Drug smuggling tunnel under US-Mexico border

Investigators in the US said they have uncovered a tunnel running from a restaurant in Mexico to a home in California used to smuggle marijuana into the US.

>>Reuters
Published : 24 March 2016, 04:25 AM
Updated : 24 March 2016, 04:25 AM

Officials said drug traffickers purchased a plot of land for $240,000 and spent an additional $86,000 to build a house on the land to conceal smuggling activity.

The tunnel began in an restaurant in Mexacali, Mexico called El Cerape, and ended in the three-bedroom home in Calexico, California.

Officials say the traffickers began using the tunnel in February to transport narcotics, without realising they were being monitored by US drug agents the entire time.

On Wednesday, they announced that they had seized nearly 1400 pounds of marijuana and arrested four people in the US.