𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗬 𝗖𝗔𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗔𝗧 𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗕𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗡𝗦𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗥𝗨𝗗𝗘 𝗢𝗜𝗟 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗚𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗠

                                     

Maxwell Sterling Jensen and Zachary Golden Jensen

Not only the Brownsville Observer, but also El Rrun Rrun and Valley Central, have reported on the arrest of Zachary and Maxwell Jensen from Utah, caught at the Port of Brownsville transporting crude oil stolen from Pemex into the United States.  Court documents indicate that the parents of the young men, James Laen Jensen and Kelly Anne Jensen, had spent $47M to purchase roughly $300M of crude oil from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, utilizing their Arroyo Terminals in Rio Hondo.

The Jensens now face an additional charge: providing material support to a terrorist organization as the Jalisco New Generation and Gulf Cartels have been designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.

“Fuel theft, known as huachicol in Mexico, is the most significant non-drug revenue source for Mexican cartels and other illicit actors,” according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

“The stolen crude oil is then delivered to complicit U.S. importers in the oil and natural gas industry operating near the U.S. southwest border,” according to the Treasury Department, “who sell it at a steep discount on the U.S. and global energy markets before repatriating the significant illicit profits back to the cartels in Mexico.”

James Laen Jensen and Kelly Anne Jensen

Brownsville Ship Channel