We regularly report on contraband busts in the news - bout it seems the smugglers are taking their game to another level - and we mean that literally: that new level seems to be UNDERGROUND!
This weekend, Customs got information and went to stake out an area inside a canefield in San Jose/San Pablo - which is in the Orange Walk District.
At first all they saw were some coconut palms strewn on the ground, but a closer look showed a handle for a cement covering - much like the kind you would find on a septic tank. When they lifted that up they found a beer bunker! 35 cases of contraband stored underground - in an area no search would ever find.
It's an El Chapo level of stealth - and customs says it's indicative of the scale of the contraband business. They believe it is abreaction to several big busts that had been made recently in the village of San Victor where beer was found in above ground bodegas.
This bunker has storage for an estimated 100 cases of beer. In this case no one was found at the site - and the beer was confiscated as found property.
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