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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1977
Page
5
County commissioners may transfer control of the Bexar County Jail to the sheriff's department on Wednesday. County Judge Blair Reeves said the state attorney general has declared it illegal for commissioners to operate the jail.
Six of eleven Americans imprisoned on drug charges escaped jail before dawn Friday by sliding down sheets tied together. Six were recaptured shortly after. District attorney J. Cardenas Navarro said warden Joaquin Melendez and eleven others are held on suspicion of aiding the escape.
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