Drug tunnel found under US-Mexico border
by Associated Press (November 3rd, 2010 @ 1:05pm)

SAN DIEGO -- U.S. authorities have discovered a drug tunnel connecting warehouses on either side of California's border with Mexico.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lauren Mack says Wednesday that the tunnel ran 600 yards under the border. It had lighting, ventilation and a rail system for sending carts of drugs into the United States.

Mack says authorities also found 20 tons of marijuana near the tunnel, which ended close to California's Otay Mesa port of entry.

Officials have found 125 tunnels since they started recording them in the early 1990s. Of those, 75 have been found in the past four years, most along the California and Arizona border with Mexico.