Tijuana
Mexican federal authorities seized illegal marijuana from a tunnel discovered Thursday in a Nueva Tijuana home located across the border from Otay Mesa in San Diego.
The unfinished tunnel which Mexican federal officials said was meant for smugglers to bring drugs into San Diego from Mexico was being constructed no more than 50 or so feet from a new National Guard base opened last year in Tijuana.
A National Guard solider stands at a house located across the street from a National Guard base where an incomplete drug tunnel was discovered.
((Wendy Fry / San Diego Union Tribune) )
The sophisticated but incomplete tunnel has ventilation, lighting, rails, a transportation cart, according to Mexican federal officials. According to U.S. officials, it has no exit on the San Diego side of the border.
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