U.S. Border Patrol agents shut down the construction of a 2,918-foot-long tunnel connecting Tijuana and San Diego with the aid of Department of Homeland Security officials and Mexican authorities.

U.S. Border Patrol agents found an uncompleted drug smuggling tunnel linking San Diego and Tijuana in early April, the agency said in a press release on Wednesday.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have located and disabled a large, unfinished drug smuggling tunnel stretching from Tijuana into the Otay Mesa area of San Diego. The tunnel extended more than 1,000 feet into U.