{"id":1479110,"date":"2022-05-18T08:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479110"},"modified":"2022-05-18T08:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T12:14:58","slug":"enormous-drug-smuggling-tunnel-discovered-between-u-s-and-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/enormous-drug-smuggling-tunnel-discovered-between-u-s-and-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Enormous Drug Smuggling Tunnel Discovered Between U.S. and Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenormous-drug-smuggling-tunnel-discovered-between-u-s-and-mexico%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1479110&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Authorities discovered a large cross-border drug smuggling tunnel in California, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of California announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel, linking Otay Mesa, California and Tijuana, Mexico, was 1,744 feet long, 61 feet deep and 4 feet in diameter, and had reinforced walls, a rail system and electricity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdca\/pr\/six-charged-trafficking-more-1750-pounds-cocaine-investigation-led-discovery-cross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the Attorney\u2019s Office. The tunnel was about 350 feet from the border with Mexico, U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cCaxXMroowM&#038;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) agents discovered the tunnel Friday while on surveillance of a residence that was used for cocaine smuggling in March, according to the Attorney\u2019s Office. As a result of the bust, six people were charged with conspiring to distribute 1,762 pounds of cocaine. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/28\/fentanyl-street-price-plummets-while-country-faces-high-prices-under-the-biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Fentanyl Street Price Plummets While Country Faces High Prices Under The Biden Administration)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no more light at the end of this narco-tunnel. We will take down every subterranean smuggling route we find to keep illicit drugs from reaching our streets and destroying our families and communities,\u201d Grossman said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdca\/pr\/six-charged-trafficking-more-1750-pounds-cocaine-investigation-led-discovery-cross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7430821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7430821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Youtube\/Screenshot\/Public \u2014 User: Associated Press]\n<\/div>\n<p>Authorities were able to make several arrests while following vehicles going in and out of the warehouse to pick up drugs, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdca\/press-release\/file\/1506441\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complaint<\/a>. Agents pulled over the individuals, finding narcotics in their cars.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe San Diego law enforcement community has multiple investigative task forces that highly prioritize tunnel detection- exemplified by this tunnel discovery by the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Diego led Costa Pacifico Money Laundering Task Force. The San Diego law enforcement community throughout the years has consistently shown its ability to detect and remediate tunnels while bringing those responsible to justice,\u201d HSI San Diego Special Agent in Charge Chad Plantz said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdca\/pr\/six-charged-trafficking-more-1750-pounds-cocaine-investigation-led-discovery-cross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities discovered a large cross-border drug smuggling tunnel in California, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of California announced Monday.The tunnel, linking Otay Mesa, California and Tijuana, Mexico,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}