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~ 30/10/06

Victor Urbina Thursday became the sixth of eight fugitives who escaped from La Reforma prison Oct. 9 to be found by police, the daily La Nación reported.

Urbina, who was sentenced to 27 years in jail for rape and aggravated robbery, showed up at the Judicial Investigation Police (OIJ) office in Tres Ríos, east of San José, Thursday, accompanied by his mother and two brothers.

He told officials he didn’t want to run from the police anymore, so he was turning himself in, Ronald Zúñiga, of the OIJ, told the daily.

Four of the other escaped convicts were captured last week and one was killed during a shootout with police at a house in Guácimo, on the Caribbean slope (TT, Oct. 27). Officials identified the convict who died at the scene as Freddy García. Johel Guillermo Araya, Alberto Martínez and Johnny Rodríguez were also arrested. Additionally, Roberto Clark was arrested last week during the Caribbean city of Limón’s Carnival festivities.

Urbina’s arrest leaves two of the eight prisoners who used escaped from the Alajuela prison Oct. 9 still at large.

-Tico Times

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