Posted on 12/20/2010 1:59:52 PM PST by smokingfrog
The inmates who escaped from a Nuevo Laredo prison this week are likely part of a plan to bolster the ranks of the Zetas cartel, Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar said Saturday.
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, sits just across from Laredo, at the southern end of the I-35 corridor. It is the county seat of Webb County.
Cuellar said Saturday that intelligence gathered by Texas law enforcement indicates the break was orchestrated by Orlando Monsisvais Treviño, 28, the nephew of Miguel Treviño Morales, "El 40," believed to be the Zetas' second in command. The Tamaulipas state government said in a news release Friday that the inmates escaped from a service entrance and were likely aided by some of the prison's personnel. There have been no indications of spillover violence from the escape into Texas, Cuellar added.
The Zetas have been entrenched since February in a bloody war with their former allies, the Gulf Cartel, for control of the lucrative smuggling routes that extend from Central and Northern Mexico to Texas and beyond. The split has caused a resurgence of commando-style ambushes in the Mexican state and an increase in murders and kidnappings after years of relative calm.
"They are trying to get more people to help them do what they are doing. We believe they are going to be hijacking more people and kidnapping more people in Mexico," Cuellar said.
A statement issued by the state of Tamaulipas indicates the escape happened Thursday at approximately 7 p.m., though it went unreported until early Friday. The prison warden has disappeared, the statement said, and Mexican media outlet Proceso is reporting that state prison director Horacio Sepúlveda Acosta has been terminated.
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So how tough was it to be in on this Jail break?
Did the guards just leave the doors open and go to lunch. How many guards were killed in the break?
Between 139 and 145—(no one knows for sure), people supposedly imprisoned, walked out the front gate unopposed, no guard s shot, The warden dissappears, one guy fired from his plush job and that’s the story?
Not only that, but they knew a month in advance it was going to happen.
The President of Mexico isnt in control of a Government here. The drug dealers are.
The police and prison guards are just a branch of the nearest drug cartel. The Army is in charge of drug protection.
This is the Pirates Tripoli on land, and it will spread to our country with the aid of Obama and the Amnesty adherents.
Terminated, as in "with extreme prejudice"? These people are out of their minds.
Big Sis was heard saying ....
“Pass out the bean bag ammo ... we may need it”
TT
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