ANOTHER TUNNEL FOUND IN SAN DIEGO

Episode Transcript

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Another smuggling tunnel was found and shut down in San
Diego Sector. Border agents in San Diego and covered a
highly sophisticated reinforced drug tunnel down in the border of
San Diego the US Border Patrol agents. The incompleted tunnel
extended more than one thousand feet inside the US and

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was highly sophisticated. The San Diego Sector Tunnel team discovered
the tunnels that was actively under construction. The tunnel team
made entry into the tunnel, which ran under a portion
of the o TA MAY support of entry. Based on
preliminary indications, The tunnel had a projected exit point near
or within a nearby commercial warehouse. The investigation of the
tunnel was equipped with electrical wiring, lighting, ventilation systems, and

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a track system designed for transporting large quantities of contraband.
When agents made the first entry into the tunnel, they
encountered multiple makeshift barricades. These barricades replaced haphazardly by the
tunnel workers in an preparent effort to impede agent's southbound progress.
The eventual identification of the tunnel's origin, agents carefully mapped

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the tunnel, which measured three thousand feet in total length.
Inside the tunnel, dimensions were about forty two inches in height,
so about three and a half feet two feet in width,
and about approximately fifty feet underground at its deepest point.
The Mexican authorities and the Border Patrol with Homeland Security
worked to locate the origin of the point of the tunnel.

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The entrance was located within the residence in the Nueva
to Wana neighborhood. Mexican authorities served a warrant at the
location and found the engines to the tunnel had been
concealed by freshly laid tile let's see here. Since nineteen
ninety three, more than ninety five tunnels have been found
and decommissioned in the San Diego area alone. This tunnel

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has been scheduled for immediate remediation by the US Border Patrol.