John M. Garza, 37 years old, and Arley V. Nemo, 43 years old, used improvised tools to carry out the escape from a prison in Newport News, Virginia, announced the authorities, quoted by the local press, at the end of a preliminary investigation. After digging and drilling through the wall, the inmates were eventually found, after a few hours, in an establishment belonging to a breakfast catering chain.
According to the Newport News Police, prison guards noticed the two men missing during a routine count around 7 pm on Monday. The pair had dug a hole in one of the walls of the cell where they were imprisoned, using “tools of primitive manufacture” constructed from a toothbrush and a metal object, which helped to knock down steel bars from the wall, later used to the inmates continued to escape.
The “Prison Break” operation ended nine hours later on Tuesday morning when Garza and Nemo were found at a pancake and breakfast joint in Hampton, Va., where they were arrested by police. of Newport News, in a statement released yesterday.
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