Fill out this form to email this article to a friend
Handcuffed man escapes from border patrol vehicle
By Times Staff Writer
Published December 14, 2006
TAMPA - A Mexican man escaped from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Wednesday morning by kicking out the rear window of a border patrol vehicle where he sat handcuffed. An officer realized the man was an illegal immigrant while interviewing arriving passengers at the Tampa Greyhound bus station, said Steve McDonald, who heads the patrol's Tampa Border Station. The man told the agent he had left his bags in the station. When the agent left to retrieve them, the man escaped. "We make every effort not to separate people from their property," McDonald said. The man gave several names to the agent, McDonald said, and was in possession of three Mexican birth certificates, two counterfeit immigration cards and two Social Security cards. He added that the man most frequently uses the name Amado Cruz-Diaz, though he also possessed identification with the names Ernesto Guzman, Pedro Montejo and Armando Cruz-Dilla. The border patrol and Tampa police officers are searching for the man, described as being 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-10 with brown hair and eyes and between 145 and 165 pounds. He was also wearing handcuffs.
[Last modified December 14, 2006, 05:55:35]
Share your thoughts on this story
Comments on this article
|
by sarea
|
12/14/06 01:21 PM
|
|
You act like your going to be able to find a mexican that is 5'6" - 5'10" brown hair and eyes, and 145-165 lbs. haha have fun. should of shot him when they caught him, or thrown him back over the border
|
|
News
Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
Print
Email story
Comment
Email editor
