Tunnel between Mexico and Arizona

The DEA discovered this impressive 240-yard tunnel running between an ice plant in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico and a "one-story, nondescript" building in San Luis, Arizona. They didn't find any drugs in either building though. "Feds uncover drug tunnel from Mexico to Arizona"

• [Boundegar]

  Suddenly, a creeper!

• [Mordicai]

  Find no drugs = “drug tunnel”?

  • [EH]

    That’s just how good these criminals are. We are dealing with an enemy so devious and cunning that they are able to pass almost completely undetected.

    • [Mordicai]

      This is why we can’t have nice things like “due process” or “civil rights”!

  • [bwcbwc]

     Yeah, I was thinking “more like illegal immigrant tunnel”…workers go into the iceplant and they don’t come out…

• [bcsizemo]

  That’s impressive.  I have to wonder if they did it with power tools or by hand?  I have a crawl space that I’m lowering by hand and it is not a fun job.

• [Matt G]

  “The recent discovery of this sophisticated drug smuggling tunnel is yet another reminder of how desperate these criminal organizations are and the extent they will go to further their drug dealing operations and endanger the security of our citizens,” said Doug Coleman, the special agent in charge of the DEA’s Phoenix, Arizona, office.

  Yes, and Intel’s lastest $4B manufacturing plant is yet another reminder of how desperate this wildly successful corporation is and the extent they will go to further their chip-making operations and endanger the security of AMD’s shareholders.

• [Nagurski]

  If they didn’t find any drugs, how do they know it’s a drug tunnel and not something else. International Jackrabbit Dragracing, anyone?

• [dethbird]

  hey nice DEA, great job. keep up the great wor… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

• [cbwallday]

  Did they finally catch Heisenberg?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPx42dMjegc

• [Patrick McGorrill]

  It’s a pity it’s the DEA who found this. If it were the USDA maybe we’d be talking about a “bologna smuggling tunnel.” http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/412966/april-19-2012/the-enemy-within—bologna-border-bust

• [cscott]

  Legalize it, Tax it. And we can have universal healthcare for free. Jeesh.  Whether costs will go up from drug related health issues, is not important right now, save that for another administration to fix.

  • [teapot]

    Data from countries that have sensible drug laws suggest that drug-related health costs are not an issue after legalisation/decriminalisation because there are vastly larger savings made by not having to police, arrest and incarcerate people or deal with the incidents of violence caused by retarded drug laws.

    Check this out: http://hiphappy.me/2010/11/23/after-10-years-portugals-progressive-drug-policy-is-proven-success/

  • [EH]

    Oh sure, and kill all of those lucrative underground-construction jobs? Why do you hate the working class?

• [rrh]

  If they haven’t found any drugs, couldn’t it be an illegal immigrant tunnel?

  Or maybe they were smuggling ice. Are there ice tariffs? Then all the evidence just melted away.

  • [Nathan Hornby]

    Looks to me like immigrants is a more likely scenario, but that’s not what the DEA wants it to be, so it isn’t.

    • [Oscar Sanchez Santana]

      it’s usually used for both, i mean you already made the freaking tunnel…

      • [Nathan Hornby]

        True. Even if it’s an assumption, it’s a pretty good one.

• [mat catastrophe]

  Hooooogan!!!!!

  Yo no sé nada! Nada!

  • [EH]

    Veo! See!

• [DrKumAndGo]

  Soooo … what are the pipes for? The one on the right is probably electrical conduit, but on the left? I’d like to think that it’s a literal drug pipeline.

  • [Boundegar]

     Pneumatic message tube.  They were watching Brazil.

  • [teapot]

     Ventilation.

    http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/07/2-well-built-cross-border-drug-tunnels-uncovered/1#.T_-vZnCKdT4

• [timquinn]

  It’s a Breaking Bad publicity stunt. 

• [Russ W. Wallace]

  240 yards?  Does that seem a little short to anyone else?  Those are some awfully close buildings straddling the border.

  • [teapot]

    Nope… pretty standard.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=arizona&hl=en&ll=32.485386,-114.780581&spn=0.013539,0.017574&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=51.576045,71.982422&t=w&hnear=Arizona&z=16

    Tunnels usually lead to and from buildings to avoid detection. The shorter the tunnel the better for ease of manufacture.

    There is nothing but drugs or people that would be smuggled through this tunnel. Guns are just carried across the border because there’s basically no monitoring of what’s leaving the USA (serious guns are much easier to procure in the US). No surprise they didn’t find any drugs at either end… do they seriously think the cartels would be so stupid?

• [Snig]

  It’s the only way  we can build infrastructure given the current thinking in congress.

• [Ian Wood]

  Then it’s not a fucking drug tunnel, is it?

• [penguinchris]

  Could be constructed and run by an independent operator who charges a toll and doesn’t ask questions. One of the stipulations would have to be that no trace be left behind of whatever you’re smuggling.

• [Culturedropout]

  We’re digging a tunnel to escape from the Midwest.  We’ve already crossed under the Missouri River and part of Iowa, but keep it to yourselves, okay?

• [gabichi23]

  Whose gona provide me with my insatiable need for drugs now? Those lousy criminals can’t seem to never do anything right nowdays.

• [Eark_the_Bunny]

  It is actually tunnel for those who wish to flee Arizona for elsewhere.

• [Diogenes]

  I suspect Charles Bronson!

• [donovan acree]

  If all you have is a hammer….