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2 prisoners escape from jail near Puerto Rico’s capital
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Puerto Rican authorities are searching for two prisoners who escaped from a facility near San Juan on Saturday.
Corrections department and police officials identified the fugitives as 30-year-old Christopher Nunez Castro and 25-year-old Javier Rivera Torres and said they were serving more than 20-year sentences on weapons convictions. Authorities said they escaped by breaking the bars of a window near a bathroom with two other inmates who were subsequently captured near the prison’s security fence.
Police said guards first discovered that the men were missing during a 2 p.m. roll call. Police helicopters are assisting in the search for the pair. The prison is in the populous suburb of Bayamon just west of San Juan.
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