Botched Prison Escape Finds Wife Folded Packed Inmate in Suitcase

by copythat

There's more than one reason for a conjugal visit, like trying to escape while folded and packed in a suitcase. Prison guards at the Mexico state prison of Chetumal, in Quintana Roo, busted an inmate's wife after she tried to smuggle her husband to freedom with baggage.
 
Nineteen-year-old Maria del Mar Arjona Rivero was arrested after Mexico prison guards inspected a black, wheeled suitcase -- only to discover her husband, alive and well, packed inside.
 
The Quintana Roo state government says Rivero had been slated for a conjugal visit with her husband -- but as the woman tried to leave, Mexico prison guards took note of the wheeled suitcase that seemed unusually full. Chetumal guards say the prisoner's spouse was acting a bit nervous. Perhaps she was trying to figure out how to navigate a suitcase -- with more than 150 pounds in content -- with ease.
 
A search of the inmate's wife, Rivero, and her belongings turned up a folded man -- with an "oh sh*t" look and hands covering his face -- zipped into the suitcase. That man turned out to be inmate Juan Ramirez Tijerina, the common-law husband of Rivero.
 
Tijerina had been serving a 20-year sentence for a 2007 Mexico conviction for illegal weapons possession. Rivero's arrest, over trying to bust her husband out of prison, may well mark two inmates in one family.
 
Perhaps the Mexican prisoner was taking lessons from a contortionist thief in Spain -- a robber arrested after repeatedly curling himself into a ball to be folded into a suitcase by an accomplice, with the suitcase then loaded onto airport bus cargo areas -- where he'd unfurl to steal jewelry and laptops from tourists' bags.

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