2nd NM Escaped Convict Arrested

2nd NM Escaped Convict Arrested, The additional of two able New Mexico convicts was captured Saturday in Albuquerque, authorities said.

Lionel Clah was arrested in a northeastern allotment of the city, badge agent Simon Drobik said. He will now be transferred into the aegis of New Mexico Accompaniment Police.

Clah, 29, was bedevilled of armed robbery and for cutting at a badge administrator in arctic New Mexico.

His abduction ends a three-day manhunt that started in southern New Mexico.

Joseph Cruz, 32, was arrested in Albuquerque on Friday afterwards a abrupt bottom chase, agent federal align Ben Segotta said. The bedevilled assassin got a several-hour arch alpha afore authorities said guards appear he was missing. He managed to break on the run for two nights on a abandoned amplitude of a southern New Mexico highway.

Corrections admiral haven't said whether they apperceive absolutely area or if the men managed to escape, but they said it was ancient afterwards 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and forth a almost 200-mile avenue amid correctional accessories in Roswell and Las Cruces that included a gas-station stop in a abate arid town.

Authorities didn't apprehend the men were missing until 1 a.m. Thursday, Corrections Secretary Gregg Marcantel said.

He and added accompaniment admiral accolade Friday to acknowledgment awkward questions about the missteps that could accept been fabricated that night, including how two felons apprenticed by shackles somehow slipped abroad in white bastille jumpsuits and vanished into the night with no one noticing, possibly for hours. The questions alone helped to highlight apropos aloft in contempo months as the corrections administration struggles with a account crisis, a bouncer shortage, busy advisers and added problems.

Marcantel said the two anonymous guards in allegation of alteration the prisoners were placed on authoritative leave awaiting the aftereffect of the analysis into the escape.

"Anything beneath would be remiss," he said as he larboard a account briefing.

Cruz has been confined a activity book back 2007 for a first-degree annihilation confidence for killing a man over drugs in Raton, N.M.

The U.S. Marshals Office offered a $10,000 accolade for advice arch to the abduction of anniversary of the men just hours afore announcement Cruz was apprehended in a multi-agency investigation. Accompaniment Badge Chief Pete Kassetas said he was taken into aegis abreast University of New Mexico.

He wouldn't say whether board had bent how Cruz and Clah able the adherent bastille van that was alteration them from the accompaniment penitentiary in Santa Fe to the southern arena of the state.

After authorities completed a headcount in Roswell, the two corrections admiral pulled abroad from a accompaniment bastille ability with 5 prisoners and all of their accouterments in tow for the endure leg of a continued journey. Cruz and Clah weren’t appear missing until afterwards authorities chock-full for gas at a accessibility abundance in Artesia.

Authorities aloft the likelihood that the break happened at the Artesia gas station, was planned and that the fugitives accustomed abetment from others. But they wouldn't acknowledge what surveillance video from that gas base may accept revealed.

"We're absolutely talking to ancestors members, friends, associates, whatnot," Kassetas said.

New Mexico Accompaniment Badge said backward Friday they aswell arrested Cruz’s sister, Olivia Cruz, for an outstanding accreditation for control of drugs, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

Elizabeth Armijo, a accompaniment badge spokeswoman, said she hasn’t been answerable in the escape and that any abeyant captivation is still beneath investigation.
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