Investigators have uncovered dozens of cross-border drug tunnels over the years - but they say one raided this week in California is the first where pot smugglers bought a parcel of land and built an entire house over it.
The underground passageway running from the three-bedroom home in Calexico to a restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico, was nearly the length of four football fields and equipped with electricity, lighting and a rail system.
The traffickers spent $240,000 on the land and $86,000 on construction of the Calexico house, but the only marijuana they moved through it was intercepted, authorities said.
Video courtesy U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementVideo by Ron Rogers
23 мар 2016
