An inmate tried to escape from a Bolivian prison by disguising himself as a sheep, according to reports.
On Feb. 4, José Luis Callisaya Diaz attempted to escape from Chonchocoro, a maximum security prison, by wrapping himself in sheepskin and sneaking past guards around the jail.
Unfortunately for him, he was noticed by security and was immediately taken back into custody. Diaz, also known as “El Araña,” is serving 15 years for homicide.
“We inform the Bolivian population that prison security police officers from the San Pedro de Chonchocoro Penitentiary Center prevented the escape of prisoner José Luis Callisaya Diaz (alias El Araña), who took advantage of the inclement weather to try to flee through one of the walls of the external perimeter of the prison,” the Director of the Penitentiary Regime Juan Carlos Limpias said.
Following his attempted escape, authorities have reportedly ordered legal and disciplinary actions against Diaz.
Despite the hilarious circumstances, had Diaz escaped, it’s possible that he may have fled to the U.S. According to a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report last year, the Venezuelan government is purposely freeing inmates and sending them to the southern U.S. border.
The release of the convicts is speculated to be a purposeful geopolitical move to impact U.S. national security, adding that the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), Venezuela’s equivalent to the CIA, may have played a role in the deliberate release of felons.
According to Breitbart’s source, the task of identifying Venezuelans who have criminal records in their home country is nearly impossible, as criminal databases in that country are simply non-existent.
“Unless we apprehend someone who voluntarily tells us they have committed a violent crime in Venezuela, we can only guess, and that doesn’t work well,” the source said. “They will more than likely be released.”
The U.S. has been seeing massive migrant numbers since President Joe Biden announced last year that he would be lifting “Title 42,” a controversial border policy implemented by former President Donald Trump back in March 2020 that allowed the border agency to turn migrants away.
Since then, the DHS has reported that nearly 2.4 million migrants were detained at the border for the fiscal year ending in September, surpassing the already-historic number of 1.7 million migrant detainees in 2021. The numbers are likely to increase should the Biden administration end “Title 42.”
