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Secret, 905-foot-long drug tunnel found along U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona
Fox News Latino ^ | 27 February 2015

Posted on 03/13/2015 6:53:07 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; US: Arizona; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; arizona; california; canabis; marijuana; mexico; pot; wod
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1 posted on 03/13/2015 6:53:07 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Time to go get a couple dozen gopher getters.


2 posted on 03/13/2015 6:55:47 PM PDT by stboz
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To: Lorianne

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.


3 posted on 03/13/2015 7:01:37 PM PDT by Boomer (I vote "NO CONFIDENCE" in Boehner!)
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To: Lorianne

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


4 posted on 03/13/2015 7:02:43 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
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To: Lorianne

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


5 posted on 03/13/2015 7:03:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Fungi

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!


6 posted on 03/13/2015 7:16:30 PM PDT by Bob Mc
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To: Boomer
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.

7 posted on 03/13/2015 7:21:14 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: Lorianne

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.


8 posted on 03/13/2015 7:24:03 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Lorianne
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

9 posted on 03/13/2015 7:26:06 PM PDT by Aliska
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To: HiJinx

Aliens~~~~~~


10 posted on 03/13/2015 7:26:29 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Aliska

Mmm, mmm...I loves me dat smubbling


11 posted on 03/13/2015 7:30:21 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Bob Mc

Bingo!


12 posted on 03/13/2015 7:30:56 PM PDT by Fungi (Evolution is piece by piece over billions of years. At what point did a precursor become a human?)
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To: Lorianne

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

Hope and change.


13 posted on 03/13/2015 7:40:26 PM PDT by logic101.net (If libs believe in Darwin and natural selection why do they get hacked off when it happens?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The trouble with smubbles tribbles photo: Tribbles 0005q092.gif They're tasty too. Taste like candy!
14 posted on 03/13/2015 7:44:16 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Lorianne

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


15 posted on 03/13/2015 7:50:11 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Doomonyou

Bookmark


16 posted on 03/13/2015 7:51:13 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: logic101.net

Doing the digging Americans are unwilling to dig.


17 posted on 03/13/2015 7:53:11 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Lorianne
Where there is demand, there will be supply.
18 posted on 03/13/2015 8:11:02 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
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.

19 posted on 03/13/2015 8:23:19 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: ConservingFreedom
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.

20 posted on 03/13/2015 8:49:08 PM PDT by Boomer (I vote "NO CONFIDENCE" in Boehner!)
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