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Impressive drug tunnel found linking Arizona, Mexico
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DEA agents make startling discovery
- Duration 1:20
- Date Jul 13, 2012
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From the entrance in a hole in the floor it goes straight down 57 feet that's almost a six story building.
Then the tunnel runs under the border for 755.
Feet that's two and a half football fields.
This is no ordinary -- scratched out of the dirt it's reinforced and ventilated and -- all the way through.
DEA -- it -- more than a year to build and cost one and a half million dollars who could be behind it.
The Arizona borders for -- the area of responsibility that the Sinaloa Cartel uses the -- -- had our child or Guzman I think you would you.
Fairly educated guess to assume that this tunnel.
Is related to child whose -- was organization.
Agents believe the tunnel was designed to bring in hard drugs like the forty pounds of meth they seized as well as heroin and cocaine.
They don't think it had been open very long before they closed it down the sheriff of Yuma county not exactly surprised it was there and he thinks there may be more.
The -- you feel about it is what they're getting to a point where they're headed David cartel -- you get an appointment and every point ingenious ways to do business.
Then they'll continue to find ingenious ways to do it.
As long as we find ways to stop.