- Authorities say they found a drug smuggling tunnel leading to Mexico in the kitchen of a former KFC.
- The tunnel is reportedly 8 inches in diameter, 22 feet deep, and about 600 feet long.
- Officers believe that people were using a rope to transport the drugs back and forth, according to reports.
- The tunnel was discovered after a drug bust in which officers say they found 168 kilograms of narcotics in a man's car.
- The tunnel is currently being investigated.
Authorities in San Luis, Arizona, say they found a drug tunnel that leads to a home in Mexico in the kitchen of a former Kentucky Fried Chicken, KCBD reports.
The nearly 600-foot-long tunnel was discovered after an August 13 drug bust, according to the outlet. During a police traffic stop, 168 kilograms — or 360 pounds —of narcotics were found inside toolboxes in a car being driven by a man named Ivan Lopez, KYMA reported.
In the car, authorities say they found 118 kilograms of methamphetamine, 6 grams of cocaine, 3 kilograms of fentanyl, 13 kilograms of white heroin and 6 kilograms of brown heroin, per KYMA.
Lopez, who owns the building that housed the former KFC, was allegedly seen removing the toolboxes from the former restaurant earlier that day, a Homeland Security agent said, according to KYMA.
After discovering the narcotics, agents executed a search warrant on both Lopez's home and the former KFC, both outlets reported. They found the tunnel in the kitchen of the restaurant.
The alleged smuggling tunnel runs from the kitchen of the former KFC to a home in Mexico, where it opens into a trap door underneath a bed, according to KCBD. The tunnel is 8 inches in diameter, 22 feet deep, and about 600 feet long. Agents believe that a rope was used to transport the drugs back and forth.
The tunnel is currently being investigated.
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