Associated Press
TUCSON- Law enforcement authorities in Arizona were on alert Tuesday for six convicts who escaped from a prison in Nogales, Mexico, and may have tried to cross the border.
Mexican officials notified U.S. law enforcement agencies after the men overpowered guards at the prison Friday night, U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Jose Garza said Tuesday.
Garza and Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said that none of the six had been apprehended as of Monday.
Estrada said he had been told that two of the inmates had planned to escape and four others "piggybacked" along. Guns may have been smuggled in to the prisoners, and Mexican officials arrested some guards at the prison and were questioning them to determine possible involvement, he said.
After the men escaped, "They went on a rampage, robbed a bank, carjacked a couple of vehicles, all on the Mexican side, and apparently injured the husband" of an American consular official in Nogales, Mexico, Estrada said.