New Mexico State Police say two violent escaped convicts were spotted on surveillance video in Albuquerque hours after they managed to flee from a prison tranpsort van.
Court records show Cruz was serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder conviction while Clah pleaded guilty in 2009 to armed robbery.
New Mexico's top corrections official says authorities don't know exactly when a convicted murderer and another violent felon escaped from a prisoner transport van.
Police in a rural New Mexico town near the place where two violent felons escaped have placed extra officers on patrol to help with the search.
New Mexico State Police are leading the investigation into how inmates Joseph Cruz and Lionel Clah could have escaped Wednesday night from a prisoner transport near Artesia while they were shackled and wearing white jump suits.
Authorities in New Mexico are searching for a convicted murderer and another violent inmate who escaped from a prisoner transport van.
