Border Patrol catches fugitive from massive Mexican prison break

Jason Buch STAFF WRITE, Express-News
Updated 1:48 pm, Tuesday, February 19, 2013


  • Mario Nazario Valadez
    Photo: Courtesy Photo

Border Patrol agents have arrested a man they say broke out of a Mexican prison last year in a massive escape.

Agents on Saturday arrested Mario Nazario Valadez, 31. He was one of 12 immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally who agents found on a ranch near Bracketville, east of Del Rio, according to a news release from Border Patrol.

In September, more than 130 prisoners broke out of a prison near Piedras Negras, downstream from Del Rio. The prison break was believed to have been orchestrated by the Zetas drug cartel, which controls drug trafficking in Piedras Negras and Ciudad Acuña, across the border from Del Rio.

Nazario has served time in the U.S. for drug charges and was in prison for a murder charge in Mexico when he escaped, according to the Border Patrol.

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