Secret, 905-foot-long drug tunnel found along U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona

Fox News Latino ^ | 27 February 2015

[Lorianne]

Federal agents discovered the longest drug tunnel ever unearthed along the agency’s Tuscon sector earlier this week when they found a 905-foot-long drug thruway in the tiny town of Naco, Arizona.

At three times the length of a football field and replete with lighting, wooden supports and a cement shaft complete with a hydraulic lift, the record-breaking drug tunnel was discovered following a major marijuana bust in the town of Bisbee.

Acting on a tip by deferral authorities, Bisbee police officers and Border Patrol agents stopped a U-Haul truck headed toward to the Naco house and found 4,700 pounds of marijuana “bundled and stacked,” according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The pot was worth around $3 million.

The truck stop and subsequent search of the Naco-area house netted two suspects as well – Luis E. Jacobo, 37, who was driving the truck, and his father, Luis E. Jacobo, 59, who was inside the home with the tunnel.

The tunnel linked warehouses in Tijuana to San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial area. The area is filled with nondescript warehouses, making it easier to conceal trucks being loaded with drugs.

[spokeshave]

Just some of Obama’s shovel ready infrastructure jobs.

[varyouga]

Drug runners follow demand, not the other way around. If you legalize and don’t overtax, nobody will buy a gram from them.

Heroin has become popular again purely due to the DEA crackdown on Rx opiates. Now more junkies will end up clogging our hospitals because they are shooting Mexican tar instead of the cleaner Rx drugs.

[Rick66]

Interesting the truck was headed for the house with two and a half tons of weed. Seems strange. Anyway, nice of him to get his Dad busted too.

[ConservingFreedom]

If pot was legalized nationwide all these drug runners would do is switch to cocaine and heroin.

Drug runners can't create demand by sheer force of will.

They don't have to. Heroin use has been increasing all over the country - sadly. Kids get hooked on Oxycontin or some other medicine cabinet drug and find they can't afford it on the black market so they find they can get a dose of heroin for $5 instead of the $20-$50 for Oxy. Next thing you know they're hooked.

True - so by a happy-for-pot-dealers coincidence, the black market for heroin is having an uptick just as the black market for pot is being deflated by legalization. But that's a considerably more complex and less reliable linkage than "all they would do is switch" - if pot legalization continues as it seems to be trending, the loss of criminal opportunity will outstrip heroin demand, to the benefit of us all.