{"id":347597,"date":"2026-06-05T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347597\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:11:07","slug":"high-tech-drug-tunnel-found-between-mexico-and-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347597\/","title":{"rendered":"High-tech drug tunnel found between Mexico and California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sophisticated 2,000\u2011foot (610-meter) drug tunnel linking <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/mexico\/t-18214018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>and California has been uncovered by <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a>\u00a0authorities, leading to the seizure of $45 million (\u20ac38.8 million)\u00a0worth of <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/cocaine\/t-68693598\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cocaine<\/a>and four arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system, the tunnel connected to a warehouse near San Diego.\u00a0Officials called it a major blow to cartel operations.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say such tunnels can move large volumes undetected, though single seizures have limited impact on the broader drug trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DW\u00a0discussed this with Sanho Tree, Director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sophisticated 2,000\u2011foot (610-meter) drug tunnel linking Mexicoand California has been uncovered by US\u00a0authorities, leading to the seizure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-347597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347597","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=347597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}