"With respect to bootlegging, I can state unequivocally that we would never engage in such nefarious activity."

Construction is providing new glimpses into the old tunnels running beneath Ybor City, but the historic Latin district isn’t the only place in the Tampa Bay area where underground passages may have been put to illicit use.

Downtown St. Petersburg has one, too.

The discovery last month of curved, brick-lined tunnel at 12th Street and Sixth Avenue rekindled discussion in Ybor City about whether smugglers used the tunnels during the Prohibition era.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.