Secret border tunnel is found by drones in terrifying indicator of stealth super gangs sneaking into the US

Another secret cartel tunnel connecting Mexico to Arizona has been discovered by authorities, a grim reminder of the violent reality that lies beneath the sand.

The tunnel was found during a joint investigation between the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and the Sonora State Police in Mexico using drone technology. Mexican authorities.

The tunnel – which is incomplete – was discovered in San Luis Rio Colorado, near the border wall.

Mexican police say it was a “narco tunnel” used to bring drugs and possibly people into the US Family AZ.

The discovery marks the third tunnel found in 2024 near Yuma, Arizona.

It’s unclear which drug gang owns the tunnel, but the Sinaloa Cartel regularly uses these underground passageways in the Southwest to smuggle drugs into the United States, according to the DEA’s 2024 drug threat investigation.

Many of their tunnels were “not built by the cartel, but are part of the sewer and water systems of the border cities.”

However, the Sinaloa Cartel is also known to cut passageways under homes on the Mexican side of the border.

The tunnel – which is incomplete – was discovered in San Luis Rio Colorado, near the border wall

“The Sinaloa Cartel exercises near-total control over the borderlands south of Arizona, giving the cartel easy access to the San Luis Rio Colorado and Nogales. [ports of entry]the DEA said.

DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said: “At the heart of the synthetic drug crisis are the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels and their associates, which DEA ​​is tracking globally. The suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and money launderers all play a role in the web of deliberate and calculated betrayal orchestrated by these cartels.

“DEA will continue to use all available tools to attack these networks and save American lives.”

According to the CDC, drug-related deaths claimed the lives of more than 107,000 Americans in 2022.

Fentanyl was responsible for about 70 percent of these deaths.

The DEA seized nearly 30,000 pounds of fentanyl potency and 79 million pills in 2023. The quantity of pills alone is almost three times as much as in 2021, the agency said.

Most of the meth sold in the US is produced in Mexico, and the drug has become increasingly powerful in recent years.

The cartel’s spread has also coincided with that of a violent Venezuelan gang in the US, with experts warning that the gangsters could gain a foothold in more than half the country by February this year.

The tunnel – which is incomplete – was found in San Luis Rio Colorado, near the border wall. Police believe it was built to be used as a ‘narco tunnel’ to bring drugs and possibly people into the US

The Sinaloa drug cartel uses tunnels in the Southwest to smuggle drugs into the United States. It is unclear whether the tunnel belongs to them

As of December 2024, Tren de Aragua, which has been called the “embodiment of evil” and “MS-13 on steroids,” is already active in 18 states.

This includes some of the most remote corners of America in Colorado, North Dakota, Montana, Nevada and Wyoming. The bloodthirsty criminals also have strongholds in major cities in Texas, as well as New York and Chicago.

John Fabbricatore, former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for Colorado and Wyoming, told DailyMail.com exclusively: “We’re going to hear stories everywhere about them being arrested.

“They’re in seventeen states now. It wouldn’t surprise me if that number is more than 25 by February.’

The gang, known as TdA to police, originated in a Venezuelan prison.

Members of the South American mafia have since sneaked into the US through the southern border, hidden among the one million Venezuelan migrants who entered the country under the Biden administration.

They can often be identified by telltale tattoos, including a train (‘tren’ is Spanish for train), a crown, a clock and an AK-47.

The gang has made more than 500 arrests in New York City alone in 2024.

The Tren De Aragua gang has a presence in more than a dozen US states

Venezuela’s most violent gang, Tren de Aragua, has moved its headquarters to just across the US border in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez.

The majority of the arrests were on charges of robbery and grand larceny, but the gangsters’ criminal records also include assault and auto theft, records show.

The gang also recruits child gang members from the age of 11.

The infamous organized crime group has reportedly enlisted a team of children as young as 11, known as the “Little Devils of 42nd Street,” to rob stores and street members with guns and knives in New York City.

Police said more than 800 gang-related crimes have occurred in the Big Apple this year, double the number from 2023.