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| Six inmates escape Mexican prison, may be headed into US |
| By KVOA.com |
| Published: 03/21/2005 |
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A massive manhunt along the Arizona-Mexico border was underway late Saturday afternoon, after six inmates considered armed and dangerous escaped from a maximum security prison in Nogales, Sonora. Police officials say "they are believed to be headed into the U.S." The inmates overpowered four officers, took their weapons, and hand-held police radio. Lt. Raul Rodriguez of the Santa Cruz Co. Sheriff's Department was in Nogales on police business when the escape occurred Friday afternoon. Rodriquez says the fugitives went on a crime spree, "A very violent crime spree, to include a bank robbery, carjacking with pistol whipping the victims of a carjacking." It was here in this exclusive neighborhood of Colonia Kennedy where the escapees ran over the husband of a U. S. diplomat. There's no word at newstime on the extent of his injuries. The last vehicle the inmates carjacked, a van, was abandoned on a heavily-traveled highway that leads into the U.S. Their last known location was heading towards the Mariposa Canyon, directly on the boundary of Nogales, Arizona, on the west side. Police call the men armed and extremely dangerous. |
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