Home | Community | Message Board
You are not signed in.
Sign In New Account
Forum Index Search Posts Trusted Vendors Highlights Galleries FAQ User List Chat Store Random Growery

MushroomMan Mycology
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.

Feedback and Administration > Shroomery News Service
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Original Sensible Seeds Shop: Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds, Bulk Cannabis Seeds, Feminized Cannabis Seeds, High THC Strains

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel
    #8868871 -

Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel
September 2, 2008 - signonsandiego.com



Eight suspects were in custody Tuesday in the Baja California capital of Mexicali, after state agents caught them digging a clandestine cross-border tunnel with its own elevator, lighting and ventilation systems.

The entrance to the 434-foot passageway was discovered Monday afternoon about a half-mile east of the Calexico border crossing in the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Colonia Nueva. The tunnel leads from a white, wood-frame house about a block from the U.S. border fence, and comes to within about 130 feet of U.S. territory, according to Agustin Perez, a spokesman for the Baja California Secretariat of Public Safety.

Members of the Baja California State Preventive Police raided the residence after an armed man was spotted outside, Perez said. “There was certainly a connection to organized crime,” he said. “The purpose was to smuggle either drugs or people or weapons.”

Authorities said they did not know Tuesday which criminal organization was behind the tunnel's construction. At least 75 clandestine tunnels have been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border since the 1990s, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The passageway is nearly 15 feet beneath the surface, Perez said, and measures 5 feet by 5 feet. The elevator was operated by hydraulic pulley, and large enough for three people, Perez said. Workers were installing rails along the tunnel floor, he said.

The eight suspects range in age from 27 to 52 and have been turned over to the Mexican Federal Attorney General's Office, Perez said. “They said the person who paid them was hooded, and they never knew who their employer was,” Perez said. The suspects told agents the tunnel was designed to reach a residence in Calexico.

Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said that U.S. authorities are cooperating with their Mexican counterparts. “We found no criminal records on those individuals in the United States,” she said. “They were not under investigation.”

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: veggie]
    #8868924 -

haha shit eh. that's brilliant.


--------------------
take another death trip on your cocaine line, then take a step into my psychedelic mind.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: chemical burn]
    #8868946 -

awesome!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: veggie]
    #8869010 -

just like on WEEDS!!!  :rofl2:


--------------------
:jah:

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: mellontatauda]
    #8869030 -

anima_mundi said:
just like on WEEDS!!!  :rofl2:


That is the first thing I thought of.


--------------------
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither, and will lose both.      ~ Benjamin Franklin ~

"Let me tell you about a Porcupine's balls.  They're small, and they don't give a SHIT!"  ~Danny~

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: Ogre812]
    #8870941 -

Ogre812 said:
anima_mundi said:
just like on WEEDS!!!  :rofl2:


That is the first thing I thought of.



--------------------
The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. -Richard Dawkins

yeahthatguy@mac.hush.com

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: yeahthatguy]
    #8871261 -

yeahthatguy said:
Ogre812 said:
anima_mundi said:
just like on WEEDS!!!  :rofl2:


That is the first thing I thought of.




Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: ComputerTekGuy]
    #8873799 -

ComputerTekGuy said:
yeahthatguy said:
Ogre812 said:
anima_mundi said:
just like on WEEDS!!!  :rofl2:


That is not the first thing I thought of.







--------------------
There's just one small problem...


...and it's a big one!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Re: Eight arrested after discovery of elaborate cross-border tunnel [Re: AtticusProphet]
    #8874983 -

I'm not going to quote it... but yeah. Definitely thought about that.

Wonder how they figured it out?


--------------------
<@Pnutbot> I haven't seen tupac, Impala

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Original Sensible Seeds Shop: Autoflowering Cannabis Seeds, Bulk Cannabis Seeds, Feminized Cannabis Seeds, High THC Strains

Feedback and Administration > Shroomery News Service
Threaded Mode Threaded  Previous topic Previous  View all topics Index  Next topic Next 

Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Man linked to cross-border tunnel pleads not guilty to marijuana possession motamanM 1,624 3 09/20/06 11:03 PM
by mycotard
* 2 tons of pot found inside Mexico-U.S. border tunnel veggieM 1,811 3 01/27/06 08:37 AM
by Microcosmatrix
* Cross-border ecstasy pipeline busted Wronguy 874 0 10/13/06 09:12 AM
by Wronguy
* US-Canada drug tunnel found veggieM 5,171 14 09/29/05 10:41 PM
by veggie
* Feds Hunt for Mexico-Calif. Drug Tunnel Lana 2,163 4 04/18/04 10:08 PM
by TinMan
* 8,000 lbs of pot siezed at US/Canada border! DoctorJ 2,606 8 07/06/06 04:15 AM
by Tomcat23
* OVER 65 ARRESTED IN INTERNATIONAL METHAMPHETAMINE INVESTIGAT motamanM 3,044 2 04/16/03 01:06 PM
by debianlinux
* Border Patrol seizes 5,513 pounds of marijuana in N.M. and W motamanM 2,457 1 05/21/03 11:45 AM
by chodamunky

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
1,661 topic views. 0 members, 0 guests and 7 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2026 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.027 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 16 queries.