Mexican Drug Tunnel..............

[Bullfighter]

.............in first world countries, it's called the anus!

Hiding Drugs After a Score

Most of the time when a heroin user get arrested for possession, it is because a cop searched him and found product. It is not usually the case that a cop grabs a buyer's hand just as he is taking the drug package from the dealer. The cop normally notices something that gives him probably cause to search the user. Cops are trained to search people and places (including, of course, cars) and they are usually pretty good at it. If there is something to find, they will most likely find it.

How Street Dealers Protect Themselves

This is why street dealers normally keep their product in their mouths wrapped in small balloons. If a cop comes snooping, the dealer can swallow the evidence. The balloons protect the drugs inside because rubber is not digested; after swallowing, the dealer can vomit them back up (if it hasn't been too long) or defecate them out.
Without the physical evidence of drugs actually seized, it is almost impossible to convict someone of possession. It isn't illegal to simply have things. The police officer must find the substance in a person's possession and show (usually through a chemical analysis) that it is illegal to possess.

Hiding Drugs After a Street Buy

When scoring on the street, the buyer has few options regarding where to hide the drugs. Many people follow the lead of the dealers and put them in their mouths. There are a few problems with this, however.

Where Has Your Dealer's Mouth Been?

First, the buyer must be willing to take something from the dealer's mouth and put it in his own. Straight people might think that it's funny that a heroin user would be willing to (in many cases) inject a drug they bought from a stranger, but would be unwilling to share minor amounts of saliva. I suppose there is a certain irony here, but it isn't as strong as one might think. Before injection, the drugs are boiled, thus destroying most diseases. Also, the drugs themselves are usually fairly pure. They were created in a chemistry lab where a high level of cleanliness was necessary. The drugs are normally cut, but they are cut with pure things like sugar and coffee.

Stashing Unnoticed

If the buyer doesn't care about potential diseases from the dealer's mouth, he must still figure out how to get the drugs into his mouth without being obvious. Cops are aware that people hide drugs (especially heroin) in their mouths, so an obvious action of putting something into one's mouth might well catch an officer's attention.
There are various things that can be done. Most involve some kind of diversion. For example, you could slip or sneeze. The problem with these is that they all call attention to you. Another approach is to simply do it as fast as possible. You could also light up a cigarette, which should give you enough cover to get the drugs into your mouth.

Swallowing When Necessary

Probably the biggest problem with hiding drugs in one's mouth is that cops attack buyers quickly and do various things to stop them from swallowing the drugs. One effective technique is to grab the buyer around the throat until he spits out the drugs. Even if the drugs are swallowed in time, it is a sure bet that the buyer will get beat up because of the frustration of the cop.

Street Scoring Tips

The best advice there is on hiding drugs when you score on the street is this: Don't score on the street. You are safer if you know the dealer and can communicate via pager or cell phone. But regardless, you are safest when you score in private.

Practice, Practice, Practice

If you must score on the street, it is in your best interest to practice swallowing. Buy some balloons and make up practice drug packages (the same size as the ones you buy). Time how long it takes you to swallow how ever many bags you normally buy. Work on reducing the time. Most people have trouble swallowing things without water. There is not a cop in the world who is going to wait around for you to drink some water before searching your mouth.
As you practice, experiment with placing the drugs in different places. Some places allow you to swallow much more quickly than others. Also be sure to keep all the bags in one location. You won't have time to swallow more than once.

Be Paranoid: They Are Out to Get You

One last thing you can do is give way to your paranoia. Swallow with the slightest provocation. You won't lose the drugs--it will just be a pain to get them back and you may have to wait a while. If you're really worried, you can swallow right away.

Hiding Drugs In Private

It is a mistake to hide drugs in your clothing. If a cop searches you, he is almost certain to find them. It is also a mistake to hide them in your car, although you may have a really good spot that a cop would miss. Your best bet is to hide the drugs in your body.

Nose, Ears, and Mouth

If you are trying to conceal a small quantity of drugs, you may use your mouth, nose or ears. The mouth has the same issues we already discussed. The nose and ears have the advantage that they are not common hiding places. They have the disadvantage that if a cop decides to search in these places, there is nothing that you can do. The nose is less likely to be noticed, but it is possible to accidentally blow it out of its hiding place should you sneeze or just breath hard. It could also just fall out due to gravity. In using the ears, you must make sure that you can still hear or this will call attention to the ears.

The Anus and Vagina

For those smuggling large amounts of drugs, the anus is the typical location. There is no reason that it cannot be used for smaller amounts on a day to day basis. The reason is that in order to do a cavity search, the officer must take you into custody. This means that under normal circumstances, the anus is a very safe place to hide drugs for a short period of time.
Women have the advantage that they can use their vagina as a hiding place. For the purposes of this discussion, the vagina and the anus are equivalent. In either case, the drugs should be placed inside of a condom. A lubricated condom not only protects the drugs, it also makes sticking it inside yourself easier and less painful. If the package is small, the condom also "bulks it up" and makes it less likely to get lost inside of you (this is surprisingly easy to do).

Hiding Your Tracks (not the ones on your arms!)

There are a few things that you can do to keep a cop from catching on to what you have done. First, both the anus and the vagina have distinctive smells. You should wash your hands thoroughly after inserting the drugs. Second, dispose of the condom wrapper. Both of these things (along with whatever caused the cop to stop you in the first place) could encourage a cop to take you into custody for a cavity search.

The Anus is Best

Although it is probably easier and less revolting for women to use their vaginas instead of their anuses, the anus is the preferred location. Most cops are men, and some are not ethical. They are much more likely to do an illegal search of a woman's vagina than of her anus. Even though such a search should not result in a conviction, you still lose the drugs you bought, spend a certain amount of time in jail, and are effectively raped.

Keeping Safe In All Cases

Whenever you are scoring drugs, make sure that you are squeaky clean with regards to the law. Don't score when you are under the influence of drugs--this is more likely to draw a cop to you in addition to the fact that you will not be at your keenest. Don't carry paraphernalia like syringes with you. Don't speed if you're driving. Don't J-walk, if you're on foot. You get the idea.
It is also a good idea to make a bee-line home after you are done buying your drugs. If you go into a grocery store, for example, you open yourself to being searched. Even though such a search will not turn up stollen property (what they are looking for), they will not ignore drugs or drug paraphernalia--not with the reputation drugs have these days.

The Risks of Scoring

Scoring at your dealer's house is probably the safest way to do so as long as you can hide the drugs in your anus and wash up before you leave. Having dealers come to your home, while convenient, can be dangerous if your dealer comes by often and doesn't stay long. Still, it is much better than scoring on the street in known selling areas.
In the end, the only way to be truly safe is to not score. If you score often enough, you will eventually be arrested; that's simple statistics--something will go wrong and you will get popped. The less often you score, the less likely you will be to get arrested in your lifetime. The less you use, the safer you are. If you really want to be safe, don't use at all. This is an option, although users often forget this.


Hiding Drugs - Avoiding Detection After a Drug Deal - Heroin Helper

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What came first? The drug or the drug tunnel?

 

[waltky]

Biggest drug tunnel in San Diego history...

US agents find major Mexico drug tunnel covered by bin in California
Wednesday 20 April 2016 - Tonne of cocaine and seven tonnes of marijuana seized after discovery of metre-wide tunnel running between Tijuana and San Diego

US agents have uncovered a narrow cross-border tunnel complete with rail system that was used to transport tonnes of cocaine and marijuana from Mexico to an exit covered by a trash bin in California. US authorities said on Wednesday the tunnel that ran 800 metres (874 yards) from a house in Tijuana was equipped with a large elevator to a lot in San Diego which was advertised as a wooden pallet business. The discovery resulted in the seizure of more than a tonne of cocaine and seven tonnes of marijuana.

It was the 13th sophisticated secret passage found along California’s border with Mexico since 2006, including three on the same short street in San Diego that runs parallel to a border fence with a densely populated residential area on the Mexican side. The unusually narrow tunnel was only about one metre (3ft) wide, equipped with a rail system, lighting and ventilation. The tunnel was unusual because it was used for cocaine, not just marijuana, said Laura Duffy, US attorney for the southern district of California. Tunnels are often built for marijuana because its bulk and odour make it more difficult to escape border inspectors’ scrutiny than cocaine and other drugs.

The elevator, which was big enough for eight to 10 people, was located in the closet of a Tijuana house whose floors were strewn with mattresses, Duffy said. The tunnel zig-zagged for 800 metres (874 yards) to the fenced commercial lot in San Diego, where the exit was covered by a large trash bin. Other tunnels that have ended in California were inside houses and warehouses. “It’s a rabbit hole,” Duffy told reporters. “Just the whole way that it comes up and that it comes up out right into the open, it is a bit ingenious, I think, and it’s something completely different than what we’ve seen.”

Investigators didn’t know when the tunnel was completed. Margarita Ontiveros, who works at a law office next to the San Diego lot, said the tenants arrived about a year ago and often bought and sold wooden pallets. “They loaded and unloaded a lot of pallets,” Ontiveros said. “They sold very cheap.”

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California-Mexico Drug Tunnel is Longest Ever
Apr 21, 2016 . — Federal authorities said Wednesday that a half-mile, cross-border tunnel discovered in Otay Mesa Saturday is the longest drug tunnel to be found along the California-Mexico border ever.

The zig-zagging passage, which runs from a flophouse in Tijuana to a fenced-in lot advertised as a wooden pallet business, is estimated to be about 2,600 feet — or about nine football fields long. U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said the tunnel was sophisticated, complete with railing and ventilation systems and lighting. On the Tijuana side, the tunnel ended at a large elevator that ascended into a closet in the house. During the investigation, authorities seized 2,242 pounds of cocaine and 14,000 pounds of marijuana suspected of being transported through the tunnel into the United States. It was likely the largest single seizure of cocaine ever related to a tunnel on the California-Mexico border, Duffy said.

It’s the second “super tunnel” to be discovered in recent weeks, Duffy said. In March, authorities uncovered a 415-yard tunnel that connected a restaurant in Mexicali to a house in Calexico. Six men have been arrested in connection with the Otay Mesa discovery, and face various charges including conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine and conspiracy to use a border tunnel. The suspects included one U.S. citizen, two Cuban asylum-seekers, and three Mexican nationals. One Mexican national was a legal resident and the other two had cards that allowed them to quickly cross the border.

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy addresses the media as U.S. authorities shut down a cross-border tunnel with Mexico that is the longest ever in California​

Authorities suspect they know which organization was using the tunnel, but declined to say which. They also would not say if the tunnel was related to the one found in Calexico. “The tunnel exit on this side really bears no resemblance to those that we’ve seen before with other super tunnels around which architects and engineers and traffickers really take elaborate steps to conceal the tunnel,” Duffy said at a news conference on the discovery. “ … This tunnel exit is literally a hole in the ground in the middle of this area. I think it fair to say that few would suspect that traffickers were moving multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana in this very unassuming way in full view of the world around them.”

Authorities said U.S. Border Patrol officials received a tip about the tunnel in late 2015 and agents began surveillance of what appeared to be a business near Enrico Fermi and Marconi drives. They soon noticed what looked like practice smuggling runs, Duffy said. Months later, on April 12, agents noticed a white commercial truck deliver a dumpster to the lot and place it on the ground. The next day, agents watched two men start a conversation with someone — either in the dumpster or underneath it. They then loaded the dumpster into the truck, which was driven to a parking lot near Logan Heights.

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[waltky]

Mebbe dey could use possums as tunnel rats...

Tunnels at US-Mexico Border Show Smugglers’ Deep Commitment
May 24, 2017 — Drug smugglers trying to tap into the United States’ highly profitable market have developed all kinds of secretive routes to deliver their illicit goods. One tactic is to go underground.

At the U.S.-Mexico border, tunnels are a popular means of transporting illegal marijuana – a bulky drug whose distinctive odor makes it hard to get past drug-sniffing dogs and other security at border checkpoints and airports. Since 1990, more than 220 tunnels have been discovered there, including 60 in the area overseen by the U.S. Border Patrol’s San Diego office. "You see, it's an industrial area," agency spokesman Jose Hernandez says in explaining its attraction to traffickers. "We see many warehouses and many trucks passing by. It is common to see them at two in the afternoon or the morning," he adds. “It happens many times. So what [traffickers] do is they hide where everyone can see them anyway." Noise from constant truck traffic on the American side and dense urban construction on the Mexican side conceal the construction of secret tunnels.

U.S. Border Patrol personnel work near a tunnel entrance between barriers separating San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico. So-called 'tunnel rats' close down clandestine passages that have proliferated on the border for smuggling drugs.​

Underground investment

Drug traffickers will spend as much as $2 million on construction in hopes of big profit in return, the Drug Enforcement Administration told the Associated Press earlier this year. The DEA links most of the cross-border tunneling to Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, whose boss, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán used other tunnels to escape twice from Mexican prisons. He was extradited to the United States in January and awaits trial on various trafficking charges. The unfinished Galvez tunnel, discovered in 2009, was intended as a link from about 18 meters south of the Mexican border stretching 231 meters north into California’s San Diego neighborhood of Otay Mesa.

From transport to training site

Now, instead of serving as a conduit for drugs, it has become a training site for Border Patrol agents. They scramble down ladders to a passageway 20 meters deep, nearly 2 meters tall and just over a meter wide. The tunnel yields clues into tunnel engineering and equipment. Dug with drills, picks and shovels, it was outfitted with lighting, railway, telephone and ventilation systems. That’s not the most elaborate. Lance LeNoir, who leads the Border Patrol’s San Diego Intercept Team of so-called "tunnel rats," reports that agents once "intercepted 13 individuals immediately to our south in Mexico. They found the entrance underneath a bathroom floor, which actually lowered through a [hydraulic] lift system." To aid its detective work, the Border Patrol uses an assortment of complex tools, including ground-penetrating radar and sensors.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent climbs out of an entrance carved by the agency into a tunnel linking Tijuana, Mexico, and the entrance site in San Diego, Calif.​

Closing the link

When a tunnel is discovered, U.S. authorities shut it down. "When we go to remediate these things, we mark the ground with an X,” LeNoir says, then “drill down to find them and fill them with cement." From 2007 to 2015, the Department of Homeland Security spent $8.7 million to block the tunnels with concrete. Its counterpart in Mexico uses a different approach. "They mostly put garbage at the entrance to the tunnel until the entrance is blocked," says Hernandez, the Border Patrol spokesman. The trash treatment is a source of conflict between Mexican and U.S. authorities because it’s not permanent. At least six tunnels were found reopened on the Mexican side. Authorities there say they don’t have the money to use cement. But the two countries continue to collaborate on blocking tunnels and traffickers. The United States views illegal drugs and smuggling as a threat to the nation’s health and security.

Tunnels at US-Mexico Border Show Smugglers’ Deep Commitment