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TIJUANA, Mexico -- Three sophisticated drug tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation – including one with a railcar system – have been discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in less than a week, the latest signs that cartels are building passages to escape heightened detection above ground. 
Two of the tunnels were incomplete, including one that the Mexican army found in a Tijuana warehouse Thursday with more than 40 tons of marijuana at the entry. The passage extended nearly 400 yards, including more than 100 yards into the United States. . . . 
An incomplete tunnel along Arizona's border with Mexico was found Friday during an inspection of a drainage system on the Mexican side of Nogales in early stages of construction, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Amber Cargile. No arrests have been made in the investigation of the crude passage.
The 240-yard tunnel in San Luis, Ariz., showed a level of sophistication not typically associated with other crude smuggling passageways that tie into storm drains in the state
"When you see what is there and the way they designed it, it wasn't something that your average miner could put together," said Douglas Coleman, special agent in charge of the Phoenix division of the Drug Enforcement Administration. "You would need someone with some engineering expertise to put something together like this."
As Thursday's massive pot seizure in Tijuana demonstrated, tunnels have become an increasingly common way to smuggle enormous loads of heroin, marijuana and other drugs into the country.

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