Baja California's Confiscated Drug Properties: Inside a Mexican Drug Tunnel Sandra Dibble - U-T San Diego
go to original August 5, 2013

The Mexican military offers a rare look inside a sophisticated drug tunnel. The entrance is in a building in a busy business park in Tijuana, just four blocks from the border. An elevator inside a closet goes down to the tunnel, which is nearly four football fields long. It was found after people reported suspicious activity back in February, and it was shut down before it was completed. It would have come out somewhere in San Diego. (CNN)

TIJUANA — The structures once harbored drug shipments, hid kidnap victims, covered up entrances to drug tunnels. A list of nearly 100 properties seized by the Mexican government in Baja California from criminal organizations shows most located in Tijuana - from the city’s the wealthiest enclaves to the humblest neighborhoods.

The Mexico City newspaper El Universal posted its findings in an article Friday following a request for information from the federal agency the administers seized properties, known as the Servicio de Administración y Enajenación de Bienes.

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