In a new official report from Pemex, it is highlighted that the theft of hydrocarbons is occurring in various municipalities in the state of Oaxaca, such as Acatlán de Pérez Figueroa, San Juan Guchicovi, Asunción Ixtaltepec, Matías Romero Avendaño, and Juchitán de Zaragoza.
The state police of Oaxaca discovered an illegal hydrocarbon tap on land that previously housed a restaurant and a blacksmith shop. This confiscated lot is located about 300 meters from a Pemex plant situated on federal highway 190, which supplies fuel to the capital of Oaxaca.
During the operation, authorities detained three individuals, who were subsequently transferred to the public security directorate facility to be made available to federal authorities.
In an action carried out last month, members of the State Police, in collaboration with personnel from Pemex's Physical Security, the National Defense Secretariat (Defense), and the Navy Secretariat (Semar), discovered two illegal hydrocarbon taps near Federal Transisthmian Highway 185, in the Paso Guayabo agency of the municipality of Matías Romero Avendaño.
According to official data, Oaxaca ranks fifteenth nationally in cases of illegal fuel theft, also known as huachicol.
