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Ogla
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Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego
#23152459 - 04/25/16 06:51 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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April 24, 2016
San Diego, California- Authorities in California have discovered a “super tunnel” used for running drugs from Mexico. It’s located outside San Diego and run by the cartel made infamous by its former leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman – who used a tunnel to escape prison. CCTV’s Mike Kirsch reports.
For several months – U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling the U.S.- Mexico border in the San Diego suburb of Otay Mesa had been paying close attention to this suspicious looking U.S. business along the border – a business claiming to sell wooden pallets. Authorities say it wasn’t doing any real business, or legal business at all, but, was a front for the illegal business of smuggling illegal narcotics.
U.S. agents caught and arrested six individuals accused of operating the tunnel. And confiscated one ton of cocaine with a street value of $22 million along with seven tons of marijuana.
Agents discovered a hole in the ground among the pallets and once they crawled down into it, they realized it was a drug tunnel snaking beneath a fenced-in lot of pallets. It runs under the nearby U.S. Mexico border fence stretching underground almost half a mile (800 meters) to a family’s home in Tijuana, Mexico.
The tunnel was less than a meter (3 feet) wide, equipped with lights, ventilation, a rail system and a motorized freight elevator capable of carrying up to 10 people.
http://www.cctv-america.com/2016/04/24/drug-runners-super-tunnel-discovered-in-san-diego
Edited by Ogla (04/25/16 07:01 AM)
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thebitterbuffalo26
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: Ogla] 2
#23153623 - 04/25/16 02:09 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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What we need is an underground wall, and if anybody gripes the wall is just gonna get deeper
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Dogs love to dig
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travelleler
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: 5150]
#23154107 - 04/25/16 04:03 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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sounds like another Dungeon Siege tale
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: travelleler]
#23154153 - 04/25/16 04:10 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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So remember kids make sure the warehouse your tunnel pops up in looks legit and does legit business to look good. Nice of them to give tips like that.
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travelleler
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: my3rdeye] 1
#23154167 - 04/25/16 04:13 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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pretty stupid for the cartel to have a fake warehouse with no legit business going on whatsoever
kinda like having a big flashing sign that says "suspicious activity" with and arrow pointing to your location.
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Quote:
thebitterbuffalo26 said: What we need is an underground wall, and if anybody gripes the wall is just gonna get deeper
They would just dig through it.
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LIBERTYNY
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: Stargate]
#23155253 - 04/25/16 09:24 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Tunnels are outdated
Directional boring is the future, and by future I mean 20 years ago
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: LIBERTYNY]
#23155413 - 04/25/16 10:27 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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I love the ingenuity displayed by these guys. Definite FAIL on the lack of legit business though...
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: Stargate]
#23156759 - 04/26/16 10:59 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
thebitterbuffalo26 said: What we need is an underground wall, and if anybody gripes the wall is just gonna get deeper
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Stargate said: They would just dig through it.
I live in a still-semi-rural area, around the corner from a Catholic church, have seen the goat herding kind of Mexican, and the kind dressed like a cleric and carrying rosaries. The ones next door to me, have erected tall, iron bars, to keep from being served, but customarily allow their animals to run the streets. They have some kind of square dancing lessons, on the grassless lawn.
I think the tallest, deepest, and longest wall will be an expectation that any Mexican at all, will be a conspicuous, alien presence, and, for that matter, you could create a symbolic boundary out of dental floss or with a line of chalk. Make an arbitrary line in the sand.
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: durian_2008]
#23164137 - 04/28/16 06:45 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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your wall idea is genius
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durian_2008
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: backintheriver]
#23164816 - 04/28/16 11:23 AM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Super Tunnel discovered in San Diego [Re: durian_2008]
#23169426 - 04/29/16 02:30 PM (7 years, 10 months ago) |
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When I was visiting TX our waiter was telling us that they were busting people in Mexico using air cannons to shoot drugs over the border. I looked it up a few times but never found anything in the news about it, maybe he was full of crap. I did find this video so its definitely a possibility.
I wonder when we will see them using quadcopters or those hobby jet planes. Now with such cheap tech I'm thinking the tunnels are mostly for smuggling people and the drugs are just an added benefit.
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travelleler
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no man it's more like the steam powered harpoon canon whaling ships used to kill whale i bet
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