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    Scuba-diving (Honduran)cocaine smuggler leads authorities to UNDERWATER TUNNEL across

    Scuba-diving cocaine smuggler leads authorities to UNDERWATER TUNNEL across the border


    • Evelio Padilla pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in San Diego to one count of possession of drugs with intent to distribute
    • Border Patrol agents said they discovered a soaked Padilla in a wetsuit next to the All-American Canal on April 25
    • Near him, they found a breathing tank with a 'rebreather' and several vacuum-sealed and giftwrapped packages that held 55 pounds of cocaine


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    PUBLISHED: 20:55 EST, 19 August 2015 | UPDATED: 06:43 EST, 20 August 2015




    Smuggler: Evelio Padilla pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in San Diego to one count of possession of drugs with intent to distribute

    The arrest of a drug smuggler in scuba gear led to the discovery of a tunnel from Mexico that's partially underwater and ends in a canal.

    Evelio Padilla pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in San Diego to one count of possession of drugs with intent to distribute.

    Border Patrol agents said in court documents that they discovered a soaked Padilla in a wetsuit next to the All-American Canal, about 7 miles east of Calexico, California, on April 25. Near him, they found a breathing tank with a 'rebreather' to prevent surface bubbles, and several vacuum-sealed and giftwrapped packages that held a total of 55 pounds of cocaine.

    That led to the discovery of the 150-foot-long tunnel, which began at a house in Mexicali, Mexico, and ended under the water of the canal. The drugs were put on a trolley system on the dry Mexico side of the tunnel, and smugglers would use scuba gear to retrieve it from under the canal's water from an opening that is normally obscured by rocks.

    'Drug smugglers will try anything to move their product — even scuba diving in an underwater tunnel,' U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy said in a statement. 'The ingenuity of the smugglers is matched only by our determination to thwart it.'

    According to the criminal complaint against him, Padilla, a 28-year-old Honduran national who had been living in Mexicali, was told he would be helping to get people across the border, but after jumping the international boundary fence was told he would be smuggling drugs instead. Padilla said he had no other option.



    This April 25, 2015 photo, from the U.S. Border Patrol and introduced as evidence in U.S. District Court, shows the exit canal from a tunnel from Mexicali, Mexico that Border Patrol agents said was used by Evelio Padilla



    This April 25, 2015 photo, from the U.S. Border Patrol and introduced as evidence in U.S. District Court, shows a trolley in the Mexican side of a tunnel that Border Patrol agents said Padilla used

    Authorities have not said whether they have learned who built and operated the tunnel, or whether more arrests were expected.

    Padilla faces a maximum of 20 years in prison at sentencing.



    Device: Near him, Border Patrol agents said in court documents they found a breathing tank with a 'rebreather' to prevent surface bubbles



    Drugs: They also reportedly found several vacuum-sealed and giftwrapped packages that held a total of 55 pounds of cocaine



    Incident: Border Patrol agents said in court documents that they discovered a soaked Padilla in a wetsuit next to the All-American Canal (pictured in this file photo), about 7 miles east of Calexico, California, on April 25


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3k6Ud69oQ


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    WELL NOW DRUGS SMAGGLER ARRED BLOW THE TUNNEL UP. YOUR GOV & OUR GOV NEW ALL ABOUT THIS

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