogales area has a number of underground culverts that run between Mexico and Arizona and are used by drug smugglers to dig tunnels that often terminate inside one of the many private homes in the hills along the border.
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