THE New England Patriots jersey that vanished after quarterback Tom Brady wore it in the team’s fifth Super Bowl victory last month has been found in Mexico, officials said Monday.

    Mexican authorities found the missing jersey at the home of Martin Mauricio Ortega, a former director of Mexico’s La Prensa newspaper, in a raid following a Federal Bureau of Investigation request, a government source told Reuters.

    Ortega has not been arrested because he has not yet been charged, the source added, but the investigation is ongoing.

    The Houston Police Department and league security were involved in the investigation, along with the FBI.

    “You don’t come to Texas and embarrass us here on our own turf,” Houston police chief Art Acevedo told reporters Monday. He said the case, while not a major crime, had been investigated because “the only blemish that we had from the Super Bowl was these jerseys that were stolen from the locker room.”

    While the 39-year-old quarterback still has his Super Bowl rings , the team’s owner , Robert Kraft, is lacking one of the diamond-encrusted mememtoes.

    Russian President Vladimir Putin walked away with the team’s owner’s ring commemorating the team’s 2005 Super Bowl win over the Philadelphia Eagles when the two met later that year.

    (SD-Agencies)