Five men in New Mexico face charges for stealing crude oil, selling it from a yard in Carlsbad, and moving it across state lines. The scheme involved paying oil company employees for crude oil, with the stolen oil stored in large portable steel tanks. Federal agents placed trackers on tank trucks and conducted surveillance, leading to the arrest of several suspects. Maxwell Sterling Jensen, one of the accused, also faces separate charges in Texas for money laundering and smuggling, linked to an alleged plot to smuggle stolen crude from Mexico with a foreign terrorist organization.

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