Sheriff Releases Identity of Prison Escapees
by Julian Aguilar
December 30, 2010

The Webb County Sheriff’s Department has released the photographs of the inmates who escaped from the state prison in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on Dec. 16. Nuevo Laredo is just across the Rio Grande from Laredo.

Sheriff Martin Cuellar said his office is in the process of gathering more information on the inmates, including their dates of birth and whether any are U.S. citizens. The escapees are believed to be members of the Los Zetas drug cartel and were released during a plan orchestrated by inmate Orlando Monsisvais Treviño, 28. Cuellar said Monsisvais Treviño is the nephew of Miguel Treviño Morales, a.k.a. “El 40â€