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Top 7 Drug Tunnels Along U.S. Borders
Beau Iverson In honor of the biggest stoner holiday being this month, this is a list of where some other, more illegal, drugs come from and how they get here. These are the biggest drug tunnels in the US.
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Biggest Bust Ever
Let’s start with the biggest one. Which also happens to be the most recent one and so eclipses the record for "biggest one the authorities have ever seen." See a pattern here? Just wait for the next one. Until then, we’ll just have to make do with this doozy of a tunnel. 1,800 feet in length or to put in more poetically, the length of six football fields. Ventilated, lit, and complete with spooky railway system, although the drawback was the 4 feet high by 3 feet wide size.
In the end, authorities seized 25 tons of pots (the largest amount ever connected to a drug tunnel) after they followed a suspicious tractor-trailer back to the warehouse on the American side. How did they notice the tractor-trailer? They were just driving around, it seems and now they have uncovered this brand-new, month-old very busy drug tunnel. The next step? Fearing that the interruption in the ground it may cause sinkholes. How funny would it be to uncover a drug bust because this happened? - 2
Biggest Tunnel Ever
While our first entry holds the record for one of the largest busts ever undertaken, that tunnel doesn't beat the massiveness of the discovery back in January of 2006. 85 feet below the ground and 2,400 feet long. The news didn't report how many football field lengths that takes up. It was just too mind-blowing. Along with the sheer size, the tunnel featured concrete flooring, ventilation, groundwater pumping, and a pulley system. The tunnel was so big that authorities even doubted that the cartels were behind it and instead suspected terrorist involvement. Hmmmm
When discovered, the tunnel was devoid of activity and the only sound authorities heard was probably the slick drip of the clay walls. But it did contain two tons of marijuana, hinting it was still being used.
Click here for news report. - 3
Canada and Marijuana
This one comes from the other border.
Three guys got the bright idea to smuggle in marijuana from Canada so they started to build a tunnel. This being America, naturally the neighbors got suspicious when they started noticing the large construction occurring in the greenhouse and all the piles of dirt that were being dug up. They called the cops and the cops decide to wait out the 8 months the tunnel got built along with secretly implanting cameras to observe.
When the first packs of marijuana went through, the three were seriously screwed (not like they weren't already). Officers raided the house and arrested them just like that. 8 months for nothing.
Click here for full news report. - 4
The Anderson Cooper Tour
This is an incomplete tunnel, but it shows the seriousness and tenacity the cartels have when building these things and the challenges governments face. When one tunnel falls, they build another, and here CNN's Anderson Cooper shows us the depth of how far these tunnels can go.
This particular tunnel brings a new marvel of engineering: a descending bathroom. Go to :30 to take a look at the hydraulically-powered secret entrance. Perhaps the password to smuggle drugs was to take a s**t first?
Featuring many of the commodities the previous tunnel such as lighting and ventilation, the builders here even managed to bring phone lines and phones. The sophistication of this drug tunnel is unparalleled and you can imagine the depth of the operation that is going on here. The only weakness was security, but that doesn't mean they're out building another one again right now. - 5
Dog Sniffs Out Trailer
"US Border Patrol Agents say they have a found a tunnel near the border and it may have been used to smuggle drugs across the US-Mexico border." May have been used? Really?
As if the drug-sniffing dog finding 5 tons of marijuana locked in a tractor-trailer wouldn't act as proof.
Furthermore, the trailer was blocking the entrance to the tunnel, which when bounded upon by authorities were confronted by a gun-toting man who disappeared like a rat into the tunnel.
The authorities never found him and they spent a hell of a long time finding the Mexican entrance.
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