Eagle Pass Border Patrol Agents Arrest Escapee From 2012 Mexico Prison Break
Del Rio, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Eagle Pass South Station recently captured a known fugitive who escaped from a Mexican penal facility in 2012.
On Sept. 17, 2012, 132 inmates at the Centro de Readaptación Social (CERESO) Prison at Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico escaped, sparking a massive manhunt on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Since that time, U.S. Border Patrol officials have worked closely with the government of Mexico to identify and apprehend the escapees.
On Sept. 9, agents patrolling near Eagle Pass responded to a report of several subjects hiding in the brush near Boulder Ridge Drive. Agents found the group and determined that they were in the United States illegally. Upon processing the subjects at the station it was discovered that Carlos Candido Castillo-Hernandez, 25, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico was wanted by Mexican authorities for escaping from the CERESO prison in 2012. Mexican authorities were notified and extradition is pending.
Castillo-Hernandez will be charged with 8 USC 1325 – Illegal Entry and will be turned over to the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service.
The Del Rio Border Patrol Sector is part of the South Texas Campaign, which leverages federal, state and local resources to combat transnational criminal organizations. To report suspicious activity call the sector’s toll free telephone number at 1 (866) 511-8727.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
