Jail escape an open and shut case

A PRISONER tried to escape a Mexican jail by hiding in a suitcase being wheeled out by his girlfriend after a conjugal visit.

A spokesman for police in the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo said staff at the prison in Chetumal noticed the woman seemed nervous and was pulling a black wheeled suitcase that looked bulky.

Spokesman Gerardo Campos said prison guards checked the bag of 19-year-old Maria del Mar Arjona and found inmate Juan Ramirez Tijerina, who is serving a 20-year sentence for illegal arms possession, curled up inside in the fetal position. Arjona was arrested and charges are pending.

A similar ploy proved successful for a teenage woman who was wheeled out of a youth prison in Germany in 2007 after hiding in a fellow inmate’s suitcase when she was being released.

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