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Vehicle used in prison escape discovered
By statesman.com
Published: 11/24/2009

As authorities continued to search today for two men who escaped from a Bastrop County federal prison, they said they obtained security camera footage of one suspect at an H-E-B in Austin and believe he may be headed to Mexico.

Adan Chavez, 53, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for cocaine and weapons convictions, and Leandro Luna, 52, who was sentenced to 10 years for marijuana importation, walked out of a low-security area of the Bastrop federal prison Friday, officials said. They have been on the loose ever since.

Hector Gomez, supervisory deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service, said today that officials discovered an abandoned Ford Crown Victoria government car at the H-E-B at Interstate 35 and William Cannon Drive. A review of security camera footage showed Luna stepping out of the car, which Gomez said was from the Bastrop prison and used in the escape, and into a blue or silver Chevrolet pickup around 9 p.m. Friday.

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