Photo Library
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Parking Lot 8
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Kevin Hecht gets his first breath of fresh air after investigating a break-in to a drainage pipe in Nogales, Arizona.
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Parking Lot 7
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Thomas Pittman emerges from the hand dug tunnel section.
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Parking Lot 4
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Kevin Hecht crawls through a drainage pipe broken into by illegal tunnelers.
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A look inside the drainage pipe broken into by tunnelers
A look inside the drainage pipe broken into by tunnelers.
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Hand-dug tunnel meets the drainage pipe on the U.S. side of the border
The point where the hand-dug tunnel meets the drainage pipe on the U.S. side of the border.
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Tunnel discovered in a Nogales parking lot
A bulldozer is used to open an area where a tunnel was discovered in a Nogales parking lot, just across from the U.S.-Mexico border. A hand-dug tunnel led to the break-in of a drainage pipe on the U.S. side of the border. The tunnelers planned to use a vertical drill and break out in this spot in the parking lot. They would then be able to smuggle drugs and humans directly into a waiting vehicle stationed on top of the exit point. The tunnel was discovered before it became operational.
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Parking Lot Lead
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Kevin Hecht crawls a hand-dug tunnel in Nogales, Arizona.
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Douglas 12
The building where the Douglas Tunnel was discovered is now belongs to the local fire department.