STATE POLICE CHIEF PETE KASSETAS TELLS 770 KKOB THEY’LL LIKELY ANSWER QUESTIONS LATER MONDAY OR EARLY TUESDAY ON HOW THE PRISON VAN ESCAPEES JOSEPH CRUZ AND LIONEL CLAH.GOT AWAY, STILL SHACKLED AND IN THEIR WHITE PRISON JUMP SUITS. TWENTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD LIONEL CLAH AND 32 YEAR OLD JOSEPH CRUZ WERE SPOTTED LATER IN STREET CLOTHES … AND UNSHACKLED.
BOTH WERE ARRESTED IN ALBUQUERQUE: CRUZ ON FRIDAY NEAR UNM AND CLAH ON SATURDAY AT AN APARTMENT NEAR MORRIS AND MONTGOMERY.
CRUZ’S SISTER OLIVIA WAS ALSO ARRESTED ON AN UNRELATED CHARGE OF PROBATION VIOLATION. POLICE ARE STILL INTERVIEWING A WOMAN WHO TURNED CLAH IN TO SEE IF SHE HELPED HIM.
FORTY-YEAR-OLD MICHELLE ABEYTA TELLS KOB TV SHE TOLD CLAH TO GIVE HIMSELF UP AFTER SHE REALIZED HE WAS READY TO “GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY.” ABEYTA SAYS SHE MET CLAH AT A PARTY. STATE PEN.
