U.S. officials arrest 4 for 360-meter tunnel

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The tunnel at its Mexicali end.

There was no light for drug traffickers at the end of a 360-meter tunnel between Mexicali, Baja California, and Calexico, California: U.S. officials had been aware of it while it was under construction.

They have since arrested four people and seized 600 kilograms of marijuana, which was the first shipment made through the tunnel.
“This house and tunnel were constructed under the watchful eye of law enforcement,” said Laura Duffy, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California. “For the builders, the financiers and the operators of these passageways, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. We will seize your drugs and your tunnel before you even have a chance to use it.”
On the Mexico side, the tunnel began at a restaurant called El Sarape. In California, its terminus was a three-bedroom house allegedly built by drug traffickers after they purchased the land last April, investing a total of US $326,000.

The tunnel was not as sophisticated as some — it lacked lighting, rail cars and hydraulic lifts, said assistant U.S. attorney Sherri Hobson — which suggests it was not the Sinaloa Cartel’s doing. The cartel led by jailed drug lord Joaquín Guzmán is famous for tunnels for smuggling drugs — and freeing its boss from prison.

It was the first completed tunnel found in Calexico in more than a decade. The area is not popular among traffickers because it is largely residential and the soil is hard. Tunnel builders prefer San Diego and its industrial areas where trucks aren’t out of place among warehouses.
Homeland Security special agent Dave Shaw said the investigation into the tunnel is still ongoing.

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