Canada-U.S. Drug Tunnel

According to the Justice Department, last week's discovery of a drug tunnel between Washington and Canada is a first. Let's hope it's the last. It has to be troubling that the structure appears quite sophisticated.

From CTV.ca:

The sophisticated 110-metre tunnel runs from a depth of one to three metres and is reinforced with iron rebar and 2x6 wood supports.


Canada-U.S. Drug Tunnel
The U.S. Justice Department said 42 kilograms of pot were transported through the tunnel and then loaded into a van.

The van drove to the Bellis Fair Maill in Bellingham, Wash., where the marijuana was loaded into another vehicle. That second vehicle was stopped by the Washington State Patrol and the pot was seized.

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In a news conference, U.S. authorities revealed that the tunnel begins under a Quonset hut in Langley, B.C, and ends beneath the living room of a house in Lynden, Wash.

The building on the Canadian side is located near 264th Street and Zero Avenue in Langley, south and east of Vancouver.

Apparently, the DEA, the RCMP, and Homeland Security agents have been watching construction for about eight months. It's also been reported that investigators had a machine that can "see" underground, a robotic video-camera, a drug-sniffing dog, and an air horn to find the tunnel.

Three men, Francis Devandra Raj, 30, Timothy Woo, 34, Jonathan Valenzuela, 27, all from B.C. were arrested in Washington.