Tamaulipas.-military personnel and security forces foiled a Pemex pipeline milking when detected by a band of huachicoleros, but fled leaving abandoned vehicles and tanks, military sources reported.
The incident occurred the afternoon of Thursday, when the inter-agency law enforcement accompanied to Pemex security personnel in monitoring of pipelines and PEMEX outlets.
Around 15:00 hours the Group patrolled the break-through 26 of the ejidal area of Rio Bravo, at the height of the Colonia El Maestro, and suspects, saw a rustic land away several vehicles in a row so accelerated to review them.
Photo Agency reform the Group of subjects to sight the convoy of military patrols of the 19 Regiment, 25-81, along with the physical security of Pemex and creditable State police, chose to take the flight.
Desperate to not be achieved, some men pulled themselves to pick ups trucks boxes and four trucks left abandoned.
After pursuing them without giving them scope, command sergeant major ordered to return to the place to check if there was a person who had not fled.
But in the place found only empty four trucks, each with capacity of 2 thousand litres plastic drums, but empty.
In the place they observed that the huachicoleros were withdrawing land where it passes a duct, and visually detected an “illegal taking”, prepared by experts with hoses connected.
Physical security experts deduced that just began to fill the fuel tanks, so proceeded to seal the duct and remove the socket clandestine.
Personnel of the State police and military regiments settled in the eighth area proceeded to make the four vehicles and containers for transfer to the State delegation of the FGR in Reynosa.
Secured four trucks had no theft report, it was a pick up Ford F150 without plates, another a Chevrolet Blazer black color plates XES 9899.
Also secured a truck Chevrolet, red color, without panels, cabin, and half another Ford F150 a cabin and medium blue color, with Texas BV 82366 plates.
