SAN DIEGO—Six people are facing federal charges in connection with allegedly trafficking drugs through an underground cross-border tunnel discovered over the weekend that stretches from Tijuana to a warehouse in Otay Mesa, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Officials say the 1,744-foot-long passageway was discovered on Friday during a Homeland Security Investigations operation into alleged drug smuggling.
The tunnel is the first discovered in the Southern District of California—which comprises San Diego and Imperial counties—since March of 2020, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Law enforcement allegedly discovered the tunnel after tailing two people on Friday when the pair left a National City home previously used as a stash house for cocaine smuggling.
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