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 Juбrez, Chihuahua, for those who escaped in an attack that left 19 people dead.
Los Mexicles leader Ernesto ‘El Neto' Piсуn 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 Cйsar Vega, the criminal group's second-in-command, 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 Piсуn is missing after he escaped from a prison in Ciudad Juбrez, Mexico, on Sunday morning during an armed attack that left 19 people dead.

Piсуn 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 Juбrez 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, EVdEn EvE naKliyaT Alejandro Tйllez, eVDEn EVe nakLiYAt 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 Gonzбlez International Airport, where they boarded two National Guard flights to other federal jails.
Mexico's Secretary for eVDeN eVE nakliyaT Security and Citizen Protection, Rosa Rodrнguez, 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 Juбrez 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 Juбrez police confiscated gear, ammunition and rifles from five Los Mexicles gang members arrested during a high-speed chase 






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





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Guns and bullets are seen in front of the Cereso No.

3 state prison  that were recovered by the security forces Sunday after the Los Mexicles street gang launched an attack and freed their leader, Ernesto 'El Neto' Piсуn

Piсуn was found guilty of kidnapping and murder in 2010 and sentenced to 224 years in prison.
Authorities say he was also involved in ordering a wave of assaults throughout Ciudad Juбrez on August 11 that left 11 people dead, 20 injured and multiple vehicles and business torched.
At the same time, he organized a riot at the prison in an attempt to flee, but security forces were able to regain control.
The citywide assaults were part of a rift reportedly sparked by Los Mexicles' fallout with the Sinaloa Cartel faction that is overseen by Los Chapitos - El Chapo's children - as the gang formed new alliance with Los Aztecas, the armed wing of the Juбrez Cartel.
Los Mexicles had also joined forces with the Caborca Cartel, the criminal organization founded by infamous jailed drug lord, Rafael Caro Quintero, who is awaiting extradition to the United States, where he is accused of the 1986 kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration agent Kiki Camarena.
The Caborca Cartel is also at odds with Los Chapitos.
Vega served as Piсуn's main confidant at the prison, where they both shared a cell.
He was deported to Mexico in September 2015, almost four years after he was arrested at an El Paso, Texas, fried chicken restaurant.
Vega was detained December 27, 2011 at Church's Chicken where he was employed as a cook a year after he fled from Mexican authorities after the ambush of the prison van he was being transported in, according to U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He and seven other Los Mexicles gang members abducted Natividad Torres at his Ciudad Juбrez home on September 15, 2009.
The kidnappers sought a return of $47,000 in exchange for Torres' release but ended up settling for just $700, a television and a 2008 Toyota.

Torres was shot four times on September 15 and released the following day.
He died October 21 as a result of the gunshot wound and Vega and four other kidnappers were arrested the next month.
Vega was sentenced to 42 years for kidnapping and murder.