A drug tunnel under the U.S.-Mexico border where authorities discovered 17 tons of marijuana ran the length of four football fields and was equipped with lights and a ventilation system, officials said.
The tunnel, discovered Tuesday, also led authorities to a large pot-growing operation east of San Diego.
The tunnel opening in Tijuana was found in an unfinished industrial building near the airport, where Mexican soldiers on Wednesday morning stood guard in front of some eight tons of neatly stacked marijuana bundles.
Many were labeled with pictures of Captain America, the symbol used by a major operator of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Tijuana, Mexican Gen. Gilberto Landeros Briseno said in an interview with Mexican media.
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