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2025-02-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Feds likely eyeing 'cover-ups' to bust Mexican cartels along border: former DEA agent

[FoxNews] Mexican drug cartels have outfitted dozens of tunnels with rail and cart systems to whisk drugs beneath the U.S. border, posing a major challenge for the Trump administration as it works to curb the flow of illegal narcotics into the country.

The U.S. Drug and Enforcement Agency (DEA) reports that most illicit drugs in the U.S. are smuggled via vehicles at southern border entry points, but some enter through cross-border tunnels and subterranean passageways.
Been a bunch in Otay Mesa/San Diego Sector with all the warehouses serving cross-border trade
President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to stop the flow of illegal drugs in the U.S., introducing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, an estimated 107,941 people in the U.S. died from a drug-involved overdose in 2022.

Former DEA Senior Special Agent Michael Brown, who is the global director of counter-narcotics technology at Rigaku Analytical Devices, told Fox News Digital that the agency blows up the drug trafficking tunnels to make them impassable.

Brown said DEA and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) personnel must intensify their investigations into underground tunnels to discover "cover-ups" of the tunnels' U.S. exits.

"Cover-ups" are seemingly normal storefronts or warehouses used to hide tunnel entrances and exits.

"They (the cartels) move hundreds of kilos out and build a warehouse over the tunnel and call it Joe's Pizza shop or Jose's mechanic shop," Brown said. "It's hard to identify that in Eagle Pass or Brownsville [in Texas]."

The former DEA agent said that if properly managed, federal authorities can identify sources to reveal the tunnels' locations and possible U.S. connections.

Brown said he doesn't believe the U.S. would go to the same length as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) did when destroying the tunnels.

Following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the IDF set its sights on dismantling the terrorist group's web of tunnels. In one instance, the IDF said they pumped water into the tunnels and flooded them.

"The U.S. would never blow up a school under any circumstances," he said. "But if we had a 9/11 every day like Israel, I think American attitudes would change."

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 10:07|| || Front Page|| [11167 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 I like the Israeli demolition option.

Israeli demolition of Palestinian property

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 15:00|| 2025-02-12 15:00|| Front Page Top

#2 US Army Korea has some pretty good tools to deal with that...

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/1226944/tunnel-detectors-ferret-out-enemy-below-ground/

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-12 15:09|| 2025-02-12 15:09|| Front Page Top

#3 However, the enemy has managed to continually adapt, building tunnels at greater depths and with more sophistication, she said.

What Is Underground Mapping?

Seismic source

A seismic source can be simple, such as dynamite

That gets my vote.

Seismic sources may be used to investigate shallow subsoil structure, for engineering site characterization, or to study deeper structures, either in the search for petroleum and mineral deposits, or to map subsurface faults or for other scientific investigations.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-12 16:41|| 2025-02-12 16:41|| Front Page Top

#4 How to Avoid Ice video.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2025-02-12 22:33|| 2025-02-12 22:33|| Front Page Top

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