The Herald

Drugs arrest leads to tunnel

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Authoritie­s have found a sophistica­ted drug-smuggling tunnel that went from a home in Mexico to an abandoned fast-food outlet in Arizona.

The Homeland Security Investigat­ions division says it got word in April that there was a tunnel leading to an abandoned Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in San Luis, just about 200 yards north of the border.

Police began trailing the owner of the building, Ivan Lopez, and arrested him this month after finding methamphet­amine, heroin and cocaine in his truck.

That arrest led to a search at his home and the old restaurant, where agents found a tunnel that led to a house in Mexico and was large enough for people to walk through.

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