Mexican police find tunnel to Arizona with marijuana

Mexican federal police discovered a tunnel leading into the southwestern US state of Arizona Friday that contained 240 kilograms of marijuana.While conducting an investigation in a residential area of Nogales, Mexico police found a tunnel of some 60 meters (200 feet) long running under the the international border, said a statement from Mexicos Secretariat of Public Security.Nogales, in the Mexican state of Sonora, is immediately across a land border from a town of the same name in Arizona.The tunnel, of half a meter (1.6 feet) in diameter, was allegedly used to transport illegal drugs to the United States as evidenced by 22 bundles of marijuana, with a combined weight was 240 kilograms, discovered inside of it, the statement said.Since 1999, authorities have found at least 155 illegal tunnels under different parts of the lengthy US-Mexico border. Officials say smugglers use the tunnels to bring people and drugs into the United States.