Law enforcement officials working at a command center in Garland are fielding tips on the whereabouts of the escaped convicts. DPS troopers are manning telephones 24 hours a day at the agency's Dallas-Fort Worth area headquarters on Interstate 30. Information will be forwarded to agencies whose personnel are working the case out in the field. Stationed at the center are DPS officials and others from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. White said two cars the convicts might be using were seen in Fort Worth on Dec. 26.
Authorities say the men are heavily armed.
They took 16 weapons in the prison breakout, and 25 weapons, winter clothing and money were taken in the Christmas Eve robbery at the Oshman's, authorities have said. The prisoners stole a store employee's Ford Explorer but abandoned it a short time later in Irving, police said. It's almost like a blood brother pact of swearing to keep together and not to do some of the things escapees will routinely do. Todd said authorities have received help from law-enforcement agencies across the state and in Mexico. We have had excellent cooperation with the Mexican police across the border.