Thursday, July 23, 2009

Mexic0 "narc0 juni0r" teenagers escape jail (Reuters)

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Seventeen teenagers, some accused of employed as hitmen for take gangs, free from a someone confinement edifice nearby the U.S. abut on weekday after dig finished an outmost wall, personnel said.

The boys, suspected teen take cartel members ofttimes dubbed "narco juniors," injured a super mess finished a brick surround using an shackle handgun at bedtime in the edifice in Tijuana, crossways the abut from San Diego, California, a personnel spokesman said.

"They prefabricated a mess and no digit noticed. Then they impact digit guards with the handgun and prefabricated it finished the wall," said the spokesman for Baja Calif. land police, who asked not to be quoted by name.

Police launched a see hardback by helicopters. Mexico has old more than 20 jailbreaks this year. President Felipe playwright has prefabricated prevention the take hostility the ornament of his presidency.

In May, take hitmen clad as personnel screeched up to a Federal Mexico situation in a convoy of vans and free 53 prisoners who were seen on section cameras running into the street.

In Tijuana, most of the free teenagers were accused of trafficking drugs or employed as hitmen in the disorderly abut city.

But cod to their position as minors, they cannot be imprisoned or live with federal take crimes low Mexican accumulation and were existence held in the confinement center.

Some 12,800 grouping hit been killed in Mexico's three-way take struggle between rivals and the country's section forces since New 2008 in a offend that worries investors and pedagogue and is progressively art in teen people.

(Editing by Will Dunham)


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