Escaped Colorado inmates pretended to be immigrants

SELLS, Ariz. (AP) - The U.S. Border Patrol says two men who escaped from a Colorado prison said they were Mexican immigrants who wished to be deported when agents patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border found them.

It wasn’t until later that agents discovered the men were 35-year-old Jose Rodriguez and 42-year-old Raul Guzman, who had escaped a minimum-security facility in Florence, Colorado, this week. The Border Patrol says it arrested a 30-year-old woman who was driving the men and charged her with aiding and abetting. The agency wouldn’t release her identify.

Rodriguez and Guzman were each serving drug sentences. They have been turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service.

(Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.)