WATCH: Feds bust elaborate tunnel under U.S.-Mexico border used to smuggle $45 million in cocaine
Officials in California have charged four men with trafficking more than $45 million in cocaine after exposing an elaborate nearly 2,000-foot tunnel that ran between Mexico and the U.S.
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Officials in California have charged four men with trafficking more than $45 million in cocaine after exposing an elaborate nearly 2,000-foot tunnel that ran between Mexico and the U.S.
The structure, which connected Tiajuana with a warehouse for a purported discount store called Buy 4 Less, included electricity, ventilation, reinforced walls and a rail system, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a release.
The bust, which followed months of surveillance, included more than a ton of cocaine estimated to be worth $45 million.
Two of the men charged are from San Diego, where the purported warehouse was located, and two are from Mexico. All face potential life sentences and millions of dollars in fines if convicted.
Authorities have found 99 subterranean passages in Southern California since 1993, the DOJ said, 28 of which were sophisticated. The last operational tunnel was found in 2022.
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