NOGALES, Ariz. — Immigration agents discovered a 13-foot-long drug tunnel stretching from the Mexican border to a metered parking space in Arizona, where vehicles with holes cut in the bottom would park and take marijuana from people inside the underground space.
“It was pretty brazen,” said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Vincent Picard. “Right in the middle of downtown Nogales.”
The tunnel begins directly against the border fence on the Mexican side and leads to an opening 10 inches in diameter on a street in Nogales.
Agents uncovered the tunnel Monday after seeing a cylindrical bundle fall out of a van. After they began chasing the van, the driver escaped on foot. A passenger was arrested.
About 2,200 pounds of marijuana was seized from the van.
The Associated Press
