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  • 'Tunnel home' owner sues city of Austin (TX)

    05/18/2012 4:22:53 PM PDT · by bgill · 17 replies
    KXAN TV ^ | May 18, 2012 | Chris Sadeghi
    Two years after his home and the tunnels beneath it were seized by the city, Joe Del Rio is suing. “The police lied to me and took me out of my house,” said the 72-year-old Del Rio, who spent 36 years serving his country in the Army and Air Force. In May 2010, code compliance officers responded to neighbor complaints and discovered what they called a series of tunnels dug beneath Del Rio’s home on Canterbury Street in East Austin. On Friday, Del Rio gave KXAN a tour of the home and says the tunnels were actually a fallout shelter...