McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- Mexican officials say they dismantled a massive fuel theft ring in the border town of Reynosa, which comes as U.S. officials are warning of cartel fuel theft along the Southwest border.

The Mexican Attorney General's Office posted on X this week photos and videos showing the arrests of several people in a neighborhood in Reynosa, where they said they found evidence of a fuel theft operation just south of the U.S. border.

Authorities say 1.8 million liters of stolen hydrocarbon oil -- also called crude oil -- was found and conficated, along with nine tractor-trailers, 12 motor pumps, 39 fracking tanks, two power generators and an industrial sweeper in the La Escondida neighborhood, according to a Sunday news release by the attorney general's office.

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