Houston Chronicle by Sig Christenson and Misty Harris June 10, 2020
Texas home where GI and family found dead was once owned by oil theft ringleader
The San Antonio home where a family of six was found dead late last week once was owned by a man who is awaiting sentencing in a scheme to steal crude oil extracted from the Eagle Ford Shale of Texas.
Luis Valencia will be sentenced in federal court July 6 for stealing more $1.8 million worth of oil from companies operating in the region. He was convicted early this year.
Records show Valencia bought the home in 2004 and paid off the mortgage nine years later. The next year, the house was acquired by his mother and her husband, who later sold it to a California real estate company that rented it in January to Army Staff Sgt. Jared Esquibel Harless, an intelligence specialist at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
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