Escaping Prison

Now you must be wondering how did he manage to escape prison? Well, El Chapo was a smart fellow. He got out of the cell through a small hole covered under his shower cell. The man soon landed into a tunnel that ran to a motorcycle. Interestingly, that bike was capable of running on a track. The bike took him to the warehouse at a distance of a mile. However, the authorities managed to nab him again but before that El Chapo had gone a little further with his business. 

Still In Trend

Though the idea of building tunnels for safe transportation of drugs was of Chapo, the model is followed by many smugglers these days. Authorities came across another tunnel in 2003 with the length of six football fields that accommodated lighting, ventilation, and many other automated track instruments for convenient transportation.

Organization

The general office stated, “Presumably, one of these tunnels was being used by a criminal organization operating in the state of Sinaloa for smuggling drugs into the United States.” This was one of many organizations that were in function.

Expensive

These sophisticated tunnels are equally expensive to construct. The cost can range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. But at the same time, the cost gets covered in one shipment only of drugs that accrues the smuggler way more than they spend on the building of the tunnel. Furthermore, the tunnels also are used for illegal immigration.

Passageway

In 2016, authorities discovered 380-mile-long passageway that began from Mexico and exited in a California based restaurant. To put it more clearly, the size of the tunnel was large enough to fit people fleeing Mexico through it, theoretically. So, this is quite possible that the immigrants using the passageway could be delivering drugs for the smugglers in the trade of using the path.        

Since 1990

In total, authorities have found about 115 tunnels linking Mexico and the United States. Notably, before the defamed 9/11 attack only 11 tunnels had been discovered by the officials. With the upgrade in technologies and hence security measures, drug traffickers had to dig more alike tunnels to continue in this business.