Thursday, July 21, 2005
Northern exposure
A well-built tunnel on the US-Canada border has been discovered and shut down. The tunnel ran from a greenhouse in Langley, BC to a vacant house in Lynden, WA just across the border. This seems to be the first such tunnel on the northern border.
The US Attorney, in a news conference right now, says they are investigating it first as a drug-smuggling operation, but hints that there may be other purposes connected to Homeland Security.
Apparently the authorities have been watching the operation from planning to completion, and made the arrests after seeing the first delivery of drugs. So the tunnel never had a chance to be used freely.
They have arrested three people named Raj, Wu, and Alenzuela. (Probably wrong spelling; transcribing from the news conference.) Interesting combination of names, eh?
In a way this is good news; if the smugglers find it necessary to build a tunnel, perhaps our surface enforcement is more effective than it appears.
Story, before the news conf, here. ¶ 11:06 AM
The US Attorney, in a news conference right now, says they are investigating it first as a drug-smuggling operation, but hints that there may be other purposes connected to Homeland Security.
Apparently the authorities have been watching the operation from planning to completion, and made the arrests after seeing the first delivery of drugs. So the tunnel never had a chance to be used freely.
They have arrested three people named Raj, Wu, and Alenzuela. (Probably wrong spelling; transcribing from the news conference.) Interesting combination of names, eh?
In a way this is good news; if the smugglers find it necessary to build a tunnel, perhaps our surface enforcement is more effective than it appears.
Story, before the news conf, here. ¶ 11:06 AM
