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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1980
Inmates heading for Texas?
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United Press International
ICIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — A
violent escape by 10 heavily armed
Mexican prison inmates has officials
both sides of the border worried
,t the men, all convicted drug traf-
;ers, may plan to cross into Texas.
“It’s just a thought,” said Ciudad
uarez police chief Jose Refugio
ubalcava. “We believe these peo-
e had plans. When you’re talking
bout drugs you’re talking about
ney, a lot of money. ”
he prisoners, all convicted of
larijuana smuggling activities in
Exico’s west coast state of Sinaloa,
iade their way out of the border city
Saturday by commandeering a police
car and kidnapping two Mexican
policemen, whom they later pistol-
whipped and abandoned with the
car, officials said.
Mexican officials Sunday dispatch
ed a 40-man posse to search for the
“desperados,” while U.S. officials
boosted border security in case they
tried to cross into Texas.
A report late Sunday that one of
the escapees had been captured at
Caseta, Mexico, across the Rio
Grande from Fabens, could not be
substantiated by authorities.
The convicts escaped at 7:30 a.m.
Saturday, using two apparently
smuggled guns to disarm guards at
three stations in the federal prison at
Cuidad Juarez, Rubalcava said.
“They disarmed and tied up the
guards at two of the doors,” he said.
“The guard at the main door, an old
er man, was taken hostage. In addi
tion to the guard’s pistols, they took
an M-l rifle and a shotgun from the
prison office.”
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ker and freighter that collided off
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^(Jiifeming both crews for the accident.
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cans coif Liberia’s U.S. marine headquar-
pick uppers in Heston, Va., last week re-
jwler eswased the tentative report blaming
wo tons joth crews after a week-long board
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lligent, failed to keep a safe look-
{, failed to take evasive action and
d to cooperate before and after
accident.
he report also charged the cap-
and chief engineer of the Mimo
sa and the chief mate of the Burmah
Agate had invalid or forged licenses
and that the captain of the Mimosa
had filed a fraudulent vision test.
The board charged the Mimosa
was traveling at excessive speed
through an anchorage area and that
the Burmah Agate — there was con
flicting testimony whether it was
anchored or under way — was im
properly lighted.
The report said the government
could bar licensing of the Mimosa
officers and so notify other nations.
The captain and chief mate of the
Burmah Agate were among 31 men
who died aboard that vessel.
The board charged the Mimosa
lacked a firefighting team and that
the freighter’s chief mate abandoned
ship at full throttle, which meant the
Mimosa circled dangerously near
offshore oil platforms before tugs
stopped it.
The Mimosa pierced the Burmah
Agate’s port side, gouging a giant
hole in its cargo area and causing the
tanker to explode into flames, spill
oil and run aground in 40-foot deep
waters outside the entrance to Gal
veston Bay.
The tanker had been bound for a
Houston refinery.
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Rubalcava said the convicts had
two cars waiting nearby, and they
abandoned the kidnapped prison
guard and made their way east. He
said the cars ran a stop light in sub
urban Saragosa, and when two traffic
policemen gave chase, one of the
escape vehicles lost a wheel and
stopped. “The escapees took the
policemen hostage and drove away
in their patrol car.”
Rubalcava said a police task force
moved east in search of the gang,
with two U.S. Border Patrol aircraft
overhead.
Meanwhile, north of the Rio
Grande, assistant chief Border Patrol
agent Ray Reeves, in neighboring El
Paso, said the gang’s initial route
could have taken it to any one of
three ports of entry on the Texas side
of the river—Ysleta, Fabens or Fort
Hammond — each of which was
manned by only two or three agents.
Security was immediately in
creased Saturday and Sunday nights,
and the two aircraft spotted the com
mandeered police car.
“The plane spotted the comman
deered police car, with a number 308
on the trunk,” Reeves said. “The car
was found near Lomas Arenas,
Mexico.”
Rubalcava said Mexican author
ities located the car near what
appeared to be a makeshift landing
strip. The abducted policemen had
been beaten and abandoned.
Rubalcava said officials were work
ing on three possibilities: that the
convicts had grounded in the ranch
country around Juarez, that they had
flown into the interior or that they
still planned to cross into Texas.
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