Detainees in Antioquia prison were digging a tunnel to escape and discovered them

On the morning of April 18, there was a riot at the Prison Center for Temporary Detention in the municipality of Rionegro, due to the fact that the guards of INPEC managed to prevent a massive escape. One of the dragonbearers was injured in the confrontation and was taken to a hospital care center and is out of danger.

According to Radio Uno, it could be established that several of the prisoners had dug a hole that was to be used to escape, but the authorities had not found it. When the idea of escape was frustrated, some of the prisoners participating in the plan clashed against the guard.

The Secretary of Government, Carlos García, spoke to the 30-minute half and commented that the alert was generated when two of the guards tried to enter a cell, as part of their routine process, but were attacked.

“Two security guards were about to enter one of the courtyards to verify the security conditions and the inmates of this courtyard did not allow them to enter, locked the doors, caused attacks on one of the security guards who is out of danger (...) with a head injury,” said the official, moreover, added that the mutiny was controlled quickly and without any complications.

Another case that occurred yesterday was the escape of 13 prisoners from the Immediate Reaction Unit (URI) in the town of Puente Aranda, in Bogotá. A video of the security cameras, released by Noticias Caracol, shows the moment when several prisoners climb through a fence and escape from the prison. The recording shows that a policeman is approaching the sector in an attempt to arrest these people, however, most had already managed to evade security measures.

Preliminary reports indicate that the subjects were detained in the URI for crimes such as homicide, kidnapping, theft and drug trafficking. After learning about the massive escape, the Metropolitan Police launched an operation to re-capture these prisoners, cordoning off the area and inspecting the video from the sector's cameras. So far, there are no known cases of injured persons or the conditions under which this escape occurred.

Authorities are on alert with prison security, as one of the country's most wanted drug traffickers Juan Larrison Castro Estupiñan aka 'Matamba' escaped recently. The escape plan according to W Radio would have been carried out in complicity with men from INPEC, since the feared criminal left the prison in the early hours of Friday, wearing Inpec clothing, in this case he identified himself as a dragonman of this institution wearing his allusive garments.

The incident was recorded on security cameras. The images show that at 12:03 minutes, the drug trafficker walks a few steps and easily accesses one of the pavilion's exits; later the camera loses sight of it.

Another video shows and reaffirms that the members of INPEC were complicit in the criminal's escape, because after just a few minutes, you can see how he signs that everything is going well. Then, you can see how he goes through a door that remains without a lock and leaves the scene.

In this case, many relevant irregularities were found, because in addition to the fact that the subject had access to the uniforms of his caregivers, he quickly left the place through the doors and bars that did not have any of the alarms activated. In addition, as Caracol Radio announced, Larinson Estupiñán, he was never in the extraditable pavilion of La Picota, as evidenced by resolution 003498.

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