High Escape: Prisoners flee after inebriating guard on duty from the biggest prison in Colombia

Though it may not rank high up in the innovative jailbreaks you would have heard of, nonetheless, it is as effective as it gets. Two alleged FARC (a Marxist militant group in Colombia) guerrillas escaped the maximum security wing of the largest prison in Bogota, Colombia after getting a prison guard drunk.

The incident came to notice last week on Saturday when a prison guard found his colleague in an inebriated state. Notably, he let the prisoners go out to buy more liquor.

“The officer had been drinking with the prisoners, he was drunk. He couldn’t even stand up and supposedly let the prisoners through the main gate to buy booze,” according to the testimony of one guard that was leaked to W Radio and reported by Colombia Reports.

As per the reports sent to the director of the prison, the guard refused to take the breathalyser test and allegedly failed to notify his superiors about the escaped prisoners.

The prison is in disarray as the corruption is rampant inside, said a warden in his testimony. “There is a new guard that makes and breaks La Picota (prison), they take bribes, they give benefits to the inmates, they let them out in exchange for large sums of money, it is a mafia,” W Radio quoted the anonymous official as saying.

The two prisoners who escaped were John Rincon who has been in the prison since 2003 serving a 40-year sentence for kidnapping, extortion and conspiracy to commit a crime and Olmedo Vargas was imprisoned in November 2017 for theft and was due to be tried.

However, it is not clear why they were in prison, as under the amnesty deal signed between FARC and the Colombian government, both should have been released a year ago, the report said.

Nevertheless, police have notified the transport terminals and airports about the fugitives and the efforts to recapture them are being made.