U.S. authorities on Wednesday seized a cross-border tunnel that ran the length of four football fields from a restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico, to a newly built house in Calexico, Calif., following an investigation that netted more than a ton of marijuana and resulted in four arrests.
The tunnel was the 12th completed secret passage that U.S. authorities have discovered along California’s border with Mexico since 2006. They have found more than 75 along the entire U.S.-Mexico border in the last five years, mostly in California and Arizona and many of them incomplete. The tunnel extended about 300 yards in Mexico from El Sarape Mexican restaurant and ran about 100 yards on U.S. soil to the house in a quiet residential area of Calexico, a city of about 40,000 people located 120 miles east of San Diego. Two men were arrested Wednesday in Calexico – one at the tunnel house
and another at a house believed to have been used to store drugs – and
charged drug trafficking crimes, authorities said. Two women were
arrested Tuesday in Arizona, including the purchaser of the Calexico
house. Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel has long controlled drug trafficking along the
border in California’s Imperial Valley, which offers easy freeway access
to Los Angeles and Phoenix...more
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