PIEDRAS NEGRAS,polo femme, Mexico – A judge has ordered the detention of 16 officials and guards at the prison near the U.S. border where the Zetas drug cartel orchestrated a mass escape of 131 inmates.
The judge ruled on Wednesday that the prison director,ralph lauren italia,polo femme,polo, two top aides and 13 other prison employees be held for 40 days under a form of house arrest pending possible charges. The judge said there was credible evidence prison employees aided the escape.
Jorge Luis Moran,abercrombie and fitch Israel to Press Visiting Put,ralph lauren femme,sac longchamp, public safety secretary for the northern border state of Coahuila,polo homme, told the Milenio television news channel that authorities had determined that not all the escapees got away through the tunnel.
Authorities on Wednesday captured one of the inmates, identified as Pablo Sanchez Campos,polo ralph lauren,longchamp, who was in prison on an auto-theft charge. Investigators were questioning him about how one-fifth of the prison population was able to escape.
Two escapees were detained Tuesday following a shootout with police.
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Moran did not mention the tunnel in his comments on Wednesday,polo ralph lauren,polo lacoste pas cher, though he said the testimony from the three recaptured inmates confirmed suspicions that the Los Zetas drug cartel organized the mass breakout.
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The Zetas, originally a band of army deserters working as hired guns for the Gulf cartel,ralph lauren outlet,ralph lauren pas cher,ralph lauren, went into the drug business for themselves several years ago and have become embroiled in vicious turf battles with their former partners and other criminal outfits.
Monday's prison break was the biggest in Mexico since Dec. 17, 2010,abercrombie and fitch france Comments Peter Madoff,Smiling Is Good For You!! FOX Across Ameri, when 141 inmates escaped from a penitentiary in Nuevo Laredo,ralph lauren pas cher,longchamp, a border city in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.
The federal police, army and navy were mounting a wide search in the northern Mexico region for the missing inmates.
With reporting by EFE & the Associated Press.
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