In the style of “El Chapo”? Drug tunnel discovered between Mexico and the United States

2024-05-08 22:52:04

Very much in the style of the famous drug trafficker, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a narcotunnel was discovered in the frontera in between Mexico and the United States, to which criminal group is this illicit excavation attributed? We give you the details.

This finding was confirmed by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) in Sonora on May 2, although the discovery dates back to the Wednesday, May 1st.

According to the information sheet shared on the agency’s social networks, this drug tunnel was located in an area adjacent to the border wall in San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora.

In order to give greater clarity to the discovery in the border area of ​​Mexico and the United States, the Public ministry of the Attorney General’s Office in Sonora has already opened a research folder.

#VIDEO Sonora authorities found a drug tunnel on the side of the border wall between Mexico and the United States, in the town of San Luis Río Colorado. The State Prosecutor’s Office is already investigating the ‘passage’.

🎥: Especial pic.twitter.com/BCFvruXMVe

— Grupo Formula (@Radio_Formula) May 3, 2024

Narcotunnel found between Mexico and the United States measures less than 5 meters

The drug tunnel found between Mexico and the United States has a distance inferior of the 5 metroswhich although small, has the necessary size for the transfer of a person, according to the EFE news agency.

While this discovery was made after agents of the State Public Security Police (PESP) in collaboration with the Border Patrol o Border Patrol, from the “Enlace” group, completed a surveillance and prevention operation.

In addition to the drug tunnel, the authorities found another type of instruments employees to perform excavation worksuch as shovels, bars, buckets and marro.

While these tools were hidden under wood leaves and weeds characteristic of the region between Mexico and the United States, so the authorities proceeded to protect the area.

Which criminal group is responsible for the drug tunnel between Mexico and the United States?

Although the FGR of Sonora did not disclose who criminal group He is credited with the authorship and, if applicable, use, of this narcotunnel between Mexico and the United States, there are some speculations by presence of different criminal factions in the region.

And in the region of San Luis Colorado, violence has increased due to the dispute between two organizations derived from the Sinaloa cartelfounded in 1988 by the drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

According to Infobae, this confrontation is led by Los Chapitoscriminal group headed by the children of “El Chapo” and by “The Russians”, also a faction of the Sinaloa cartel led by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

For his part, the agent of the Federal Public Ministry (AMPF) continues with the researches corresponding to guide the legal procedures and determine responsibilities for the drug tunnel discovered between Mexico and the United States.

Los Chapitos (Eduardo Díaz / Special)

“El Chapo”, one of the promoters of the narcotunnels

When you hear the word “narcotunnel”, it is inevitable to refer to the ciriminal leader Joaquín Guzmán Loerabetter known as “El Chapo”, who, in addition to using these passageways to transport illicit merchandise, also used them to escape from prison.

The first discovery of the so-called narcotunnel was reported in Brown WaterSonora in 1990, which served to connect a home with a bodega in Douglas, Arizonain United States.

Although the most famous drug tunnel was the one used by “El Chapo” to evade justice and escape from the maximum security prison of the Atiplano in July 2015which, despite the risk that traveling through it represented, the powerful drug trafficker achieved his goal.

El Chapo Guzán Loera (Internet)

2024-05-08 22:52:04