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 Another Drug Tunnel Found [AZ]]
#5178161 - 01/13/06 07:37 PM (2 years, 11 months ago) |
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Another Drug Tunnel Highlights A Problem That Won't Go Away
January 13, 2006 - kold.com
For more than a decade, what smugglers haven't been able to go over, they've gone under. The arrest of 19-year-old Ricardo Jacinto from Patagonia, with another man from Mexico, charged with carrying drugs through a tunnel from Nogales, Sonora to Nogales, Arizona, could be one more case in point.
"Marijuana, and it turned out they were coming from a drug tunnel," said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada.
This week's tunnel was the third time a tunnel was found at the same home just across the street from the International border.
"It's about 40 feet between there and the other side of the street, so it’s a good location for drug smugglers to tap into the United States," Estrada said.
Estrada saw his first drug tunnel in Nogales in a church in 1995. "Quite a surprise, quite a novelty as a matter of fact but it opened their eyes as to how these people want to continue working and moving drugs across the border," Estrada said.
He said that 19 tunnels have now been found in and around Nogales, and expects to keep finding them, since the Nogales wash runs underground and connects to storm drains on both sides of the border.
"I think we will because as you put more pressure at the ports, you have more Border Patrol, you have more agents, you have Homeland Security, here at the border, they’re going to be looking at more ways to get the drugs across, and that’s a good way to do it,” Estrada said.
It’s such a good way that more than the law alone will be needed to keep smugglers from burrowing into the country.
"You have to rely on citizens, you have to rely on information that comes through, you have to rely on a lot of things that tell you maybe there’s a drug tunnel in the area,” Estrada said.
Estrada estimates this latest tunnel to have been used anywhere from a few weeks to a few months because dirt was still being removed. He says he does not believe anyone is living there right now.
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