By EFE
03 May 2024, 18:54 PM EDT
SAN LUIS RÍO COLORADO, Mexico – A drug tunnel dug with labor, just the right size to cross drugs and undocumented immigrants under the border wall between Sonora, Mexico, and Arizona, in the United States, was discovered by agents of the Attorney General’s Office, in the border region of San Luis Río Colorado, northwest of Mexico.
“According to the investigation folder on May 1, elements of the State Public Security Police (PESP) reported that, when carrying out prevention and surveillance tours, in coordination with immigration officers from the ‘Border Patrol’ of the Enlace group, they located and they secured an excavation (tunnel) on the side of the border wall,” the official report says.
The passage measured less than five meters, just the distance necessary to cross under the steel border wall built in the Sonoran Desert, an area currently being disputed by factions of the Sinaloa cartel for the transfer of drugs, weapons, money and migrants. undocumented.
Authorities have not reported the arrest of any suspects or the seizure of drugs following the discovery of this clandestine passage.
Next to the site of the discovery, the officers found various tools used for excavation, among them: shovels, bars, buckets, which were covered with wooden leaves and weeds typical of the region.
After the experts processed the scene to collect evidence for the court case, the agents They carried out maneuvers to disable the excavationcovering it with earth using a backhoe.
Due to these events, the Federal Public Ministry (AMPF) initiated the corresponding Investigation File and carries out the legal procedures to clarify the facts.
Reports from Mexican authorities record that since 1990, when the first narcotunnel was officially discovered, to date, security and migration agencies have found more than 230 clandestine passages, the vast majority in the state of Sonora in the region of Nogales, which borders Arizona (USA).
The largest drug tunnel that has been discovered was in January 2020, between Tijuana. in Mexico and San Diego, in California, it had lighting, air conditioning, high-voltage electrical supply, an elevator and a rail system on which a cart similar to mining carts rolled, to carry the drugs below the line. International.
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