Just as I suspected,
was using the "Private Bus Companies" that provide service to migrant workers, immigrants and visiting relatives from South America and Mexico to the US - NOT Greyhound or Trailways. Those bus lines are 5 steps DOWN from Greyhound or Trailways - old buses, slower service with more stops in smaller towns, stations are located in strip centers or gas stations in the "hispanic" neighborhoods, and they do not always travel by highway. The passengers, drivers and agents all speak spanish, in many cases only a few (drivers primarily) even speak any english at all. In many places passengers just wait in a parking lot for the bus and pay the driver for their ticket in cash - and the driver writes the tickets by hand for each person.
You are not going to find many non-hispanic people who even KNOW about these bus lines and where they pick up passengers. It isn't exactly a "secret" but more that it's considered something that isn't talked about to those outside the community. I could take you to a couple of the larger ones here in DFW, but there are literally dozens of them and some don't even have a listed address or phone number, all word of mouth and referrals.
Texas LE is very familiar with these sorts of companies and they are much more prevalent here and in AZ and CA BUT they do go all over the US. I wonder if NC even has a division of LE that handles these sorts of operations? It may be that in the Jacksonville area LE has NEVER had to work this type of case with a hispanic fugitive who had means to get across the country on such buses and would blend in with EVERY OTHER PASSENGER.
CL rode into Mexico hiding in plain sight - as I said, it isn't hard to get into Mexico, if you don't plan to go back OUT. The border agents on the Mexican side are not trying to restrict or even check MEXICANS coming into Mexico. CL went right by without so much as a glance - and we now know that Mexico ISN'T even LOOKING for
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Poor Maria, she can't get a break even in death. It's a horrible black comedy of errors that just keeps getting blacker and more absurd by the day. Can no-one get a handle on this manhunt??? I had the bus thing figured out within 24 hours - why didn't LE???
:furious::furious::furious:
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