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<\/p>\nPrison officials in Honduras have told a convicted murderer who attempted to break out of jail disguised as a woman that he faces severe punishment.<\/p>\n
Francisco Herrera Argueta, 55, clad himself in a long skirt, blonde wig, sunglasses and fake breasts while trying to make the escape.<\/p>\n
He attempted to walk out of the maximum security jail with the families of other inmates paying a prison visit.<\/p>\n
But he was caught when guards noticed his unusual way of walking.<\/p>\n
They later noticed that he had a man’s voice.<\/p>\n
Argueta, a gang leader also known as Don Chico, was jailed in September 2015 for murder and firearms offences.<\/p>\n
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Argueta’s male voice also aroused the suspicion of guards<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n He now faces additional punishment for his attempted escape, with officials warning he may be transferred to El Pozo jail, widely regarded as the most dangerous prison in the country.<\/p>\n In his escape attempt he even went to the trouble of wearing blusher and paint his nails pink.<\/p>\n Argueta impersonated a female visitor to the prison in San Pedro Sula who left her identity card with guards while visiting inmates on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n He was caught as he tried to pick up the identity card at the jail’s exit – when a guard asked him to remove his sunglasses. He had already passed through other security filters before he was finally stopped.<\/p>\n “The make-up couldn’t hide the fact that he was a man,” police spokesman Bayron Sauceda was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n Good news for Honduras’ murder capital?<\/a><\/p>\n Honduras transfers high risk prisoners to new jails<\/a><\/p>\n Central America tackles gangs with joint border force<\/a><\/p>\n Honduras has in recent years successfully clamped down on violent crime. In 2011, it had a murder rate of 86.5 per 100,000 people, according to the National University’s Violence Observatory.<\/p>\n The country’s industrial capital, San Pedro Sula, was the worst-hit.<\/p>\n But by 2015, the national murder rate had decreased to 60 per 100,000 – at the same time, neighbouring El Salvador has been climbing the ladder of violence with a national murder rate in 2015 closer to 100 per 100,000 people.<\/p>\n El Salvador is currently the most deadly country outside a war zone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source\u00a0 bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prison officials in Honduras have told a convicted murderer who attempted to break out of jail disguised as a woman that he faces severe punishment. Francisco Herrera Argueta, 55, clad himself in a long skirt, […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":7370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3472],"class_list":{"0":"post-7369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world","9":"tag-honduras","10":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7372,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions\/7372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}