Thread: 6 Prisoners escape from Mexican jail

6 prisoners escape from Mexican jail
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 05/16/2008 04:31:28 PM MDT


VERACRUZ, Mexico—A group of men posing as federal police agents helped six alleged drug-trafficking hit men escape from a Mexican prison Friday.
Veracruz state prison director Zeferino Tejeda said prison officials told authorities that a group of men dressed as federal police and carrying official documents walked into the prison and said they had orders to move the six men to Mexico City.

Prison officials said they discovered later that it was all a setup.

Officials are searching for the fugitive prisoners, and authorities are investigating further to ensure no prison employees were involved in the escape.

All six escapees were arrested in March 2007 as they allegedly attempted to kidnap a businessman. They had been held at the prison in the eastern Veracruz city of Coatzacoalcos ever since.

Also Friday, the federal Attorney General's Office said soldiers discovered 23 antennas on the top of a mountain in western Sinaloa state that they believe were used for drug-trafficking communications.

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