{"id":340714,"date":"2026-05-31T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340714\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T23:14:07","slug":"tunnel-found-near-tijuana-san-diego-border-mexicos-attorney-generals-office-reports-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/340714\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel found near Tijuana-San Diego border, Mexico\u2019s Attorney General\u2019s Office reports \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tunnel was discovered near the Tijuana-San Diego border in Otay Mesa while Mexican authorities carried out a search warrant in the Nueva Tijuana neighborhood on Saturday, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office announced.<\/p>\n

The tunnel is approximately 265 meters long and 6.30 meters deep, or about 869 feet long and 21 feet deep.<\/p>\n

Authorities served a search warrant on the Nueva Tijuana property Saturday with assistance from the Mexican Navy. During their search, officials seized four cartridges, three cell phones, bank cards, a DVR device, and 24 doses of methamphetamine. <\/p>\n

While searching the property authorities found a wooden tunnel believed to be headed toward the U.S. border,<\/p>\n

Based on the evidence seized during the search warrant, Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office<\/a> said the property likely functioned as a hub for storage and trafficking of weapons, explosives and illicit substances. <\/p>\n

The evidence and property have now been turned over to the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, which will continue the investigation in accordance with the law. <\/p>\n

A Homeland Security Investigations spokesperson shared the following statement with NBC 7: “Special Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Diego, in coordination with the Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), are conducting a criminal enforcement operation. To protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation and ensure the safety of all involved, we are unable provide additional details at this\u00a0time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tunnel was discovered near the Tijuana-San Diego border in Otay Mesa while Mexican authorities carried out a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,14318],"class_list":["post-340714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-u-s-mexico-border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}