Thirty prisoners, including the leader of a feared cartel's assassin squad serving a 224-year sentence, are still on the run after a deadly New Year's Day prison break near the US border.
Security forces continue to search the region surrounding Ciudad Ju_rez, Chihuahua, for those who escaped in an attack that left 19 people dead.
Los Mexicles leader Ernesto ‘El Neto' Pi__n escaped the Cereso No.

3 state prison on Sunday after members of the notorious street gang stormed into the penitentiary located just 16 miles from El Paso, Texas, and helped him escape.
Authorities initially reported that C_sar Vega, the criminal group's second-in-command, EVden eVE nakliyAt had also escaped before later announcing he is among the seven inmates who were killed. 
At least 200 members of the gang have since been moved from the prison. The brazen assault left ten prison guards and two attackers dead. 





Los Mexicles leader Ernesto 'El Neto Pi__n is missing after he escaped from a prison in Ciudad Ju_rez, Mexico, on Sunday morning during an armed attack that left 19 people dead.

Pi__n was sentenced to 224 years in 2010 after he was found guilty of kidnapping and murder charges

Authorities arrested five members of Los Mexicles following a high-speed chase and seized a cache of rifles and ammunition.
The United States Consulate in Ciudad Ju_rez advised US citizens in the border town to shelter in place after reports of gunfire Monday night.
A Monday afternoon gun battle at a housing complex left seven people dead, including two cops, while security forces hunted down the fleeing inmates.

No arrests were reported.





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The Cereso No. 3 prison director, Alejandro T_llez, was fired and placed under investigation Tuesday, the Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office said in a statement.
At least 200 Los Mexicles jailed members were loaded onto buses in the early hours Tuesday and transported to Abraham Gonz_lez International Airport, where they boarded two National Guard flights to other federal jails.
Mexico's Secretary for Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Rodr_guez, had announced Monday that plans were underway to transfer high-risk inmates from the Cereso No.

3 state prison to other penitentiaries in the country to prevent further attacks.





Ciudad Ju_rez authorities arrested five members of the Los Mexicles gang following a high-speed pursuit. All five suspects were arrested on attempted murder, illegal firearm possession and criminal organization association charges






Ciudad Ju_rez police confiscated gear, ammunition and rifles from five Los Mexicles gang members arrested during a high-speed chase 






Los Mexicles leader Ernesto Pi__n is among 30 prisoners who escaped from a jail in Mexico 





Vega was sentenced to 42 years for kidnapping and murder.