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Mexican ex-cop jailed for 4th time – after 3 prison escapes
Mexico City investigators say they helped colleagues in a northern border city collar a former city cop who escaped from three different prisons and spent two decades on the run.
The former police officer — whose name was not released under defendant-protection rules — was arrested in 1993 for robbery, and murdering a fellow officer.
He escaped a Mexico City prison in 1998, was re-captured and sent to another prison in 1999, and escaped again.
He was picked up again in 2004 in the Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, for robbing a bank. Imprisoned, he — unsurprisingly — escaped again.
Mexico City prosecutors said he was re-apprehended over the weekend in Nuevo Laredo on murder charges. It was unclear where he would be held, or for how long.
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