A man was jailed in Mexico over the weekend after spending several hours buried in a tunnel he dug underneath his ex-girlfriend’s home to spy on her.
César Arnoldo Gómez, 50, from Sonora, was found under a pile of dirt last Thursday morning and required assistance from the local Red Cross and fire department after he refused to get out.
He was taken to hospital and placed under arrest after violating a court-issued restraining order.
The Sonora state attorney general's office said on Sunday that Gómez had spent days digging the hole so that he could spy on his ex-partner Griselda Santillán, 58, at her residence in Puerto Peñasco, a town on the Gulf of California.
According to Mexican newspaper, Santillán told cops that she had heard a lot noises during the past week, but initially dismissed it as stray cats.
However, when the sound grew louder early on Thursday, she investigated and found her former partner of 14 years trapped in the soil below her property.
'I went for a neighbor, who looked out and said there was nothing. Then I saw some shoes, two knives and water to drink,' Santillán told El Universal.
'I screamed at him to come out and he did not listen to me.'
She said she ended the relationship because her partner was very jealous.
Gómez had been ordered to stay away from Santillán due to charges of domestic violence.
Police said the man appeared intoxicated and severely dehydrated once they got him out of the tunnel.
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