Prison escapee hid in billiard table

by insideprison.com, April, 2006

Inmate Lazaro Bringas Nuñez, a convicted kidnapper and murderer, escaped from a prison in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc on April 23rd, hiding in a billiard table that was constructed in the prison workshop. The table was sent out of the prison to be sold privately in a nearby Mennonite community.

This was the second escape from the prison in Ciudad Cuauhtemoc in under a year. The first escape was similar, involving one prisoner who had hid in a wardrobe, also constructed by inmates in the prison's workshop. The furniture was covered in a sheet of opaque plastic so that its contents were concealed from prison officials.

The wardrobe was suspiciously purchased by the inmate's lawyer, Rocio Guadalupe Nevarez Arana, who is currently under investigation, along with four other inmates and prison guards, as possible escape accomplices. After Arana discovered what was inside, the inmate, Enrique Gonzalez Espino, immediately fled and is currently on the run.