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| Salvadoran Police Find Explosive Materials Inside Prison |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/15/2002 |
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Police raiding El Salvador's largest prison Tuesday found 85 machetes and materials for building homemade explosives, contraband authorities believe dozens of prisoners were planning to use as part of a massive escape plot. Officers and police agents who suspected that three different groups of prisoners were planning a joint jailbreak searched cells and common areas in the La Esperanza maximum security prison on the northern outskirts of the capital, San Salvador, federal prison director Rodolfo Garay said at a news conference. Inside a large cell housing 10 prisoners serving time for a variety of crimes, authorities found a small block of dynamite, a detonating device and other materials that could be used to build a bomb, Garay said. Searches of other cells found 85 machetes, a pistol, three boxes of bullets and several bags of crack cocaine and marijuana. Garay said authorities believed those prisoners who were hiding the explosive materials planned to build a bomb that would allow themselves and dozens of other inmates to escape the prison building, then use the machetes and other weapons to kill coming officers and run to freedom. Built to hold 800 prisoners, La Esperanza actually houses closer to 3,000 convicted criminals, Garay said. |
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