Overview
- Federal agents executed a court-ordered search on Tuesday, May 26, at a property in Plan de Ayala, Tihuatlán, Veracruz, after receiving an anonymous tip that prompted the operation.
- Authorities detained 12 people at the site and turned the detainees, the property, and all seized items over to ministerial authorities for formal investigation and judicial review.
- Investigators secured more than 250,000 liters of hydrocarbon, with local reports specifying 256,828 liters, plus a large transport and storage fleet including 20 tractor‑trailers, 12 storage tanks, and 52 cubitanks.
- Officials collected documents, electronic devices, payment tags, identification, laboratory material and other items that federal forensic teams will analyze to trace fuel origins, routes and potential buyers.
- The operation follows recent federal actions against huachicol and could lead to asset forfeiture proceedings, wider network probes and disruption of the logistics used to move stolen fuel in the region.