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| Escape Try Foiled at County Jail |
| By Albuquerque Journal |
| Published: 04/27/2001 |
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A federal inmate housed at the Santa Fe County jail last week tried unsuccessfully to climb out of the facility but his timing may have played into his lack of success. The botched escape happened a day after an inmate uprising and just eight days after three other federal inmates broke out of a cell through a window with tools police suspect a corrections officer smuggled into the jail. The three men who broke out April 7 remain at large. Lorenzo Montana, 43, of Albuquerque, tried to break out through a secure, outdoor recreation area using a makeshift rope of stripped bedsheets with a broken door handle tied as a hook on the end. Montana hid under a tarp in the exercise room and managed to go unnoticed until corrections officers found him hanging from the top of a chain-link fence, police said. A jail lieutenant armed with a loaded bean-bag shotgun ordered Montana to get down, according to police documents, and the inmate complied. The FBI arrested Montana on a bank robbery charge. He had been incarcerated at the privately run Santa Fe County Detention Center since March 1. An anonymous tipster inside the jail apparently warned corrections officers that someone in one of the recreation areas was planning to escape. Officials do not know how corrections officers lost track of Montana. The investigation is ongoing. The Marshal Service also is investigating the April 7 escape of the three federal inmates - Luis Ramon Lopez, also known as Louis or Luis Santana; Vicente Manuel Tijerina; and Rodolfo Ruiz-Godinez, also known as Rodolfo Ruiz-Garcia. |
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