07-21-2005, 12:23 PM
Because some drug dealers/growers built a tunnel between the two cities.
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On this map it looks to be at least 20km!!
Sympatico.MSN story
On this map it looks to be at least 20km!!
Sympatico.MSN story
How far is it from Langley, BC to Lynden, WA?
07-21-2005, 12:39 PM
Thats wild! I like how the feds let them finish the tunnel and then raided them and shut it down right after they finished :lol: All that digging and hard work gone in a flash, serves them right. :thumb:
Imagine a world before the "beginning was the word.”
07-21-2005, 12:58 PM
Feds must see a use in it! I am amazed they managed to line up, I wonder how they did that. judging by the scale in the map I'd say it is about 15 miles ( eyeballing it ouf course)
07-21-2005, 02:24 PM
Not that far.... these seem to be the nearest towns to the start and finish of the tunnel. The article says the tunnel was 110 metres and has since been closed off.
07-21-2005, 02:26 PM
schaggs Wrote:Not that far.... these seem to be the nearest towns to the start and finish of the tunnel. The article says the tunnel was 110 metres and has since been closed off.I read that article twice, and didn't once see the mention of length!
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07-22-2005, 08:09 AM
chris Wrote:schaggs Wrote:Not that far.... these seem to be the nearest towns to the start and finish of the tunnel. The article says the tunnel was 110 metres and has since been closed off.I read that article twice, and didn't once see the mention of length!
This is likely a different article from what you read Chris. From the London Free Press (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/home.html">http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFre ... /home.html</a><!-- m -->):
Quote: LANGLEY, B.C. -- Accused of a crime that seems borrowed from a Hollywood heist film, three men have been charged with digging a tunnel about the length of a football field beneath the Canada-U.S. border to smuggle marijuana.
The men, all from Surrey, B.C., have been charged in Washington state with conspiracy to distribute and import marijuana after law enforcement officials discovered the 110-metre tunnel that starts underneath a Quonset hut in this Vancouver suburb and ends beneath the living room of a house in Lynden, Wash.
The tunnel, which is just a few hundred metres from a Canada-U.S. border crossing, ranges in depth from one to three metres and is reinforced with ribbed steel bars and wood supports.
"It probably is one of the most significant, if not the most significant, tunnel that we've seen enter the United States," said Rod Benson, a special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
There have been 34 cross-border tunnels to the U.S., but the U.S. Justice Department said yesterday this is the first tunnel ever discovered between Canada and the U.S.
Authorities believe the men had been digging for about a year.
"We didn't give them enough credit. That's quite a venture to undertake," said Insp. Pat Fogarty, with the Organized Crime Agency of B.C.
In March, American officials reportedly discovered a tunnel that had been dug from a middle-class San Diego-area neighbourhood to an upscale residence in Mexico.
Authorities believe the B.C. tunnel was completed in early July, but that the first time it was used was when they spotted three suspects with bags of marijuana.
"There was 24-hour surveillance," Fogarty said. "We can guarantee that no weapons, or anything of that matter, got through."
The Department of Homeland Security said the security implications resulting from the discovery of the tunnel are immense.
"That tunnel could be used to smuggle aliens into the U.S.," agent Leigh Winchell said at a joint Canada-U.S. news conference yesterday. "It could be used to smuggle equipment into the U.S. for those who could do harm to the United States."
The U.S. Justice Department said 42 kilograms of pot were transported through the tunnel, loaded into a van and driven to a shopping mall in Bellingham, Wash., where the marijuana was loaded into another vehicle.
That vehicle was stopped by the Washington State Patrol and the pot was seized.
Francis Devandra Raj, 30, Timothy Woo, 34, and Johnathan Valenzuela, 27, were scheduled to appear in court in Seattle yesterday.
"The arrests of three individuals and marijuana seizures are the result of a co-ordinated investigation and enforcement plan on both sides of the border," said Fogarty.
The "sophisticated" tunnel was built using various digging equipment, including shovels, winching and carting systems to remove the dirt, said Fogarty.
Authorities say the tunnel will be destroyed.
Canada's border services agency became aware of the tunnel in February.
The Seattle Times' website reported investigators used a machine that can "see" underground, a video-equipped robot, a drug-sniffing dog and an air horn to find the tunnel.
Neighbours said they had suspicions about the building, but were shocked to discover what is alleged to have been going on inside.
A woman who lives near the tunnel on the American side of the border said federal agents stopped her when she tried to drive home Wednesday. She said three people were arrested in the abandoned home.
"It blows me away," Ruthie Steinfort told the Times. "We're right next to the border station."
Canadian officials estimate 1.7 million kilograms of B.C. marijuana are produced annually, with as much as 50 per cent of it smuggled to the United States at points as far east as Michigan.
Thats a lot of work for one unsuccessful attempt!
07-22-2005, 08:17 AM
LoftyPines Wrote:chris Wrote:schaggs Wrote:Not that far.... these seem to be the nearest towns to the start and finish of the tunnel. The article says the tunnel was 110 metres and has since been closed off.I read that article twice, and didn't once see the mention of length!
This is likely a different article from what you read Chris. From the London Free Press (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/home.html">http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFre ... /home.html</a><!-- m -->):
Thats a lot of work for one unsuccessful attempt!
Oops... my mistake. My point was that it was mentioned in the article that I referenced, but I didn't see it. (Stupid me, better get my eyes checked!)
But thanks for the article Lee.
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