CROSS-BORDER TUNNEL FOUND IN DRUG PROBE

Federal agents discovered a 25-foot dirt tunnel that was apparently
being used to smuggle drugs across the Mexican border, and seized 840
pounds of cocaine from the Arizona house at one end of the passage.

The crude tunnel--lit by a string of bare electric bulbs--runs from
the Nogales house to the sewer system, which leads to a dry stream
bed along the border.

"The drugs probably were smuggled from Mexico through the wash, into
the sewer pipe, then into the tunnel and into the house," U.S.
Customs spokesman Roger Maier said.