Feds. Nab Drug Smugglers In Elaborate U.S.-Canada Border Tunnel...


First Posted: 07-22-05 12:04 PM   |   Updated: 03-28-08 02:43 AM

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Associated Press :

The loads of dirt coming out of the boarded-up hut perplexed Canadian border guards. So did the loads of construction materials going in. Acting on a hunch that the activity wasn't legitimate, the guards tipped off investigators, who found that the hut was a starting point for an elaborate, 360-foot drug-smuggling tunnel beneath the U.S.-Canadian border.

On Thursday, authorities said they have shut down the tunnel — the first such passageway discovered along the nation's northern edge — and arrested five people on marijuana trafficking charges.

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