Mexican federal authorities seized a suspected illegal fuel storage and transfer site in the border city of Matamoros, dealing a near half-million-dollar blow to a fuel-trafficking operation allegedly linked to the Gulf Cartel faction known as Los Escorpiones.
The operation was carried out this weekend by the Secretariat of the Navy and the Attorney General's Office in Ejido Progreso Agrario, a rural area of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, where authorities executed a search warrant on a property allegedly used to store and move stolen fuel, a crime widely known in Mexico as huachicol.
