Drug tunnel discovered under former KFC, officials say
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A tunnel that stretches from a former Kentucky Fried Chicken in Arizona all the way to a home in Mexico was discovered last week by investigators, who believe the secret passageway was used for drug smuggling, KSWT reports.
Homeland Security Investigations said the tunnel was discovered on August 13, after the owner of the former KFC, Ivan Lopez, was pulled over by the San Luis Police Department. A canine unit alerted officers to two toolboxes in Lopez' truck. Inside the boxes, authorities say they found 118 kilograms of methamphetamine, six grams of cocaine, three kilograms of fentanyl, 13 kilograms of white heroin, and six kilograms of brown heroin. The fentanyl alone equaled three million dosage units, HSI's Special Agent in Charge Scott Brown said.
Earlier that day, Lopez was seen removing toolboxes from the old KFC. He is the owner of the building that once served as the fast food restaurant.
Agents executed a search warrant at the former restaurant and Lopez's residence. When investigating the old KFC, agents found the entrance of the tunnel in the kitchen area. It is eight inches in diameter, 22 feet deep and extended 590 feet long, HSI officials said. It ends at a residence in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, Mexico.
At the Mexican side, the tunnel exited through a trap door underneath a bed. Authorities believe the narcotics being smuggled through the tunnel were being pulled up with a rope.
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Right out of Los Pollos Hermanos.....Gustavo is pissed.....
good meme!
And building a wall would stop this how?
Why does it have to be that a wall would stop everything? Isn't it enough that it would stop a lot? No one has ever claimed it would solve every problem.
A wall won't stop diddly
If it's not going to stop everything, then why spend $25B to build it. Sounds like a waste of money to me
it looks like in this case that the wall won't stop anything , huh ?
well, in concerns to this article , at least one person thinks a wall would solve it 100% !
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Sure, it stops people from walking over the border. Do you not know how walls work?
By the way, Israel is expanding their wall underground , apparently pretty far. Just how far is a secret. Ours are supposed to go underground, too, but I don't know how far. This tunnel was 22 feet down. I understand we're also installing sensors to detect underground activity.
What's your beef? Don't you want the government trying to secure the border as best it can?
Wow! Not what I thought was going to be in the 11 herbs and spices.
Thanks for the giggle!
Well, McDonald's has its "secret sauce"-- so why not KFC?
So that's why the 7 "herbs" and spices are kept so secret!