They came to repair a pothole and discovered a very long tunnel to steal a bank.

A crew of Florida road workers received a big surprise this week when, at repair a pothole In the middle of a street in Pembroke Pines, near Miami, they discovered that the damage had been done. caused by a tunnel that drive to a nearby bank.

The FBI has released photos of the narrow underground tunnel leading to a branch of Chase Bank.

Subsequent excavations revealed a pbadage 46 meters long and only 60 to 90 cm in diameter It goes from a wooded area to the bank on Flamingo Road.

The tunnel was wide enough so that only one person could crawl on his belly. They believe that the work has been carried out over several months and has collapsed due to heavy rains in recent days.

"I would like to say that I saw something like this in the movies," FBI agent Mike Leverock told reporters. "However, This hole is so small. It's unique"He laughed, some neighbors quipped that it was the work of Chapo Guzmán, the Mexican drug dealer famous for his tunnels being tried in New York.

The FBI said in a tweet that he was treating the case as a "bank robbery attempt".