A suspected drug smuggling tunnel has been found stretching 600ft from an old KFC restaurant in the US to a trap door in Mexico.
The passageway runs from San Luis, Arizona, across the border into a bedroom in San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, less than a mile away.
Eerie photographs of the tunnel – which is 22 feet deep, five feet tall and three feet wide – show a red rope hanging over its entrance.
Officials believe narcotics were raised up by a pulley system, loaded into toolboxes and taken from the restaurant.
Police made the discovery after San Luis cops pulled over Ivan Lopez on August 13 during a traffic stop.
Drugs dogs reacted to his car and as officers searched the vehicle they discovered 168kg of narcotics in two toolboxes.
The £1million stash was made up of 118kg of methamphetamine, six grams of cocaine, three kilograms of fentanyl, 13kg of white heroin and six kilograms of brown heroin.
The combined street value of the drugs is $1,165,800 and the fentanyl alone was enough for three million doses.
Lopez had allegedly been seen removing the boxes from inside an old KFC restaurant.
He bought the abandoned property in April with cash, paying $389,000 for it.
Like something out of a scene on Breaking Bad, special agent Scott Brown said the tunnel has been linked to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel, the predominant drug cartel operating in the area.
In the TV series, characters Walter White and Jesse Pinkman work for a drug dealer named Gus Fring.
Fring owns a chicken based fast food restaurant called Los Pollos Hermanos, which he used as a front for his drug money while Walter and Jesse slaved away underground in a lab not far away.
Mr Brown, speaking at a press conference yesterday, said: "As a nation in the midst of an opioid crisis, this is obviously a significant seizure."
He added: "The narcotics, we believe, were raised up by rope, loaded into toolboxes, and taken from the restaurant.
"They can be used to smuggle people and narcotics, and pose a risk to be exploited by terrorist organisations wishing to harm our people and way of life."
Lopez has been arrested and remains in police custody.
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