CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (AP) - The Latest on the escape by three Border Patrol detainees (all times local):
3:45 p.m.
Casa Grande police say they’ve captured a second Border Patrol detainee who escaped from a transport bus and one more man remains at large.
The Border Patrol says the three escaped from a contractor’s bus in Casa Grande in south-central Arizona late Tuesday night. One man was recaptured early Wednesday.
Police say 25-year-old Augusto Daniel Chavez-Sosa was located in Casa Grande just after 2 p.m. Wednesday and turned over to the custody of the Border Patrol.
Authorities still are searching for 22-year-old Heriberto Castellanos-Uribe, a Mexican national who was arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
11:30 a.m.
Authorities have identified two Border Patrol detainees who remain at large after they and a third detainee escaped from a contractor’s bus in Casa Grande in south-central Arizona.
The Border Patrol says the three escaped from a transport bus late Tuesday night but that one was recaptured early Wednesday morning.
The men at large were identified as 22-year-old Heriberto Castellanos-Uribe and 25-year-old Augusto Chavez-Sosa.
The agency says Castellanos-Uribe is a Mexican national who was arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling and that Chavez-Sosa is a national of Honduras who was previously removed from the United States in 2015 and who has no known criminal history.
The agency says the detainees were being transported from Ajo to a Border Patrol station in Casa Grande and escaped through a ceiling hatch while the bus was stopped at a traffic light.
8:40 a.m.
Authorities say two Border Patrol detainees remain at large after they and a third detainee escaped from a contractor’s bus in Casa Grande in south-central Arizona.
The Border Patrol says the three escaped from a transport vehicle late Tuesday night but that one was recaptured early Wednesday morning.
The agency says the three men escaped through a ceiling hatch while the bus was stopped at a traffic light.
The detainees were being transported from Ajo to a Border Patrol station in Casa Grande.
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