Posted by
Arnie on Saturday, June 30, 2007 7:26:23 AM
A 200 foot long tunnel with wooden supports, sand bags and lighting was found by the agents Friday, the exit inside a home in Nogales, AZ and the entrance in an apartment in Nogales Mexico. Or could the entrance have been in Arizona? Sure, it was a come and go tunnel for drug smugglers and people smugglers.
“Investigators tipped to the tunnel's existence during its construction have had it under surveillance since April, and no drugs were moved through it before authorities moved in, said Terry Kirkpatrick, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official.” Read more…. Agents who served a search warrant late Thursday at the tiny, one- story home found the tunnel entrance hidden beneath plywood sheets weighted down with bags of dirt inside a utility room.
The home was largely unfurnished, and searchers found picks, a jackhammer and other excavation equipment."
Using jack hammers and picks?
How long would it take to remove the dirt from a 200 foot tunnel?
Where would they pile the dirt as it’s being removed?
Outside the apartment?
Would that not be a bit suspicious to see a new hill being built outside an apartment?
Mexican cooperation? Mexican indifference?
For months the tunnel was under construction, a large amount of dirt was being removed from an apartment, and the police on the Mexican side did not get a bit suspicious to investigate until the tunnel was finished and the American agents were then tipped off. Just a bit suspicious that the officials in Mexico do not care when their people go to such lengths to escape and/or transport their drugs into the US.
Hmmmmm!
It just keeps their economy healthy and vibrant with all of the American dollars flooding back into Mexico.