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Middle aged fugitives arrested in city named after dead poet
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While millions across America celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, it is highly unlikey that Leandro Luna, 52, of San Angelo and Adan Chavez, 53, of Edinburg were in a very grateful mood. Police report that the two fugitives who escaped from a Federal Prison Camp in Bastrop last Thursday are now in police custody in Del Rio, their brief moment of freedom at an end.
After successfully evading the attention of law enforcement in Bastrop and Austin, the fugitives headed south in an old blue van, ultimately crossing the border into Ciudad Acuña mere hours after their escape. Then they spent almost a week in the city, location of the 'border blaster' radio station XERA in the 1930s, which was used by Dr. John Brinkley of Kansas to promote his peculiar medical service of implanting goat testicles into impotent men. Today Ciudad Acuña is a popular destination for college students intent on partying.
Perhaps Luna and Chavez will feel greater affinity with the city's more mournful associations. It is named after the poet Manuel Acuña who killed himself in 1873 over an excess of (unrequited) longing for a woman. Acuña wept as he ingested Potassium Cyanide, thus fulfilling the words of his own verse: "como deben llorar en la última hora, los inmóviles párpados de un muerto".
However it was not a woman that Luna and Chavez longed for. According to Hector Gomez, a supervisory deputy for the U.S. Marshals Service in Austin:
'“You know the saying leopards don’t change their spots? These guys always want to come home. It was just a matter of waiting for them.”
But 'home' did not want them. Arrested by Mexican police, they were shipped north on Thursday, after a Mexican immigration judge ruled that the two men, both U.S. citizens, had no right to remain in the country.
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