Last month, a Utah family was arrested and indicted on federal charges in connection with a scheme to smuggle hundreds of millions of dollars in crude oil from Mexico into the United States. As authorities continue to investigate the case, prosecutors say one of the family's closest associates in the smuggling operation was none other than the Jalisco Cartel.
James Lael Jensen and his wife, Kelly Anne Jensen, were arrested on April 23 after being accused of conspiring with Mexican criminal organizations to smuggle nearly 2,900 shipments of stolen crude oil into the U.S., falsely labeling it as "waste oil" to bypass import regulations.
