Posted on 04/25/2025 3:29:03 PM PDT by CFW
SANDY — A Utah couple is being accused of money laundering and smuggling oil into the U.S. alongside Mexican cartels, after they were arrested during a multi-state raid by U.S. Marshals, according to court documents.
James Lael Jensen and his wife, Kelly Anne Jensen, were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on Wednesday. The couple and two of his sons are being federally indicted for allegedly conspiring to smuggle 2,881 shipments of oil from Mexico that they knew were illegal.
The family is accused of moving at least $300 million from Mexico to the U.S.
The couple was arrested on Wednesday at their 26,893 square foot mansion in Sandy, valued at $9.1 million, according to a person close to the situation, who requested they be kept anonymous due to cartel involvement. The source said the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Apprehension Team showed up, with a battering ram in tow — a tool used by SWAT teams to breach doors, concrete and brick walls.
The U.S. District Court of Utah’s detention documents allege James and Kelly Jensen, and their two sons, Max and Zachary, conspired to “launder proceeds from sales of illegally imported crude oil. The payments for this crude oil were directed to businesses in Mexico that operate only through the permission of Mexican criminal organization. James Jensen was aware that the payments he made were going to these Mexican criminal organizations.”
The charges state the money laundering and illegal imports began in May 2022.
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Yeah, my neighbors are too close. Most everyone minds their own business, except the nosy hag next door whom I call Gladys Kravitz. Used to live on a farm with only the relatives in sight distance, it was wonderful.
. But, we have no neighbors nearby
I don’t want to live anywhere that i can’t pee off the porch. Mind your own business
That is our philosophy. We live on a dead-end dirt road and there are only about a half a dozen families here. Everyone has several acres, and of course everyone has a mobile home out back where an adult child or one of their married grandchildren (and the great-grands)live. It’s a multi-generational dirt road. LOL!
Who was buying the crude oil from the illegal importers? Had they any way to know it was illegally imported?
Interesting read on the fuel thefts and cartel recently targeted by the Trump admin:
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0125
With a house that large, and them owning several more houses all over...I wonder how many illegal aliens they have working for them?
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