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.

[stboz]

Time to go get a couple dozen gopher getters.

[Boomer]

Busy little diggers.

If pot was legalized nationwide all these drug runners would do is switch to cocaine and heroin. From the sound of things they already have switched to heroin.

[Fungi]

It was longer than claimed to link a town in Arizona with one in California. Who wrote the copy on this story?

[Secret Agent Man]

Need some autoguns like they used in the utility tunnels in Aliens. Just need a lot’more ammo.

[Bob Mc]

Naco Arizona is about 500 miles away from San Diego and Tijuana! I don’t think a 905 ft tunnel is going to cut it!

[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.

[tumblindice]

The just found AZ tunnel is the “longest one ever unearthed” but it is “dwarfed” by the San Diego tunnel discovered in 2013.
OKaaay .... don’t bogart that joint, Fox, DEA.

[Aliska]

It's Bisbee and Naco. Latter must be in Mexico? There's a video of the tunnel. Guy is really out of breath. Creepy.

Fox was reporting it right then reverted to an older tunner in Tijuana to San Diego warehouse area.

Video of Smubbling Tunnel, Arizona Star

[SandRat]

Aliens~~~~~~

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Mmm, mmm...I loves me dat smubbling

[Fungi]

Bingo!

[logic101.net]

Why did they bother with a tunnel? Border patrol is not allowed to stop them anymore.

Hope and change.

[tumblindice]

The trouble with smubbles They're tasty too. Taste like candy!

[Doomonyou]

nothing a big ass wall and a mine field won’t fix.

[publius911]

Bookmark

[TurboZamboni]

Doing the digging Americans are unwilling to dig.

[ConservingFreedom]

Where there is demand, there will be supply.

[BitWielder1]

Where there is demand, there will be supply.

It would be good for Libs to remember that whenever they predict a shortage of something.
If someone is willing to pay, someone will make it available.

Sometimes it seems Libs like prohibitions because it spells good business for their underworld buddies.

[Boomer]

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.